De Dolle Oeral

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

Bottle at GBBF 05. Opaque, bright yellow. Salty, dry, but wheaty lemon. Unusual - warming on the finish. Medicinal, aspirin, herby. Tasty brew.

Bottle - GBBF 2005. A hazy blonde coloured beer with a nice white head and good lacing. The aroma is spicy peppery and yeasty. The taste is again spicy and peppery in that typical Belgian way. Slips down very nicely but has no real outstanding qualities and merely ends up a bit average.

33 cl Bottle. Light godlen colour, with plenty of foam. Goob aroma og fine hops some candy notes. A dry taste very hoppy beer, notes of some yeast and hints of spice. Very lovely beer.

Bottled. Hazy yellow coloured with a white head. Aroma of hops, pine needles, leather and spices. Perfumed flavour of hops and pine needles with notes of fruits and leather. Unbalanced.

An absolute joy. A hammer of hops, and a spicy body which seems to imply a high alcohol gravity than it has. An ale version of Christoffel Blond. My favourite Dolle beer.

Spicy hop aroma with nutmeg, flowers, malt, sweet stone fruit, very complex. Orange cloudy brown colour with excellent head and lacing. Spicy fruit flavour with hops. Very big. Smooth palate.

Bottle. Gusher. The head kept flowing slowly out of the bottle. Yeasty, very spicy aroma with a hint of citrus. Golden colour, slightly hazy. Head is white, creamy and quite unstable. Quite dry flavour, reminding me of Chimay. But also quite vinous and fruity without getting sweet. Aftertaste is also dry, bitter, perhaps a hint of mold.

(Bottle 33 cl) Orange golden, hazy or perhaps rather murky, with a gigantic head that leaves a good lacing as it slowly collapses. Very flowery nose and citric touches throughout. But it’s the bitter hops that completely dominates this - it’s very, very hoppy indeed. With some late sweetness. Another unusual beer from De Dolle - but far from their best. 300198