Bohème
Boelens in Belsele, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.19
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tderoeck (22711) reviewed Bohème from Boelens 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 3.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Bohème (by Boelens):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 4/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 7/20, MyTotalScore: 2.4/5
24/IX/16 - 33cl bottle from a trade @ Alex' place - BB: 12/VIII/16 (2016-1183) Thanks to Jerre (or maybe Alengrin?) for the trade!
Cloudy orange beer, creamy aery white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots of aniseed, spicy, bit yeasty, sweet, orange peel. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: lots and lots of aniseed, spicy, more aniseed, little bitter. Aftertaste: orange peel, lots of aniseed, little sourish, more aniseed, sweet, meh.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Bohème from Boelens 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Another one from the Boelens range, an aniseed-spiced ale allegedly made to a "unique Bohemian recipe from the 19th century" and commissioned by Drankgigant Lokeren. Medium sized, creamy, off-white head retaining well but mostly around the edges of the glass; cloudy, warm peach blonde colour. Lots of aniseed indeed, in its purest form, rendering an almost candyish effect; other impressions of apple, banana, biscuit, orange peel and grass are drowned in this ethereal aniseed scent. Fruity onset, peach, hint banana, gooseberry, soft carbo, powdery yeast touch over a supple, smooth, soft bready and lightly caramelly malt background, with aniseed becoming increasingly stronger; it fortunately does not reach a liqueurish level, but does have a kind of ’cooling’ aromatic effect retronasally, reminding me of old-fashioned aniseed-flavoured peppermints; it also clashes a bit with the earthy, peppery hop bitter accent popping up at the back and I cannot help but feeling it leaves a certain astringency deep in the throat as well. This wry ending, along with the domination of aniseed in the nose, ruined this for me; I also have high doubts about this being historical like the back label claims. It is more like Boelens’ Bieken in which the honey has been replaced by aniseed... Glad I bought a 33 cl bottle, as this is also available in 75 cl.