2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle courtesy of bierkoning. Thanks! Pours very cloudy, muddy, orange-ish, with a small fizzy head that doesn’t last. Aroma of grapes and wheat. Odd taste. Don’t really know what to make of it. Syrupy mouthfeel. Offputting at first, but it grows on you.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Deep garnet body with a strang epeach colored head. The aroma was rich freshly poished shoe leather and peaches. There was also some earthy musk. The taste was rich with caramel and some old canned pears. There was also a nice spicy cinnamon note in the finish. A clean and delicate beer for the big abv. Well done.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at the brewpub. The beer pours reddish brown witha creamy tan head. The aroma is sweet caramel, spices, light yeast and dark fruit. Light chocolate, sweet malt, light spices and dark fruit in the flavour. Nice one.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle. Rich bronze color with a big tan head. Yeasty, berry/plum aroma with some earthy malt. Rich malty flavor with some earthy yeast, spice, and plum/raisin. Fuller bodied. Lingering light fruit and lots of malt. Nice, rich, and good complexity.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
In short: Run of the mill sweet Belgian amber ale. Nothing special.
How: Bottle at brepub
The look: Cloudy amber body topped by a small beige head
In long: Strong nose of toasted caramel and wet forest floor. Taste is sweet, some almonds, lots of caramel, very bready (crusty baguette), some dried fruits. Lack of hops presence. Alcohol is very well hidden. Not bad but nothing interesting either. At least this bottle wasn’t a yeast soup like the three beers I had on tap just before. Overall I was a bit disappointed by the beers at Brouwerij ’t IJ. If I was a local I would not go there so often. And honestly with the Red Light district they have I don’t understand why anybody is going to the pub to start with.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
enjoyable. well-disguised alcohol. some cherry in aroma and pleasant late dryness
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: JUL 3, 2007 (Bottled) Murky, very dark brown color with a smallish, lacy head. Sourish, caramel-malty aroma with tiny hints of coffee. Sweet-sour-malty flavor with spices, licorice and coffee beans. Medium to full-bodied, oily and smooth palate. A nice, dubbel-like brew with a high but well-hidden ABV.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Brown sugar, raisins, dates, plums, toffee, yeast in the aroma. Almost smells like a Belgian Bock. Opaque mahogany brown with tan head that recedes to cover with minor lace. Very sweet, sugary dark fruits with minor roastiness in the finish. Full bodied and somewhat sticky in the mouth. Probably would have faired much better if sampled by itself rather than in the middle of a tasting session. Bottle enjoyed with MartinT and Rastacouere at Spuyten Duyvil (Brooklyn, New York).
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