Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
9/II/20 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ home, BB: XII/2019 (2020-125)
Clear orange beer, big creamy off-white head, little stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: green apples, floral, bit soapy, little malty. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter, some tannins, bit hoppy, dry, spicy touch, dead yeast, green apples, bit dirty, bit sourish. Aftertaste: malty, some chocolate, yeast, bit sourish, some orange peel, where’s my darn whisky? :-p
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
33cl bottle. A clear dark golden beer with a white head. Aroma of strong malt, riped fruits, wood, mild sourness. Taste of strong riped fruits, caramel, strong sweet malt, wood.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Double Port from Broeder Jacob 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Gollem - Amstelstraat, pours a hazy dark amber with a medium tan head. Aroma brings out dark fruits, candied sugar, and caramel. Flavour is quite sugary, with lots of caramel, light port, tartness, and Belgian yeast. Too sweet, in cloying territory. It's not bad though.
DirDec (2083) ticked Lazarus Rum Infused (2019) from Broeder Jacob 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
22/XI/19 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ home, BB: 30/I/22 - (2019-1889)
Clear orange beer, big creamy solid beige off-white head, stable, adhesive. Aroma: dusty, pretty oxidized, malty, lots of grains, bit of dried fruits, oxidized, alcohol, wood notes. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty dry, bitter, wood notes, some dried fruits, very oxidized, very bitter, herbal, malty. Aftertaste: very bitter, alcohol, greens herbs, wormwood, verbana, oxidized, some dried orange peel, more bitter, bit unpleasant, more oxidation notes, some cardboard, harsh bitter finish.
Paired very good with lobster bisque.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Lazarus Rum Infused (2019) from Broeder Jacob 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
19/XI/19 - on tap @ HoReCa-Expo Gent, BB: n/a - (2019-1853) Thanks to the brewers and the Ghent Beer Posse for sharing today’s beers!
Clear orange beer, small creamy off-white head, stable, non adhesive. Aroma: fruity, orange peel, kiwi, kaki fruits, weird, a bit oxidized. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: alcohol, rum, lots of rum I guess, soft bitterness, pretty fruity, weird. Aftertaste: bitter, dry, fruity, hoppy touch. Interesting, but not great.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed 1125 Vlierbeek Grand Cru from Broeder Jacob 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
19/XI/19 - on tap @ HoReCa-Expo Gent, BB: n/a - (2019-1852) Thanks to the brewers and the Ghent Beer Posse for sharing today’s beers!
Clear blond to yellow beer, big creamy white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: malty, bit fruity, some bubble gum, banana, slightly smoky. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: yeast, some banana, soft bitterness, caramel touch. Aftertaste: hint of citrus, hoppy, nice bitterness, good one!
Bierridder (4318) ticked Double Port from Broeder Jacob 6 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
75cl bottle from a gift,
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
One of the liquor infused, limited editions of Broeder Jacob's Lazarus, this time with calvados; best before 2022, so I guess this was bottled in, what, 2017? Anyway: mousy, large-bubbled, egg-white, thinnish and somewhat loose head, diminishing and gradually breaking open, until only a thin ring around the edge remains; initially cristal clear, 'metallic' orange blonde beer with warm 'old gold' tinge, some thin but lively strings of sparkling rising up from the bottle of the glass, turning misty with sediment. Aroma of baked banana, candyfloss, calvados in a 'generic' way (without the refined and noble character I remember from it) and even whisky, blonde sugar, caramel candy, glazed pears, honey, clove and even a vague touch of chicken stock (4-vinyl-guaiacol), hint of soaking wet wood, very faint sulfuric accent (freshly struck matches). Sweetish onset, hints of peach, banana and ripe Doyenné pear, sourish undertone, minerally aspects adding a spring water-like effect but carbonation nevertheless is relatively soft; slick, smooth-edged, bit resinous body, caramelly maltiness with white candi sugar syrup adding a honeyish residual sweetness, very light peanutty touch faraway, leading to a drier finish with clove-like phenols and a dash of floral hop bitterness, but both are largely muted by a strong calvados effect, heating the back of the mouth and throat and indeed recognizable as calvados, but becoming a bit obnoxious and wry in the end. Underneath this overt booziness, a late but retronasally very clear, more elegant woodiness lurks, adding an extra layer of depth, though perhaps not quite enough to save the day... Like other variants in this series, the beer itself lacks body and complexity to undergo a wood chip plus liquor treatment, but the wood chips do come out nicely. The calvados is a bit too harsh for me personally, as if an actual shot of it was thrown into the glass - which physically is not that far from the truth. Not every single beer gets better with wood and liquor added and obviously this cheap shortcut will never have the same effect as actual barrel ageing either. A bit crude, straightforward and boozy, this remains what it is: a sweet and boozy tripel with a shot of calvados in it. Clearly an attempt to cash in on the whole barrel ageing hype without actually being barrel aged - a cheap alternative to it, basically - but in any case it shows a bit more complexity than the regular Lazarus, so enjoyable to a less educated palate, I suppose. I am left rather unimpressed, I expected just a little bit more here.