Special Spelt (Leireken Witte Spelt Ale)
Leireken in Oedelem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij StrubbeSpeciality Grain - Spelt Regular
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Score
5.82
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organic beer with Spelt
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5.4/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
An unclear light yellow beer with gunk floating around under a lazing white head. The aroma is sweet wheaty combined with a light note of citrus. The flavor is sweet with notes of yeast and wheat, leading to a dry wheaty end, that also has a bit of acidity from the wheat.
Tried
on 19 Nov 2006
at 16:14
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. Starts bubblying over the top of the bottle when opened. Hazy yellow colour, foamy and big-bubbled huge head. Foams a lot when poured. Aroma is fruity, earthy and quite vegetablyish and grassy. Flavour is spices, slight yeast, wheat and fruits. the "Hefeweizen on steroids" sayravai mentions does actually fit in quite well on this one. Much carbonation, otherwise a very nice beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2006
at 11:42
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled 25cl (BBE 2006). Hazy orange-yellow color, huge Duvel-like cloudy head. Nose is a bit smokey and metallic, there is wheaty (leather, banana) and fruity sweet aroma like in hefeweizen. Very carbonated mouthfeel. A bit spicey, sweetish with banana flavors. Dry aftertaste. I would say this is wheat beer if not knowing that spelt has been used.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Sep 2006
at 10:30
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Hazy yellow colour with a small white head. Fruity yeasty aroma with some spicy hints. Flavor of yeast some fruitiness and hints of spices. A bit thin but an okay beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2006
at 09:18
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cloudy golden color, big white head. Aroma is spicy and grainy, some yeast. Sweet and spicy taste, nice starter.
Tried
on 18 Oct 2005
at 00:24
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Fully hazy, light milky yellow; good white head, a bit fluffy. Perfumed nose, coriander, grains. Citrus too, probably suggested by the coriander. Bitterish, very spicey-dry taste, touch of acidity. Much less uniform coriander than the nose, though it is still there. Other spiced difficult to name; character is quite "jenever" like. Light, wheat-like slickness, but much more crisp and refreshing than the Joseph. OK, I wanna be convinced, it isn’t the same as Joseph. Moi, je veux bien - but that’s not saying it necessarily better - and I thought they had capacity problems at Silenrieux?
Tried
on 30 Sep 2005
at 12:49