3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Light, hazy, amber with a moderate off-white head that never fully goes away. Aroma of caramel, dark fruit, bubblegum, spice and banana. Taste is yeasty and malty sweet with fruity flavors and a slightly bitter finish. Medium bodied with average carbonation and a light dryness.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draught at the Blue Monk in Buffalo. Pours a copper colour with a thin layer of white head and some veils of lace. Smell is sweet and a quite yeasty. Taste is also sweet and yeasty. Almost a little watery.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
750ml bottle, corked and caged. Pours burnt orange with a 2 finger off white head. Bread like aroma with light spice and fruit. Flavor starts outs sweet then turns tart and finishes dry. Fairly light in body with a good amount of carbonation.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
On tap... Pours a medium copper orange with a nice off white head, great lace and retention... Very sweet malty nose, caramel, yeast and spices too, solid... Sweet taste as well, more fruit sweet than malt sweetness, yeast and spice still, too much belgian yeast for my liking, easily drinkable... Ok, wouldn’t have again
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
bottle into a lager glass. pours pale at first and then gets cloudy. Dark golden and hazy. Lots of white foam. Smells like strawberry or other sweet berry. Aroma is malt and fruit. Long and lasting finish that is satisfying. Overall, one of my favorite beers regardless of weather, time of day or occasion.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle, pours an dark amber colour, it had a nice spicy aroma with yeasty notes, taste was similar, had some camarel in there a littlle bit woody as well. Overall really tasty stuff.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Drank this beer at Freeman’s in NYC, where I felt cool until I realized my brother-in-law got stuck paying 80 dollars for Macaroni and Cheese, and this beer cost me twelve bucks. Twelve ounces, mind you, not the 750. And, while Rare Vos has its charms, a dollar an ounce is a bit much. Still, I’ll try not to let this fiscal idiocy harm my objectivity. Rare Vos looks Belgian, authentically so, with a lovely color and unyielding head. Smells kind of like spiced bread. Good, but too much so; the taste becomes a letdown, bland, mildly sweet and spicy, but victim to a whole lot of yeast and a whole lot of carbonation. That pretty head apparently means the body has bite. Not my favorite brew, but it leaves me curious about the brewery. (7/19/08)
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
bottle@’t Waagstuk: pours clear amber/copper except for bottom of the bottle which was hazy, small off-white head that isn’t all that persistent, smell & taste, floral, strong presence of spices, herbal with a touch of burned caramel, very bread-like, this Belgian-style beer is distinctly different from the Belgian beer that I have tried so far, interesting but not worth to seek out if it is outside of your reach
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