Boentje
Brasserie Witloof in Etterbeek, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brasserie ValducSpeciality Grain - Rye / Roggenbier Regular
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Score
6.98
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Mosaic, Chinook and Amarillo hops gives it citrus and tropical fruits aromas associated with herbaceous and piny notes.
The result is a light and fresh beer with a pronounced bitterness.
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kurtthomsen (3611) ticked Boentje from Brasserie Witloof 3 years ago
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Boentje from Brasserie Witloof 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
33cl bottle from Le Comptoir Belge in Brussels as my #6400. F: big, white, good retention. C: murky amber, milky hazy. A: orange, grapefruits, bit herbal, tangerine, tropical fruits, bit caramel. T: medium malty base, orange, grapefruits, green banana, prominent long lasting herbal bitterness, dry on the palate, medium carbonation, nice bitter and more like IPA almost, enjoyed for sure.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Boentje from Brasserie Witloof 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Rye pale ale by this young commissioner in Evere (Brussels), with an eye-catching if not very tasteful label of two donkeys French kissing (I presume - could be my dirty mind, though). Classically hopped with Mosaic, Chinook and Amarillo, bottle of now about seven months old. Very thick but coarse and irregular-bubbled, 'Brugse kant'-like lacing, off-white head, slowly thinning and eventually breaking, misty apricot blonde robe with some 'loose' and disparate sparkling. Earthy and weedy aroma of dried grapefruit peel, old dry ginger, soap, paprika crisps, old potatoes, raw 'witloof' (one wonders if this was intentional), black radish peel, soggy grey rye bread, withering cut flowers and even rotting thyme or sage, pond water, wrinkled peaches, very vague manure even. Estery onset, low in sweetness with aspects of unripe peach, green banana peel and freshly cut apple, very sharp (over)carbonation adding strong mineral effects and distracting from the actual flavour, coarsening an otherwise lean but also rather soapy mouthfeel. This soapiness forms a thin coating on top of a grainy, bread-crusty maltiness that soon gets drenched in a herbal, old citrus peel-like and grassy hop bitterness, old dusty 'herbes de Provençe' and bitter weeds springing to mind much more than the announced tropical fruit, even if a certain zingy 'citricness' is noticeable. The hops clash a bit with a bunch of spicy 'Belgian' yeast-phenols and yeasty breadiness, but on the plus side, they do add a lasting, eventually even somewhat refreshing, leafy and citrus peel bitterness, through which the spicy-bready aspect of the rye shines very clearly. More a Belgian blonde (albeit a bitter one) with rye as a special ingredient than a 'pale ale' in the modern sense of the word, but then I guess it can be regarded as a pimped and artisanal-yeasty version of what my parents and grandparents called 'pale ale', of course... Yeasty, overcarbonated, a tad 'dirty' and a bit too phenolic for its own good, but in all, I have to admit that it drinks easily and not unpleasantly, if you are into these weedy, herbal, earthy and yeasty Walloon saison-style ales. I, for one, can appreciate this approach, but do not expect a clean Anglo-Saxon APA style beer - this is far removed from that.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Boentje from Brasserie Witloof 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as Witloof Boentje (by Witloof):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5
8/VI/19 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared @ home, BB: 23/V/20 - (2019-832)
Clear orange beer, huge towering off-white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: malty, some citrus, pretty oxidized, fruity notes, some caramel. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: caramel malts, pretty bitter, some orange peel, citrus notes, bit spicy, dry, little chemical. Aftertaste: bitter and dry finish, spicy notes, bit oxidized, damn too bad. I'll be a bit more generous with my points, cause this must've been much better while it was fresh… I'm guessing it's over a year old?
Bierridder (4318) reviewed Boentje from Brasserie Witloof 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
29/06/2018 @home - 33cl bottle bought from the brewer @ Summer Pops, Schaarbeek. Hazy light yellow, nice pearly white head. Nose is citrus, bit spices. Taste is malts, citrus, piny touch, bit yeast, small herbal touch. Nice.