Subsidiaries
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cloudy golden color, with a medium-size longlasting creamy head. Aroma is sweet, cheesy, citrus. Taste is citric, spicy, bit sharp of alcohol perhaps. Palate is lasting, sweet spices with a touch of alcohol. Triple like beer, which is pretty good and recommendable.
Tried
on 27 Mar 2003
at 17:04
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottled (at the Rate Beer gathering at Flying Saucer, Addison).
Deep ruby with rich head. Dry prune aroma. Woody, dry and pleasantly malty with rasiniy mild finish. Very stylish.
Deep ruby with rich head. Dry prune aroma. Woody, dry and pleasantly malty with rasiniy mild finish. Very stylish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2003
at 07:15
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Hazy amber; yeasty, dry maltiness on the nose. Spritzy, slightly cakey malt, allspice, hop dryness. Intended to be consumed alongside mussels, and alongside meules belgiques the yeastiness dropped out of the beer, which to me was an improvement. The mussels improved the beer, but the beer didn't really do anything for the mussels.
Tried
on 24 Mar 2003
at 00:22
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark yellow color, lasting head, but not as big as the piraat 9%. Also not as spicy and citrussy as the 9. Overall this is a pretty good brew, but it lacks some complexity.
Tried
on 14 Mar 2003
at 13:05
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 5
Small bottle...nice colour, decent smell. The good stuff ends there. A sour taste and a very weak tasting beer--especially for a belgian! Don't try this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2003
at 11:28
6.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Tried to escape the bottle from the first moment - when I finally cornered it in my glas it threw a gigantic rocky brown head over a cloudy brown liquid. Unfortunately the aroma and taste is not as exiting: Caramel and fruit notes which did not last long - slightly watery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2003
at 15:11
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. Reddish amber with very rich, fine creamy head. Sweet with big toffee flavour, othre wise clean and rather light flavourwise. Lightly salty finish. Actually quite similar to oyster with it's dicrete flavour and light saltiness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Feb 2003
at 00:34
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Beautiful red colour. Pinkish white head. Big cherry aroma. Nice cherry-stone bitter flavour. Very drinkable and not too sweet.
Tried
on 23 Feb 2003
at 10:22
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Clear, amber colour with an off-white head. Sweet aroma of flowers, hops, liquor, sweet white wine, vanilla. Quite nice, well balanced flavour with a good complexity. Lightly bitter intiai flavour. Moderately caramelish sweet, lightly bitter finish. So all the sweetnes is in the finish. It’s a quite sweet, but very ok beer. Good balance, but not tremendously complex.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Feb 2003
at 04:33
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Colour of old gold, clear; very fine lacy white head, stable. Nose is slightly spicey and sweetish - some madeirisation? - though not old. Very little aroma, really. taste of orange rind, high percentage of unfermented sugar; sweet surrounded by bitterness. Very rounded, full-bodied. Alcohol prominent. In the aftertaste, the non-hop bitterness becomes obstructive. Again one of Van Steenberge's labelbeers for a community in its neighbourhood. Served in one of the village better restaurants as 'apéritif'.
Tried
on 16 Feb 2003
at 00:59