The aroma is sweet and fruity, the color is orange, and it has a beutiful head. The flavor is powerful, sweet and fruity. The alcohol prickles the tongue and it has a great palate.

Bottled. Reddish golden with rich head. Fruity caramel aroma.. Sweet and clean. The immensly bitter grassy flavour strikes immediately and lasts into a finish, which has some toffee to balance a bitterness that easily surpasses De Ranke XX-Bitter, at least as far as I can remember. Very much a different beer than the draught "regular" Loterbol.

(Bottle 33 cl) Strong, pale ale with a pronounced yeast sediment in the bottle. Unfiltered with a decent, creamy head. Marc Beirens, the brewmaster, claims that he makes his beers more bitter every year. I’ll recommend, that he stops this pursuit now. Loterbol is extremely hoppy. Goldings-hops are added two times and it’s even dry-hopped with Styrians. The hops almost paralyze the tastebuds, but without covering the underlying sweetness completely. Refermented in the bottle. 090804

Deep golden amber colour with mountainous head. Aroma is fruity-hoppy (lime, kumquat, passion fruit) with hints of toasted bagels & sweaty yeast. Flavour is musty, sweaty, fruity (more kiwi than lime this time) with a firm alcoholic bite. Chewier, more caramelly than Duvel, but similar stuff overall. The big difference between the two I think is that this is rough around the edges while Duvel is very refined.

33 cL bottle. Pours almost clear yellow with a huge white head. Strange spiced and butterish aroma - terrible. Favour is dry and mild caramel yet also quite chemical. Ends strange faul fruity too. Rerate needed.