De Dochter van de Korenaar Embrasse Peated Oak Aged (Whiskey-Cask)
Wrapped bottle, striped red paper with sticker "Peated whiskey cask" on the lower right end of the "logo"
An 9% ABV beer in which the fermented sugars were all obtained from malt (20 degrees Plato).
A generous dose of hops and a long maturation time makes this beer best of the best.
This beer is bottle conditioned and will go through taste evolution during many years.
Selected by the brewer from his best peated whisky casks. Matured for a quarter of a year.
Winner of the Zythos Beer Festival (ZBF) consumer prize 2011. (Translation by Martinus)
An 9% ABV beer in which the fermented sugars were all obtained from malt (20 degrees Plato).
A generous dose of hops and a long maturation time makes this beer best of the best.
This beer is bottle conditioned and will go through taste evolution during many years.
Selected by the brewer from his best peated whisky casks. Matured for a quarter of a year.
Winner of the Zythos Beer Festival (ZBF) consumer prize 2011. (Translation by Martinus)
3.7
261 reviews
Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
Community reviews
Fumé (tourbe) qui cache les autres goûts, assez lourde.
Zwart bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is warm en krachtig met overduidelijk iets van rook en turf, pruimen en een verre whiskey smaak. Wat mij betreft veel te overheersende rook smaak, of ik uit een asbak aan het drinken ben. Jammer.
33 cl. bottle @ home, served in a teku glass, due date: 02/2021.
Aroma: very intense aromas of peated malts, smoke, burnt wood, ashes.
Appearance: dark brown color with light brown and quite creamy foam made of tiny to small bubbles. High head thickness with extremely high retention and high Brussels' lacing. Too dark to talk about haziness.
Taste: medium sweetness, low to medium bitterness, low sourness. Very intense flavors of peated malts, smoke, burnt wood, ashes. The smoked flavor is not unpleasant but quite overpowering, hiding all the other flavors.
Palate: medium body, watery texture, low to medium carbonation, very long dry finish with low to medium bitterness and the same aforementioned flavors. Alcohol is not noticeable in the aroma nor flavor and only slightly noticeable because of some throat and mouth warming. Some astringency from the smoke is quite noticeable.
Overall: very good appearance, with very intense aromas and flavors of smoke, peated malts, campfire, burnt wood, wildfire. The burnt and smoke flavors are not unpleasant but quite overpowering hiding all the other flavors. Maybe it would be much better with less unbalanced flavors: less peated flavors letting the other flavors to be noticed and maybe it would be better with less watery texture. Probably it would improve with age.
Donkerbruin bier met fijne crèmekleurige schuimkraag die redelijk snel inzakt. Mout, rook, leer, tabak, turf. Lekkere smaak, medium lange afdronk. Prima bier.
Als een whisky liefhebber stelt dit alvast niet teleur.
Drinkt vlotjes weg, licht zurig, licht koolzuurhoudend, zacht van smaak met veel turf en een ietwat bittere natoets.
Отличный вариант для любителей виски - тут и торф/копчёные тона, бочка, немного сухофруктов, приличная крепость, котора не слишком чувствуется. Стоит попробовать, в общем)
330ml bottle. Very dark chestnut brown color. Medium size, firm brownish head, stays. Smoked, leather, rye, woody, caramel in aroma. Sourish, malty, smoked, rye, yeasty, grainy, dusty in taste. Malty, ashy and smoked in aftertaste. Quite flat. Covers alcohol quite well. Solid brew.
Voici un beau raté de maturation en fut de la part de DDVK. Autant la version non peated était réussie et mettait bien en valeur l'Embrasse, autant cette version en fût de whisky ne respecte absolument pas l'Embrasse et les arômes de fut de whisky étouffent complètement les autres ce qui lui fait perdre en complexité. Celle-ci en reste tout à fait appréciable, et les arômes de fût de whisky sont agréables et chaud, mais c'est moins subtil et moins raffiné. Les arômes de café, chocolat et de fruits étant largement en retrait. Déception donc.
