Ne Wapper
Boelens in Belsele, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.65
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SinH4 (15499) reviewed Ne Wapper from Boelens 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle, with a corporate label by Vanhoucke "Blummecke", I reckon it is just a relabel, many thanks to Max. Unclear golden color with white head. Aroma is honey, apple, light vanilla, custard, belgian yeast. Taste is vanilla, honey, red apples. Thick oily mouthfeel with high carbonation. Very sweet.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Ne Wapper from Boelens 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 9
Pours clear blonde, rather small white head that is not very stable. Smell is honey. Mild bitter (yeasty) touch. Taste is sharp, bitterness is there, midly. A decent amount of yeastyness, as well as a malty character. Honey is very hidden. Overcarbonated, and rather thin. Comes across as a simple beer (typical kind of thing in Belgium where a beer is created for an event. name. or local story, which often seems far more important than the actual beer itself, leading to uninspired, simple, boring beers. ) This one in perticular is OK, nothing really off. I like how well the honey blended in ( i would not have tasted it if I did not knew it was in here )
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Ne Wapper from Boelens 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Commissioned beer for a bee-keeper in Wilrijk near Antwerp, probably the same beer as Boelens’ own Bieken, but since this claims to be made with honey from the bee-keeper (Micha De Herdt) who commissions the beer, I hesitate to call this a true alias of Bieken, though the recipe is doubtlessly more or less identical. It is, however, perhaps an alias of Antwerps Honingbier, which was its immediate predecessor, commissioned by the same bee-keeper, who claims the recipe has been altered a little bit; I have no idea what has been changed exactly. Thick and frothy, lacing, snow white head collapsing quickly but retaining well, over a pretty orange blonde, clear beer with lively sparkling, turning misty with deposit. Pleasant, estery aroma indeed reveals a certain tangy sweetness of artisanal honey, next to impressions of biscuit, peach, white pepper, (soft) orange, white bread, fresh weeds, bubblegum and Cape gooseberry; a very faint hint of H2S (sewer water) is there too, but very weak, and will not bother anyone if the beer is served chilled. Estery, sweet onset, very fruity with suggestions of orange, banana, redcurrant and unripe pineapple, spritzy carbo but not too overcarbonated, smooth and soft mouthfeel; honeyish and lightly biscuity malt sweetness blends perfectly with the actual honey sweetness, which does not become too cloying. Instead, the finish becomes more and more dryish, though a trace of residual honey sweetness remains present; it is countered by a ’noble’, leafy, slightly grassy hop bitterishness, though. After swallowing, the balance remains to the sweet side, but not overly so. In all, a typical Belgian honey ale, or rather a tripel with added honey like Bieken, well-made and tasty, but nothing out of the ordinary.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Ne Wapper from Boelens 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Ne Wapper (by Boelens):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 3.1/5
6/X/2012 - 33cl bottle @ Modeste Bierfestival (Antwerpen) - BB: n/a (2012-1114)
Pretty cloudy orange beer, nice solid creamy white head, bit adhesive. Aroma: very yeasty, some yoghurt, white candi sugar, some grains, ripe to overripe banana, no honey though. MF: soft carbon, light to medium body. Taste: yeasty bitter start, citrus, little sweet, malty, bitter hops, but unpleasant. Aftertaste: grapefruit, very bitter hops, dry bit metallic. No honey detected...
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Ne Wapper from Boelens 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Huge, fine & dense white head as whipped eggwhite; very well-carbonated hazed orange beer. Initially dusty nose, bit grassy, then going over into fresh green leaves, floral. In the end and aroma that might well be honey. Interesting, if a bit conflicting flavours: grain, straw, bitterish hops, herbs, and again something dusty-sweetish. Faintly toasted. Obviously veyr carbonated, and it seems very well fermented out, seen the near absence of sweetness. Tad fiery, medium bodied. Aftertaste carries again this flavour as main feature; mannah-like. Intertesting, and certainly with a lot of merit. But do we thrust honey from the big smoke? Many thanks to Stef!