Kaliesj
Brouwerij De 6 Helmen in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.33
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed Kaliesj from Brouwerij De 6 Helmen 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
15 December 2019. At Brouwbar, Ghent. Shared with Anke! Pours hazy yellow with a lasting, small, foamy, white head. Aroma of soapy coriander, clove, pepper, banana peel, yellow apple, faint ureum. Taste is a spicy core of pepper, clove & coriander; some estery sweet banana & ripe apple with a wheaty & yeasty touch. Dry, spicy, grassy hoppy finish, clove-like, more apparent liquorice, subdued fruitiness. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. We don't really need more spiced beers, unless they are really well made, let alone beers that take a 'dangerous' spice as their starting point...
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Kaliesj from Brouwerij De 6 Helmen 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
New beer by this Ghent 'bierfirma', a Belgian spice beer spiced with liquorish. From tap at Brouwbar during Gentse Feesten. Thick and frothy, snow white, plaster-like lacing head on a hazy apricot blonde beer, a tad 'milky'. Aroma very spicy indeed, but less liquorish than sharp clove, coriander seed and dried peppermint leaf - weirdly; other impressions include spice bread, dough, banana, dried lemon peel, peach and green apple. Sweet, estery onset, banana, peach, green apple and pineapple, sourish lime-like citric note stretching through the entire beer; spritzy carbonation, supple mouthfeel. Bready maltiness, tad caramelly, smooth and quickly soaked in very strong, 'real' and ethereal spiciness, again much more clove-like than liquorish-like, though a strike of liquorish is noticeable; soapy coriander seed and something minty sits atop a soft floral hoppiness (low in bitterness), lingering fruitiness and that lemony accent, which kind of saves the day for me by adding late, but in this case very welcome fraîcheur. I generally don't like overspiced beers and this one certainly belongs in that category; I was fearing the worst, to be honest, so I guess it could only be less bad than expected. Bizarrely though, and Tim below as well as other tasters present at Brouwbar all seem to agree on this, there is paradoxically very little liquorish to be found in this liquorish beer...
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Kaliesj from Brouwerij De 6 Helmen 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Crabbelaer Kaliesj (by Brouwerij De 6 Helmen):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.7/5
14/XII/18 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent), shared @ home, BBE: 2019 - (2018-1988)
SLOW GUSHER ALERT! Little cloudy blond to beige beer, huge aery fizzy foamy head, very stable, adhesive, leaving some nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: yeasty, bit chemical, spicy, coriander, banana, meh. MF: very lively carbon, medium body. Taste: grassy, banana peel, spicy, coriander, yeast, sweetish malts. Aftertaste: bitter touch, bit chemical, spicy, paint thinner, sugary, yeast, overripe banana, slightly sourish. Not getting much liquorice in this one. Weird, cause I don't like liquorice at all, and usually I pick it up pretty quickly in a beer...