Het Kapittel Watou Prior

Brewed by Van Eecke
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Poperinge-Watou, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle. Pours a dark brown,very little head. Nose is slightly sweet and with raisins, toffee, caramel, prunes- really delicious. Taste is a full bitter-sweet. Sticky and with dark Belgium chocolate, toffee, caramel, and bitterness. Very enjoyable. Medium body and i liked much better than the Pater.

Bottled 330ml. -from Presporska Pivoteka ie Cafe Luxor, Bratislava. Brown coloured, huge beige head, alcohol and dark fruits in the nose. The taste is basicly the same; alcohol dark fruits (prunes) with notes of caramel and mild spices. Sweet finish.

Pours amber brown with a khaki head. Aroma is sweet caramel, light chocolate and bready. Flavor is sweet bready malt, caramel, ripe fruit, and a little bitterness.

Jan 2008: from BA. Another beer reviewed during a Belgian beer night at my daughters, bless her. Cork and caged green .75 litre bottle, opened and poured by me. Best before 08/2009. Lovely dark ambre brown in colour with a neat biege head. The aroma and taste were the same, if you can believe that; fizzy, sweet, slightly bitter and dry. Overal a very nice drink, but there are better versions of this style around, I’ll have another if the chance comes around that’s for sure.

Brown light hazy body and a small diminishing off-white head. Aroma of malt, dried fruit, alcohol. The taste is heavy sweet, light bitter and sour. Full body, creamy and sticky body.

(Bottled)Fat yeast nose , bready . dense brown color , mild cream head, drinks rich and bitter , yeasty and dry. Like drinking brown bread soaked in booze ....

330 ml bottle via Belgianshop. Pours a rich brown with full head. Aromas of sour mash, malt, and caramel. Malt and brown sugar flavors. Peppery. Spicy. Sweet. A touch metallic.

Bottle 330ml from the local taphouse. Great aromas, with malt and yeast dominating. Aromas of caramel, chocolate, butterscotch, and bread. Taste is sweet, with sour notes, and very long lasting. Palate is syrupy, and full bodied. Brown, with a frothy head.

33cl bottle at Alquitara (Vicalvaro). Brown colour with a large tan head with big bubbles that quickly diminishes maintaining a thin layer of head with a decent persistence. Aroma is caramelish and yeasty. Flavour is strong caramelish, sugary, toasty, bready and a final maintaining the sweetness with a good persistence, alcoholic. Texture is bready. Carbonation is medium. Body is high.

Tap at Iron Horse. Fully, cloudy blood ruby color with smaller white head. Quick diminish. Ultra, super sweet raisin nose. Taste is painfully metallic with cloying raisin sweetness and tangy acid. Black olive juice abounds. Ick. Old keg probably. Poor tap lines and system here. Powdery and metal shavings. Ugh. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Kapittel Prior (= primus inter pares, or the first among equals....) Not for all, man. What’s this one ? A black one, with a large brown undercolor, but what a nose !! Very special.. Caramel, café, nougat, gingembre, pommes de terre.. Une mousse qui est vite tombée, alors que cette bière n’est que d’une petite année plus vieille que sa date limite. Premier goût de charbon de bois, girofle, et cendre de feu de bois..! Seconde bouche de feuilles d’érable, avec une pointe de sucre candi. Troisième bouche de café noir, prunes à maturité, due sans doute au roasted malt utilisé pour partie. (Il y a à nouveau 4 malts et 2 houblons dans cette bière, comme dans la Triple et la Pater...) Le problème est que le choix de ces malts est fait selon des critères tout à fait arbitraires... Pourquoi une triple ambrée, pourquoi une pater brun caramel ? Et bien, tout simplement ici, on a décidé de faire passer le roasted en avant pour la Prior. Bref, un coup de poker... Mais le problème est que les bières axées sur le roasted doivent être soignées comme dans une microbrasserie, et ici nous sommes chez Van Eecke des Belgian Family, et on doit accepter !! Malheureusement pour eux la finale n’est pas à la hauteur, même si le degré alcoolique est important, mais comme toujours, si ce degré ne sert rien ... il ne sert à rien (merci pour le jeu de mots !) Levure quasi nulle en finesse.. Longueur très faible, et goût beaucoup trop fixe, sans classe et surtout sans complexité. Comme j’ai noté sur ma première dégustation personnelle : "on se prend à douter de ce joli nom" (Kapittel) N.B. Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas, Van Eecke est heureusement sauvé par sa superbe Poperings Hommelbier