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Travlr (30173) reviewed Ek Chuah from Totem 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Hazy golden amber color, dense fine bright white head with good retention and solid lacing. Aroma of lightly spiced pine. Taste is resiny pine. Tasty.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Ek Chuah from Totem 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Bab 2016. Thnx to Tderoeck and 77ships for sharing the beers ! Pours unclear blonde. Smell is bit oaty, some hops. Taste is full, bit woody, pine-like. i do recognize (in the taste) the factor I remember as the scent of a christmass three. It’s a very nice beer, but a bit too weird for me.
77ships (14506) reviewed Ek Chuah from Totem 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10
Thank you Klaas! Tasting glass + sample @ Bruges Beer Festival 2017! Hazy deep orange, small head. Arome is pure awesomeness, thick caramelized malts with pure pine resin, pine tree sap, orange peel, the whole coated in orange marmelade. Taste is massive "christmas tree", intense syrupy, wonderfully balanced by the toffee, caramel, thick bread dough malt qualities, sugar, huge "christmas tree" & pine resin sap, with awesome malt balance & sweetness, creamy thick. Amazing, wonderful malt balance & sweetness in the back give this a session-hoppy Barley Wine qualities if that were a thing. Best beer at the festival.
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Ek Chuah from Totem 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
F: yellow-white, normal size. C: gold, hazy. A: malt, tropical fruits, passion fruits, hone, grassy, earthy, pine resin. T: malt, earthy, pine resin, spruce, tropical fruits, hint of mint, full body, medium carbonation, great beer, balanced, worth to try, thanks to the BE RB crew for sharing beers today! Sampled draught @ Bruges beer festival 2017.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Ek Chuah from Totem 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
At BBF. Apparently Klaas Dellaert, whom I consider to be one of the most innovative brewers in Belgium of the moment, decided to put his Christmas tree to good use and soak its needles in an IPA already made piney by New World hops. Creamy, quite heavily lacing, egg-white, frothy head on top of a hazy peach blonde beer. Aroma of pine resin and spruce shoots indeed, along with green banana, dried apricot, white bread, pineapple, toast, butterscotch and something glueish. Fruity onset, hints of peach and pineapple, medium carbo, light and supple mouthfeel, cereally and slightly bready middle, resinous finish, aromatic with the expected piney and grapefruity aromas of the ’new’ hops actually matching well with the resinous ’green’ qualities of the spruce needles, bit yeasty as well. Klaas and Ster offered me a few spruce needles to taste along with this beer and I have to admit it: I was a bit skeptical at first, but in this particular form, it turns out way better than I could ever have imagined. Interesting and original beer, big cheers to Klaas and Liesbeth!
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Ek Chuah from Totem 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Totem Ek Chuah (by Totem):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.2/5
1/II/17 - 33cl bottle @ Totem / Klaas' place - BB: n/a (2017-1) Thanks to Klaas for my prima nocta bottle!
Slightly hazy orange beer, big irregular yellowish head, very stable, bit adhesive, laving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: pretty sweet, caramel, floral, some almond bitter cookies, bit of band-aid. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sweet malty start, then very bitter, resinous, piny, it's christmas tree all right! Aftertaste: lots of grapefruit, bitterness, resinous, bit of tropical fruits.