De Dolle Arabier

Brewed by De Dolle Brouwers
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Diksmuide, Belgium

330 mL gusher. Pours a hazy light orange with a two-finger, extremely pillowy, white head that has excellent retention and lacing. Wow this looks beautiful. Aroma is sour apples, peaches, Brett, candi sugar, lemon zest, some funk. Taste is a bit of a letdown: some creamed corn, grainy malt, maize, millet, but also some dry saison-like citrus and potpourri flavors and some black pepper. Perhaps an infected bottle?

Hazy golden our, huge white head. Lemon zest, grass, banana, pepper, light fruits, and some biscuity malts. A nice drinkable belgian ale.

pours a hazy golden yellow-orange, with lots of carbonation, a very large egg-shell head, and good lacing. smell is of sweet fruits, yeast, and a touch of sour malts. taste is fizzy, sour malt, sweet fruits, peach, and apricot, ends dry, a little sour, and a little bitter.

Golden color with a nice longlasting head. Appearance is a bit hazy. Aroma is not all that noticeable and overwhelming. Flavor is very bitter, indeed a bit like orange zest. Palate is defined by the bitterness which slowly fades away in the mouth. Not the beer I expected it to be.

Thick, hazy orange brown with fluffy, cumulus cloud-like head. Aroma of a grassy meadow on a summer afternoon. Initial flavor is citrus, followed by pepper and malt. Nice bitter finish. Definitely worth seeking out.

Hazy dark blond colour with massive foam head. Sweet, juicy aroma reminds me of orange zest. Massive carbonation pushes the bitter, zesty flavour around the mouth.

Thanks to Savvy1982 for picking this one up for me! Pours a hazy yellow with a large rocky white head. Aroma is very classically Belgian, styrian goldings and yeast. Bananas, mangoes, oranges, lemons, pepper, bubblegum, and white bread on nose. This beer tastes really nothing like the nose would lead you to believe it would taste. There is some initial fruit (pears and banana), but then it goes into a black licorice and tar mid-palate. As it warms some fruit show up in the mid palate through the tar. Nice spicy peppery hop finish. Carbonation is excellent. Nice beer.

I drank this beer from the bottle into a chalice. The beer poured beautifully with a huge white, creamy, chunky head that clung to the glass. The beer itself was a cloudy golden orange.It had average to good lacing. The smell was great, very strong sense of orange, hops, and bitterness. After this great start with the smell and look I was greatly disappointed. This is not a very good beer. It is very very bitter with a no taste of orange that I smelled and just left me disappointed. Not at all what I was expecting.