Bloemen Bier

Brewed by De Proefbrouwerij
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Lochristi - Hijfte, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle, 7%. Bready aroma, a little dark malts. Hazy copper colour. Big rocky head. The flavour is very sweet and sugary with a little alcohol, but not enough to balance the beer. Still OK if one likes sweet beer.

Bottle, 33 cl. BB 08/’09 Bit hazy (darkgolden to) amber color, big white head. Aroma malts, caramel, bit spice at the end. Medium body. Taste is very special, sweet, flowers ?, little spices, bit bitter at the finish. Not bad.

Bottled. A dark golden beer with a slight haze under a huge orange-yellow head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of malt, yeast, and spices. The flavor is lovely sweet - not too much - not too little, with strong notes of malt, yeast, caramel, flowers, and spices - among them coriander and cinnnamon. The alcohol tickles the tongue slightly in the aftertaste.

33cl bottle: poured into two glasses, one of which is slightly cloudy and the other is very cloudy from the yeast of which some still remains in the bottle. Big white head which subsides into a rocky, meringue like whiteness. Yeasty aroma with some peppery notes. Cloying sweetness like saccharin. Belgian yeast notes of course but that sweetness really detracts for me.

Bottle picked up at Ken Sheathers Wines, Cheltenham, 22-12-07 Deep amber pour with white head, soft mouthfeel, touch sweet, little bit artificially so with sacchriney flavours being picked up, but then I note some honey like flavours coming through. This could have been a very good beer but was just a bit too sweet.

Golden app. with a rocky head. Strong aroma, honey, flowers, little spicy. Way too sweet in mouth, sticky, chewy.

Bottle, 33 cl. Amber/orange, rocky head, cloudy. Rather sweet. Aroma of wheat, nuts and brown suger.

Bottle. Brown with a big foam. Aromas are brown sugar with floral and spicy notes. Flavours are sweet sticky caramel malts with spices. Syrupy and sweet - too sweet for me.

Bottiglia da 33cl al Corsaro Nero; colore oro intenso torbido, con ottima schiuma. Aroma già dolcissimo con succo di pomodoro, mela, uva bianca. Sapore follemente sbilanciato sul dolce, il miele e i fiori trionfano, il primo soprattutto in un particolarissimo retrogusto ’appiccicoso’ (corpo denso, densissimo, difficile "sciacquarsela" dalla bocca). La birra più sfacciatamente zuccherosa che io abbia mai assaggiato: spettacolare.

Copper colour with a huge cloyish head. Fruity and sugared aroma. Sweet flavour, sweet finish. Too sticky.