Kerstbier
't Gaverhopke in Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.15
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6/10
Tried
on 13 Feb 2024
at 09:36
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Backlog January 2010. Unclear orange body under a small white head. Aroma of sweetish malt, salvia and anis. Taste is sweet malt, white sugar and licorices. Not great but quite original and there is something going on making in interesting enough.
Tried
on 24 Jan 2021
at 19:52
5.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle. Amber color. Chunks of yeast ruin the appearance. Malt, toffee, anis and coreander in the aroma. Sweet flavor with peach and anis. The spices are too dominant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:06
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 3.5
Smooth malty beginning. Mild with yeasty beginning and cake hints. Nice with smooth sweetish hints.
Tried
on 07 Oct 2017
at 18:38
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle shared with Erzengel! A hazy orange brown beer with a small beige head. Aroma of herbs, spices, dark medium sweet malt. Taste of sweet caramelish malt, ginger, herbs.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Oct 2017
at 17:17
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle sampled at Essen Christmas Beer Festival ’16. Listed as “Winterbier” but described as being a rebranded version of “Kerstbier”. Cloudy golden with an off white head. Aroma big herbal notes, veggies. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2016
at 09:59
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
This rating concerns the original version of this beer, tasted at 8 months of age in 2005, when the brewery was still run by Eric Ameye. The bottle did not have a label... Pretty firm, yellowish white, moussy, regular head and dark burgundy colour, cloudy. Weird aroma of tomato, meat broth, brown sugar, cloves, liquorice, balsamic vinegar, sherry, dough. Sweetish taste, fruity esters, tomato, yeasty, dark malts, something ’umami’ and meaty, smooth, with low hop bitterness. Very strange but not really that bad - compared with the other original Gaverhopkes, at least.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Oct 2014
at 13:29
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Into a tasting glass from a 33cl bottle on 15th Dec 2012 at the 18th Essen Christmas Beer Festival. Dirty amber body with a thin white covering, didn’t look to great to be honest. Supposed to have Juniper Berries, Bog Mirtle and Cloves within the ingredients, I picked up none of those flavours or smells. I did however pick up a semi-sweet spiciness which I didn’t really take too. I found the beer strange and with weird traces and hints of earthiness and off-flavours: not the best beer of the day!
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jun 2013
at 12:19
2.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 2.5
(bottle, 33cl, 6.8% abv, bb 2014/07) Hazy, amber colour with a non-persistent off-white frothy head. Very skunky sulphuric nose which covers almost everything else. Mildly sweet and sour flavour, light to medium bodied with a lively carbonation. Mainly sour fruity taste, quite infected with lighter rotten flavours; sour-fruity finish with only traces of (former) malty sweetness. To be re-rated. 10.I.13
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2013
at 13:32
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle @ Bandlys Blålys, Odense 2012. Pours ruby amber with a off white head. Nose is spicy. Coriander and nelliker. Bayleaf.. One dimensional spice hell. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Nov 2012
at 11:19