Boudelo Grand Cru
Brouwerij The Musketeers in Sint-Gillis-Waas, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.74
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle 33 cl. Amber color, good creamy foam, almost clear. Aroma: like apricot jam, flowers, esters, hops, candies and a little sweet caramel. Taste: sweet, good bitterness, a little dried fruit, dried apricots, a little spicy, good.
vinivini (12734) reviewed Boudelo Grand Cru from Brouwerij The Musketeers 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Appearance: cloudy light amber with a two finnger tall off-white airy head of medium retention. Aroma: nice Belgian yeast, candy, peach, light caramel. Taste: moderately sweet, light to medium bitterness. malty, fruity, somewhat spicy. Grain, candy, peach, dried apples and pears, caramel, rich esters, hop. Good balance. Mouth feel: full body, appropriate carbonation. Summary: a high range Belgian beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Fles 33cl thuis. Fruitig, kruidig, zoet, suikers, bubblegumzoetje, wat banaan, yeasty, redelijk krachtig. (2-7-2021).
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Boudelo Grand Cru from Brouwerij The Musketeers 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
The third - and possibly most ambitious - Boudelo 'abbey' beer recently launched by Musketeers; bottle from De Wilde in Zele. Very frothy, thick, busily cobweb-lacing, uneven-bubbled, egg-white head, remaining stable over an initially clear, pure and 'metallic' orange blonde beer with amberish tinge (but by no means 'dark'), with fierce sparkling rising up from the bottom; misty with sediment. Rather perfumey aroma of hard caramel, bubblegum, unripe red apple, withering grass, brown soap, bath foam even, lavender, freshly washed laundry, ripe apricot, green banana, unsalted peanuts, rosemary, even peppermint leaf, plaster, iron, blonde sugar. Rather sweet onset, banana ester turning all bubblegummy, hints of red apple and pear, lively carbonation with sharpish, bit numbing and very minerally effect; smooth, full, bit glueish body, with a vaguely metallic edge. Hard-caramelly core with a very slight biscuitiness to it, but also something deeply 'bubblegummy' (again) merging with an inherent soapiness; clear coriander seed spicing in the finish, again accentuating that soapiness, but well preparing for a floral, medium long, hop bittering finish, a bit grassy and spicy yet remaining unable to overrule that annoying soapiness and - sorry to come up with this again - 'bubblegumminess'. Some warming, gin-like alcohol appears in the end, adding a bit of (fortunately) late wryness and accentuating both that sweetish bubblegum effect and the grassiness of the hops. Very satiating, sweet tripel with bitterish finish, very bubblegummy and soapy, and in that sense lacking in finesse and focus - I have argued before (in my reviews of both other Boudelos) that Musketeers have now chosen for mass-marketing and the 'lowest common denominator', well, this one only reinforces my belief that they have changed their ways and, with the erection of a state-of-the-art brewery, are trying to appeal to the consumers of macrobrewed Belgian style abbey beers. If this was the intention: well done, this is just as boring, annoying, quite metallic (!), unnecessary and uninspired as the abbey beers produced by the old family brewers, adding absolutely nothing to the Belgian beer map. It was once otherwise with these guys - this one is even worse than the two others, an 'inflated' and adjunct-driven tripel that may well be the most disappointing beer I ever had from them, alas.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Hazy golden colour, white foam. Nose of ripe fruits, some banana, light citrus, rather sweet, some bitterness in the finish.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Boudelo Grand Cru from Brouwerij The Musketeers 4 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
15/IV/21 - 33cl bottle form Geers (Oostakker), shared @ my parents’ place, BB: 18/XI/23, lot: 4504201118 (2021-285)
Clear dark gold beer to almost orange amber, big solid creamy yellowish beige meringue head, very stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: bit spicy, sweet caramel malts, coriander, sugary, ripe banana. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter start, spicy, slightly sweet malts, alcohol, lots of alcohol, some caramel notes. Aftertaste: pretty bitter and dry finish, quite the alcohol burn, bit peppery, banana, malty notes.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Boudelo Grand Cru from Brouwerij The Musketeers 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Copper colour with lasting head. Aroma and flavour have nice sweet bready, malt notes and some candy sugar too. It's got just enough bitterness to not be cloying. Still sweet but is in balance.