UPDATED: JAN 10, 2022 Fles nr. 49313 van batch nummer 6 gehad. Oranje bruin bier met een dun schuim dat snel weg trekt. Aroma van rum en alcohol. Smaak van rum en ietwat zuur met vanille. De nasmaak is zuur en licht bitter.

UPDATED: JAN 8, 2022 Fles gedeeld met Roelzie, Benzai en Keukeman. Het is een oranje bruin bier met een dun schuim. Het heeft een dikke rum geur. De smaak is vol, rum achtig en wat zurig in de afdronk.

UPDATED: JAN 8, 2022 mijn eerste bier van het nieuwe jaar samen met yves bij mijn thuis 0.75l fles een goud blond kleurig lichaam met een witte kop en met een zoet fruitig mout sterke drank (rum) hop aroma een zoet fruitig sterke drank rum karamel vanille droge bitter smaak met een alcoholische bitter einde

UPDATED: JAN 6, 2022 (Bottle) Clear dim orange body with a medium, white head that recedes quickly into a large-bubbled thin film. Aroma is loaded with rum; dried fruit, some citrus, vanilla, raisin, grape, cherry, candied orange. Body is light, low carbonation, soft and a little oily mouthfeel. Flavor also is loaded with rum, dark fruit, citrus, and vanilla. Tastes more like rum than beer--came with a nice stemless glass, though!

UPDATED: JAN 1, 2022 First of 2022! Happy to share this one with Wim at his home. Clear amber colored beer with almost no head and no carbonation. Malty fruited alcoholic aroma. Full slight sparkling palate. Finish fruited sweet bitter dry.

UPDATED: DEC 27, 2021 Copper color with a white head. Fruity, cane sugar nose with some subtle alcoholic notes and congeners. Malty, sweet, decent body with an extremely fruity end, some sweetness and an alcoholic dry finish. Extremely well drinkable given the alcohol content.

UPDATED: DEC 10, 2021 Bottle. Orange golden color, vanilla, dried citrus, soft herbal notes and rum in the aroma. Sweet flavor with winegums, dried fruit, soft herbal notes, lots of rum and vanilla in the flavor. Hint of yoghurt. Nothing left of the original Duvel. But still a nice beer.

UPDATED: DEC 1, 2021 This year’s edition of barrel-aged Duvel uses Jamaican rum rather than the Barbados rum used last year – warranting a new entry here. Comes from a luxury bottle in a colourful box with special glass again, like last year’s edition. Snow white, quite large-bubbled, initially medium thick but somewhat loose and opening, eventually all but dissolving head on a clear, deep ‘old golden’ beer with warm orange hue and lively sparkling. Aroma of indeed (white) rum upfront, yellow raisins, cooked banana, marzipan, stale coconut flesh, soggy brioche bread, vanilla, amaretto, white chocolate, fried cherry tomatoes, peach ‘jenever’, triple sec, coir carpet. Sweet onset, sleek and clean, ‘candied’ with vague notes of pineapple, banana and peach but all restrained, finely tingling carbonation, slick mouthfeel but clearly thinned by alcohol; soft cereally and brioche-bready core turned caramelly by the rum barrel treatment, remaining rather sweet and shifting to warming, liqueurish and evidently very rum-like booziness in the end, with ‘coconutty’ and white-chocolatey retronasal aromas, paired with a vanilla streak from the wood – even though the effect of wood tannins remains remarkably soft, making me suspect that this was made with rum infusion and wood chips more than actual barrel ageing… The rum is in any case very prominent from start to finish, leaving behind a peppery, bittersweet sensation on the tongue, yet somehow managing to refrain from annoying wryness. In that sense, this new edition strongly resembles the previous one, both in looks and in flavour, though this one feels just hat little bit thinner and less sophisticated – a side-by-side tasting is in order and I would happily do that, if only these bottles were not so damn expensive (and, frankly, not quite worth their price tag in my humble opinion).