De Hemel Nieuw Ligt

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Clear dark orange, small offf-white foam ring remaining. Sweet aroma and also little sweet in taste, warm alcoholfeeling. Heavy beer, but that is to be expected. (Nijmegen 201605)

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Bottled@Tuulensuu, Tampere. Deep amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is caramel malts, alcohol, some wood and mild notes of earth and herbs. Flavour is sweet fruits, alcohol, caramel and some wood and resin notes.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

I ran across this beer at Monk's in Philly and decided to give it a try. It had a very dry sweet taste to it with major notes of peach. It had a orange body with no head. Interesting color, but lost points for no head which is typical with higher ABV brews. Overall a good beer, but at the price($20/bottle) I'd have to pass.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

From a 330 ml bottle. Says 2003 on the label. Poured a deep rich amber with a frothy white head. The aroma is rich with many scents. Perfume, apples and lemon peels jump out at me. There is also a musty aroma of juniper and soap. Very pleasurable to smell. The taste is soapy with some juniper and a little bit of orange peel. There is also definitely prunes and some herbal character. This should smooth with age and be less in your face with the massive herbs. The mouthfeel is surprsingly light and slick for such a high alcohol beer. A little hot right now.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

This unusual bottle was brought back to me by my fiance's friend and her husband, after their recent New Year's trip through The Netherlands. While they aren't beer geeks (by any means), they ran across this, and made sure to bring me back a bottle. Don't you just love how that works out...? ;)

1,0L brown swing-top bottle, with only a single medium-sized label depicting a rather rotund blond-haired gal, with flowers in her hair, and wearing a tutu. With the rather silly looking label, and what I assume means "Light" in Dutch in the name, I wasn't quite expecting this to be as big as it is.

Lots of brilliant foam, that I was barely able to keep in my chalice glass. Very light, almost Pilsener-like in apperenace, with some distinct reddish highlights....

But then, with the first sniff, and first taste, things got a lot more complicated. My first thought? "Is this a peach-flavored Duvel?" Interesting one-two combo of strickingly dry alcohol with the wet sweetness of fruit -- again, very peche-like. The fact that this beer does not feature any fruit additions only makes it more intriguing.

Light and yet filling, with the mouthfeel bouncing between the malt-induced weightiness and the yeast-induced light-and-airiness (if that makes any sense).

Very intriguing beer here, and one that I'm glad to have run across (or, rather brought back from The Netherlands for me). A solid running-mate to it's twin-separted-at-birth across the border, Sir Duvel.

Recommended.
//TB