Bottelaars Ketske
Brouwerij 't Kroontje in Denderbelle, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.06
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle @ Ketske, Bottelare. Clear golden colour, white foam. Sweet nose of peach, some citrus, light bitter. Decent Belgian ale, nothing special.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Bottelaars Ketske from Brouwerij 't Kroontje 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
A commissioned Kroontje beer - my expectations are low. Medium thick, pale yellowish white, more or less stable head leaving no lacing, over an initially cristal clear, orangey ’old gold’ coloured beer with quiet fizz, becoming more hazy and amberish with deposit. Aroma of sugared but artisanal apple juice, overripe peach, banana, steamed broccoli or even iron-like spinach, damp earth, cooked potato, clear DMTS (burning rubber), rotting grass, some caramel, turnip, sour and unripe gooseberry and a lot of it, toasted white bread, raw rhubarb, lemon rind, pineapple. Very fruity and estery onset, sweet and sour, with hints of overripe gooseberry and dito pineapple, green plum and some banana but less strongly than expected based on the aroma, in all more sour than sweet which may be the onset of an infection; spritzy, somewhat minerally carbonation detracting a bit from the real flavor. Light but ’filling’, somewhat grainy, lightly bready and very lightly toasted maltiness, low in sweetness but with some ’deeper’ souring grain qualities (which really should not be there), while the esters continue. Finish is almost a mere continuation of this with an earthy yeast presence (especially as the bottle progresses) but otherwise retains the malt graininess and the light but - meanwhile - unmistakable souring infection effect, even slightly drying. Hops remain limited to a weak earthy, lightly bittering presence at the back but fail to save the day; and like my esteemed colleague below writes, there is something wryly chemical at the back which makes things even worse, though this is fairly ’artisanally’ made (whatever that may mean!). No gusher, but I am convinced that if I had kept this longer in my cellar, it would have gushed big time as the onsetting infection grows on it. Technically a bit flawed and conceptually boring: this brewery still has a lot to learn. This is a mere tick and nothing more. Sorry Jo, this doesn’t do it for me, I’m afraid...
77ships (14506) reviewed Bottelaars Ketske from Brouwerij 't Kroontje 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
330 ml. bottle sampled @ 20ste Zomerbierfestival. Orange, little head. Nose is strongly metallic, white sugar with plenty of plastic & cheap apple juice. Taste is chemicals, plastic, apple juice, hugely sweet, odd taste akin to a mix of caramel & plastic,… Body is overly fizzy & comes across as being overly chemical. Not a fan at all.