De Dolle Oeral

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

A hazy blonde orange ale with an extra thick creamy white head. I agree this is in Orval land! A funky pleasant aroma of Brett, earthy, and coriander. In mouth, a good spiceyness, with coriander, orange, a light creamy sweetness....a superb ale from De Dolle. Bought in Gent, Nov. 2006.

This one poured itself out of the glass onto highlandlad’s carpet, with about half the bottle left for us to drink. When it did reach the glass it proved to be a fairly cloudy yellow orange with a lasting head and a lot of lace. Funky aroma with a salty spanish olive quality that reminded me of Orval. Lovely balanced flavour with a bitter and salty mix. Satisfying medium bodied palate, with a warming spicy finish (thanks to highlandlad for sharing ;-)

While De Doller’s Dulle Teve is an excellent beer, De Dolle Oeral 2003 has a very strong flavor of yeast with an added bitterness. The overall flavor of this beer is musty and with very little aroma. It may be a crazy beer, but this is only due to it’s unnecessary exaggerated yeasty flavor, which makes it crazily unbearable to drink!

Golden orange in colour, very large and lingering white head, awesome lacing - typical from De Dolle. The aroma is very fruity, lots of yeast, lemon rind, quite spicy, noticable apple. The flavour is very musty with lots of yeast, bready malts, orange citrus, floral and spicy. Lightly bitter mouthfeel, medium body, high carbonation. Finishes very long, great lingering spiciness. Pretty good, another crazy beer from De Dolle.

330ml bottle obtained in a trade with <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?U target=blank>Engelsmann, thanks Martin.
Bottle from 2003.

This is a 2003 version. The head is huge and lasting, leaving islands of foam. The color is hazy, light amber. The aroma makes me think of medicine and the flavour is difficult to describe, but I’ll try. It has notes of citrus and some kind of spice. It’s like a harsh, uncoated pill that clings to your mouth, and you are desperately trying to swallow. I also get notes of resin and mould. I simply do NOT like this one...

This has some real secondary fermentation! The foam rises in the neck as I open the cap, and brings with it some lovely spicy aromas. Apple and other soft fruit, cinnamon, sweet malt and just the right amount of bitterness. Long, lovely finish with lambic overtones. This is climbing steadily towards my top ten of breweries!Great stuff!

[Sampled the sediments after beermouths and cabs weekdayparty.] A true dolle yeast aroma and flavor combined with notes of blue cheese, fruits, oak, acid, "sweet" lambic, grape, citrus. Must go to dollecountry to buy thisone!

Thank’s to Dedollewaiter! Very cloudy golden/yellow with a "dolle" huge white head. Lot’s of apple, eucalyptus, mint, salt and some other fruit, I just can’tfind the word for it. Amazingly fresh and good bitterness. Very long finish and quit high acidity! Dolle done it again!