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Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Clear, golden colored, white medium frothy head. Aroma is of malt, some caramel, sugar, moderate- fruity and floral hops, bit spicy, staleish. Taste is medium sweet malt, some caramel, sugary notes, spicy yeast, medium- fruity and floral hops, medium bitterness, dryish finish, bit oxidized. Medium bodied, soft carboation, oily. (bottle)

6.2

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

Flesje thuis, goudgele kleur, mooi wit schuim. Redelijke volle smaak, maar is maar net iets meer dan een gewone pils, valt wat dat betreft wat tegen gezien de abv.

6.2

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

Bottled. A dark golden beer with a lazing yellowish head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, candy, and a bit of citrus fruits. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and candy, leading to a bitter finish.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Sample from 33 cl bottle. Slightly hazy golden colour with a medium sized white head. Sweet aroma with pale malts, yeasts and fruits. Taste is sweet. Medium body with a creamy texture and an average carbonation. Finishes sweet with fruits and yeasts. Ok. Spices.

6.5

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

Bottle@Lars place - Golden orange pour with white head. Sweet fruity and malty with some citrus fruity notes, some Candi and icing sugar, medium body, touch of citric spice into the finish.

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

33 cl bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow. Small white head. Aroma is phenolic and toasted malt. Toasted. Sweet and slight caramelish. Bitter. Phenolic and toasted malt.

6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

300ml bottle: BBD 11th Jan 2019. Poured into the (free) new Affligem glass I got when buying the four pack of beers from the Delhaze supermarket near Plopsaland. Light golden body, lively looking, uneven snow white blanket of bubbles on top. Spruce and yeasty nose, was expecting more hops to be honest. Taste is yeasty and slightly hop centric over a mild malty base: expected more hops to be honest. Why call a beer ’Hop Selection’ then not select any? Just a little underwhelmed really.

4.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

One of the (many) new additions to the old Affligem range since Heineken took over, bottle from Fontana in Sint-Niklaas. Medium thick, lightly lacing, egg-white head with good ’edge retention’ but dissolving to a disparate, wafer thin veil in the middle; cristal clear ’old gold’ colour with pale orangey hue. Aroma of cooked Brussels sprouts (very obvious - even overdone - pasteurization), something quite disturbingly sulfuric (freshly struck matches), corn syrup, industrial cheese spread, fried egg, apple, sweetclover (about the only sincere reference to hops I can detect), soggy breakfast cereals, honey cookies, margarine, minerals, hints of molten plastic, soap, popcorn, green tea, ’unnatural’ but fortunately very vague iron. Sweetish onset but very clean if not lager-like, no ’living’ esters, hints of industrial apple juice, faint banana-flavored bubblegum and that’s about it, grainy sourishness underneath, fizzy mouthfeel but not overcarbonated. Slick, very (and unpleasantly) soapy, almost sticky body, very grainy, sharp with cutting edges so to speak, cereally as well with a strong corn leaning; finish adds a certain grassy, very generic hop bitterishness, but none of the genuine hop aromas one would expect from a beer labelled as "Hop Selection". This superficial, very industrial grassy hoppiness is no match for the corny slickness passing through and adding insult to injury, I get a gin-like alcohol impression in the very end as well, a tad wry on the root of the tongue, which should not at all be the case in a beer below 7% ABV. Where to begin... this is a thing of downright ugliness, like most of the other new Affligems. When Heineken first took over, I sincerely believed the Affligem range was getting a little bit better in quality than in the De Smedt-era, but I quickly had to revise my opinion. In recent years, Heineken has basically ruined this once proud abbey beer brand by turning them into Leffe imitations - this particular one clearly being inspired by that awful Leffe Royale series, which tries to sell itself to people with a blatant lie (the word ’prostitution’ springs to mind, but anyway). This is as much ’hop forward’ as that Leffe Cascade IPA - or in fact, even less, with just as much over-the-top cooked pasteurization smell and obviously cheap malt profile. I am almost certain that this is bottom fermented and that malt extract and corn - probably in its cheapest form - went into this, making it akin to a crudely cheap strong Euro lager, yet the outward image of a traditional Belgian abbey beer justifies a higher price tag. In Heineken’s mind at least, but certainly not in mine. After that Affligem 1074 from last week, I was not looking forward to this at all, and I regret to say I was right: this is an insult to 20th-century Belgian beer culture - which is as obsolete now as it was influential then - and something to avoid at all times if you really love beer, unless of course you like the Leffe brand but find their Cascade IPA too hop bitter and would like to try a softer version of it. If that were the case, please leave this site immediately and visit something more useful to your personal purposes, like a porn site or something. I officially hate Affligem now - and believe me, I’ve known this brand for a long time and honestly tried to cling to it after Heineken took over. Drain pour.

5.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

33cl bottle, courtesy of 77ships @ Sebletitje’s Farewell Tasting. BB 18.02.2018. Dorée, col blanc moyen. Arôme au nez fruité rappelant le thé vert aevc un effet de camomille. Le tout reste cependant léger au fini surtout au niveau grains et houblons. Palais est malté très belge aux relents houblonnés nobles. Pointe de citronné, feuille de thé mais le tout est très faiblard niveau de ce que on peut attendre d’une bière mettant soit-disant les houblons en avant. Industrielle sans âme.