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tastingcraftbeer, 11 days ago to beer

Mad Scientist & Anderson's - Marilyn Manderson (barrel aged wheat wine & wee heavy)

👃🏻 Molasses, green herbs, caramel, licorice, dried red fruit. Heavy and complex mix.
👁️ Beautifully dark red, collapsing beige foam.
👅 Sweet. A touch boozy. Soft mouthfeel, low in carbonation. Lots of caramel, licorice, some aniseed.

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tastingcraftbeer, 12 days ago to Untappd

To those of you using apps for keeping track of and rating or reviewing beers: any experience with BeerHive? The UI looks nicer and more useful than Untappd, but the user base (and beer database) is still tiny...
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The left two columns are menus, the rest of the canvas are choices for the malty category, similarly sized grids exist for hoppy, fruity, spicy. No yeasty....
Build up of the spider diagram

tastingcraftbeer, 14 days ago to beer

Lentebock or Belgian Blonde? It's top fermented, with added sugars and very strong in esters...
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tastingcraftbeer, 18 days ago to beer

Review time!
A very lemony, full bodied Radler++ Wit, a timid yet true to style dry, phenolic saison, a sweet full bodied, candied fruit and roasty Scotch ale and a very black, coffee, chokotoff-y leather-like stout with a sharp alcoholic finish. 🍻
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tastingcraftbeer, 21 days ago to beer

Sterkens - St Paul Blond

Unconventional! Very red apple, with some citrus and light bread. Sweet, with a bitter only in the end. Low in carbonation for the style, but a steady, lacing, white head.

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tastingcraftbeer, 22 days ago to beer

Braupakt: Two giants at it together, Weihenstephan and St Bernardus.

The Weizen yeast is obvious, with clove and banana dominating the aroma. Also some biscuit, citrus and hay. It's golden and crystal clear, with a stable white head. Effervescent, rather sweet, with a good dose of hop bitters.

Very well balanced. A good mix of the styles, with both very recognizable. Nice experiment!

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tastingcraftbeer, 25 days ago to beer

A #brewery visit to Stadshaven in Rotterdam, with tasting and dinner. Impressively large scale operation, good for 2 million liters a year.
A large range of beers from lager and smoked märzen, through Belgian styles, Dutch Bock as well as IPAs, winter ales and porter.
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Brew kettles in the old harbor building
Beer on the counter
Stainless steel

tastingcraftbeer, 25 days ago to beer

Val-Dieu Cuvée 800, with cheese.

Beer and cheese from the same abbey! A corresponding fresh grass and light yellow fruit fermentation character. The match is pretty good. Beer also has biscuit. Somewhat sweet, with a very light bitter in the finish. Quite bold for the low abv.
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tastingcraftbeer, 27 days ago to beer

Best of both worlds: Gulpener x Mikkeler. A great lager.
Great (spicy, woody, floral) hoppy, dry Vienna Lager. Bread crust, some toast, distant caramel. Dark amber, steady creamy foam. Not sweet at all, rather dry. Impression of metallic (not there). Fantastic balance. 🍻
Best of both worlds, indeed!
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tastingcraftbeer, 1 month ago to ukteachers

Such a great vibe! Yesterday, we had our first edition of the Pronck Masterclasses, this one on #hops. We tasted reference beers, hop teas and hop water. 3,5 hours packed with information and activity around all things #hop.
The best thing? The feedback was incredibly positive! 🍻
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Line-up of some beers and hop water
A random page from the booklet

tastingcraftbeer, 1 month ago to beer

I like my smoked beers intense, but even by my standards this Smoky George Kraftbier is a bit extreme. It needs the elevated abv to have some malt body noticeable. Not quite balanced, but quite the flavor bomb.

Compared to e.g. a Schlenkerla Märzen, which I think is 100% smoked malt, how do they get all that flavor in here? Artificial smoke aroma?
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tastingcraftbeer, 1 month ago to beer

This is a "Dubbel"-style #beer from the Maredsous Abbey ("6"), from 1984! 40 years of aging have resulted in lots of #oxidation, with strong apple syrup aromas. It's a bit thin, but surprisingly has a tiny bit of carbonation left! The wet cardboard aroma is lightly present. Interesting! 🍻 #craftbeer
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tastingcraftbeer, 1 month ago to beersofmastodon

The lacing was absolutely fabulous on this English Pale Ale (Northern Monkey - Fall From Grace), served from cask at the Post Office Vaults in Birmingham.
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tastingcraftbeer, 1 month ago to beer

Forgot to post my recent review line-up, so here goes. Some surprising beers, some that warranted an email to the brewers. Some great ones, too. 🍻
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Walhalla Elixer, a beautiful NEIPA
Maximus Space Cowboy, an imperial stout full of flavor

tastingcraftbeer, 1 month ago to beer

Yesterday, we had our monthly local beer tasting club. An interesting lineup with a homebrew, an investor's beer that isn't commercially available and some more! In the bar across the street we had a small drink afterwards: Orval from 2019. 🍻
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2019 Orval

tastingcraftbeer, 1 month ago to beer

Another interesting set of beer reviews. It seems that ever more hazy/NE IPAs have only limited haziness. The Dunkelweizen was a classic example and the Pohjala chocolate porter was the absolute nail hitter tonight.

One thing I can't get over is sexist names and texts on the label. Just don't. 🍻
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tastingcraftbeer, 2 months ago to tea

Let's brew some... Tea!

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tastingcraftbeer, 2 months ago to beer

Diebels Alt

👃🏻 Toasty malts, some caramel, light chocolate. Herbal hop notes.
👁️ Dark amber, stable white head.
👅 Toasted. Rather dry. Nice herbal bite in the finish. Finishes like dark bread crust.

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