Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Stoffaesje from D'Oude Maalderij 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
33cl bottle (bottled 11/11/2020) from Spar supermarket in Oostende. F: medium, white, long lasting. C: pale gold, hazy. A: malty, sweet fruity, bit vodka alcohol, caramel, honey touch. T: full malty base, sweet fruity, bit orange peels, bit juniper alcohol, watery caramel, boozy, soft carbonation, grainy, nothing really special here, drinkable.
Franclh (7477) reviewed Hop the Brewer from D'Oude Maalderij 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Fles 33cl thuis. Hoppig, fruitig, licht droog, citrus, vrij zacht, maltig, zuren. (3-10-2021).
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
21 August 2021. At Gents Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke, Kevin, Jerre & the Ghent beer crew! Hazy black, thin, foamy, beige head. Aroma of iodine, medicin, band-aid, whisky, pear, wet earth, chocolate powder, prune. Taste has sweetish pear, plum & apple along sourish dried fruit, bit lactic, salty iodine accent in the back in a toffee-malty profile. Earthy hoppy finish, spicy, medicinal-herbal, low toastiness, sourish dried fruits, evidently warming whisky alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, flat carbonation. Complex & surprising, I must have a bottle of this...
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Lorelei #2 from D'Oude Maalderij 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
21 August 2021. At Gents Bierfestival. Cheers to the Ghent beer crew! Hazy amber, no head. Aroma of green apple, calvados, candied plum, dried orange peel, cooked pear, toffee, whisky, date paste. Taste has very sweet apple, pear & candied plum in a toffee malt body, relatively phenolic with nutty & herbal edges. Herbal hoppy finish, spicy, lingering dried fruits, wet wood, caramel & warming whisky alcohol. Medium body, oily-syrupy texture, soft carbonation. Not very refined in a way but I don't care, love this stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
21 August 2021. At Gents Bierfestival. Cheers to the Ghent beer crew! Hazy amber, small, frothy, tan head. Aroma of raisin, fig paste, burnt caramel, green tea, pear, triple sec. Taste has sweet fig, raisin, red apple & slightly phenolic pear over toffee maltiness, bit herbal & spicy. Herbal hoppy fnish, bit peppery, lingering dried fruits, pear, syrup & warming rum-like alcohol. Medium body, syrupy texture, soft carbonation. Heavy, but still pleasantly drinkable and not even too 'Belgian'.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Another Dominator's Potion variant, this time aged on one single barrel which previously contained Aberlour and Glenlivet whisky; only 400 bottles of 50 cl made, dubbed Funky Edition because of a Brettanomyces infection (probably unintentional, but anyway). Yellowish beige, moussy, slowly breaking yet stable head, black robe with misty mahogany-ochre brown edges. Aroma of marmite, fresh fig and even passionfruit, wet leather, dried blackberries, moldy walnut shells, bitter chocolate, damp old oak wood, whisky, molasses, dried prunes, coffee grounds. Dried dark fruits in the onset, dried blackberries and figs, prunes, with a sour streak underneath; softish fizz, full body. Pecan- and walnutty, bitter-chocolatey and caramelly malt layers dried by this lactic sour effect, though nowhere becoming outspokenly acidic; still a tart finish, with the lactic sourness adding fruitiness too, in a dark, dried plum-like way; tea-ish herbal hops and coffee grounds-like roasted bitterness support this effect, along with an old wood 'dustiness' and warming, evidently very whisky-like alcohol which nevertheless does not become overly dominant. Ends with leathery and earthy accents which I can only attribute to Brett - but clearly bacteria are at play here too, making the future of this beer uncertain, because I dare not say how the bottles that have not been opened meanwhile, will evolve. In the form in which it reached my palate, however, I found it a very interesting variant in this series, a 'sour stout' with a certain Bretty funkiness indeed, having become more prominent than the whisky effect itself even - at least aromatically speaking. Earthy, multi-layered, powerful and 'wild': I loved this one. Cheers Jef!
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Lorelei #2 from D'Oude Maalderij 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Another one in this series of water monster-themed barleywines by D’Oude Maalderij, this time (2020) aged on barrels which previously contained whisky made by Het Anker, the brewery of the famed Gouden Carolus brand in Mechelen, which indeed started producing their own whisky in 2010 (making use of Jack Daniels barrels). This rating concerns the second Lorelei batch, produced in 2021 and sampled at Gents Bierfestival. Pale greyish beige, large-bubbled, open head dissipating under influence of the alcohol over a cloudy mahogany brown beer with bronze hue. Aroma of caramel, lots of whisky and bourbon, ripe banana, stewed pear, melting brown sugar, lots of wet wood and vanilla-scenting ‘oakiness’, medlar, fig jam, sweet sherry, moldy tree leaves. Sweet onset, hints of pear, date and medlar sugared with candi sugar, very lightly sourish around the edges, softly carbonated with very full and vinous mouthfeel; deeply caramelly, bit hazelnutty and brown-bready malts, dried by strong oak wood tannins with clear retronasal ‘vanilla’ effect, but also by very strong booziness from the whisky, turning things a bit wry. Nutty and caramelly malts linger through the heat of the booze, with some leafy hop bitterishness and remnants of that brown sugariness sticking a bit. Heavy, hot, sweet – a present-day barleywine indeed, not lacking in complexity but too boozy for me, as well as being a bit crude in its basis, like most of these “monster beers”.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle sample during Gents Bierfestival '21 - shared with Tderoeck and Nathan.
Brune foncée, dorée au verre filament huileux, col fin blanc-cassé.
Arôme est malté, chocolaté, caramel, nez rend de suite des effluves sourish assez marqué oscillant vers un côté pomme caramel.
Palais présente de suite ce côté funky - du coup c’est soit intentionnel, soit une infection dans la barrique ... le tout est plat et marqué par les notes d'aigres voire vinaigre. Pas grand chose de ce côté stout impérial surtout au niveau des malts.
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Lorelei #2 from D'Oude Maalderij 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle sample during Gents Bierfestival '21 - shared with Tderoeck and Nathan.
Cuivre trouble, col fin blanc-cassé, le tout sur un filament huileux doré au verre.
Arôme donne de belles effluves de whisky qui perce bien en rétro, complété par un complexe nez malté oscillant sur le caramel, pâle, pointe de chocolat, fruits confits et secs.
Palais est de suite pris par les 14% de ce barley - barrique ressort bien avec une petite note vanille, boisé, effervescence basse qui accentue le côté barriqué, petite douceur latente/collant aux lèvres - fruits noirs et secs.