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Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

5.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

The first beer from this new brewpub in Koersel near Beringen (Belgian Limburg), still in the process of becoming available bottled, but the brewer was kind enough to offer a sample from tap and bottle it for me - many thanks for that, and to Christine for fetching me this, along with the two other beers from this brewery. Lightly and irregularly lacing, medium thick, off-white, moussy head, slowly dissipating to a thin veil in the middle but retaining on the edges, over a deep and warm, very pure 'old gold' coloured beer, clear but with small flakes of yeast floating here and there. Aroma of banana-flavoured candy, apple juice and ripe red apple, chewing gum, melting powder sugar, hard caramel candy touch, plastic, damp cloth, dry cookies, young 'jenever', coriander seed, fainter impressions of frying oil, Turkish delight, children's coughing syrup, cloves, raw potato juice, freshly cut grass, field flowers, very old white dessert wine, faint and gradually diminishing DMS (cooked green cabbage) and, somewhere, a very vague touch of bitter garden herbs. Fruity, sweet onset, lots of residual white candi syrup sweetness, even cloying a little bit, very heavy on the banana and bubblegum ester, apple-like acetaldehyde almost equally strong, peachy and pineapple-like aspects somewhere but also in a 'candied', notably sweet kind of way; carbonation is soft as expected - this sample not having been bottle conditioned - with a very slick, bit resiny, oily mouthfeel. The sweetness continues over a very cereally, resiny middle, a bit grainy on the one hand and caramelly on the other hand, while some soft spicy phenols (cloves, very vague liquorice) develop retronasally. Finishes with a dash of soapy coriander, something plastic-like, a late and brief floral and grassy hop bitter accent and quite a lot of not very well masked, somewhat wry, wodka-like alcohol - while that residual sweetness remains, and lingers in my throat along with that astringent alcohol for quite a long time. I can imagine this working well on a local level, served cold to 'day tourists' with their meals, but for me, this did not work out too well, very sorry about that: the alcohol should be much better hidden, a more confident dosis of bittering hops would not hurt, the DMS (however faint) is there, and this amount of sugary sweetness is over the top even for a classically conceived, old school Belgian tripel - or 'edelbier', with which this beer seems to have more in common than with 'true' tripel. I nevertheless wish Remise 56 a lot of success, and I will be happy to revisit this beer after a prolonged period of bottle conditioning, as bottles of it are on their way.

5.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Draught Small white rim over metallic golden beer. Rosewater, frangipane, alcoholic nose. Sweet and old bread, oxydized, old grains, solvent. Light, slick, chemical filled impression. Awful.