White Pony The Oracle
Belgian barleywine style ale.
Our The Oracle was thought as point of meeting between english barleywines and belgian quadrupel, it’s fermented with Trappist yeast.
Our The Oracle was thought as point of meeting between english barleywines and belgian quadrupel, it’s fermented with Trappist yeast.
3.6
206 reviews
Piove di Sacco (PD), Italy
Community reviews
Robe brune, dense, fine mousse crémeuse. Nez sur des notes de caramel, de sucre de canne, de malt torréfié, d'épices, de chocolat au lait, très élégant. Bouche à l'attaque ample et puissante, riche et légèrement torréfiée avec une bulle élégante et un alcool maîtrisé, belle finale élégante et équilibrée. Un très beau barley wine tout en finesse et en équilibre.
Aussehen:
Dunkle Kunpfernote mit beiger kurzlebiger Schaumkrone
Geruch:
Erinnert an Rumtopf - gedörrtes Kernobst, Holzfassaromatik
Geschmack:
Hier entfalten sich noch einmal die Dörrfrüchte und legen sich über den gesamten Gaumen. Vollmundig und komplex mit erkennbar alkoholischem Nachtrunk mit sehr leichter Bittere.
Speisekombi:
frisches Obst (Melone, Apfel, Orange)
(cerise-myrtille-fraise, malt, > ronde (gros sucre (ad)), > fruitée, levure ok qui colle, grosse quad qui se dégrade)
A single small bottle from Firefly in Vancouver. A dark reddish amber beer with sparse pink head and a malted barley nose. More malted barley on the palate. Sweet, but not overly so. Maybe a little lighter in body than the average barleywine, but good stuff. 3.7
Une robe brun sombre et trouble, peu engageante, mousse fort correcte. Au nez, comme en bouche, c'est une énorme claque, pleine de fruit cuit, de liqueur de compoté, la chaleur de l'alcool enrichit le tout, mais reste équilibrée. Superbe!
Flaska funkyf:s 40-årsfest. Bärnstensfärgad vätska. Doft av muscovadosocker, portvin och fikon. Liknande i smak. Söt och mustig
Flaska av FunkyF. Grumlig, ljusbrun kulör med ljusbrun skumkrona. Doft och smak av krydda, smörkola och torkade frukter.
Flaska från Etre Gourmete, ca 4 år gammal. Quad möter klassisk BW och det är så bra. Nästan 11% och sippvänligt utan alkholsmak alls. Istället koncentrerad torkad frukt, russin, plommon och fikon, madeira, engelsk pudding. Mycket gott.
I procured this fine product as a shelf turd at Firefly ages ago, and just finally got around to opening it. Medium amber-brown colour. Just the thinnest whisp of a head. Drops bright. The aroma has some richer dark sugars, a little bit of caramel, definitely some alcohol and phenol harshness, and some burnt fruits. It's smoother on the palate, with toffee and sultanas, and some decent sugary notes. The finish has a lot of alcoholic muscle, which provides nice dryness. Muscular, but not harsh, and the elements are quite well-balanced. Not the most refined or stylish barley wine I've ever had, but not half bad.
Tap at Keyaki, Spring 2018. Aged for 2 years. Nose is apples, plums, caramel, treacle. Belgian yeast comes out strongly, more like a quadruple than a barley wine, oak, treacle, candy. Lovely.
Lot du 1er janvier 2016, autant dire que je m'attends à du bien ouf. Couleur brune/rougeâtre, mousse éphémère. Nez sur un mélange de raisin sec et de pruneau, comme un bon Barley Wine qui-n'en-veut. En revanche, en bouche le corps est assez léger pour une bière du genre. C'est un peu sucré avec une fin de bouche assez astringente. En se réchauffant il y a un petit côté madérise pas dégueux qui se développe. Mouais, quand même assez déçu au final, ça reste très brutal pour un Barley Wine.
Bottle @ home. Hazy dark red-brown with a small beige head. Aroma heavy malty (caramel, roasted, dark fruit). Flavor heavy sweet, dark fruit, medium bitter, yeasty fenols. Medium+ body.
Bottle bought in Germany - thanks Thomas! Pours deep dark red brown with a fast-settling head, nose is malty-sweet with notes of a little wine and a touch of yeast. Thick bodied, sweet yet drying, toffee, sultanas, touches of dried dates, cocoa and wormwood, then a spicy, warming and mildly bitter aftertaste,
Aroma: dried fruits, plum, a little bit of chocolate. Taste: medium body, carmel sweet with soft bitterness at finish.
@Bishops Arms, Växjö, Sweden. Sticky and sweet, which is a good combination for an after-dinner beer, but this brew just fails to deliver the punch.
330ml bottle. Pours a murky ruby red-brown with a small, creamy, short lived beige head that laces. Sweet aroma of caramel malt, brown sugar, toffee, raisins, prunes and plums. Sweet flavour of caramel malt, brown sugar, dried fruit, plums, light yeast and a hint of chocolate with a dry, bitter, warming alcohol finish. Medium body with an oily texture and soft carbonation. Closer to a Quad than a Barley Wine, but still tasty. Has some complexity.
Malz & Zucker, Mud & Glory?/ a little bit, aber auch übertrieben freundlich...0,33l Buddel im ALCHIMISTE BELGE zu Salzburg.
Hazy amber color with beige head. Aroma of dark fruits, plum, toffee and sugar. Taste is medium sweet, sugary notes. Little alcohol warming in the background. Smooth, sweet finish. Very nice.
