Liefmans Jan van Gent

Formerly brewed at Liefmans (Moortgat)
Style: Belgian Ale
Oudenaarde, Belgium

Bottled. Good, balanced but weak aroma. Red-yellow, small white head. Taste loong, complex. Exotic fruits, hops, good finish. Just a little bit too boring and weak for me.

375ml bottle (BelgianShop)
Rich orange to brown, tiny head. Sweet fruity aroma, amber sweet malts, a little plasticky in places, and some strawberries. Creamy and malty taste - mellow oak and walnut. Subtle earthy hops. Very mellow, nutty, and well balanced.
Rerate: 7-3-7-4-13=3.4
Flat as a pancake, lots of floaties. Certainly quite delicious, lightly nutty and woody. Let down by lack of any carbonation.

Hazy orange with floaters, and a lasting white head. Malty aroma, somewhat earthy, somewhat fruity (orange). Semi sweet flavour fruity and malty.

Date: 04/03/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Ale Atlanta

Appearance: cloudy light orange, wispy off white head,
Aroma: sweet fruity estery aroma with a light spicyness,
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, nice fruity esters, earthyness comes in with some spicyness to dry it out a bit,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Botlle 33 cl. Pours a hazy golden with a small and disappearing white head in my glass and a big white head that rises out of the bottle. The aroma is a mixture of gueuze-like scents, like hay and barnyard, some mild caramel and brown sugar and some sourness. I drank this a little bit too cold thinking this was a gueuze, so maybe I didn’t enjoy the flavor like I could have enjoyed it a bit warmer. The flavor starts out as a watered down Belgian Strong Ale with notes of caramel, raisin and brown sugar and after that gets a bit sour and more gueuze like. Did they brew this with wild yeasts? I didn’t really like this one

Cloudy amber with huge white head. Sweet fruity aroma with grainy and caramel notes. Sweet malty flavor with notes of caramel,

37.5 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange with a dense off-white head. Light acidic aroma with a mild spice note. Flavour is mild malty with a mild note of yeasty spice. Sweet flavour with a mild citric note. Smooth yeasty finish.

Bottle. Pours a bit hazy amber-reddish colour with a medium short lasting creamish beige head. Yeasty, caramel, malty aroma. Good soft mouthfeel. The flavour is sweet with toasted malt and caramel, yeast, bitter hops, some fruit and slight bit of spice. Quite dry bitter long lasting finish.