Koelschip Winterbier

Brewed by Brouwerij het Koelschip
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Almere, Netherlands

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle 300ml.
Clear dark amber color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, berry, red wine. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate acidic with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20091114]

Bottle at Pint Winterbierfestival, Gouda: Brown/red coloured brew with an metal taste of some kind, not quite good maybe got an bad brew.

Hazy dark amber with a tiny beige head. Aroma had lacto, roasted malt and berries. Flavour was sour and had lacto, roasted malt and again sourish berries. Finished sour. Might not be intended but came out nice as a flemish red.

Bottled. A hazy dark amber beer with a thin orangey head. The aroma has notes of brettanomycs, fruit, caramel, and malt. The flavor is sweet with acidic notes of brettanomyces and lacto, as well as notes of malt, fruits, bread, and caramel, leading to a dry lightly sour finish. Nice.

Bottle 30 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Pours a hazy amber with floating impurities and a beige head. Tart, lactic nose. Medium body, tart and lactic with woody red wine accents - quite delicious but probably not intented. Dry finish. 141109

Bottle, 7.5%. Nice fruity sour aroma. Hazy dark red brown colour. The flavour is nicely citric, has some lactic acid. Good fruity sweetness. Interesting.

30 cL bottle. Pours dark brown and golden deep orange glare and with a small and off-white head. Dry brett-ish. Sweet and fruity flavoured, dry brett-ish. Lingering fruity finish.

30cl Bottle at home, birthday gift. Dark reddish brown colour, thin lasting creamy off white head. Aroma of red wine, dark fruits, light sour, wet paper. Flavour is sweet dark malts and fruits, raisins, figs, light sour grapes, paper with a faded cinnamon taste, coriander, some other spices. Tastes oxidized. Light sour fruity finish. Tastes like a really big beer, has a lot of nice flavours when tasted separately, but they don’t blend in very well. Medium bodied, lots of CO2. This beer has potential.

Bottle. Dark brown color. Soft malty aroma with notes of caramel and porto. Malty sweetish, roasted flavor with caramel, raisin, hints of porto and licorice. Medium bodied. Absolutely drinkable, though not world class.

Bottle@Home. I said to myself the first beer below 8% will be the one to drink tonight. Man I was passed that it turned out to be one from Koelschip. But I promissed myself so... Fruity, raisin, light malty, light lactic aroima. Clear, reddish brown, huge beige head, fair lace. Sweet, very bitter, lots of spices, licorice, laurel, strong hop flavors like grass and twigs, especially in the finish very bitter. Sparkling, light metallic, alcohlic. Unbalanced. bit over the edge here and there but still better than expected.