Bottle shared. Gusher. Pours dark brown with a massive beige head. Aroma of roast, dark chocolate, toffee, light veggies and a little dark fruit. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Not great.

Bottle opens in the most crappy way imaginable. The wax is hard, and breaks into impossibly much small pieces all over my kitchen. To reveal a slightly gushing beer. Smell has sourness - to much sourness for what this beer should have- and instantly looses all foam. in other words ; this bottle is infected. Smell is - as earlier mentioned- a bit sour, some woodnotes but no bourbon. Taste is intense in the carbo. The sourness is present as well as the wood. I’d swear this tastes a bit like red wine, but I don’t get bourbon no matter how hard I try. On a brighter note, the infection didn’t ruin the beer. Its sourness and backbone could be seen as a beer in the style of an old brown. Perhaps not the best one, but still. Bit dry in the MF, and you do still get notes of sugary sweetness, contributing to the dryness, even though the beers itself is not sweet. all and all, nowhere near expectations. Perhaps a bit looked down upon for the obvious problems it has, even though it is a drinkable beer at the end. At least Jef didn’t put a ticker of ’wild edition’ on it to sell it by a big mark-up. Ok beer, if not taken in concideration the hefty price. Note ; some might say a beer with infection deserve a lower rating. To those I say, so many beers are infected but brewers are not honoust about it and call it wild edition or something. Thats why I stand by my score, as I do think the taste in this beer deserves to be rewarded, wether it was on purpose or not.

Bottle from LDW, Eke. Gusher alert! Lots of foam and carbonation. Clear orange colour. Bitter and dry beer with tart note. Some citrus and herbs. Not very well balanced but drinkable.

Säuerlich malziger, eher milder Antrunk. Während die Würzigkeit ihr Maximum schnell erreicht hat bleibt das Bier insgesamt eher mild, wenig holzig, die Säure beißt sich mit der Holzigkeit. 11/10/8/8//8

Qantelaar aged on bourbon barrels (Makers Mark), batch QOA 002, bottled in November 2014. The cap was sealed with wax, which had become very dry and brittle, crumbling to tiny pieces during opening - the result of which, is that I had to spend five minutes trying to scoop them out of the beer. Pale yellowish beige, loose, crackling head, some slight gushing; the head laces a bit and thins out after a while, but nevertheless retains fairly well. Cloudy mahogany brown colour, deep and murky with deposit. Estery, sweet aroma with sour aspect to it, almost reminding me of an oud bruin; I get brown sugar, red wine, passion fruit, lot of sherry, overripe pear, peach, balsamic vinegar, vanilla-like tannins, hint of bourbon indeed, milk chocolate, cake, sour cherries, phenols (glue). Fruity taste, peach, pear and sour berries, in fact a relatively sharp acidity, drying, lactic, as in some of the Rodenbach products, sharpish carbo; yeasty and malty middle, bit coarse mouthfeel due to the drying tartness which is further supported by a ’basic’ wheat sourishness, bit vinous, somewhat nutty, chocolatey accents, dry and long finish combining the persisting dry, even somewhat astringent tartness, a combination of rather strong woodiness with fruity sweetness, subtle malts, spicy yeastiness, some earthy hops providing background bitterness, and as expected, a warming, bourbon-like alcohol effect. Interesting alright, but could have been more balanced; gives a somewhat coarse and unrefined impression. Hopefully this can be executed with more elegance next time: contrary to what the trend may suggest, you cannot just put any beer in a bourbon barrel and expect something world class to come out of it. This would benefit from a thicker, more chocolatey malt profile, a more aromatic hop character and a tad less of the astringent tartness, I think, but that is just personal taste.

Bottle at gent beer festival. Pours murky brown, nose is soy sauce, chocolate, toffee, taste is sour, dry, sweet fruit.

Bottle 750ml. @ home on the terrace. [ As d’Oude Maalderij Qantelaar ].[ Courtesy of JanO ]. Clear dark brown color with a average to large, frothy - creamy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, dark malt, caramel, moderate to heavy yeasty, dried fruit, raisin, anis seed. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, anis seed, belgium yeast, dark fruit - dried fruit, dark malt. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20150706]

20/12/2014 @home 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck. Dark brown to black, small beige head. Aroma : Roasted malts, some caramel. Taste : Especially roasted matls, light caramel, little sourness. To heavy roasted for my taste

cloudy yellw, small white head. mild aromatic hoppy, malty aroma. flavor is malty, herbal, bitter.