Bottle 33. Noire à col beige résistant. Nez sur le fumé, le tourbé (Hello Scotland), le boisé (chêne?). 1e bouche douce mais néanmoins très boisée (pas spécialement sur le whiskey annoncé) puis les malts torréfiés et le fumé s'imposent définitivement. Une finale à l'avenant avec une petite amertume. A ne pas boire tous les jours (car trop "typée") mais intéressante et agréable.
Robe ambrée, foncée, mousse crémeuse. Nez dominé par les notes fumées et iodées, maltées et torréfiées, sur un fond de levures. Bouche à l'attaque ample, iodée, fumée, une bulle onctueuse et une longue finale fraîche sur de nouveau ce coté iodé typique des Islay. Bien réussie dans son genre.
Earlier Rating: 1/29/2017 Total Score: 4
Robe brune, fine mousse. Nez marqué par le coté single malt, des notes iodées et fumées sur un fond malté. Bouche à l’attaque ample, puissante, le coté fumé domine l’attaque de bouche, belle bulle onctueuse et finale ample et équilibrée. Une bière d’hiver à siroter au coin de feu.
Bottle. Color: Black, light brown head. Aroma: Heavy peated, hints of caramel and roasted malt. Taste: Medium sweet roasted malt, hints of caramel, pretty strong peated notes and smoke hints, hints of hay, grass, dark red fruit. Slightly boozy and peaty finish which fade out pretty fast, unfortunately. Medium to over medium body, under average carbonation. Nice, but a little bit disappointing, mostly because of the lacking body and short finish, I think.
8-4-7-4-14
On tap @ Bergen Craft Beer Fest.
Pours dark maroon, with an enormous creamy, mocha head. Aroma is peat barrels and roasted malts with bread and toffee. Full body, with soft carbonation. Flavour is roasted malts with bread, toffee and wood, as well as peat and heather.
05.05.2018, tap @ Bergen Craft Beer Festival:
Nice slightly fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is mild peated, oak, peat, grass, minerals, fresh wood, bark, minerals, burnt toast, old rope, hints of unripe banana. Taste is mild peated, bark, peat, oak, hay, grass, minerals, old rope, ashes, soil, toast, paper. Medium bitterness, slightly watery and dry peated mouthfeel. Fair enough.
Pours orange to brown with a beige head, aroma of fruits, peat, iodine, chocolate, flavor of peat, chocolate, fruits, medium bodied, nice
Bottle at Fiere Margriet, Leuven. Dark ruby amber with a lasting off-white head. Aroma of peat smoke and caramel. Sweet malty and roasted flavour with overwhelming peat.
One of several barrel aged Embrasse variations (hard to tell apart sometimes), bottle from Geers. Moussy, irregularly shaped, pale yellowish beige, opening but otherwise stable, irregularly lacing head, hazy chestnut brown robe with ruddy bronze hue. Aroma of strong peated whisky and damp peat (iodine) indeed, but not so strong that it blocks the features of the basic beer, hinting at caramel candy, dried figs, dry earth, blackcurrant, brown bread crust, plum, baked banana, some vague coffee powder and tea hints. Sweetish onset but in a very noble, restrained way (like the basic beer), lots of dried prunes, fig and baked banana slice impressions, estery but well-contained, light sourish touch, softish carbo, supple and full mouthfeel. Caramel-, pecan nut- and brown bread-like malt body, thick and rounded, lightly bitterish toasted edges; leafy herbal hop bitterishness in the finish accentuating the toastiness, lingering ‘clean’ breadiness, retronasal peaty whisky as expected but not too overpowering, dried plum-like remainders and a soothing afterglow of whisky-ish alcohol, which refrains from become too obtrusive. This is classy, technically correctly executed, noble and tasteful: one of the best Dochters I had so far. They to me are still the masters in adding peated flavours to their beers without going over the top.
