Zageman
Boelens in Belsele, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.71
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Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Zageman from Boelens 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 7
Huge, very dense yellow head over lively carbonated, clear golden beer; end of bottle solid yeast. Herbal nose, herb , good aromatic balance malts-EU hops. Bit toasted, spicy. Really bitter flavour. Notes of hops, ink, walnut, oakgalls, in the way that there is definite astringency, dry-out effect. This keeps hanging around whilst the few maltsugars are long gone in the aftertaste. Seen the wollop of yeast at the end of the bottle, yeasty flavours and creamier MF are for the last sips. Seems rather better bodied than 5.5% would warrant. Very lively carbonation. Not without merits. An outspoken bitter beer old style, pre-APA/IPA craze.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Zageman from Boelens 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Beer made for the release of a book about Belgian pubs, very likely an alias, though I am unsure as to what the mother beer could be so I hesitantly decided to add it here anyway. Bottle from Streekproductencentrum in Halle. Medium thick, yellowish egg-white, moussy, regular, hardly lacing but well-retaining head on an immediately misty, warm apricot blonde beer with straw-ochre tinge and lively, but thin strings of sparkling here and there. Aroma of dried peaches, cooked carrot, potato juice, straw, dusty old coriander seed, camomile, earth, dried out orange peel, red apple, bread crust and a - fortunately very vague - whiff of something 'stinky' and sulfuric, but not so much that it ruins the entire aroma. Spritzy onset, sharply carbonated, stinging and minerally, souring; fruity notes of peach, apple and a dash of banana, quite restrained in sweetness. Supple, cereally, bit bready maltiness, eventually soaked in 'dusty-spicy and soapy coriander seed and a note of curaçao (dried bitter orange peel), with some lingering fruitiness; ends bready, a bit earthy and fruity, with the orange peel effect lingering on the tongue, paired with quite prominent, earthy, leafy hop bitterness, sticking a bit to the throat after swallowing. Could be a hoppier version of Hubert; in any case: acceptable Belgian style blonde, a bit more hop bitter than average and in that sense far from the worst I had in this range. But, as is all too often the case, this is again one of those beers where the 'story' and back label are more complicated and lengthy than the beer itself...