Augustijn

[Drunk just before the best before date] An orange beer with lumps of yeast floating around and a huge beige head. The aroma is sweet with notes of coriander, peach, prunes, oranges, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet, very carbonated and alcoholic, with notes of oranges, coriander, apples, and wood.

Golden coloured. Aromatic fruity aroma - smells like ripe peaches. Sweet, vanillaish and medium bodied, but dangerously drinkable. Not much bitterness, so the finish is more like a fruit salad.

(Bottle 33 cl) Dark golden with a nice full head, lots of sediment. Very full-bodied and with a very evident alcohol. OK indeed, but a bit rough and characterless as with some Bios beers. 270394

Nose is ok - wheat, pear, apple, hint of barnyard. The colour is a little dark for the style, but its the light palate, hint of plastic and cheese-like finish that really turns me off this beer.

2 years old:
Hazy copper-amber. Cheesy, woody, sourish aroma with port, figs and orange zest. The palate is plasticy still, with corn syrup, peach, perfume, dust, mildew...some dead yeast cells perhaps? Just maybe. In fact, this dead yeast thing really sends bizarre messages to my brain, like Karakalpak yurt felt. I've only been in one Karakalpak yurt and that was a display piece, not one that had been used, so why that jumped into my head I'll never know. But that's exactly the problem with this beer, whether fresh or with aging, it's just odd, and not in a good way. I don't want to drink a stiffly alcoholic yurt, you know what I mean? Vintage rating 2.4.

Bottle. Clear yellow coloured with a huge white head. Aroma of fruits and spices. Flavour of fruits, yeast and spices.