UPDATED: DEC 30, 2020 Fles thuis geprobeerd met Roelzie. Het is een troebel geel achtig bier met een dun wit schuim. Het heeft een moutige en fruitige geur met tonen van appel. De smaak is moutig, droog, houtig met tonen van eik.

UPDATED: OCT 28, 2019
Bottle 750ml. @ [ Assentoft Tasting by Hansen & Zita ].

[ As Hof Ten Dormaal BA Project (Belgian Blond Ale) Aged In Jura Barrels 2016 ].
ABV: 12.0%. Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, leather - brett, dusty, wood, barrel, alcohol. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, brett - leather, dusty, wood, alcohol, tart fruit, barrel. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is warming and light alcoholic. [20190914]
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UPDATED: SEP 22, 2019 Fragrance of smoke and whiskey. Taste of whiskey, slightly smoky and sweet. Light bitterness that fills the upper part of the mouth to a weak moment. Good beer. Follow me @ Kung av öl @ Facebook for more pictures and ratings.

UPDATED: SEP 19, 2019 Orange coloured and unclear. Has a white head. Fruity, sweet, acid aroma. Flavor is fresh-acid, notes of barrels.

UPDATED: SEP 14, 2019 Frothy white fair mostly diminishing head. Dark yellow colour. Light malty and hoppy moderate sour aroma. Moderate bitter very sour flavor. Average light bitter acetic finish. Oily palate.

One of the countless versions in Hof ten Dormaal’s extensive barrel aging project, this one blonde and aged on Isle of Jura whisky (I was actually hoping for Jura wine when I saw the label, but anyway). Very agressive gusher: less than a second after removing the crown cap, the beer streamed out of the bottle and about 1/4 went into the sink (which is where I opened it, being prepared by experiencing multiple gushers from this brewery in the past months). Egg shell-white, regular, moussy head, quickly settling as a thick ring around the glass with practically nothing left in the middle and eventually vanishing completely, over an instantly cloudy, warm, ochre-tinged peach blonde beer with a sediment of darker, dead yeast bits deposited at the bottom of the glass. Very estery aroma of overripe plums and spoiled nectarine, freshly cut red apple, a lot of (stale) blood orange juice, stewed rhubarb, lots of gooseberries, straw, baker’s yeast, red wine vinegar, gari, soaking wet bread or even biscuit, wet oak, moldy old mandarins, whisky but necessarily Isle of Jura though a faint peaty note is there in the background, paint thinner-like fusels, sweetclover, faint hints of gin, withering dandelions, pink peppercorns, varnish, goat cheese, urine. Kicks off with a whole lot of uncontrolled esteriness, not too much banana this time, but very bright and vivid yeast fruitiness, peach, pineapple and gooseberry galore, sweet with a strong sugared orange juice-like flavour to it which extends well beyond the onset into the middle phase; sourness, further accentuated by very sharp, prickly (over)carbonation, is however equally (if not more) expressive and even has a bit of a lip-smacking, vinegary effect, much more drying than expected based on the premise of this beer (and obviously a sign of infection). Full and slick, lean body, lots of bready and lightly caramelly malt sweetness, buried under a truckload of fruity and mildly spicy yeast effects; that orange juice-like sweetness, carrying onwards a lot of residual sugariness which even sticks to the teeth a bit, goes on and on, even when, at the back, the drying factors set in: ’palpable’ soaking wet wood including its tannins, an earthy hop bitterish touch, lots of lingering, bready yeastiness and, of course, the expected afterglow of a mild single malt whisky-like alcohol, heating but not burning. There very clearly is something ’rotten’, very sourly infected and dirty to this beer, as is the case with many other renditions in this vast series, but if it weren’t for the violent gushing and the over-the-top sugary sweetness that sticks to the teeth too much, it could have gotten away with that in my view. Now this is clearly a bit of a mess, though an interesting mess, like many other Dormaal beers: there is always something technically wrong with them, but somehow they manage to keep my attention and every now and then, I take the risk and buy one of these barrel aged Dormaal bottles - guess I am a sucker for that whole international barrel aging trend. As for this particular one: too cloyingly, blood orange-like sweet, but the sweetness gets stiff competition from a very big and expressive kind of gooseberry tartness resulting from a more or less welcome (yet doubtlessly unintended) infection, and then a pour of (only very faintly peated) whisky on top... Fascinating, not sure what to think of this. A happy accident let’s say, like many of Dormaal’s beers - so heck, let’s give this the benefit of the doubt.

0,75 l bottle barnyard, basement aromas, bread, alcohol, amber, hazy, minimal head, white foam, light sweetness, lightly bitter, heavily sour, medium body, oily feel, soft carbonation, long finish,

24/VIII/16 - 75cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte) @ Erwin’s Ponton Tasting and BBQ - BB: n/a (2016-917) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the bottle!

Pretty hazy orange beer, small irregular off-white head, unstable, dissipates immediately. Aroma: sourish, funny, bit yeasty, smoky even. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: very sour start, bit yeasty, some banana, quite some tannins, lemony, fruity notes. Aftertaste: lemon juice, sour, nice acidity, soft bitterness, alcohol, some tannins, little sweet touch.

Bottle. Pours murky yellow with a small creamy white film head. Aroma has sweet malts, apples, grapefruit, malts. Medium carbonation, fine dry and quite light creamy mouthfeel. Flavour has lots of Oak, warming viniousness, caramel, light toasted, grapes. Nice.

ligh sour rauch alcoholic aroma,golden, clear, white foam, light sweetness, lightly sour, light body, creamy, soft carbonation, light alcoholic sour finsh..