Cuvée 1976
Kleinbrouwerij De Glazen Toren in Erpe-Mere, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.61
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Alengrin (11561) reviewed Cuvée 1976 from Kleinbrouwerij De Glazen Toren 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
From a 75 cl bottle shared by kraddel at Gents Bierfestival. Apparently Jef Van Den Steen’s answer to the lawsuit he got when he intended to dedicate a beer to local cyclist Lucien Van Impe, who won the Tour de France in 1976, a lawsuit initiated by Basanina over their Saison de Lucien. From what I understood, Glazen Toren was not allowed to use the man’s name and only sells this abroad (so far). Loose, irregular, cobweb-lacing, off-white head over a hazy straw blonde beer with warm peachy hue. Aroma of banana to a very high degree - banana milkshake even, stewed apples, peach jam, molten powder sugar, sugared pineapple juice, dough, cloves, stewed rhubarb. Very sweet in the onset, lots and lots of banana ester and residual sugars, apple sauce and sweetened pineapple, honeyish middle, softish carbo, fluffy mouthfeel. Smooth ’white’ bready malt sweet basis, with the sweetness persisting till the very end, very honeyish and mushy ripe banana-like; earthy and yeasty notes in the finish, bit phenolic, light herbal hop accent incapable of providing sufficient bitterness to balance out the overall banana sweetness, some warming but fortunately non-astringent alcohol. Teeming with unfermented sugars, overly sweet even for a sweet Belgian tripel, don’t know to which extent this was the intention but this is ridiculously sweet and banana-like, almost feels like a caricature of the 20th-century sweetness plagueing Belgian ales of that time. Technically fine but way too sweet and in that sense not my thing.
Kraddel (15810) reviewed Cuvée 1976 from Kleinbrouwerij De Glazen Toren 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Found in Spain, as apparently he sued another ( way smaller ) Brewery over the usage of the name of their beer, which was also connected to the famous cyclist ’Lucien Van Impe’ in which he ( according to the geeks at our table ) lost big time, since that other company apparently had the rights to use the name of Lucien Van Impe, and he ( De Glazen Toren ) apparently did not. pretty funny story, not sure if true, but it would explain why he only sells this beer in Spain. Anyway, brought it back home to share with the crew at Gents Bierfestival 2017. Pours unclear blonde, decent white head. Smell is yeast and sugar. Taste is yeasty, malty, sugar, very simple and boring belgian ale.
77ships (14509) reviewed Cuvée 1976 from Kleinbrouwerij De Glazen Toren 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thank you kraddel! After these guys rightfully lost their lawsuit they are just selling this in Spain apparently which is where kraddel & other raters found it. These guys should get sued all over again. Classy 750 ml. bottle sampled @ GBF 2017. Very hazy orange huge soapy white head. Nose is bland sweet soap, banana, sugar & candy. Taste is all awful bland painfully sweet banana, poor vanilla, candy & soap. Body is fully BE banana all the way. What a bland & poor affair. These guys make some very solid standard beers but between this & green, what gives?
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Cuvée 1976 from Kleinbrouwerij De Glazen Toren 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Glazen Toren Cuvée 1976 (by Kleinbrouwerij De Glazen Toren):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 3.1/5
19/VIII/17 - 75cl bottle @ Gents Bierfestival - BB: 31/XII/17 (2017-1263) Thanks to the Belgian ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers and celebrating my 10K! Thanks to kraddel for the bottle share!
Pretty cloudy orange beer, big creamy white head, solid, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very oxidized, sweetish, honey, bit floral, fruity touch, some banana, yeast. MF: lively carbon, medium to full body. Taste: very sweet, banana, some honey, sugary, floral, yeast, very sweet. Aftertaste: very sugary and sweet, yeast, overripe banana, peach flavoured candy.