Bottle 33 cl. Pours a clear dark opaque to brown with a tiny to small tannish head and an aroma of cane sugar, dried fruits (plums, figs), caramel, cocoa, sweet malts, red grapes, toffee, some slight alcohol and maple syrup. The taste is medium to heavy sweet, with a light body for the style and amount of alcohol, light carbonation and some bitterness, sweetness and alcohol in the finish. Not as good as I hoped for.
Vintage bottle of about two years old - still made at Gaverhopke, so I opened this carefully over the sink. I was initially relieved that it did not gush - but my relief was short-lived: one second later, foam came streaming out of the bottle neck. Sigh... Anyway: afterwards I got a fairly thinnish, regularly shaped, beige-ish off-white head, quickly reduced to a ring around the glass and a few dots in the middle, over a hazy chestnut brown beer with mahogany hue. Aroma of caramelized brown sugar, sweet sherry and a lot of ruby port linked to onsetting oxidation, honey, overripe banana and peach, cashew nuts, apple sauce, cake dough, earth, brown rum, blue plums, fresh paint- or varnish-like fusels, figs soaked in ’jenever’, raisin bread, ginger, orange liqueur, candied dates, baking powder, pear syrup, dust, brambleberry jam. Very sweet, even sticky onset, a whole lot of residual candi sugar cloyingness with estery hints of banana, overripe pear and fig, some thin grape-like sourishness underneath but not enough to counter the huge sweetness. Mouthfeel is thick and full with medium carbonation, but unfortunately not as vinous as I would have hoped from something called barleywine - this feels and tastes like a quad rather than any kind of barleywine, really. Some phenolic spicy notes here and there, along with the fruitiness and the strong sugary sweetness sitting on top of a soft, creamy, caramelly and bready, in the end vaguely chocolatey malt sweet body. The sweetness dominates till the end, but the finish adds some retronasal ’portorisation’ which befits this beer quite well, along with bready yeasty notes (a tad starchy in the end but not unpleasantly so), an earthy hop bitterish touch and, unsurprisingly, quite a lot of warming, rum- and sherry-like alcohol, providing ’heat’ and some lingering astringency on the root of the tongue. Not a bad attempt as such, but as said, much more a sweet quadrupel than a true barleywine; a bit crude, too straightforward and clearly a bit unsophisticated for the style, with way too much sticky sugar sweetness to work myself through a whole bottle, too much distracting yeast effects and not very well hidden alcohol, but a few years of aging did this beer good I think (never had it young), adding some complexity due to portorisation - the noblest form of oxidation. I can recommend this to people who like big, sweet quadrupels, but it does not compare with the legendary Belgian trappist standards in this style (like Rochefort 10, Westvleteren 12 or Chimay Bleu). I don’t know if this beer has been continued now that Roberto brews at Het Nest but if it is, I wouldn’t mind tasting it again. In all: one of the better White Pony products made at Gaverhopke, but lacking in refinement, also from a technical point of view.
Brązowej barwy, piana szybko redukuje się do obrączki. Aromat słodki, przyjemny, dużo suszonych owoców, trochę karmelu. W smaku słodkie, alkohol ułożony. Czegoś brakuje, ale ogólnie bardzo fajne piwo.
From 33cl bottle. Pours dark amber, almost plum, with beautiful brown reflections and practically no foam. Aroma is rich and mature: cherries under spirit, plum, licorice, in general liquorish. Body is dense, with decent carbonation, some stickiness and just a bit of astringency. Taste is a nice mix of intense sweetness and a good old bitterness. Finish is long and sweet, pleasant.
Dark brown, cloudy. Small beige head. Aroma has dark sugar, malt and notes of dried fruit. Flavour is sweet with yeast, caramel and sugar. Slightly alcoholic. More like a quad than a barley wine.
Little bottle (thankfully), shared with thephantomhennes and Doug and TvM. Deep orange-amber with a beige head. Sweet demerara sugar and estery yeast. Very sweet and simplistic with a boozy finish.
Tons of cereal malts in the nose, very strong. Mahogany color. Malty some what syrupy malty mouth feel. Meh
Bottle. Deep brown with a beige cap. Aroma of dried and stewed fruit - raisins, greengages - toffee, dough. Full bodied, well towards syrupy. Taste is much the same as the aroma with some overt alcohol, mild spices and gentle bitterness creeping up to relieve the sweetness at the end. Were it a bit cleaner it would be a better barleywine but not necessarily a better beer. I liked the balance.
330mL bottle, pours a dark mahogany with a small beige head. Aroma brings out considerable brown sugar and toffee upfront, with an unmistakable Belgian yeast component. Flavour is along the same lines, with lots of toffee, caramel, brown sugar and Belgian yeast. Extremely malty, with absolutely no bitterness. Low carbonation that is fitting. Sweet, but not cloying. Not the most complex barley wine, but it is certainly well-constructed. Very good.
Bottle, 33cL. Home. A very dark brown beer with a medium off-white foamy head ; medium retention ; ok lacing. Roast, toasty caramel, dried fruits, light herb, alcohol, sugar. Medium sweet, round, light warming with some fresh windy episodes, light dry bitter. Medium body, light to medium oily texture, average to soft carbonation ; toasty caramel finish, light warming background. Overall, correct ; too toasty, lack of body. Slightly disappointed.
At beer festival in Turnhout with Yves and Tim black colored body with a off white head and with a fruity malt hops aroma a fruity sweet caramel malt alcholic bitter taste with a alcholic bitter finish
Shared with wim and Tim at bierfestival molen Oost. Brown colored beer with small white head and no carbonation. Malty mint aroma. Full sparkling palate. Finish is malty roasted mucca creamed.