5.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Flesje thuis gedronken met B. Goudgeel troebel bier, heftig schuimend tijdens inschenken. Aroma is zuur en kruidig. Smaak is zuur en zeep-achtig.

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@ 2017

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

The ‘ordinary’ (not ‘rock brewed’) tripel by De Schieve, bought at Drinkshall Geenen in Balen. Snow white, dense, cobweb-lacing head, hazy straw blonde robe with warmer golden-peachy hue. Aroma of banana, fried apple, sweetbread, peach, ‘jenever’, straw, cooked potatoes, hint of bitter weeds. Sweet onset, clear banana ester but hints of peach and pineapple too, fizzy carbonation, smoothly edged bready malt sweet middle, mild floral hop bitterness in the end with a spicy coriander note, warmed up by ‘jenever’-like alcohol in the end, yet not too harshly heating; sweetness remains. Accessible, correctly made Belgian tripel, balanced and flawless – but adding absolutely nothing to the existing sea of tripels, so its relevance will remain limited to Balen and its immediate surroundings, I think…

5.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Golden color. Orange and floral notes in the aroma. Hints of yeast and vegetables. Malty sweet flavor with orange and floral, vegetable notes. Not great.

5.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Donkergeel bier met schuim. Smaak is hoppig en fruitig met iets van banaan en ananas. Helaas wat waterig om een echt goede te zijn.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Clear golden color, medium to full sized white head. Smell and taste malts, quite yeasty, a bit sweet, some herbs or spices in there. In every aspect a quite standard Tripel. Or, at least, it has all the flavors a lot of tripels (and you could add "strong pale Belgian Ales" just as well) have imo. Nothing wrong with that, but not really what I like. Decent beer though.

2.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 1

Bottle at Modeste 2017. Bottled in a 75 cl, with an inox label - YOLO style. I popped the question why. 'it's unique'. I popped the price-question, which was about 7 euro's per 75 cl bottle with the inox label included....Pours unclear blonde, small white head. Smell is spiced, very plastic-forward. Mild cheesy. taste is super cheesy, plastic. Not OK at all. probably fermented way to warm, or yeast was stressed, as well as they seem to have added to old hops ( cheesy ) . It's a fear that came true - more attention seems to have gotten to the label, than the actual beer's quality.

4.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3

Thanks! Sampled draft @ Modeste 2017. Orange with a big soapy white head. Nose is dull iron, served insanely cold, hurts your hand to hold the glass. Taste is orange peel, chemical soap, metallic but the aftertaste is really awful nail polish remover or some really awful chemical taste which you cannot get out of your mouth, upfront it is still manageable but that aftertaste, really no. Body is nail polish remover & glue. This was honestly sold as a hangover beer, I assume that this aftertaste can sober you up.