Brouwerij Verstraete Papegaei

Papegaei

 

Brouwerij Verstraete in Diksmuide, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

Brewed at/by: Deca Services
  Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular
Score
6.75
ABV: 8.0% IBU: - Ticks: 95
Papegaei is a blond beer with an alcohol volume of 8%. The beer is lightly drinkable and has a rich bouquet of hops. Papegaei is brewed with fresh hop flowers, which means that the flowers are dried but not turned into an extract or pellets, so they keep their natural form (and taste!). The mash of Papegaei contains barley, wheat and oats. Papegaei is a top fermented beer with a second fermentation in the bottle. The beer is neither filtered nor pasteurized.

Papegaei is brewed and bottled by Adam Verstraete at the Deca brewery in Woesten.
 

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6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
33 cl. bottle @ home. Procured from ALBO. Hazy orange, small soapy white head. Smells of esters, fusels, thick plaster yeast, boozy, thick chalk. Tastes of fusels, bitter esters, plaster, chalk, boozy, solvent, glue, bitter, dry,… Chalky yeast body. Another one of these Belgians.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Jul 2014 at 09:37

6/10
Tried on 24 Jun 2014 at 10:21

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle sampled. Pours cloudy golden with an off white head. Aroma of Belgian yeast, citrus and honey. Flavor is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Feb 2014 at 08:56

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle from Beers of Europe. Poured a clear, mid golden colour with a halo of white head. Aroma of soft fruit, honey and mild citrus. Fruity initial flavours with notes of dates and mango, mixed with chewy malt. Finish was esters, light hay and golden syrup.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jan 2014 at 11:18

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Hazy blond colour, medium carbonation. Medium body. Balanced taste between sweet and bitter. Good but nothing special.
Tried on 28 Dec 2013 at 04:05

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
330ml bottle. Minimally cloudy golden colour with average, reinforced, fairly lasting, white head. Phenolic fruity aroma, sweetish, yeasty. Taste is moderately sweet malty, bready, yeasty, minimally tart fruity counterweight, dry hoppy overtones; additionally a peppery spicy yeasty note in the finish; lively carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Nov 2013 at 11:54

6.9/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Original Rating August 21st 2013 . Bottle @ paters vaetje pours fuzzy yellow/blonde , good white foam . smells like a white taste is sweet, corny good carbo nice .

Edit 2021 : over the years, Whenever I had this beer in a buisness I work, I wouldn't sell it. Not a single bottle. In well over a year, untill we gave them away free from charge. Eversince they're all gone, people ask me so, so damn often about why we don't have it ( sometimes multiple times a week) , or friends and familie speak fond of it when they try it. I had it back in 2013 (short review) but didn't think it was specific, or great, or unique. But oh well, some beers just call for a re-try, do they not ? So lets have this again with more base knowledge than I had back than, as well as more experience. Perhaps it'll be better now ?

The beer pours a hazed blonde, under a seemingly stable, medium sized white head (pillowy) . Scent is mild, very mild even. Hints of malts, traces of what seems like isoamylacetate. Taste is malty, bit bitter. Very intense yeast profile ( BE yeast, loads of isoamylacetate as well as some phenols). Tad wheat, maybe ? High carbonation (to high for my taste, which makes me wonder if the beer was less carbonated in 2013, or I just enjoy lower levels now as I did back than) . Medium to slightly below medium body. Just as I remember it to be, it's pretty forgetable, and simply not unique in any way. On the other hand, just like before, there's nothing to say here thats 'wrong' with the beer in any way.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Aug 2013 at 02:27

7/10
Tried on 25 May 2013 at 20:46

6.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle at ChrisO Snow tasting, thanks to (sorry forgotten who), 20/01/13. Lightly hazed golden amber with a thin off white head that clears to a film. Nose is pale malt, light grass, herbal notes. Taste comprises orange pith, sugars, light spice, malt. Medium bodied, soft carbonation. Average.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Feb 2013 at 13:31

7.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle at home ... golden yellow ... big white head ... soft floral yeasty ... orange and lime peel nose ... sweet sugers up front ... big juicy orange ... light herbal salty lingers ... soft and tatsty ... light bitter linger
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jan 2013 at 12:54