Slurfke Wit
Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck in Emelgem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Witbier Regular|
Score
6.35
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tricksta_p (13806) reviewed Slurfke Wit from Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from a local bottle shop. Aroma is spicy and fruity with coriander, citrus, wheat, spicy yeast, orange, curaçao. Flavour is sweetish with a light bitterness. Body is medium. On the sweet side with the curaçao/orange being most notable.
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Slurfke Wit from Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
12/IX/20 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ George’s remembrance dinner (Martijn’s place), BB: X/2020 (2020-905)
Clear blond beer, big creamy pale white head, irregular, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very floral, yeasty, forest fruit flavoured candy, some ripe banana, little herbal, soapy, cola candy. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: soft bitterness, very soft, floral touch, some banana peel. Aftertaste: soft acidity, super floral, slightly soapy, bit lemony, little yeasty, some cuberdons (forest fruit flavoured candy), meh.
Idiosynkrasie (18028) reviewed Slurfke Wit from Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
330ml bottle. Cloudy, yellow-ish, pale golden colou rwith average to huge, fluffy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, snow-white head. Sweet-ish, wheaty malty, slightly citrusy and spicy aroma, hints of banana, clove, some orange, a touch of coriander. Taste is citrusy fruity, minimally grassy hoppy, slightly spicy and sweet-ish, wheaty malty, hints of lemon, some orange peel, mandarine, a touch of banana, coriander. Watery texture, smooth and soft palate, soft, fine carbonation. Absolutely in the core regions of the style with emphasis on the citrusy aspects. Not bad.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Slurfke Wit from Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
The second new Slurfke beer - both joining the original brown one that began life as a fictitious beer in a popular Flemish soap series - also launched last summer, a witbier brewed with both unmalted and malted wheat and spiced with coriander, curaçao and ginger. Medium thick, very mousy and quite dense, shred-like lacing, stable head on a misty pale straw blond beer with somewhat khaki tinge and lively strings of sparkling here and there. Aroma of lemon juice from a bottle, lemonade but not as sweet, lemon-flavoured dish soap, ground coriander seed, pumice, green apple, indeed ginger but rather sweet and artificial like in ginger ale, banana, baking soda, washing powder, white bread pulp, gypsum. Sweetish onset with quite lively, artificially and softly lemon-flavoured sourish edge, light apple and halfripe banana impressions, lively carbonation stinging a bit on the tongue but acceptable for a 'blancheke', very soft body, creamy almost, but notably soapy as well - sourish-soapy unmalted wheat and soft-fluffy wheat malt are both clearly there, with also a very thin white-breadiness to it. The lemon candy-ish aroma meets with a mild coriander spiciness and a ginger ale element towards the finish, but it is still that artificial lemon- and sugarless lemonade-like flavouring that prevails in the end, with only the slightest whiff of floral hoppiness. Baking soda- and gypsum-like aspects remain on the root of the tongue too. Typical industrial witbier, overflavoured in an artificial way, clean and straightforward - the original Hoegaarden Pierre Celis, the great 'reinventor' of the style, had in mind, is only a far cry in this kind of 'modern' interpretations. Spicier than average even, but in a way I can hardly appreciate (I feel like I had a sip of lemon-flavoured dish soap after swallowing this) - but, in being just that little more than that incredibly bland Blond version, this at least adds something to the decreasing pool of classically 20th-century styled Belgian witbieren. Not good and feeling equally artificial and unnatural as the Blond (and Bruin, for that matter), but admittedly less bad than expected.