Clear pale golden colour, tall soapy white head, half-way lasting, light lacing. Aroma malts, peach, pear, canned tangerine, yeast. Taste medium sweet and bitter, malty, fruity, light citrus. Sweetbitter aftertaste, fruity, orange peel, spicy notes, medium body, oily to creamy texture, soft carbonation, decent blond ale.

Thank you Alengrin! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ “Belgian Ticks Tasting Ghent”. Golden, solid white head. Nose is classical Boelens chemical, sweet, cleaning products, banana,… Taste is massive banana, sugar, chemical, washing products, industrial,… Body is industrial chemical, sweet washing powder, chemical,… A typical Boelens affair.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Boelens De Schat van Belsele (by Boelens):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

21/VII/17 - 33cl bottle @ Belgian Ticks Tasting (home) - BB: 16/III/19 (2017-1087) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!

Clear blond beer, big aery irregular off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: fruity, some grapefruit, kiwi, bit sweet, spicy yeast. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sweet in the start, honey, bit sugary, some citrus, little bitter. Aftertaste: soft bitterness, sweet, spicy, lots of orange peel.

Pours clear, light blonde. Small white head. Smell is rather yeasty. Doughy from the malts. Taste is reeasonably bitter. Creamy. Bit doughy malts. Slighly off to me ( cooked vegetables ? )

Boelens’ rendition of this threesome of Belgian blondes from Sint-Niklaas, intended to celebrate the 800 years of ’existence’ of the city and a first attempt of all three Sint-Niklaas breweries to work closer together (see Donum Ignis’ Koeruir and Paenhuys’ Blok for the other two). Tasted in the company of the brewer and later at home from a 33 cl bottle. Egg-white, ’membranously’ lacing, quite dense, medium sized head, stable though quickly showing gaps in the middle, over an initially cristal clear, warm golden blonde coloured beer with ’old gold’ hue, turning elegantly misty with sediment. Aroma of old wrinkled apples, pear, banana, green gooseberries, stewed rhubarb, camomile, dry hay, sweetbread, jute bags, moist white pepper, canned apricots, pineapple slices, old cake, sweetclover, some caramel, powder sugar, honeysuckle flowers, hint of rainwater and some faint but unmistakable DMS (cooked cabbage), alas. Fruity, quite crisp onset, banana ester dominating but mingled with sweetish hints of ripe pear, peach and pineapple and sourish hints of gooseberry and raw rhubarb, in a (for this style) adequately measured, minerally, fizzy carbonation environment; smooth and bit oily ’basic’ mouthfeel. Rounded cereally malt sweetish middle with a very light caramelly touch to it, residual sugars lingering but not overly so for this style, yet still retaining quite a lot of sweetness, aided by the persistent banana isoamylacetate. Ends dryish, with a good amount of floral, bit earthy hop bitterness, camomile-like and a tad grassy, while subtler minerally and fruity-estery hints linger, as well as some spicy phenols. Very stereotypical Belgian blonde, so conceptually I can make the same statement as for Donum Ignis’ version: I know this style of beer is still tremendously popular, but if Sint-Niklaas, in between Ghent and Antwerp, ever wants to put itself on the Belgian beer map with a vibrant beer scene built on a continuous collaboration of its three breweries, they really have to come up with more ’exciting’ and different beers than yet another generic Belgian blonde. This one, though showing a faint trace of DMS, is however technically close to correct and definitely to be preferred over Donum Ignis’ version, which suffers from too much coriander, even more DMS and even more sweetness.