Original
Biosano / Beers for Nature in Lier, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: De ProefbrouwerijSpiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Herbal Regular
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Score
6.43
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Gageleer Original is a golden colored beer that forms a perfectly beautiful white foam collar in a gageleer glass. It is brewed with honest organic ingredients: the finest barley malt, partly from local Campine organic farmers, and bog myrtle from De Liereman (a nature preserve in the Campine village of Oud‐Turnhout), without additives or preservatives.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle shared with kermis at the paas. Decent white head. Hazy blond pour. Odd herbal aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2012
at 12:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle. Cloudy golden yellow, large fluffy white head. Aroma of bog myrtle. No, I’m kidding, I don’t even know what a bog myrtle is, let alone why you would put it in a beer. Anyway, this one tastes like hay with moderate spice, decent body and a bitter finish. Drinkable. Addendum: I guess bog myrtle was an ingredient of gruut, in the medieval non-hop brew. So it’s the pope’s fault that it’s in my beer :-)
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Mar 2012
at 15:36
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Frothy white good fully lasting head. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. No spice here. Oily palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2012
at 14:27
8/10
Tried
on 14 Jan 2012
at 17:27
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
Hazy cloudy golden / orange color. Average not too strong smell. Also average taste but very nice mouthfeel. Very good for a spice/herb/vegetable beer, which normally have a too strong smell or taste.
Tried
on 26 Jul 2011
at 01:42
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
33cl bottle @ a metal shop in Vosselaar with different label that had a viking in a bog with ’beer for metalhead’ description. Bière ancienne selon la recette gruit. Couleur dorée/orangée, col blanc. Arôme houblon, herbeuse avec le Myrica Gale aussi connu sous nom de Gale odorant, Myrique baumier, Piment royal ou Bois-sent-born qui donne ce côté typique à ce breuvage quoique ce dernier reste un peu faible. Malt aussi à noté et reste modéré. Une bière qui se laisse savouré et dont l’ajout de cett fleur suave un peu de tomber dans la banalité des ales belges. Levure et sucre avec au fini une touche de houblon citronné ainsi que un profile grains et malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2011
at 14:49
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pale golden rather hazy body. Cream white head, which gives a rather nice lacing. Aroma of orange, sweet honey and an herb (guess we found the bog myrtle). Some peach juice and unripe chilli pepper. Slightly sour nose. Flavour is sweet spicy, with a slight hoppy accent. Pronounced malts. Again the bog myrtle comes through nicely, giving an interesting and fresh touch. Sticky mouthfeel. Long finish, reminds of heather honey. Nice and interesting. (from 33cL bottle)
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Apr 2011
at 14:01
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. Slightly cloudy, strong blonde beer, seems quite a bit like a spiced up tripel. Fruity aroma, crisp taste. A bit of fruity sweetness, but not too much, leading to a good, dry finish. Good hop taste, plus herbal flavors from the myrtle, but not really bitter. Interesting, though one is enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2011
at 22:52
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
330 from Bottle Barn in Santa Rosa, CA. Pours dishwater gold with a foamy 3.5 finger white head. Aroma: bog myrtle. Been there before. Wouldn’t have known the name without help, but the aroma is familiar. A Bon Secours I think. Medium body with lightly foamy carbonation. The flavor is like weird blueberry with wood. Odd flavor aside it’s pretty drinkable. Much better than the other version I had. It’s a bit sweet and gingery, but that’s good considering the base flavor. You should try it. If you go back for more, you may be weird.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2010
at 20:09
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is ginger, mat, yest. Flavour is ginger, yeast, hop, spices.. Medium body. OK beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2010
at 04:39