Hert
Beer 4 Nature in Mol, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij De SchieveBelgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular
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Score
6.37
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Ingr.: water, mout (gerst, tarwe, rogge) hop, gist.
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tderoeck (22711) reviewed Hert from Beer 4 Nature 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
18/XII/21 - 33cl bottle from Willems (Grobbendonk), shared @ home, BB: 21/IV/23, L:2104/P372 (2021-1584)
Clear orange beer, small creamy white head, little stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: malty, fruity notes, pretty yeasty, spicy touch, some thyme. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet, very malty, grains, little bitter, yeasty, banana. Aftertaste: oxidized, almonds, sweet, sugary, malty, yeast, meh.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Hert from Beer 4 Nature 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Small white head, reasonably stable, over hazy ochre-golden beer. Bit pharmaceutical, gassy nose. Pale malts, hints at other grains. (Over)spicy, other grains even more explicit. Ginger is here obvious, more than in the nose. Herbs, grains or kernels. Bit fiery MF, medium bodied. What is supposed to make this beer so special? It's dedication? Thirteen to the dozen. Thanks to Stef!
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Hert from Beer 4 Nature 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle from Prik & Tik Dranken Marlou. F: medium, white, average retention. C: pale gold, hazy with tiny UFO´s. A: malty, floral, mellow fruity, coriander, herbal, spicy. T: medium malty base, coriander, spicy, herbal, bit mellow fruity, ginger, medium carbonation, decent bitterness, oh too much spicy here, partially enjoyed.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Hert from Beer 4 Nature 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
The deer beer in this series, so to speak - a series created in Mol (in the beautiful Kempen region) by two friends passionate about not just beer, but nature as well, and apparently the profits generated by their beer sales are invested in the purchase of woodland. A noble enough goal I am happy to support by drinking this Hert, the ordinary blonde in the series. Intricately, refinedly 'Brugse kant'-like lacing, medium thick, off-white, slowly opening but generally well-retaining head on an initially lightly hazed, straw blonde beer with 'old gold' hue and disparate strings of sparkling here and there, turning cloudy with sediment. Notably herbal aroma of yarrow flowers, gale (could very well have been actually used here - or some herb with a comparable effect at least), coriander, white bread crust, cooked sweet potato, halfripe banana, apricot, clove, allspice, spiced cookies, hints of dust, wet dog and old gingerbread. Sweetish onset but not overly so, banana ester mingling with notes of apricot and pear, fizzy and minerally carbonation but not too harshly so; supple, bit glueish body, made resinous by the very obvious spicing. A lean, white-bready and thinly bread-crusty maltiness is sadly buried under gale, coriander and yarrow effects - I have no idea what spices and herbs went in here because this is not mentioned on the label, another thing that should be mandatory in Belgium, goddammit - which dominate the finish, even if a floral hop touch does eventually get the chance to deposit its bitterness on the tongue's root in a later stage. The herbs, with an ethereal, almost 'warming', resinous effect linger on alongside the breadiness of the malts and the florality of the hops, and they too add a bitterness to the whole, of a more wry kind. Technically not too badly made, in all - but you're going to have to like Belgian spice ales; I myself am only an 'amant fraîche' of spiced beers, hops and phenolic effects can provide enough spiciness on their own in most cases as far as I am concerned, but I can still tolerate coriander and others if they are not too overpowering. This Hert, however, breathes herbs from beginning to end, way too much so for me, even if it very clearly is not just coriander here but probably gale and possibly yarrow as well (I guess I'll never know as long as Belgian legislation does not oblige brewers to disclose this). Needs more subtlety - and a bit more body. And point off for throwing this amount of spicing in my face without notifying it on your label!