De Dolle Oeral

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

33 cl bottle, sampled at Vilvordia 06. No info about the bottling or expiry dates. Dark golden, very fine veil, big and fluffy head. Dry, hoppy, phenolic aroma. Dry, very hop bitter taste, long bitter aftertaste. Drying and pretty flat in the mouth. It reminds somewhat of Arabier, but less complex and (even) hoppier.

Bottle. Hight white head. Yellow unclear body. Banana aroma. Grapefruit flavor. I am sure it is intended that this beer should be sour. Not my taste.

Deep blond color; giant thick head. Very nice aroma, spicy, some malt, cellar, classic Belgian. The taste is malty, but it’s spoiled by what for me it’s a too high bitterness, unmatched in Belgian beers. The final as well is characterized by this dry bitterness.
Earlier Rating: 7/25/2002 Total Score: 4
Golden colour, with a magnificent head and a beautiful lace. Pleasant spicy hop aroma, sour & fruity. Good mouth sensation, sweet in the front and bitter (tart) in the end, passing through a well married sourness. Quite good malt in the taste and hop in the palate, pretty long and dry.

Bottled. Brilliant rich, frothy, creamy head on a hazy/opaque orange pour. Head really is magnificent here. Sweetish aroma, yeasty, spicy, lemon peel, orange and coriander. Sour and bitter in both middle and end phase. Hops are out of control here - fruits are covered over by the bitterness. Didn’t quite expect this, a lot of fun to drink. Extremely dry finish. Excels.

Hazy golden/ amber orange colour. large white head. Very Fruity and yeasty aroma, some citrus. Full body, little sweet. Finish is rather spicy and little bitter. A very nice beer.

Hazy yellow orange. Looks a bit like arabier and has just as much , if not more, carbonation and white head. Very yeasty like de dolles other beers. Fruits and spices and very abstract and different from the average Belgium beer. ! Great, but doesnt really has its own style like ex. arabier,oerbier and stille nacht!

De Kavijaks edition. 7% abv. Sweet and fruity aroma, with the usual funky De Dolle yeast. Golden to copper colored body with a medium sized white head. Sweet and fruity flavor, quite hoppy flavor, ends on a quite dry note.

Trying to pour this into my Kwak glass was about as good idea as drinking warm milk on a hot day. The second this was uncapped there was an eruption that continued like Mount Vesuvius. The Romans may not have been harmed, but the table top was. The Kwak glass quickly filled with foam. I grabbed a Duvel glass and let the eruption continue there. There was still about 1/3 a beer left in the bottle by this point. Then I poured 100% head into my Duvel glass and played chemist as I used my Kwak glass and poured the foam there into my new one. In the time it took to write that, the beer is almost ready to be tasted. Spicy citrus aroma with notes of yeast and other light fruits. A hint of basement dust perhaps, in a good way. Flavor matches the aroma, very dry finish. Reminds me a bit of Duvel and Orval, but can’t be compared to either all that much.