Score
6.72
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@ 2018
07/05/2019 - draught 17,5cl sample @Brewdog Brussels. Hazy amber, small lacing. Nos is malts, caramel, dried fruits, bit booze. Taste is malts, bit sweet, rye, caramel, herbal touch, unripe fruits. Interesting for sure.
24 September 2018. At Dok Brewing Company, Ghent. Cheers to Anke & Pieter!
Pours hazy dark golden with a lasting, small, foamy, off-white head; lots of lacing. Strong aroma of green tea, rosemary, thyme perhaps, leather, unripe orange, faint banana, some grass. It tastes light to medium fruity sweet, hints of ripe pear & peach, and light to medium spicy bitter, bit peppery with a herbal touch, yeasty & resinous even. Dryish, resinous & peppery hoppy finish, bit wry with a weird lemony touch, warming liqueur alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Tad too sharp, not very refined...
Sampled at BXL 18. Thnx for sharing, everyone. Pours unclear amber, small white head. Smell is full, intense, bit boozy. Taste is full, sweet, rye, intense, mild booze. Dried fruit, mild esters. Lovely !
Tap at the brewery. Deep amber-orange-brown, hazy. High, super fine, thick head. Caramel / toffee nose, butter, peaches. Very fruity and spicy flavor with apples, apricots, rye, toffee. Sweet, strong, spicy. Fun.
Rye wine with 1/3 rye malts in the malt bill, at Dok Brewing Company's premises in Hal 16 in Ghent. Medium thick, egg-white, lightly lacing, very stable head, hazy orange-hued amber robe. Aroma of apricot jam, dried mango, sweetbread, caramel candy, orange peel, burnt sugars, banana, whisky. Sweet onset, candied fig, tad marmalade, strawberry note even, medium carb, slick and full, very caramelly malt body, a tad resinous at the edges and with a lot of lingering candied sweetness but remaining clean and smooth; bittering finish with citrus peel hop note but, more than anything and not a total surprise, dominated by a lot of wry, heating, astringent, whisky-like alcohol. A bit too boozy for me personally and lacking a bit in the depth and maturity a good barleywine (or rye wine in this case) can have - this should be bottled and aged for at least a year, if only to see what potential it has, and perhaps tuned town to 10-11% ABV or so. Other than that, modern, clean and edgy, bit 'generic' present-day 'craft' barleywine.
F: medium, bit tan, good retention. C: orange amber, hazy. A: malty, orange peels, spicy, caramel, bit toffee, bit fruity sour. T: malty, bit sour orange peels, warming alcohol, vaguely bitterness, herbal, full body, lower carbonation, bit messy taste not very enjoyable for me, sample draft @ BXLBeerFest 2018 in Brussels.
Thanks to the RB crew for sharing! Sampled draft @ BXLBeerFest 2018! Dark red huge brown amber, uneven head. Nose is weird medicinal BE rye bread, too medicinal, cough syrup cloying for me & bit fizzy & thin oddly on top, weeds. Not my taste.
7 3 6 3 13Draft at BXL Beerfest ‘18, Brussels. Fairly hazy orange brown with an off white head. Aroma of herbs, malt, caramel and light fruits. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.