3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Shared this one w/ SkyCop32. Pours a darkish red/brown. Aromas of spice, coriander, yeast, and alcohol. Flavor has an alcohol taste to it, mixed with a nice smokey dark fruit. Also has strong hints of spice and orange.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
(bottle, 33cl) Cloudy, murky orange-golden colour with a giant but not very persistent off-white foamy head. Yeasty, sweet and slightly sugary (cara-)malty and wheaty aroma with notes of overripe fruits (citrus, oranges) and spicy, slightly mouldy phenols. Sweet flavour, full bodied with a smooth carbonation. Yeasty (cara-)malty taste with moderately fruity notes and peppery spicy accents; sweet and slightly hoppy and yeasty bitter finish with distinctive spicy notes and a warming alcoholic strength. 30.III.10
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle. The aroma of yeast and a lot of citrus, light sweet. The head is very large, white and very foamy with a long duration. The body is yellow-orange. The taste is yeasty, light sour-bitter. The body is rather light, a little bit dry and metallic with a normal carbonation.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
UPDATED: MAY 29, 2010 Pours an almost opaque, cloudy orange/amber with a massive head... took about 5 minutes to get the full pour. Aroma: Fruits, sweet malts, alcohol, maybe a note of sour milk, yeast. Taste: sweet, tart fruits, yeast, alcohol... the alcohol becomes much more pronounced as the beer warms. Finish is sticky sweet, somewhat dry with a warming alcohol burn. Medium but full body, complex. Medium carbonation. Overall a very good beer... but not one of my favorites from De Dolle (due to the bar being set so high by their other beers).
Update: Opened another bottle that was about a year old: Beautiful now. Alcohol was almost completly hidden: sweet fruit, spice, yeast, malt are much more blended and has the De Dolle magic. Original rate had a overall score of 3.8.
4.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Pours beautiful hazy orange with a huge foamy white head. Aroma’s of citrus, yeast, lemon zest, pinewood, a delicious rich fruitiness in the background. In the mouth medium bodied, lively carbonation, almost peppery, creamy malty sweetness some sour notes gives way to a dry hoppy finish. Another great brew from De Dolle.
3.7 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
pours gold with a huge foamy white head.
aroma is fruity apple and green grape, some orange. Hint of spicy yeast.
Flavour is yeasty, slightly spicy, candy sugar sweetness. light biscuity malt.
a tart fruitiness and light herbal hop. Seemed well blended initially, though I found the alc coming on stronger as it warmed.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Pours hazy orange, huge frothy white head which slowly dissapates into a white froth. Aroma is zesty, sugary sweet and yeasty, first taste is a strong honey-like sweetness which carries through to the finish, also fruity, vanilla and a pleasant yeast flavour. Finish is sweet and fairly alcoholic. Very nice.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draught at ZBF 2010.
Cloudy dark golden colour, big head. Fresh pale malty, hoppy aroma with tropical fruits. Flavour is on the sweet side (the alcohol) and peppery leaning towards anis, fennel or salmiak, maybe from the yeast strain used, that here seem to be pronounced in all sorts of different flavours. The alcohol bitterness is there still, or just imagined. Balance seems to be pretty good in the end. Alcohol bitter. I might just think it’s too strong and raw.
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