De 3 Horne Kandinsky

Brewed by De 3 Horne
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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(Bottle 33 cl) Courtesy of jbrus. Hazy, amber golden with an off-white head. Very lively as it works itself out of the bottle. Fruity nose with some burned caramel and alcohol. Quite full-bodied, sweetish caramel and fruit. Almost no bitterness. But somehow a classical uninspired Dutch micro. 310807

25th October 2007
Warning! Early amateur rating! Cloudy brown beer. Nutty creamy malt with a hint of fruit. Sweet. A bit different. Very nice.

Small bottle from de Bierkoning, Amsterdam. Pours a fizzy, near-clear, brownish red body, with a low creamy beige head on top. Smells nutty and sweet malty, bordering on sugary. Also a scent of dark dried fruits and marzipan. Taste is medium malty and more than medium sweet. A refined and rounded sweetness, with lots of fruitiness. Dark dried fruits and fruit-cocktail, plum marmelade and canned pears. Nice! A certain earthy bitterness is there to balance. Some mild spice tones too. Medium full, thick and dense in the mouth. Fruity endnotes as well, sweet-accented with an acidic touch. A very nice one, not very sophisticated, but a genuine sweetheart.

Bottled (From Cracked Kettle). Hazy ambery brown colour, mediumsized creamy off-white head. Aroma is fruits, nuts, yeast, caramel and some mild alcohol. Flavour is bread, nuts, yeast, earth, some caramel, spices and also a touch of alcohol in the finish.

Bottle: Spewed from the bottle like a valcano, poured a chestnut brown with a off white head. Aroma is nuts and caramel. Taste is bitter fruits with a false caramel malt base. I believe this bottle might have been infected. It just does not seem right.

A little hazy, amber colored beer, with a thick beige head. The aroma is maltu with a little caramel, with tonsil, sweet and fruity. The taste has caramel with sweets, fruits, tonsil, some little toffee. There is a little bitter. The aftertaste is bittersweet.

330ml bottle - - Cracked Kettle, Amsterdam
Rich reddy brown, healthy head. Beautiful fruity aroma, but some yeasty malts there too. Soft palate, pleasant carbonation. Quite full with malts in the mouth, with retronasal esters aplenty. However, upon swallowing two waves creep up on you - first alcohol starts to waft around, and then secondly the bite of hops smacks you in the chops. I cannot say that I am getting dates, but the fruitiness is certainly of the dark variety. Malts are almost dubbel-like. The combination almost has a bit of dried mixed peel. Nothing exceptional, but altogether a very solid strong belgian-style ale, with classic Dutch hopping.

Bottle at Arendsnest. Light amber coloured beer, off-white head. Lots of particles floating in it. Aroma of caramel, dates/sweet nuts, some yeast. Flavour is soft and sweet, nutty, dates, some fruits. Medium bodied. OK beer.

Bottled(330ml). -Hm, hm, what to think about beer with dates? To be honest nothing good or should I say something awful, but this one was really pleasant surprise. Very complex beer. Slight hazy dark golden/amber coloured, small white head, loads of sediment floating in the glass and bottle. The taste is very fruity, caramelish and mild alcoholic with obvious dates presence. Soft carbonation, sweet light alcoholic finish.

Bottle @<a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/forums/cnudde-ølsmagn target=_new> Cnudde Tasting.. Clear medium amber color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, light yeasty, toffee, light alcohol, fruity. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (290308)

Cloudy orange amber with small white head. Aroma is very similar to many plain Belgian Strongs out there where the yast and malt is prominent and the strong alc is not even noticable. Flavor is sweet and yeast spice with some purple fruits. Medium body. Fine just not really outside the box.