Spoorzoeker
Brouwerij The Musketeers in Sint-Gillis-Waas, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Special|
Score
6.69
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Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Spoorzoeker from Brouwerij The Musketeers 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Small, fast gone indeterminate had over hazy golden beer. Rather neutral if malty nose, bit herbal/spicy, peppery, faint hint at limepeel. Bitter, continental bittering hops. Again this limepeel hint in the flavour, less malty than the nose. Good carbonation, quite slick. Not bad, not special. Bought at the brewpub
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Spoorzoeker from Brouwerij The Musketeers 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Belgium has played a pioneering role in the history of rail transport and this one-off intends to commemorate the fact that about a century and a half ago, a train connection was established between Terneuzen in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen (the Netherlands) and Malines (Belgium). Bottle from Fontana, now a branch of Drinkscenter Dullaert, in Sint-Niklaas. Medium thick, snow white, intricately cobweb-lacing, moussy, slowly thinning but generally very stable head, initially clear, warm 'old golden' robe with ochre-ish tinge, turning misty with sediment, showing multiple strings of sparkling. Aroma of green apple (acetaldehyde), damp straw, leftover dough, coriander seed, cooked turnip, halfripe banana, minerals, withering field flowers, unripe apricots, yarrow, clove- to even vaguely anise-like phenols, bread crust and, warming up, the slightest touch of DMS (which, however subtle as is the case here, will never be able to completely hide from me). Fruity onset, sweetish with notes of ripe pear, banana and oxidized apple slices, lively carbonated with quite a bit of 'sting', almost numbing in the beginning; minerally carbonation effects and sweetish fruitiness continue well over a supple bready body with cereally core, eventually clearly 'coriandered' in the dusty-spicy kind of way, but also quite confidently bittered by floral, somewhat spicy and earthy hops. The hop bitterness lasts for a while, spicy phenols unfold, retronasally some of that DMS peeps through but just not enough to completely ruin it for me, and in the meantime slight breadiness lingers about. DMS is something I am highly sensitive to, and even if it remains very subtle here, it did bother me a little bit, impairing drinkability a bit; the fact that this one is again coriandered, did not help with that either. More or less as expected: yet another stereotypical Belgian blonde, not too bad and well-hopped, but also too phenolic, too DMS-like and too much 'coriandered' for my liking. I have stated this before and I will repeat myself here: Musketeers did infinitely better things back in the days when they were still a client brewer trying to make their way on the Belgian beer map, and now they seem to comply fully and willingly with all the clichés the average Belgian palate is all to accustomed to. The days when they could truly captivate the beer connoisseur's attention with beautiful variations on Troudabour Magma have long gone...