beerfestival Olen

Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Tripel from a hobby brewer in Olen, commercialized through De Graal. Very thick and foamy, egg-white, cobweb-lacing head on a lightly hazy orangey peach blonde beer with vivid sparkling. Aroma of honey, banana mush, caramel, old coriander seed, peach, grass, iron, apple sauce and light ‘rusty’ oxidation. Sweet, estery onset, banana, peach, pineapple, lots of residual, honeyishly sugary sweetness, medium fizz, smooth and slightly metallic mouthfeel; cereally, lightly caramelly malt sweet backbone, quite outspoken coriander seed soapiness towards the finish, warming ‘jenever’ –ish alcohol and straw-like, floral hop bitterishness, but only softly so. Another straightforward, sweetish and simple, yet correct tripel added to the already tripel-ridden Belgian beermap, with a story behind it more elaborate than the beer itself.

Moutig, lichtzoet,zachtromig. Nieuw biertje uit Olen.

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

Imported from my RateBeer account as Sjarel Olens bier (by De Graal):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.1/5

16/IX/16 - 33cl bottle @ home - BB: II/2017 (2016-1017) Thanks to Jerre for the bottle!

Clear deep blond to orange beer, big solid creamy off-white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: orange peel, bit sweet, very malty, some cow fodder, grains, rural notes. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: bit oxidised, sweet, malty, some almonds, grains, soft spicy touch, maybe cloves. Aftertaste: malty, ripe banana, bit sweet, hint of caramel.

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Pours unclear blonde, rather big white head. Smell is yeasty. Taste is bit bitter trough the yeast, yeasty, but not to the extreme. Bit overripe fruit. Overall, still balanced. bit perfumed towards the back, but very subtile, and thus not bad.

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Bottle shared. Near clear orange with yeasty floaters and a white head. Aroma of yeast, banana, caramel, herbs and malt. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

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Bottle @benzai. Hazy yellow to orange colour with a small whitw head. Smells doughy, biscuits, yeasty, sweet. Tastes malts, sweetish. A bit meh but not bad. Nice carbo, thin to medium body.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle @ home. Clear golden color, average sized off-white head. Smell and taste malts, some hints of sweetish fruit, yeast, a suprising bitterness in the finish. Medium body and carbonation.