Spéciale Goud
Microbrouwerij KEUN in Ronse, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
6.70
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KEUN Spéciale Goud is een ambergouden tripel met dry hopping. De combinatie van vijf moutsoorten (pilsmout, pale mout, tarwemout, Münchener en Cara 120), kruiden en witte kandijsuiker zorgt voor een volmondige, moutige smaak, met toetsen van gekonfijt fruit, die gebalanceerd wordt door een uitgesproken bitterheid.
Het bier heeft een uniek floraal en fruitig aroma, verkregen door het gebruik van grotendeels eigen geteelde hop (Perle, Goldings, Fuggles, Cascade) die in vier fasen van het brouwproces wordt toegevoegd. Met 9% alcohol is het een rijk degustatiebier.
Het bier heeft een uniek floraal en fruitig aroma, verkregen door het gebruik van grotendeels eigen geteelde hop (Perle, Goldings, Fuggles, Cascade) die in vier fasen van het brouwproces wordt toegevoegd. Met 9% alcohol is het een rijk degustatiebier.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Dry-hopped tripel by Keun, steini bottle from The Beer Shop in Kontich near Antwerp. Medium sized, moussy, egg-white head quickly opening in the middle and leaving behind 'dots' of lacing, atop an initially lightly hazy, warm orange blonde beer with amberish hue. Aroma of warm biscuit, quince jam, baked banana, orange zest, marmalade, red apple, pineapple, Jack Daniels, fresh sweetclover, peaches drenched in 'jenever', freshly cut ripe pear, honey, damp kitchen towels, coriander seed, dried out ginger powder, withered lettuce, vague hints of quinine, dry earth, ice tea, wet dog, soggy toast, rainwater. Fruity and estery onset, some slight banana, lots of peach, accents of red apple, slight candied fig, nectarine and pineapple, sweetish with a sourish edge, fairly softly carbonated, full and slick, smooth mouthfeel. Lightly caramelly and bread crumb-like malt sweetish body with some thin residual white candi sugary sweetishness on top but nothing cloying, spicy clove-like phenols towards the end, lingering fruity esters over a notably floral, mildly spicy hop bitterishness with orange zest-like accents, providing only soft actual bitterness in the finish; banana ester, honeyish residual sweetness, phenols and light caramelly malt sweetness prevail over this hoppiness and are followed by a slightly wry, 'jenever'-like, astringent and warming alcohol effect. Smooth, full and still lean, but from a dry-hopped tripel I expect a more poignant bitterness and hop aroma; Cascade still adds a background orange factor to it, while the others provide floral notes which remain delicate and have trouble keeping up with the malty and sugary sweetness as well as with the spicy phenols. The white candi syrup adds a certain 'lightness' in mouthfeel and body, as is the case in so many Belgian strong ales, and even if the hops are noticeable enough, I was hoping for a bit more 'end bitterness' to balance out the considerable, though not obnoxiously sticky basic, honeyish sweetness of this beer. Technically alright for what it intends to be, but could have been so much more with a little more audacity, and both the sweetness and alcohol astringency do become a bit much in the end. Still relatively nice work, though clearly not Keun's best.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2018
at 01:26
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
F: huge, light tan, good retention. C: dark amber, hazy. A: malty, fruity, bit dough, caramel, yeasty. T: malty, caramel, sweet fruity, bit honey, yeasty, bit banana, candy, may too sweet but not bad, little untypical abbey tripel, enjoyed, medium to full body, medium carbonation, 33cl bottle from Bierwinkel De Hopduvel in Gent.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Aug 2017
at 14:06
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle at home. Pours clear blonde, small white head. Smell is rather yeasty, some aroma from the hops (rather hidden ) ans nearly not recognizable white bread tones from the malts, at a very distant level. Taste is richly yeasty, many fruity esthers, but they do work quite well in the syltyle, and in this beer. Very mild hoparoma(bit floral) , decent bitterness though. Malts remain rather hiddenm fairly complex, but very yeast forward, and overcarbonated for me, even though that is rather typical for the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 May 2017
at 19:02
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Thank you for sharing German speaking RB Crew! Sampled bottled @ ZBF 2017. Near clear golden, small off-white head. Nose isweird mix of caramel & vegetable oil, grain, dull plastic & orange peel. Taste is plastic vegetable corn, sweet sugar & vegetable oil. Body is caramel & vegetable oil, faint pine. Not a success.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2017
at 13:14