Kamiel
Polygoon in Tongeren, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.47
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Kamiel from Polygoon 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
The quadrupel in Polygoon’s range, flavoured with the predictable coriander, but also cinnamon and vanilla. Loose, yellowish pale beige, large-bubbled, membrane-lacing head on a misty caramel brown beer with ruddy-burgundy hue. Aroma of hard caramel, dry brown bread, coriander seed, chewing gum, apple peel, clove, indeed some background vanilla but very little cinnamon, dried thyme, dried cranberries, nutmeg, coffee grounds, toast crust, dry tree leaf. Sweetish onset but rather restrainedly so, dried apricot, fig and apple peel notes, medium carb, supple and slightly soapy mouthfeel; brown-bready and caramelly malt backbone, full, with toasty bitterish tail. Spiciness enough in the end: old dry coriander seed, a vague whiff of vanilla and even more vague cinnamon (which I was actually expecting to be a lot more prominent, as it tends to be), and then these strong phenolic aspects of clove, thyme and nutmeg, even bordering on ‘band aid’ at some point. Yeasty aspects alongside bittering coffee grounds- and dry tree leaf-like notes in the end, quite herbal, some warming alcohol but generally well hidden. Not too bad, but needs some finetuning – and much more generosity with the vanilla and the cinnamon would be welcome too…
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Kamiel from Polygoon 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle from Bremans, Tongeren. Dark brown colour, beige foam. Nose of roasted malts, toast, cocoa and vanilla. Lots of vanilla in taste, sweet, some roastiness. Not my cup of tea.