6.2

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

Bottled 330ml (AIH128)
Murky orange colour, medium-sized creamy off-white head and lace. Medium-bodied. Sweetish honeyish simple tripel. Some spiceyness and alcohol.

6

marlou beerfestival

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Dark golden colour with lasting head. Aroma and flavour have an abundance of floral sweet honey. Grwat body. Sweet but not cloying.

6.5

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

Honey beer in this Limburgian Kompel series, flavoured with coriander and curaçao. Very thick and foamy, pillowy, cobweb-lacing, egg-white, densely mousy and very stable head on an initially lightly hazed, pale orangey peach blonde beer with vivid sparkling, turning equally misty with sediment. Aroma initially a bit 'blocked' by the foam, but releasing impressions of peach, banana, indeed honey, sugar loaf, soapy-spicy coriander seed, half-dry orange peel, jute bags, linseed, straw, bread crust, dried lavender and violets, sweet potato, bath foam touch in the background but fortunately not overwhelming at all, faint whiff of iron perhaps but not feeling too unnatural at all. Spritzy, fruity onset, estery with hints of peach, freshly cut red apple and a whiff of banana but not overly so, sweetish with a sourish edge, the latter accentuated by the lively, very minerally carbonation; slick, lean mouthfeel, coarsened a bit by the carbonation. Cereally and bread-crusty, lightly but unmistakably caramelly maltiness, sweetish but rather restrainedly so, with not too much residual sugariness (but still some), so tasting a bit less honeyish than most 'average' consumers will probably expect; the honey does, however, add a very flowery retronasal aroma, again reminiscent of dried lavender, violets and sweetclover. Ends with a confident but traditionally 'Belgian-dosed', floral and bit leafy hop bitterness, in which soapy coriander seed effects and a slightly tangy dried orange peel accent are absorbed; the coriander does resound a bit in the end, but luckily does not dominate as much as it often does in this kind of beers. Remains sleek, streamlined and more dryish than expected, so I'm already happy that this is apparently not a sweet, perfumey 'flower beer' (which is what I was fearing a bit when I bought the bottle and read the label); this is indeed a classic artisanal Belgian honey beer, as classic as it gets in that specific segment even, with its honey-blonde colour, considerable ABV of 8% and flowery aromas paired with basic honeyish sweetness. Fits perfectly into the tradition of Lefebvre's Barbãr Blonde, Boelens' Bieken, La Saint-Monon au Miel and so on: a classic, sweetish, 8% tripel with added flower aspects from the honey used in the fermentation process. It does not add anything to that specific family of Belgian beers, but I have to admit that it is well made and combines well-restrained honeyish sweetness with elegant flowery aromas. As with all these Kompels: nothing innovative whatsoever but not intended as such either, and functioning well enough in a traditional Belgian context.

7

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

Pours clear blonde, relatively bog white head. Smell is refined, perfumy, mild honey like funk, but not recognizable honey to me ( not as sweet either, let alone as chemical as the likes of barbar ) . Taste is sharp, floral, low bitterness. Perfumy. Fairly elegant. Mildly sweet finish. Bit too much carbo. Beautifull usage of honey, where the florality really is put to the front, but remains a very boring BE style beer nevertheless. Perhaps with a different base, this might be a very fun beer !

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Goudkleurig licht troebel bier met schuim. Smaak is bitter hoppig en krachtig met iets van aardbei, sinaasappel en honing. Erg fijn bier.

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Stockman, Maldegem. Hazy amber colour, white foam. Citrussy, sweet, light floral. Taste is refreshing.

6.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle @ home shared with Inoven. Hazy golden color, medium sized white to off-white head. Smell and taste lightly malts, very floral, a bit sweet, blossomy, lightly honey perhaps. Decent body and carbonation.

6.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Flesje gedeeld door Benzai. Goudgeel, beetje troebel bier met matig schuim. Weinig aroma, beetje een bloemen geur. De smaak is fruitig en een beetje zoet. Weinig nasmaak.