De Dolle Oeral

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

Botle at home. Orange with a very large beige head, unclear. Aroma heavy malty (fruity, spicy), light hoppy. Flavor heavy sweet and bitter/acidic. Moderate body, lively carbonated.

(Bottle) Pours hazy yellow/golden Big head. Spicy, herb-ish, yeasty aroma with lemon and nettle. Small hints of soap. Spicy flavour with a light bitter, dry-ish ending. Notes of allmond paste and lemon. Medium body.

Bottle at the Rover in Göteborg with Gnoff. Wow! How did this one get such a high rating? Half-hazy blonde (not blond) colour, thin head. Grape and floral aroma. Taste some alcohol and it’s a bit dirty as well.

Bottled. Kavijaks edition. Hazy pale golden coloured with a rather large white head. Yeasty, malty, fruity and a bit spicy. Rather well balanced.

Any first impressions?
-A towering foam skyline inspires the muddy beige to become more enticing than it usually is.
-Pine trees, citrus fruit, and funky hoppiness fly about within the nostrils, easily reaching the desire-sparked brain.
-A touch of wild funk energizes the minty, herbal hoppiness and the wooden dryness.
-Huge yet soft bubbles enliven the crisp dryness.

What if you dig deeper?
-Herbal hops offer delicate dryness and thoughtful bitterness.
-The funky minty character recalls some Bam Biere or Vervifontaine Blonde moments.
-Citrusy fruitiness fits perfectly with the surrounding creativity, helping drinkability.
-This, like their marvelous Arabier, resides in an inspiring world where the greatest complexity doesn’t have to come from the biggest beers, but rather from the most drinkable, refreshing offerings.

Bottles, labeled as Museum Bier and Oeral.

One year past the BB date, this is the Museum declination from Belgian shop. Superb mountainous white head thrones over an almost milky, cloudy golden body. Wildly yeasty nose, a beautiful strain, quite farmy and leather-like and tracing the path to those pungent, hypothetically Hallertauer hops, fully floral, clean, concentrated almost. So dry in mouth, the bitterness may have went aside a bit under the age to leave more room for the yeastiness to express, but the sheer dryness is stone-like, sandy, sprucey and tree gum like. This is not done yet, its mouthfeel may be the most attractive feature, feeling totally natural, hugely herbal of an almost unrivalled sweetness for a beer with such strong carbonation, but the very active bubbles are soft on the tongue, massaging the tastebuds. Spectacular offering, how can these guys offer this as a gateway or simple basic offering is a mystery for this is a gorgeous ale beyond the reach of 99% of this planet’s brewers.

From the bottle @ t’ Brugs Beertje, Brugges, Belgium.
Almost forgot to rate this one. Shame on me as it was a fantastic beer. Enjoyable from the moment the first waft leapt from the freshly cracked bottle to the very dregs of the glass. Yum!!!
Poured into its own stemmed tulip. Erupted in the glass to be ¾’s rocky white head and a little hazy, sunny gold beer in bottom. Head was bitter and creamy to taste and needed to be gnawed off before drinking. Distant waft of burnt plastic preceded deep candi, vanilla and house-yeast notes layered in fresh, summery fruits. Lightly tangy, even to the nose, with a good level of fruit spice and just a little shine of the modest alcohol peeking through. It was nice to whiff, nice to palate. In the mouth it is quite full, creamy and slides across the tongue with joyous ease. Prickly upfront, odd salty note shows, but the flavours are dominated by pale candi and bursting, tangy citrus fruits that fill all areas of the mouth. Grapefruit and oranges, some pear and apple, distant malts. Claps out in back with some levelled fruit tartness and follows into some under-ripe fruit bitterness before, yes, more fruit in the finish. Like a fruit punch with rock candi. Becomes spicy as it warms, vanilla overtones develop as does the famous De Dolle yeast notes which remain indescribable to me. This was lovely stuff. Another bottle asserted my views, "I Liked it!". Summery, fresh, quaffable stuff. (33cL, no date stamp)

Gold hazy colour, with a nice white head. Taste of honney, alcohol and lemon, with malty notes. Bitter in the finisch. very drinkable ! Like this since years..