Hoeksch Eikenbier
Hoeksche Waard Bierbrouwerij

BB 03-09-05. Dark brown beer with yellowish head. Nose is porty, oxidated some DMS but also good maltyness, mostly caramellic. Taste is also quiet far gone, sweetish, caramellic and malty, lightly bittered and oxidated. If they would have given it to me and said it was aged for years I would believe it straight. Beer was most cetrainly over it's best. And couldn't finish it. Give it another try in time; hopefully better.

Got this beer from the Catford Beerfestival in London two days ago. The beer comes in a 300ml brown bottle, with a BBE date of 03/09/05.

Appearance: in a tulip-shaped wine glass, it pours dark orange to ruby colour, with an extremely foamy, pillowy, yellowish and long-lasting beerhead... looking extremely delicious~~
Smell: sweetish fruity aroma--concentrated peach juice and pineapple juice, brown-sugar, red-bean paste...and some light caramel; overall the nose is very sweet, but not unpleasant.
Taste: intensively tartly sweet (like that of black plum-juice) malty flavour at the front, being caramelly, brown-sugary...leading to a soft, sweet malty palate and a minimum-bitter finish, leaveing a rather flat and sweet, grainy mouthfeel in the throat.
Mouthfeel: the flavour lingering in the throat is typical of Belgian bruin ale; medium-bodied and full-flavoured but not too alcoholic in terms of mouthfeel, it's a very malty brew, if not overly one-dimensional in terms of taste and a bit lack of depth.
Drinkability: not tasting as nice as it smells, it's a lovely little beer though.