23rd October 2025
Keg at If It Ain't Dutch. Near clear brown beer, small pale tan head. Airy palate, semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Light bodied dark malts, a little chocolate, tangy, modest ripe citrus and soft pine. Light finish. Alright cda.

23rd October 2025
Keg at If It Ain't Dutch. A mild haze on this gold beer, small off white head. Airy palate, mildly dry, decent fine minerally carbonation. Light bodied pale malts, a light creamy sweetness. Soft pine. Soft juicy citrus and a little orange and tangerine, soft mango. Light and semi dry finish. Bright and drinkable.

23rd October 2025
Keg at If It Ain't Dutch. Near clear gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Airy palate, mildly dry, good fine minerally carbonation. Soft pale malts, sweet but with a prominent grainy note. Soft pine. Slightly ripe citrus, soft and rounded. Light finish. Inoffensive but tastes a bit tired.

(Draught at Het Lagerhuys, Amsterdam, 13 Aug 2025) Pale amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Fruity, hoppy nose with notes of apricots, citrus, toast and a touch of blood orange. Fruity, hoppy taste with citrus, orange peel, apricots, black-currant and a balanced citric/piney bitterness. Almost full body, with a slight sweetness. Fresh and hoppy. Very nice.

On tap at Dutch Taproom. Pours deep dark brown with a beige head. Resinous pine and roastes malts on the nose. Flavour has resinous pine and toasted bready malts. Pretty decent, though I'd like more roast and more hops.

Super light but definitely high on aromas

Cna at home. Bit hazy pale yellow. Wheat, oats, zesty hops, lemon zest, light coriander, grape juice. Medium seert, light sour. Light bodied. Tastes like bad lemonade.

Coffee-flavoured Dutch style Doppelbock by Uiltje - indeed the Dutch 'bokbieren' season is upon us again and it has been a long time since I joined this tradition, which is almost exclusively responsible for the revival of Dutch beer culture in the late 20th century, before the advent of U.S.-inspired craft brewing in the early 21st century. Can from Albert Heijn. Thick, regular, quite dense and rather creamy, audibly fizzing, pale yellowish beige, pillowy head gradually breaking on a clear, deep mahogany brown robe, dark but with fiery copper-red glow when held against the light, showing lots of visible sparkling. Aroma of caramel candy, indeed coffee powder coming in second, toast, brandy, fig, raisin bread, toffee, hints of damp autumn leaves, old dry chestnuts, cinnamon, marmite, pear, black peppercorns, brown bread dough, pond water. Rounded, sweetish onset, clean and sleek dark fruitiness (as in dried fig, raisin and dried prune with a dash of pear), actively but finely prickling carbonation, smooth full body. Caramelly to lightly toffeeish, brown-bready malt core, sweetish but not too outspokenly sweet, instead quite quickly bittered by strong coffee powder, both aromatically and flavour-wise, yet working well with autumn-leafy, somewhat earthy hops, toasty malt bitterness taking over from the caramel and a soothing, soft afterglow of brandy-like alcohol with a touch of clove trailing behind. Smooth and slick, clean but in that sense very typical Doppelbock in all respects - the addition of coffee, which has been done quite generously here, sets it apart, even if it is not the first Dutch 'koffiebok' (in itself of course a whim of postmodern craft brewing as all the classic 'bokbieren' were clean and unflavoured with herbs or things like that). Fit for a benign October night - tasty, very malty and warming, with an 'autumny' feel to it. Uiltje still produces likeable beers despite the Heineken takeover so I for one am not ready yet to let them go...

Nagenoeg zwart bier met schuim wat niet heel lang blijft staan. Smaak is bitter hoppig met wat rook, hout en wat stroop en rozijnen.