Earlier Rating: 11/19/2016 Total Score: 3.8
The most common of these ’peated versions’ of Embrasse, without sticker, but with a hangtag that mentions "aged on Islay Whisky barrels for several months", so I assume it is this one. Bottle from Fontana in Sint-Niklaas. Very slow gushing, but nothing dramatic. Creamy, dense, pale yellowish beige head, stable on the edges with islands of foam in the middle, quickly reduced to a thin, tan veil; initially clear, deep burgundy coloured beer with warm ruby red hue, hazy with sediment. Strongly iodine-like and smoked peat jumps to the nose instantly, but in this case it - fortunately - fails to cover up all the rest: it is a pungent but thin layer on top of a series of more attractive impressions, including caramel, brown bread dough, fig, raisin, dry earth, ruby port, blackcurrant, moldy walnut shells, candi sugar, Liège pear syrup, very vague hints of tea, dried banana, ginger, apple peel. Fruity, rounded onset, brown sugar sweetness which - in combination with the esters - establishes an effect of candied dates and raisins, hints of pear and blue plum too, with an undercurrent of blackcurrant- and elderberry-like sourishness balancing out the sweetness; medium, finely tingling carbonation, ’full’ but smooth and lightly oily mouthfeel. Caramelly and nutty malt core, matching well with the ongoing brown sugary sweet aspect, but shifting to a softly toasted bitterness in the end, as is the case with the regular version, making it very close to a Scotch (if rather unintentionally). The finish is altogether dry - though the malt and sugar sweetness clearly pushes through - with sharpish wood tannins (and oaky taste), a spicy hop accent and, after all this, a strong and heating glow of indeed very whisky- but also somewhat port-like alcohol, while at the same time, the sharp and strong peat returns and oversees the final act of this interesting play, but that dark berry-like sourishness lingers even after the peat has faded, probably accentuated by the barrel ageing. Scotch ale, because that is loosely what this is, aged on Scottish whisky barrels: seemingly a match made in heaven, but frankly the Ardbeg version I had a couple of years ago, was not a great success for me: peaty whiskies are a finished and refined product as such, but when beer is aged on their barrels, their finesse is blurred completely and only the strongest flavor and aroma aspects survive - most notably the peat effect, with a very strong and sharp iodine-like character. I am still struggling with this peaty thing in beer (not so much in whisky) and in the Ardbeg version, I could hardly taste anything else. If you insist on making a ’peated beer’, though, I think this one does it right: though very pronounced, both the peat and the sharp alcohol effect of the whisky as such remain tolerable and leave just enough room for the basic beer to show its malty, toasted, sweet and fruity character. Still a tad on the strong side for me in terms of peat, but a whole lot better than the Ardbeg version, to my personal taste at least. Enjoyed it, and I can see this age beautifully with some years of cellaring, when the sharper edges become smoothened.
Bottle shared by Dominique thanks. A dark beer with medium head. Nose is very intense in peated, smoked and even iode like as for a lagavulin whisky. Aroma is heavy on peated notes, roasted malt, iode, roasted caramel, good texture and complex but less oak notes.
(coca, nez & bouche ∞-tourbé, bois, cola, tabac (finale ~cigarette, terre), s’étale-alourdit)
330 ml bottle.
Courtesy of Brandman. BB Sep/20.
Dark reddish brown color with a small tan head.
Peat, smoke and dry malt in the aroma.
Strong flavor of peat, smoke, dry malt and metal.
Islay presence is really strong.
Uitzicht: donkerbruin/rood met heel weinig lichtbruin schuim dat gecreëerd kan worden en ook heel vlug verdwijnt. Neus: whisky, gerookt, pruimen, alcohol. Mond: heel sterk geturfd, whisky, hout, pruimen, sterke alcohol. Besluit: erg zwaar bier met extreme smaken. Voor liefhebbers, maar niet voor mij.
Rami Rami is drinking an Embrasse Peated Oak Aged (Islay) by Brouwerij De Dochter van de Korenaar at Konstruktorska Business Center
Bardzo mocno przeszlo tymi torfowymi klimatami, ale dosc zarazem nie ekstremalnymi. Slodkawe a malo ciala. Duzo co2. Karmel w tle. Nie pasi
Rami Rami: jeszcze do tego kwaskowte posmaki
Fles thuis gedeeld met WM. Diep donkerbruin bier met beige schuim. Aroma en smaak van koffie en hout. Lekker van smaak maar jammer dat de nasmaak vlug wegebt.
