Score
6.72
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Bottle at home. Dark brown to black color, average sized brown colored head. Smell and taste malts, dark malts, roast and some smoke. Firm malt bitters and lightly liquor. Mwah, drinkable but not great.
Another whisky-infused beer and directly or indirectly an heir to Anker’s Gouden Carolus Imperial Dark which started this trend in Belgium seven or eight years ago now; bottle shared with Craftmember and Goedele. Moussy, pale yellowish beige, medium thick, stable head, misty chestnut brown robe with ruddy-bronze hue. Aroma of caramel, oxidized red apple slices, clove, peach, tea, bubblegum, banana peel, brown bread, hints of basil, whisky indeed but subtle, liquorish or even ‘borstbollen’, blackberry jam, hazelnut oil. Sweet onset, red apple sprinkled with blonde sugar, hints of banana, raisin and pear, softish carb, full but slick and bit resinous mouthfeel; brown-bready and caramelly malts with slight bubblegummy edge, residual dark sugars and spicy phenols (clove, nutmeg, touch liquorish again) gently bittered by a herbal hop touch and a light whisky element – but the latter remains very faint. Ends softly spicy, mildly bitter, fruity and yeasty, like gazillions of other dark Belgian ales – with the whisky hardly having any effect at all. Decent enough, but feeling a bit ordinary and uninspired, though a higher whisky dose probably would have made it too boozy; perhaps a thicker malt bill could add some improvement?
17/IX/21 - 33cl bottle @ Nieuwjaarsreceptie Gentse Biervereniging, Hotel Columbo (Gent), BB: IV//2024 (2021-1101) Thanks for sharing the bottle!
Pretty clear amber beer, small creamy beige head, pretty stable, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, lots of ripe banana, sweet impression, caramel, very yeasty, bit sugary. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, very yeasty, bitter, alcohol, ripe to overripe banana, soft roast. Aftertaste: sweet, banana, caramel, very yeasty, bitter, dry, hoppy finish.