Barbar Winter Bok

Brewed by Brasserie Lefebvre
Style: Dunkler Bock
Rebecq-Quenast, Belgium

Pours dark. Spicy, sweet, mentholish aroma. Allmond paste. Ripe bananas. Dried plums. Wet tobacco and soil. A bit stale fudge banana sweetness in flavour. A bit peppery. Alcoholy hints, medium body.

Dark, redish brown color with a thick off-white head. Alcohol, malt and honey tones. Full bodied with a long sweet finish with hints of raisins and nuts.

Aroma: honey (the way it smells when in yoghurt that is), orangebloom, some berry, nectar, sourish, bitterer malt in the back, banana. Something hard-defined that reminds me of my childhood, overripe gooseberries. Appearance: very dark red brow with coca-colalike foam sounding a bit before settling and sinking. Flavor: sweet, very full-bodied thereof. Nice malt, more overripe banana, oat porridge-like, vaguely sourish afterbitterness with a hint of applepeel (vaguely of vegetable rot and alcohol), a bit too sweet. Palate: nice, a bit unusual, slimy but not very soft. Cool lace btw, a little + for that.

Dark brown with a small head more like the head of a soda than a beer. An impresssion that remains unfortunately, the spritzy, bubbly, mouthfeel combined with a nearly total lack of bitterness and an emphasized honey flavor makes it appear more like an "alco-soda" than a beer really. A disappointment, considering the heavy price, I would like it better if the price matched its attraction.

Dark red, near black colored, little light brown head. Strong raspberry in sweet aroma, mild alcohol and licorice also there. Medium to full bodied. Flavor has strong licorice with raspberries and medium alcohol, spices come up also. Strong licorice dominates, maybe slightly too one-dimensional.

Tap at Cafe Krull. Amsterdam. Very black with tight head. A wop of a taste - quite bitter, heavy, syrupy. But also fruity with apple flavors. Ended with a bit of metallic, alcohol flavor.

Medium beige head shrinks quickly. Body is black, almost opaque, lighter at edges. Bready, yeasty, licorice and chocolate aroma with milky notes, and faint alcohol. Taste is chocolatey licorice with yeast notes and alcohol heat. Lots of carbonation in the mouth initially. Sweet. Slightly watery. Dry licorice aftertaste. Good but not as good as the "regular" Barbar. (0.33l bottle.)

Dark brown body with a short lived off-white head. Very malty body with toffee and cake flavours. Lots of honey-ish sweetness. Some crunchy peppery spices flavours too. Pretty rough and unsophisticated beer but very effective. Barbar-ian.