Crooked Wall
Brouwerij De Schieve in Olmen, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.61
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SVD (7137) reviewed Crooked Wall from Brouwerij De Schieve 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Paleyellow golden, small, aroma is malt, fruit, yeast. Taste is the same, dough yeasty aftertaste, ok
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Crooked Wall from Brouwerij De Schieve 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Variation on De Schieve Tripel (though not entirely the same recipe) brewed the Steinbier way, so with hot stones lowered into the brewing kettle, an ancient German method De Schieve advertized during last weekend's ZBF edition and showed off at their booth by means of a video playing. Membrane-lacing, egg-white, creamy, dense, closed head, hazy apricot blonde robe. Aroma of halfripe banana, white bread, a dash of DMS (overcooked cauliflower), plaster, turnip, cold French fries, pear and minerals, the latter possibly referring to the hot stones? Sweetish onset, some banana, pineapple, pear, light sourish note, medium carb, doughy and white-bready malt body with a sourish undertone; florally and grassy hop bitterish finish with ongoing malt and ester sweetness, the DMS returning retronasally and late minerally accents, which may or may not be the result of the Steinbier element. Soft bitterishness but not nearly the hoppiness the brewer promised; the DMS should not have been here either and the subtle minerally accents added by Steinbier in a clean and lower strength German lager, as would traditionally be the case, get a bit lost in this tripel-like environment - De Schieve has failed to convince me that applying the Steinbier method to Belgian ales is a good idea, though I can somehow appreciate the initiative.