t IJ Turbock

Bottle sampled with Stegosaurus. Pours amber with a beige head. Aroma of citrus, spices, and fruit. The flavor is smooth, fruit, citrus, and spices are noticeable. Great beer.

This is weird and delicious. Expecting a bock, it made me cough as what must be brett hit my throat. Hard to cram into any style, I guessed saison as I was drinking it. This just seems too weird to call a Belgian Strong Ale. A little sour from the brett, but also some sweet malt and significant barnyard flavor. Fairly thick. A hidden gem.

IJnde Jaars. Best before 09 2004. Pours deep amber into a tulip. Off-white conglomerate head leaves consistent lace as it recedes. Biscuit and slight lemon joy aromas. Creamy caramel throughout. Dry caramel finish.

Bottle sampled with Beerded one. Pours a hazy deep amber with a large lasting beige head. Aroma of citrus, belgian style spices, and fruit. The flavor is even better, smooth, fruit, citrus, sweetness, banana, belgian style spices. Good body, good brew.

Notes from bottle at HDG. poured into a Leffe glass. Color is very very murky brown, cannot see through it at all. Aroma is all malt, malty sweetness. Smell is reminiscent of an English barleywine (i.e. Lees Harvest). Taste is pretty much like a Lees as well, a bit less intense. Medium carbonation. Everything I have tried from this brewer so far is well crafted and definitly outside the regular framework.

Dark amber color foamy head, some hop bitter....but there are iron particels in it. some fruit, sweet cherry. different thoughts about it !

This beer offers an aroma of fresh wheat infused with citrus fruit and prunes. This sediment enriched pumpkin colored beer rests under a nice off-white head. This moderately heavy beer fills the mouth well and perks the taste buds. The healthy wheat taste fades leaving a mild resin of alcohol lingering.

I must have a pre-2005 bottle which I picked up at Oliver’s in Albany. This could be nice...total serendipity. I’m spending a while looking at it because I sense it’s too cold cloming from a fridge. It has an almost purplish ruby brown color, it’s almost eclipsingly opaque actuall, almost devoid of color. It’s incrediby flavorful, much more than drinkable. The aroma really builds up your anticipation to drink it and plays a harmony with the flavor. It’s quite sour/bitter but a hint of sugar and originating grainyfruit ... you cannot help but love it, it is so primitive, basic, it tastes like sour earth, like I would have had all over my face a couple centuries ago. Or in a different part of the globe right now. This is the douple ipa barleywine of belgian strong ales. sour, bitte, as big and complex as anything others are doing in that genre, with almost a feel of lambic, the sour stuff, kriek maybe, having some properties of that. beer is a norwegian trainwreck snow, pine trees, berry bushes, excellent