Angelo Pure
't Aards Paradijs in Nevele, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: De ProefbrouwerijBarley Wine Regular
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Score
6.66
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Alengrin (10989) reviewed Angelo Pure from 't Aards Paradijs 7 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
One of three super strong barleywines commissioned by a well-known restaurant in Nevele, the strength being attained by champagne yeast, always an interesting feature in this kind of beers. Loose, egg-white, irregular head, quickly reduced to a thin rim around the edge of the glass; cloudy coppery bronze robe with orangey and ’rusty’ hue, cloudy with strings of fine bubbles on the edges, and a whole lot of yeast and protein bits floating throughout. Very strong aroma - even noticeable from a yard away and I was sitting outdoors - of old sweet sherry, brown bread, sundried tomatoes, brown rum, rusty oxidation, chicken broth, gingerbread, brown sugar, cognac, ripe banana, overripe peach, marmelade. Very sugary sweet taste, honeyish with lots of ripe fruit esters (banana, peach, blue plum, medlar), sourish undercurrent providing a bit of balance against this heavy sweetness, champagne-ish carbonation, thick, vinous and rounded bready middle, caramelly with still that sugary sweetness thickly covering it, bit sticky even, but eventually dried by strong, warming, brandy- and sherry-like alcohol, which somehow manages to avoid strong astringency, though obviously it is undeniable; some light, ’dim’, earthy hoppiness as well and, unsurprisingly, spicy and bready yeast flavors. Too messy and too yeasty, with the proteins producing broth- and chicken-like off-flavors which shouldn’t be there, but otherwise a rich, sweet barleywine, interesting, with the champagne yeast adding some complexity.
Kraddel (15451) reviewed Angelo Pure from 't Aards Paradijs 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Pours muddy amber. Small white head. Smell is intense, sharp, bit bitter, madeira. Taste is sweet, thick , booze, clinical alcohol-taste. Sweet underneath, It’s drinkable, but the clinical booze is nowhere near nice, and I am wondering why they forced themselves to get it in... it’s more har, and more expensive, and way less good now...
Travlr (30256) reviewed Angelo Pure from 't Aards Paradijs 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle from Hopduvel, recommendation of BoBoChamp, thanks! Hazy golden color, flat. Aroma of caramel and honey. Taste is sweet, hot and boozy.
tderoeck (20818) reviewed Angelo Pure from 't Aards Paradijs 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as De Proefbrouwerij Angelo Pure (by De Proefbrouwerij):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5
9/IV/13 - 37.5cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ home - BB: 1/I/2023 (2013-319) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the cost for these bottles!
Little cloudy orange beer, small off-white head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: orange peel, apple skin, bit soapy, ripe banana, sugary, almonds. MF: soft carbon, full body. Taste: sweet sugary start, orange peel, lots of caramel, alcohol, banana. Aftertaste: sugary, alcohol, almonds, amaretto, banana, honey, orange peel, very sweet, little bitter. Tastes as if it has been aged / oxidised a lot. More a sweet liquor than a beer to me.
Sloefmans (14294) reviewed Angelo Pure from 't Aards Paradijs 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Lively, audible pearling to medium, very fine & dense yellowish head over hazy orange beer. Sharp alcoholic/fusely aroma upon pouring, fruity-estery and vinous to liqueurish. Som citric hopnotes in the background, preserved orangepeel. Flavour fitting the nose as a glove, as in more accentuated; fruity/estery/orangey, clear alcohol/higher alcohols; Mandarine Napoléon, old wine, maybe a touch of apricot liqueur. Very slick MF, if not overly heavily bodied, alcoholburn, very slight acidity-thinning. Excellent try; I can imagine it as a perfect apéritif, if less as something to be paired to food.