Duivelsbier van Halle
Brouwerij Vander Linden in Halle, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Faro Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.73
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Ruby brown color. Small frothy head. Aroma has honey and tropical fruit. No sourness at all, which is surprising. Caramel and sherry. Watery and a hint of metal in the finish. Some milk chocolate. Very unusual beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4
Bottle ( 25 cl ) . The backlabel ( if there ever was any ) is missing, and I see no date anywhere on bottle or cap. Presumable around 2000 ??? Pours very dark, nearly black, even. Small white head. Smell is sharp, very port-like sweetness. Taste is mostly oxidation, mildly metallic ( builds up towards the back ) very watery MF. Very mild carbo. There’s an incredibly small aspect of what seems to be funk , but it’s very hidden. Overall, think of oxidized water. Over it’s prime, but probably wasn’t the best one to begin with ?
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tasted many years ago from tap. Deep hazy copper coloured beer with thin head and very estery-fruity flavour, in which honeyish and lots of fruity sweetness, citrussy acidity and lactic acid blend together nicely; sweet-sourish finish, drying and refreshing. Typical old school regional beer rooted in lambic culture, too bad it isn’t made anymore today; the Duivelsbier that succeeded it, is a totally different product.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Old bottle at Akkurat. Almost clear, red/brown liquid with medium light brown head. Aroma of raw sugar, vinegar, some alcohol, toffee and port/cardboard oxidization. Not too enjoyable. Taste is light sweet and light bitter with notes of raw sugar, vinegar, dark fruit, cardboard, toffee and port wine. Medium bodied with low carbonation. Not in particularly good shape.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottled, original from Vanderlinden at least 20 years old, probably more. Cloudy amber, small airy head. Citrusy and vinegary lambicish nose. Very dry with lots of barnyard. The Brettanomyces is very evident. The body is light and the mouthfeel still lively. The acidity reaches near Cantillon-style levels. It is starting to thin out, going on it’s last few years as an alive beer, so it has a slight metaliic edge. Still it’s beauty is there, and the flavours are intense and complex.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Clearly pre-Boon sample Clear red-amber, end of bottle hazy; dirty shards of foam. Faint "horseblanket", sourish lactic acid & wood, red sourish fruit. Woody, tart, lactic taste, more gueuze-like than their own Vieux Foudre G., vinous, fruity, plain excellent. Tart, medium-bodied, little slickness. God, now I remember why I used to think of this as one of my favourites, long time ago. The perfect middle between gueuze and Flemish Oud Bruin. Officialy this is a blend between gueuze and ale. I reclassified this beer at faro, as that is closer than "Belgian Ale", and resembles what Frank made of it. In fact it belonged to a category of mixed beer, including the Jack-Op, ruined by De Neve, Super 6 gueuze from De Block, or the original Bourgogne des Flandres from d’Ydewalle-Van Malder. Frank Boon, whom I love for other things, turned it openly towards the faro side (read the other ratings), whilst his current Duivel is from another brewery’s recipe, totally sweet. I moan this one.