 greenhorn1 (370), Eugene, Oregon, USA
Apr 27, 2008
750 ml bottle from BottleTrek.com. Pours brown, big head, lively carbonation. Spicy aroma. Flavor is sweet, fruity, with a mild complexity. There is a hint of metallic taste on the finish. Very easy to drink.
bhensonb (2883), Woodland, California, USA
Aug 21, 2008 750 ml bottle from John’s Marketplace in Portland, OR. Very dark amber color with a frothy beige head. Aroma resembles an Abt/Quad with some citrus notes. Medium plus body with coarsely creamy carbonation. Flavor is dark fruit, dark caramel and spices like anise and citrus zest. Puts tingle all over my tongue. Finishes freshly dark and mildly bitter. Touches my palate like an Abt/Quad . It’s just delicious.
BoBoChamp (653), Gent, Belgium
Jul 28, 2008 33cl, from De Hopduvel Gent, complex brew, yet easy to drink, hazy, rocky head, good brew
Lubiere (3256), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Jul 21, 2008 A dark amber to brown ale with a thick luscious light moka head. A nice caramel, dark fruit, and light fudge aroma, very pleasing. In mouth, tingly caramel malt with licorice, nuts, warming alcohol, and light coriander and other spices. Lingering spices in mouth. Medium bodied for the style. For some reasons, diminishes the funkiness of the Pere Joseph cheese sampled with the beer.
Ober (308), Best, Netherlands
Jun 17, 2008 A hazy brown colored beer, with a nice beige head. A malty aroma, with tones of nutes and dark caramel. The taste is little bitter, more caramel sweet, with touches of fruits, like raisins. Also some spicey, a little coriander. A very nice beer.
Glouglouburp (1943), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Jun 9, 2008 In short: An unconventional ferrous aggressive crunchy-sweet but dry Belgian Ale of some kind. Surprisingly drinkable.
How: Bottle, 330ml, about 6 months old
The look: Partly cloudy dark amber body with a small tan head
In long: Malt profile reminding me of a dry crunchy sugar pie (pretty much the opposite of smooth round caramel). Something about this beer (spices? Other?) feels very ferrous/metallic. There are plenty of dry woody hops in there. The hopping is not particularly flavourful or bitter but it does dry out the beer a lot. Finish mixes dry tree bark, minerals and metal/rust. Very aggressive carbonation. Tasty beer, certainly not boring. The whole time I was drinking the bottle I was picking up the weird/wrong things of the beer, yet when I finished my glass I wanted another one. Weird, in principle I think it wasn’t a good beer yet I want more of it, I don’t know what to say… elephant pyjama, yeah, I really don’t know what to say.
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