‘Barrel Aged’ is quite trendy in the beer world at the moment. We found out for you whether this really is an added value, on Saturday 11 June 2022 in room ‘Rainbow’ (Zennedal) in Buizingen, during our tasting ‘Guess the barrel’.
In a cozy setting we tasted 10 beers that have been aged in whiskey, port, calvados, red wine, sherry, genever or rum casks. Of course, as always, we tasted blind.
Also present: a reporter from Radio 2 Vlaams-Brabant, who made a nice report of our tasting for the Monday morning program ‘Start Je Dag’. And yes, even Don Bosco himself saw, heard and tasted(?) that it was – once again – good!
The tasted beers (in order of tasting):
| 1. | Noblesse V.S.O.P. (Genever Cask) | De Dochter van de Korenaar | 5,5% alc. vol. |
| 2. | LeFort Barrel Aged 2020 (Eikenhouten foeder) | Omer Vander Ghinste | 10,0% alc. vol. |
| 3. | neRoes op Whiskyvoete Geleige | Heroes / Craywinckelhof | 7,8% alc. vol. |
| 4. | Gulden Draak (Calvados Barrel Aged) | Van Steenberge | 10,3% alc. vol. |
| 5. | Triple Gansbeek (Red Wine Barrel Aged) | Gansbeek Brewery / De Meester | 9,0% alc. vol. |
| 6. | Vleteren 12 (Port Barrel Aged) | Deca | 12,0% alc. vol. |
| 7. | Monte Cristo (Sherrywood Cuvée) | Bosteels | 11,5% alc. vol. |
| 8. | Duvel Barrel Aged n°6 (Jamaican Rum Edition) | Duvel Moortgat | 11,0% alc. vol. |
| 9. | Leopold 7 Réserve 2021 (Vieillie en fûts ‘Gouden Carolus’) | Brasserie Leopold 7 | 8,5% alc. vol. |
| 10. | Chimay Grande Reserve Barrel Aged (‘Gouden Carolus’) | Abbaye Notre Dame de Scourmont | 10,5% alc. vol. |
