Qantelaar Bruin
D'Oude Maalderij in Izegem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.09
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Qantelaar is een artisanaal gebrouwen bier dat met uitzondering van enige kandijsuiker voldoet aan het Reinheitsgebot. Het bevat dus geen enkel kruid, specerij of chemisch additief. Het recept van dit bier is tot stand gekomen uit een weloverwogen selectie van vijf moutsoorten en twee Belgische hopvariëteiten.
Qantelaar is enkel te verkrijgen op 75cl. d'Oude maalderij wil hiermee het belang benadrukken van het sociale aspect van het proeven, degusteren en genieten van kwaliteitsvolle bieren. Ook het verouderingsproces en de smaakevolutie verlopen uiteraard veel beter op grote fles.
**Admin info :
According to the brewer, the recipe of Qantelaar never changed, but the breweries he brewed the beer at did.
B1 - 3 : Maenhout
B4 - 9 Gulden Spoor
B10 - De Leite
B11 - 14(?) - Gaverhopke
B14(?) - onwards at the own fysical brewery in Izegem , untill the brewery (and beer) got discontinued, around B30
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bhensonb (22726) reviewed Qantelaar (2013 - ...) from D'Oude Maalderij 9 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
750 at Rose Red in Brugge. Pours dark brown with a beige head. Aroma is darker fruit and smooth dark malt. Med body. Carbonation is sharp. Flavor is sort of sour brown. Otherwise as per aroma. Good beer.
AndySnow (19624) reviewed Qantelaar (...-2012) from D'Oude Maalderij 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
How: Bottle, 2012 vintage.
Where: Tasting at omhper, 2016-03-05.
Appearance: Dark brown colour with a small beige head.
Aroma: Caramel, dried fruit, malt, some yeast.
Body: Full body, medium carbonation.
Flavour: Malt, caramel, dried fruit, plum.
omhper (45152) reviewed Qantelaar (...-2012) from D'Oude Maalderij 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled. Cloudy mahogany colour, small head. Marzipan, strawberry and bread up front. Mid sweet full body and well rounded mouthfeel. Marzipan, dark chocolate and orange liqueur. Mid bitter finish with bread and mild warmth.
VsXsV (3855) reviewed Qantelaar (...-2012) from D'Oude Maalderij 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at omhper’s. Light hazy deep brown liquid with small light tan head. Aroma of raw sugar, dried fruit, raisins, light booze, caramel and fruity yeast esters. Taste is light to medium sweet and light bitter with notes of raw sugar, caramel, raisins and dried fruit. Medium to full bodied with medium carbonation. Quite nice.
Joren Monnens (3486) ticked Qantelaar Bruin from D'Oude Maalderij 10 years ago
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Qantelaar (2013 - ...) from D'Oude Maalderij 10 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
The ’Q2015’ (last year’s) version, 75 cl bottle brewed at Gaverhopke, so the most recent embodiment of this beer. Strange it does not have a lot more ratings, I suspect many people mistook this one for the Gulden Spoor version of 2013? Anyway, reading the name ’Gaverhopke’ on the elaborately adorned paper wrap around the bottle prompted me to open this over the sink, and even that could not prevent my kitchen from being flooded: the beer literally spouted out of the bottle with a force I have seldom seen. I hate Gaverhopke: I cannot understand how they seem to be incapable of solving this problem, neither can I understand why Oude Maalderij turned to them for brewing this beer. The visual result is in line with the extreme gushing: first a towering, papery, inches thick, irregular, yellowish beige head collapsing in a short while and turning very irregular, with unequal patches of beige foam here and there and leaving irregular lacing; the beer itself is completely cloudy, like the content of a muddy pool after heavy rain, chocolate brown with an enormous amount of random yeast throughout, eventually sinking to the bottom of the glass and leaving a thick milky cloud there. The head completely vanishes after a while so that it looks as if I’m having a cold coffee with a bit of coffee cream in it. Aroma of butterscotch and a lot of caramel, milk chocolate, overripe pear, freshly fermented farmland and even slurry pit, strong paint- and shoe polish-like phenols, Irish coffee gone cold, hazelnut paste, banana, brown bread dough, grape peel, ’jenever’-like alcohol and a whiff of DMS (cooked Brussels sprouts) - in other words, good intentions ruined by a bunch of strong off-flavours. Spritzy onset, overcarbonated for the style but fortunately with ’small size bubbles’ like champagne so not too coarse in mouthfeel; estery fruitiness of peach, banana, blackberry and a hint of orange, brown candi sugar, sweet with a sourish edge, smooth and ’full’ malt sweetness, very caramelly, a tad nutty and a bit chocolatey, ’fluffy’ and somewhat honeyish as expected from the style; ends with ongoing malt sweetness overrun by a very powdery yeastiness, a dash of earthy hop bitterishness managing to balance out the sweetness quite well, (way too) strong retronasal phenols and warming, rum-like alcohol which could have been better hidden and even turns a bit wry on the root of the tongue. For as far as I remember, this seems a bit sweeter than the original, first version of itself made at Maenhout, but obviously the technical flaws make it hard to compare. The idea by itself is okay: a full, warming, sweet dubbel (or quadrupel, depending on how you look at it, since these two styles are essentially the same only differing in alcohol strength), made with genuine dark malts and with a correct basic flavour profile; but, as I have aptly described, it has been executed very badly by Gaverhopke, with refermentation gone completely berserk. The extremely violent gushing, the muddy look of the beer after that, the very strong phenols: all these things were absent in previous Qantelaar editions. A shame, that is very clear, and if I were in the Oude Maalderij guys’ place, I’d leave Gaverhopke behind as soon as possible, like White Pony did!
DSG (25989) reviewed Qantelaar (2013 - ...) from D'Oude Maalderij 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
[9/21/15] Draught at Le Trappiste in Bruges. Cloudy amber-brown. Aroma of caramel, olives, sour fruitiness, somewhat infected. Sweetish-sourish flavor with caramel, sour fruits, some alcohol. Medium-bodied. Seems off.
fonefan (85107) reviewed Qantelaar (2013 - ...) from D'Oude Maalderij 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 750ml. @ home on the terrace. [ As d’Oude Maalderij Qantelaar ].[ Courtesy of JanO ]. Clear dark brown color with a average to large, frothy - creamy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, dark malt, caramel, moderate to heavy yeasty, dried fruit, raisin, anis seed. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, anis seed, belgium yeast, dark fruit - dried fruit, dark malt. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20150706]
Bibax (5409) ticked Qantelaar Bruin from D'Oude Maalderij 10 years ago
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