Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Spicy and herbal aroma with grass, ginger, herbs, lemon, peppery notes, a tad vegetable. Flavour is is light to mild sweet and light bitter. Body is medium. Fortunately not overboard on the ginger.

Fles 33cl thuis. IBU36. Yeasty, licht gember, fruitig, steenfruit, wat spicy. (19-4-2024).

Bottled 330ml (Tuulensuu). Pale amber colour and steady white head. Ginger, dish water cleanser aroma. Light-bodied. Sweetish malty, ginger (galanga), light grassy flavour. Ginger dominates.

Botella @Bruges Beer Festival, April 9 & 10 2022. Color amarillo oscuro, aroma especiado cereal, sabor cereal, malta, cuerpo medio.

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Donkergeel bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is licht bitter hoppig, licht zoetzuur en kruidig met iets van gember. Aparte maar niet onaardige smaak.

New tripel by Jef Pirens made with galanga (an Asian herb used for its roots, related to ginger) and ’piments d’espelette’ (French peppers). Bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck. Thick and frothy, snow white, densely moussy, stable head, slowly opening in the middle, over an initially as good as clear, warm amberish orange blonde beer, turning into a deeply but equally hazy, deeper orange with sediment. Aroma unsurprisingly dominated by the galanga root, with an earthy, very perfumey, soapy and ginger-like effect; other impressions include sweet paprika powder (which I assume is established by the dried peppers), apricot, peanuts, raw potato, lightly toasted bread, gin and pear, but are not easy to detect under this truckload of galanga spiciness, which covers everything like a thick blanket. ’Cleanly fruity’ onset, sweet impressions of banana, red apple and peach, with sourish side notes; medium carbonation, slick and smooth, bit resiny mouthfeel. The slickness is further accentuated by this soapy, ginger-like, dryish and perfumey galanga, weighing heavily on a caramelly, slightly bready malt sweetish backbone; it stretches all the way to the finish, providing an earthy, soapy, ethereal spiciness in which even the subtle smokiness of the peppers is almost lost (though not entirely). Spicy yet subtle hop bitter note in the finish, but it too gets lost under the galanga; caramelly and residual ’white’ sugary sweetness lingers, followed by something thinly glueish and a very light sourish note. Another overly sweet-and-spicy Belgian, this one being more up to date in using fancy Asian cuisine spicing, like e.g. Oedipus’ Thai Thai in the Netherlands, but in an all but subtle way. I am not the biggest fan of adding spices and herbs to beer just to ’pimp’ them, I suppose I had too many overcoriandered and otherwise needlessly spicy ales in the past, and this is certainly not my beer. This is a one-trick pony, lacking depth, body and complexity, though admittedly there are no brewing errors or serious off-flavours here. May perform better with an Asian dish next to it - and I might even attempt this, but not pleasant to drink just by itself, because of this heavy galanga overload. Interesting idea, though.

Bottle from LDW, Eke. Hazy yellow colour, rocky white foam. Nose of citrus, hops, ginger, spices. Taste is sweet, thai spices, ginger. Strange beer. Not bad, must be nice with Asian food.