6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

28/III/20 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ home, BB: 1/III/22 (2020-284)

Clear orange beer, big creamy irregular off-white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very malty, grains, grassy, some banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty sweet, malty, grains, bit sugary, lots of ripe banana, lots of yeast. Aftertaste: sweet, yeasty, esters, soft bitterness, banana peel, malty.

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Deconinck, Vichte. Light hazy, blond colour, white foam. Lively carbonation. Nose of citrus, peach, some banana. Taste is fruity, estery, sweet.

6.6

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

One-off by De Poes intended to celebrate the 100 years existence of official diplomatic relations between Belgium and Poland (since March, 1919), which was remembered on Belgium's National Holiday earlier this month. Somewhat thinnish (for style), off-white, bit irregular and uneven-bubbled, barely lacing, slowly breaking but otherwise retaining head, lightly hazy pure and metallic 'old gold' robe with lively sparkling throughout, misty and more peachy with sediment. Aroma of ripe banana, banana milkshake even, ripe apricot, honey, red apple, sweetbread, old potatoes, brown soap, straw, chewing gum, powder sugar, pear juice, dried garden weeds, phenolic spiciness (clove, even vague anise), 'appeljenever'. Sweet onset, residual white candi syrup mixed with pronounced isoamylacetate (banana ester); bubblegum, peach, stewed pear and sweet ripe apples complete this stereotypically 'Belgian' onset. Carbonation remains relatively on the soft side for a Belgian ale, mouthfeel is soft and smooth; the sweetness and esteriness supersedes a sweetbready malt profile with honeyish results. Late, bit earthy and floral hoppiness in the finish, mild in bitterness, but still a bit leafy and lingering; the sweet banana, apple, sweetbread and honey effects remain however dominant. Quite outspoken phenolic notes as well, clove- and even very vaguely aniseed-like, with a 'jenever'-like alcohol warmth closing the overall flavour profile. I must have had hundreds of Belgian beers according to this very profile: a sweet tripel like there are thirteen in a dozen. Nothing wrong here as such, but is it really necessary to make this type of beer so goddamn sweet all of the time? Point off for lacking in originality - especially that now that I come to think of it, chances are big that this is a mere alias of De Poes Tripel (which I haven't had in a long time but I remember it being sweet as well). The Polish deserve better, especially with the Polish craft beer wave in mind...

7

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