Earlier Rating: 12/29/2016 Total Score: 4
Fles thuis gedeeld met familie. Donkerbruin bier met matig schuim. Aroma van caramel, rook en kruiden. Een zoetige, complexe van chocolade, rook, caramel en kruiden en toch iets hoppig. Nasmaak is licht bitter. Bier om rustig van te genieten.
ChocoladeBruin, crèmekleurige schuimkraag, troebel, iets koolzuur.
Aroma: Super peaty, peaty Islay whisky, donkere mouten, donker fruit, alcohol, oak/hout. Moutig en karamel en alcohol.
Smaak: Rokerig/peat, zoetig en ook iets ziltig. Donker fruit, rozijn , karamel en een fruitig zuurtje...citrus. Peated whisky, droog oak, rokerig en een droge bitter. Een beetje ziltig/salmiak zit er ook in. Ergens tussendoor een lichte chocolade hint en iets alcohol warmte.
Prachtig Bier!
Medium body... had van mij iets voller gemogen. Zacht koolzuur en niet waterig maar ook niet heel dik. Afdronk is peaty en droog met een goede bitter.
Piana średnio obfita, szybko opada do firanki. Barwa rubinowo miedziana, mętna. W aromacie niezbyt przyjemne nuty apteczne, torfowe, kojarzące się z topionym plastikiem, które praktycznie zakrywają resztę. W smaku półsłodkie, słodowe, są co prawda rodzynki, figi, melasa czy karmel, ale posmaki spalanego tworzywa sztucznego dominują. Średnie wysycenie, dość rzadkie, z ładnie ułożonym alkoholem.
Ogólnie w porównaniu do świetnej podstawy czy równie dobrej wersji Blended Oak Aged, mamy tu niezbyt pachnącą, a co gorsza mało smaczną, torfową "potworę"...
330ml bottle (Pothouse, Tallinn) (7:4:7:4:13=3.5)
Initially a jammy estery aroma, but a woody peaty whisky aroma. Remarkably light palate for a 9% beer, smooth, pleasant carbonation. Dry woody peaty taste. Alcohol completely in check. Finish woody and peaty. I would like a bit more beer in the beer, but this is quite a sophisticated drink nonetheless. Pleasant sipper certainly.
Bottle. Good peaty nose, taking barrel aged to some kind of logical conclusion. But is it really an enjoyable drink? Despite the refinement and producing a beer that carries the overwhelming peatiness without losing all else, I'm not totally convinced. Interesting and well done but not my thing.
Bottle (thanks harri). Pours dark amber-black. Aroma is sweet, malt, roast, smight peat. Flavor is sweet and bitter, peat, malt, metallic notes. Finish is sweet and malty. Body is on the thinner sideOverall: good.
Van 't vat. Zwart bier met ecru kleurige schuimkraag. Geur: peat! Smaak: peat, licht zoet, karamel, leder, hout, licht alcoholisch. Volmondig en romig. Zachte koolzuurprikkel. Afdronk: redelijk zoet en turf, licht alcoholisch.
Earlier Rating: 12/27/2015 Total Score: 4.4
Donker roodbruin bier met beige schuimkraag. Geur: turf! Geroosterde mout, koffie, en rozijntjes? Smaak: Zoet, vanille, rook, geroosterde mout, rozijntjes, chocolade. Man, man lekker en… dan nog mooi in balans en niet plakkerig.
Frothy beige head soon left a good cover on a hazy chocolate coloured body.
Big aroma of dark chocolate, whisky, dark fruits & dark spirits.
Medium bodied, finely carbonated, smooth on the palate - feels creamy. Clean on the back.
Taste is much as the aroma with chocolate, whisky, peat, dark fruit, grape, some bitter citrus hints and a long sweet smokey finish.
This is a big complex beer.
Bottle. Dark brown pour. Aroma of smoke, peat, iodine, coffee, ripe fruit and caramel. Taste has nice meaty peat, smoke, caramel, figs, iodine and raisin. The islay works really well, tasty beer.