Roman Sloeber

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

Hazy yellow with very fluffy white foam head. Head is lasting and lacing to glass. Arome small, barley. Taste is surpisingly flat, some yeast, some caramel, not bitter. Bit dissapointed. (Velp 201206)

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

330 ml stubby bottle, from Vinmonopolet Vika, Oslo. ABV is 7.5%. Pale golden colour, slightly hazy in the end, huge white head. Aroma of grassy hops and mild spices. The flavour is quite refreshing for its strength, not too sweet, some fruity notes and mild spices again, moderate hops in the finish. Fairly decent beer, might buy again - but a slight metallicness in the aftertaste makes me uncertain about that.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

I'll give it a '7' since mathmatically it works out to '7.25'. Comes in a very Piraat-like bottle. Pours clear golden with a huge, thick, rich, white, pillow-like head that produces phenomenal lacing. Picked it up this afternoon at my favorite beer store in Mobile, AL... they had not even taken it out of the box. Very Euro taste - duh - it's Belgian. Clean, smooth finish. Tasty and worthy.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Next clear golden pour with a thick pillowy sustained white head and tight lacing. Nice carbonation. Sweet malty and fruity - pears, apples - aroma with some yeasts, grassiness and floral hops coming through. Nice clean taste with a slight tartness then some apples and pears with some spiciness followed by some sweetness and a touch of floral hops finish. Nice brew.

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

A dark golden appearance with a large frothy white head and good lacing. The aroma contains some spice along with lemons, hay, and grassy notes. Achoooo! Excuse me I have allergies. The flavor contains some yeasty notes along with lemons, some mediciney notes as well. No sign of alcohol flavor in this. The finish is somewhat sour. Overall this was not that great, very average Belgian.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Sampled 12/20/2008. This Belgian Strong Ale pours a slightly cloudy orange gold color from a 33cl stubby bottle. Large sized white foamy head, with good retention and nice lacing. The aroma is fruity and sweet with orange and floral hops. A medium bodied Belgian Strong Ale. The malts are fruity and sweet. Lots of bright yeasts and esters. The hops are floral and slightly spicy. Nice balance. Decent carbonation. A very drinkable, yet kind of run of the mill, Belgian Strong Ale; which is NOT a bad thing in my opinion. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

A rather mediocre ale, although this beer, considered some kind of belgian ale I guess, what do I know? perhaps I am trying to fill out the minimum characters needed to post a review of a beer I find so boring I can't think of any witty sayings...until the end... - pours well with a nice strong head, taste a rather bland as is the aroma, doesn’t make me sloeber one bit.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Yellowish golden colour, with big white head. Fruity, slightly alcoholic and hoppy nose. Flavour is fruits, yeast, flowery hops and alcoholic. Still, it’s a good mix, even though not maybe the "best BSA".... Long fruity and hoppy aftertaste.

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

Like many beer folks, I own a Belgian Beer poster, with "Belgian Beercountry" written in four different languages (one per side), framing a host of Belgian beer labels. Now, if you look closely, it's dated 1994, so it's something of a time-capsule of what was being brewed and bottled some dozen years ago. One of the beer labels would be this one -- a beer that I always assumed to be something long-gone, for no other reason than the rather odd name ("Slober?"). I assume this has only recently been made available here in The States.

Squatty 33cL brown glass bottle that Global Beer likes to use -- if you've seen Bornem or Piraat 33cL bottles, you know what I mean. Label features a beer bottle, seemingly doing a little dance, and tilting his (her?) bottle cap/hat to the crowd.

Poured with a ton of foam into my Chimay glass. Had to actually split the bottle in half, just to keep all of it in the glass! The mongo-head calmed down with time, but left behind a ton of lacing, and looking down onto the beer, never was the beer visible through the even layer of foam & head....

For the aroma, and the flavor profile, this is very similar to the preeminent Belgian Strong Pale Ale, Duvel..., and yet, at the same time, not a blantant ripoff, either. A bit less "hot" in the backend, and a little less spritzy in the mouthfeel, giving this beer almost more "pure poundability" than Duvel. Almost, that is. ;^)

Very easy drinking, and quite refreshing too. It has some heat, true, but you'd be hard-pressed to call this an alcohol monster. Besides, 7.5%ABV is right about where many American big beers start to make their prescence known anyway....

A very worthy cousin to Duvel, I'd say. Very approachable, without selling out..., and without getting too balls-to-the-wall, either. A sessionable Belgian Strong Pale Ale? I'll buy that.

And I'd buy this again, too...

Music: Dream Theater's "Score"
//TB