Orange
Verduyn Bier in Marke, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: De MeesterBelgian Style - Tripel Regular
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Score
6.93
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Orange from Verduyn Bier 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
The tripel in this Verduyn series from Marke near Kortrijk, spiced with lemon peel and coriander. Bottle from Stacks in Sint-Andries. Thick, frothy but regularly shaped, egg-white, densely moussey, well-retaining head over an initially crystal clear, pure and warm yellow-golden robe with lively sparkling, turning misty and more peachy with sediment. Sweet aroma of indeed citrus but more orange- than lemon peel-like, obvious coriander seed, gin including botanicals, crackers, hints of marmalade, bread crust, dried 'herbes de Provençe', clove, some vague background solvents (varnish), peach, cooked carrots, pear. Sweet, spritzy onset, estery with hints of peach, pear and light banana, quite lively carbonated, with smooth, slick mouthfeel; slightly caramelly, bready malt core under lingering residual sugars, honeyish, further on flavoured by coriander seed and the lemon peel, respectively adding a dull soapy spiciness and a bitterish astringency as well as their familiar retronasal aromas. Hints of clove, dried thyme and white pepper linger at the back, while hops join the lemon peel in providing a finishing, bit leafy, spicy but 'balanced' bitterness, which is then directed into a triple sec-like alcohol effect, in the end becoming quite wry and tiresome. Overly boozy, overly spiced sweet tripel - do we really need yet another one of those? Granted, this kind of tripel will probably be to the liking of many an 'ordinary' Belgian consumer, but it could have done with a bit more restraint and refinement even in this overexposed genre. Technically not too bad though, apart from the booziness.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Orange from Verduyn Bier 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Pours an unclear, very hazy (yeasty?) darker blonde, with brown hints. As Verduyn is all about playing with colors ( read the full story online or in my review of their first beer, Black ) this is a bit dissapointing. Nevertheless, the brewer told me he's color it a bit more in future batches ( this is the first batch) . The coloring used here is juice made from beets, but he told me the taste shouldn't be beet-like . It's a spiced tripel with Coriander, lemonpeel, and half American, half Belgian hops. The foam is medium small and medium unstable. Scent is generic BE tripel, nothing bad about it, but nothing out of the ordinary. Isoamylacetate, citrus (from the lemonpeel , i suppose, but it presents itself more as, well, orange) Some coriander indeed ( not too much ) . Taste is full. Recognizable, has much similarities to their Black, actually. Similar maltbase, perhaps? This one a bit more pronounced, a bit more sweet, a bit more fullbodied. Actually a pretty darn nice tripel. Not overcarbed, not going into one boring direction. Nice bitter finish, but never overpowering. Even though this isn't a very specific beer ( which I had hoped for ) , it would be one of the few tripels i'd redrink regularly - the others all being standout and unique - . if anything is to be compared best, think Rochefort tripel, but less specifically rochefort. This one has similar bitter/sweet balance, body and carbo. As Rochefort triple is my new favorite tripel, this is quite an achievement to be compared to on a first attempt to this overly produced style. Hope they'll fix the color in future batches, and keep this nice balanced flavors. Very well brewed, but a bit out of concept.