Texas Longhorn BullsEye
De Graal in Brakel, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
5.91
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Alengrin (11675) reviewed Texas Longhorn BullsEye from De Graal 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Tripel brewed at De Graal but commissioned by a Texas longhorn farm in the Meetjesland region. Membranously lacing, snow white, medium thick, slowly and sparsely opening head over an initially clear 'old gold' coloured beer with pale orangey tinge and a disparate 'fog' of darker, minute yeast bits, perturbed by lively strings of fizz. Aroma of fresh grass, half-ripe banana, old white bread, young 'jenever', light 'cat pee' mercaptans (apparently the bottle is a bit lightstruck), breakfast cereals, dusty old coriander seed, withering lettuce, iron, raw white cabbage, rainwater. Sweetish and sourish onset with notes of light banana, green apple (acetaldehyde touch) and a lot of unripe pear and unripe green melon; spritzy carbonation, smooth mouthfeel but strangely a bit thinnish for a 9% ABV beer - this probably begins to thin a bit by age already. Light metallic and minerally side notes, lingering 'green fruit' esteriness over a cereally and bit caramelly malt body with a thin layer of residual, honeyish sweetness on top; hayish, floral and grassy hop bitterness in the end along with some soapy, spicy coriander and quite explicitly 'jenever'-like, somewhat astringent alcohol. Classic Belgian tripel or 'edelbier' (Duvel style), boozy and accessible, but feeling a tad thin and metallic and not showing much refinement - even De Graal has done a lot better than this in its long existence. Yet another totally pointless and redundant tripel and not the best one around.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Texas Longhorn BullsEye from De Graal 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Towering, very lightly yellowish head, stable and leaving shards of lace, fed by finely carbonated pale yellow-golden beer. Spicy, yeasty nose, with dryish, lightly toasted malts, hampered by the head. Sharp, spicy, toasted flavours ending in metallic, crude bitterness. Unpleasant metallic effect ruins every other possible flavour. Warming up, develops a sticky sweetness, ruining it even further. Burning MF, enhanced by the relatively good carbonation; faint slickness, falls flat in the finish. We are not amused.
nathanvc (7053) reviewed Texas Longhorn BullsEye from De Graal 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Pours hazy blonde with a small white head. The aroma contains hay, straw, grass, malts, spices and yeast. It tastes medium to heavy bitter. Dry aftertaste. Fizzy carbonation and medium body. Very Duvel-like, all in all, but overcarbonated, alcoholic and too spicy bitter.
yespr (55573) reviewed Texas Longhorn BullsEye from De Graal 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
33 cl bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is grassy and light toasted malty. Caramelish and toasted malty. Dry and toasted. Breadish and toasted malty finish.
77ships (14509) reviewed Texas Longhorn BullsEye from De Graal 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Thxi to Hamirubi. 330 ml. bottle sampled @ RBBSG V. Hazy citrus golden, little white bubbles. Nose is sweat vegetable soap, sugar, candy + more cooked vegetables. Body is far too fizzy, low chemical,..; Taste is huge soap, sugar, extremely fizzy, very poor with some cooked vegetable.
Benzai (24654) reviewed Texas Longhorn BullsEye from De Graal 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sampled @ Ratebeer Belgian Summer Gathering 2016. Lightly cloudy yellow color, average to medium sized white head. Smell and taste malts, hay / straw, slightly bitter finish. Ok beer.
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Texas Longhorn BullsEye from De Graal 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Imported from my RateBeer account as Texas Longhorn BullsEye (by De Graal):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 4/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 8/20, MyTotalScore: 2.3/5
3/IX/16 - 33cl bottle @ RBBSG V (Klaas' place) - BB: no markings on the side to indicate a date (2016-945) Thanks to Hamirubi for sharing the bottle!
Clear blond beer, aery white irregular head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty yeasty, funky touch, bit spicy, sweet impression. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty spicy, hoppy touch, yeast, metallic, some banana. Aftertaste: sweet, yeast, unpleasant bitterness. coriander, meh. Why do "brewers" keep coming up with such beer...
Kraddel (15872) reviewed Texas Longhorn BullsEye from De Graal 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8
At rbbsg16. Thnx for sharing People ! Pours unclear blonde, small white head. Smell is bit spiced, some yeast. Taste is Sharp, full, yeasty, bit bitter, some Spice, overcarbonated. Bitter aftertaste. Mild sweetness underneath.
beerhunter111 (50837) reviewed Texas Longhorn BullsEye from De Graal 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle @RBBSG2016. Trübes hell goldgelbes Bier mit einer mittelgroßen weißen schaumkrone. Geruch nach belgischer Hefe, helle Früchte, leicht süß. Geschmack sehr würzig malzig, helle Früchte, sehr bitter, hohe Karbonisation.
jefverstraete (7491) reviewed Texas Longhorn BullsEye from De Graal 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle from local Prik&Tik, Maldegem. Clear yellow colour, white foam. Lots of carbonation. Grassy and yeasty beer, notes of citrus and some spices. Reminds me of Duvel.