Speciale Belge
Brouwerij De Poes in Tielt, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.83
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Icedwarf (4850) reviewed Speciale Belge from Brouwerij De Poes 5 months ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Lichtbruin bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is bitter en fruitig met iets van sinaasappel, wat gras en een beetje brood. Geen slecht bier.
Rubin77 (10150) reviewed Speciale Belge from Brouwerij De Poes 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle from Struise Beershop Woesten e-shop. F: thin, white, quick gone. C: gold, hazy. A: malty, toast, orange, bready, bit spicy. T: full malty base, orange, bready, spicy, bit caramel, bit weak bitterness, bit herbal, soft carbonation, quite boring all together, drinkable that’s all.
vinivini (12605) reviewed Speciale Belge from Brouwerij De Poes 1 year ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Appearance: Misted amber with a nice off-white head. Aroma and taste: Pleasant fruity esters, pale malt, spicy yeast, light toast, grassy hop. Medium dry, notable ending hop bitterness. Mouth feel: Medium plus body, average plus carbonation. Overall: Good.
TomHendriksen (8095) reviewed Speciale Belge from Brouwerij De Poes 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Geprobeerd met LiekevdV, Inoven, Roelzie en Juul op het Brabants Speciaalbier festival in Oirschot. Het is een oranje bruin bier met een dun schuim. Het heeft een moutige geur. De smaak is vol, fruitig met een zacht zuurtje.
Inoven (3731) reviewed Speciale Belge from Brouwerij De Poes 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Gedronken tijdens Brabantsbierfestival. Amberkleurig troebel bier met weinig schuim. Aroma is fruitig.Smaak is licht bitter en zacht. Nasmaak is iets bitter.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Speciale Belge from Brouwerij De Poes 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
The old Belgian amber style ('spéciale belge') has dramatically declined in popularity in the past few decades, but several Belgian breweries are trying to revive it, with this being De Poes' contribution. Quite a violent gusher, spouting out of the bottle upon opening, so be warned and keep a glass very nearby. Thick and frothy, cobweb-lacing, snow white, large-bubbled but dense and closed head on a misty deep orangey peach blonde beer (rather than actual reddish amber), with vague beige-ish tinge possibly pointing at onsetting oxidation. Aroma of old bread crust, wet toast, soggy peanuts, baker's yeast, dry hay, radish peel, unripe peach, turnip, moist white pepper, hints of banana peel, old dried orange zest, fried carrots, old and soggy paprika crisps, old 'herbes de Provençe', pumice, petrichor, rusty iron (the oxidation I suspected - but not too strong), leftover dough. Fizzy onset, quite painfully stinging with strong minerally effects and distracting from the actual flavour, initially consisting of impressions of dried apricot, unripe peach and red apple but subdued in sweetness; smooth malt core, bread-crusty and old soggy cracker-like, with a very light peanutty edge but not evolving in the lovely nuttiness of a 'real' amber beer, though still becoming gently toasty-bitter towards the end. Spicy phenols dance around (clove, thyme, some nutmeg) while grassy and leafy hops provide a drying, quenching end bitterness; the iron effect leaves a metallic 'zing' behind, but toasty malt bitterishness and hops retain dominance in the final stage. Quite yeasty in the end too, feeling a tad 'dirty' and even sourish in the very end, possibly hinting at infection which may explain the gushing. Gusher, overcarbonated, too yeasty and not quite clean-nutty malty enough for a real 'spéciale belge': this is not exactly what it could and should have been, and from a (meanwhile) established brewery like De Poes I expect more technical control. In itself not a really bad beer, feels like some earthy blonde decently prepared in a semi-amateurish context, but drinkable enough.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Speciale Belge from Brouwerij De Poes 4 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
3/I/21 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ home, BB: X/2024, lot A (2021-10)
Clear deep orange beer, huge creamy dense yellowish head, stable, adhesive, leaving a very nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of toasted malts, grains, biscuit, caramel, touch, little spicy, overripe banana, cow fodder, nice! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty start, some caramel, lots of banana, grains, hay. Aftertaste: more banana, caramel, grains, hay, cow fodder, little sourish, nice Spéciale Belge.