TBone (30139) reviewed Six O Six (606) from Vossen Met De Meynen (VMDM) 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle at PBFX. Dark amber color, small off-white head. Caramelly, slightly malty nose. Medium-bodied. Front has some alcohol. Then caramel and some candy fruityness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Newish beer from Vossen Met De Meynen, dedicated to Duchenne’s disease and made to a recipe by Gunther Bensch of Montaigu. Bottle from Willems. Creamy, dense, pale beige head with limited lacing, over a misty, dark purplish burgundy beer with a fine haze of yeast suspended in it. Sweet cookie dough aroma, a ton of home-made caramel, caramel candy and butterscotch, hint of unrefined baker’s chocolate, a lot of candied fig and raisin, cashew nuts, brown sugar, coriander, molasses, biscuit, white pepper, hint of dried thyme and less agreeable odours of rotting grass, burnt cardboard and rainwater, but luckily these fade away after a while. Estery, sweetish onset of cherries, brambleberries and blackcurrant with a strong citrus peel sourishness, medium carbo, typically Belgian banana and bubblegum flavours, smooth and supple malt body, deeply caramelly but a bit chocolatey too without the bitterness, lightly toasted in the end, with resiny coriander and a leafy, earthy and lightly spicy hop bitterishness coming in for balance; malt sweetness remains the last impression, along with a bready yeastiness especially in the end of the bottle, an unexpected port-like sweetness popping up as well as a cloying coriander spiciness (sigh...). The taste is enjoyable, with a fairly good balance between sweet malts and bitter hops; this is an interesting beer, but perhaps a bit too spiced to my taste. In terms of style: to me, this is a very typical sweet dubbel, with some Scotch-like characteristics; at least the toasted and chocolate accents as well as the beige head reveal that actual dark malts are used instead of some syrup, which is always a good sign. Just needs more finetuning.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
330 ml. bottle @ home. Purchased @ Willems & Zoon. BBF 11/02/2017. Dark brownish amber, small mocha head. Nose is roasted cheap coffee, mocha powder, coffee grounds, old chocolate, chocolate syrup, mildly sweet & grainy, promising. Taste is creamy grainy chocolate milk, faint sweet coffee machine coffee, Starbucks Ice Coffee, mocha, creamy, silky, sweet chocolate milk, sweet hazelnuts, mocha ice cream,… Very creamy & sweet with plenty of sugar in a great dessert kind of way. There is a very faint bitterness in the finish. A pleasant treat & surprise. Silky sweet this is akin to an instant cold coffee sugar / desert treat. I don’t consider Abbey Dubbel to be a style but for whatever it is worth, this is by far the best one I have had so far. This is really way more a sweet stout (despite the lack of lactose) than a Belgian Dark Ale / Abbey Dubbel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
330ml bottle, thanks to Jefverstraete! Pours hazy amber with medium off-white head. Nice sweet hoppy character with floral elements and a defined bitterness. Finish is a touch dry, with the taste fading a little. Lacks a certain something.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed The Beast 666 from Vossen Met De Meynen (VMDM) 10 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Vossen met de Meynen The Beast 666 (by Vossen Met De Meynen):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 4/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 9/20, MyTotalScore: 2.7/5
22/II/15 - 33cl bottle from Willems (Grobbendonk) @ home - BB: 22/V/16 (2015-238) Thanks to Beerlover_Ben for picking this one up for me!
Little hazy orange beer, huge creamy off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very fruity, mango, pineapple, pretty resinous, bit soapy, but also ban-aid, chemical and medicinal, disinfectant. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity start, grapefruit,s ome pineapple, but this quickly turns into an unpleasant medicinal to chemical bitterness with lots of band-aid and glue. Aftertaste: alcohol (is this really only 6.6% ABV?), again this unpleasant bitterness, alcohol burn, band-aid and slightly fruity.
Borresteijn (12407) reviewed VanAcht from Vossen Met De Meynen (VMDM) 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl Bottle from Prik&Tik Pauwels. Reddish dark brown colour, beige head. Aroma of dark malts, dark fruits, raisin, prune, brown sugar, alcohol. Flavour is medium sweet, light spicy, light floral, brown sugar, dark fruits, alcohol, light bitter finish with more alcohol. Medium-bodied, just a tiny bit over-carbonated. Nice enough.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
33cl Bottle as Soixante-Neuf. Slightly hazy golden colour, thin white head. Aroma of hay, malts, flour, floral, light fruity and yeasty. Flavour is medium sweet, fruity, floral, some honey, relatively dry, light spicy, coreander, yeast, light-bitter finish. Light-bodied. OK, but very generic Belgian Blonde. If it were a bit less sweet it’d be a lot better imho.
Benzai (24515) reviewed The Beast 666 from Vossen Met De Meynen (VMDM) 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle @ home. Hazy orange color, medium to full sized white to off-white head that lasts for a decent while. Aroma is dominated by fruity hops! Excuse me?! Yes, mango, hops, lightly pineapple. This is on of the first Belgian IPA’s that’s actually not a yeasty Belgian IPA but a proper American style IPA. At least, the aroma is... Fortunately it also tastes good. Again: light to moderately malty, good strong hoppyness, fruit hops, hints of mango and tropical fruits and a very nice full bitterness. Fine body, medium carbonation. Very nice!
77ships (14506) reviewed The Beast 666 from Vossen Met De Meynen (VMDM) 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
33 cl. bottle @ home. Procured from Willem & Zoon. Bright golden, huge rocky white head consisting of quite big bubbles. Nose is dominated by yoghurt BE-yeast, bread & definite lightly floral bitter orange peel hops, reasonably hoppy. Very light USA hop touch. Taste is bitter hops, floral, grass, bitter orange peel, faint medicinal hops, quite floral, tad medicinal with some yoghurt BE-yeast underneath, touch bitter plastic hops. Carbonation is on the bigger side. BBF 22/05/2016. Pretty decent IPA from Belgium with a heavy BE feel to it. Nice work.