Lozen Boer

75 cL bottle. Pours clear yet deep hazzlenut brown with a lacing tan head. Aroma is mild spiced of cinnamon and a bit of cardemomme, mixed with caramel-toffee and mild yeasty notes.Sweet and slight oldish flavour, yeasty and caramelish too. Slight sweet and fruity finish with a distinct herbal honey like accent, going gradually more dry. Surely a quad, yet somewhat more on the herbal and less sweet side.

I was surprised to look of De Proef and find that they brewed many more beers than I thought - many I had tried but never connected back to its proper source. So I approach this Lozen beer with a certain mindfulness, knowing now that these folks have made so many other previously enjoyed but uncited beers. A thick foamy tan head rises up to greet the mouth of the bottle, pushing along a creamy and smooth aroma: a slight hops, nuttiness, a dark wood scent and plenty of dark fruits like figs give this beer a shadowy substance well before I even get a chance to see the color of the beer. It’s dark brown, by the way. Supplementary aromas include extremely well kiled chocolates, which end up tasting like a mix of milk chocolate shavings and sheer malts. I go for a sip, eager to paint my tongue in a dark coating of flavor, and I’m assaulted by a combined force of carbonation and alcohol. Once that subsides, though only slightly, I get a slight hops spiciness, but mostly a moderate woody flavor, semi-dark chocolate and layers upon layers of alcohol, lapping onto my tongue like the sea to the seashore. Later, before the aftertaste, the alcohol mitigates itself, but even then it’s still simply too much. In fact, all these flavors combined makes for something of a bourbony beer, and even when that’s the case the alcohol is simply just too much. Apparently this needs a little more aging before it can be properly enjoyed.

bottle. chestnut pour with foamy head. aroma strong with alcohol, dark fruit, light sugars and rich malts. this would be a good winter beer. alcohol warming. large maltiness, baked bread, substantial dark fruit. very tasty.

Pour is a dark red with a average tan head. Aroma is nice with some dark fruit and candi sugar with some alcohol. Flavor is caramel with some more dark fruit and a heavy breadyness. Alcohol is no problem and does not get in the way. A pretty decent beer and there is nothing really wrong with it but there still are even better quads out there.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown with a small tan head with nice lacing. Sweet malty aroma with raisins, brown sugar, yeast and notes of dark fruit. Flavor was deep and rich with caramel, dried dark fruit, raisins, brown sugar and a touch of light spices. VERY NICE