De Troch B12 Energy Beer

Brewed by Brouwerij De Troch
Style: Fruit Beer
Ternat-Wambeek, Belgium

Just a bit cloudy, absolutely no head. Strong banana aroma, it also smells like Red Bull energy drink. Sweet with still a good deal of sourness. Banana and a Red Bull flavor. Syrupy with hints of coffee. Surprisingly good beer, I could drink this all evening.

I see this beer is heading for a rating comparable to Florisgaarden Chocolate and the Chili Beer. Which might not be totally unjust, as it is terribly sweet and actually closer to Red Bull than beer. But still, i like Red Bull, and this might be one of the very few ways for me to obtain my vitamins...

Sampled at Low Countries RBM 2005.
Small white head, slightly hazy golden color. Sweet aroma of grape sugar, candied and artificial. Sweet flavor as well with a vague sourness in the end. Very much an energy drink. Pretty fresh and actually not as bad as expected, not much of a beer though.

Colour of applejuice; as much head. Fruity nose, sweetened yoghurt, grapes or passionfruit on juice, artificially sweetened. Terribly sweet, artificially fruity (apple, lemon, grape, bananaester, passionfruit, guave,..) with a tart background. Lacto’s but I don’t detect much Brett. In the taste, the artificial is less the sweetener than the aroma’s and even the acids (citric acid) and esters. Light bodied, juice-like, tart finish with even dry-out effect. I’ve said it above and I’m saying it again: artificial, synthetic.

Combination of bubblegum, red bull, bananas and candy. Disgusting. If Che Guevarra would have wanted brewers to use his sign, than it would be for a good beer, not this commercial crap!

Bottle at RBG Low Countries 2005 Clear, yellow body. White head. The aroma reminded me of the smell a factory where I worked for a week. And over there they made food for cows. It was fruity, rotten banana, sweet. Heavily sweet flavour. Lightly body. Very bad.

An orange beer with no head. The aroma is very sweet of sirup - just like a "Red Bull" - not a beer aroma. The flavor is sour and sweet with notes of lemon. The end is sour. I don't want this one again.

Bottle. Who bought this one? Sweet crappy sugary Red Bull flavours, very bad.