Helleketel / Helleketelbier
Brouwerij de Bie in Wakken, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.44
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A lovely amber coloured beer of 7% with an exceptional flavour. A traditional beer with high fermentation level, produced in small quantities, using only natural ingredients: malt, hops, candy sugar, yeast, water and spices.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
33cl bottle:BBD 19 May 18. Poured into a Westmalle chalice at home on 18 Mar 17. Thought I didn’t let any sediment out, but the glass held a misty golden brew with a few ’floaters’ within: the head was wispy affair and very thin/weak. Peach and sweet orange esters in the nose, semi-sweet fruitiness in the taste. Some spiciness in the flavourings also: different and almost interesting, a little too sweet for it’s own good though. Like a thin, sweet, alcoholic marmalade.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2017
at 16:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shared. Slight hazy golden with big white head. Peach, alcohol, sweet malts, light herbs, dry grassy going into an almost metallic finish. Over medium sweet and medium bitter. Medium bodied with a bit fizzy carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2016
at 14:31
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
22 December 2018. De Garre, Bruges. Cheers to Madoc! Rerate of this little Belgian Ale, just because I could. Pours clear dark golden/amber with a huge, collapsing, frothy, off-white head; little lacing. Aroma of perfume, hand soap, lemon, bordering on DEET, overripe, almost mouldy apple & orange, honey, soggy bread. Taste is light fruity sweet, overripe apple & orange again, faintly estery, a bit sweetbread-like & caramelly; light herbal bitter then, tea-like, spicy touch. Dry, herbal hoppy finsh, lingering caramel, orange, perfumey effect, dash of warming alcohol (rather spicy, almost gin-like). Medium body (at best), slick texture, lively carbonation. Disappointing.
Tried
on 06 Apr 2016
at 10:32
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
F: off white, average, not long lasting. C: golden to amber, hazy. A: honey, fruity, spicy, malty, yeasty. T: malt, hint of orange peels, apple/fruity, some maize, dry grassy bitterness on the palate, herb/spicy tones, medium body, good carbonation, good Belgian ale with some fruity dry tones.
Tried
on 10 Nov 2015
at 12:48