Triootje Charites - Aglaea
De Zwarte Bron in Sint-Pauwels, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: StaniumBelgian Style - Strong Ale Series Out of Production
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Score
6.79
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Aglaea - "Splendour" - Craft Ale - This Craft Ale, our 'Mother beer', will enlighten you with its Beauty and Splendour as would Aglaea the "Glorious"!
https://triootje.jimdosite.com/
The third participant in this project is Koda from Melsele.
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tderoeck (22946) reviewed Triootje Charites - Aglaea from De Zwarte Bron 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
7/I/22 - 50cl bottle @ Wim VL’s place, BB: 13/XI/23 (2022-32) Thanks to Wim VL and Joeri DM for sharing the bottle!
Clear orange beer, big creamy off-white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots and lots of CO2, very yeasty, lots of ripe banana, yeasty, sugary impression, chemical notes, some solvents, lots of fusels. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, malty, little smoky, malty, alcohol, soft bitterness, coriander, herbal, spicy. Aftertaste: sweet, fruity, banana, alcohol, bit yeasty, soft bitterness, coriander notes.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Triootje Charites - Aglaea from De Zwarte Bron 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
The youngest of the three Graces, in this special collaborative series representing the base beer, again from a 50 cl bottle with artwork by Vincent van Eeden. Firmly moussy, at first audibly fizzing, egg-white, frothy, medium thick head sustained by a beautiful whirlwind of sparkles rushing upwards through an initially near clear, warm orange blonde beer with almost amberish tinge, turning misty later on - looks quite pretty, in all. Aroma of unripe peach, old bread or old crackers, straw, quite pronounced DMS (overcooked green beans), clove-like phenols (4-vinyl guaiacol), pan-fried carrots, minerals, 'band aid' which I assume should be linked to the peated malt used here (as was the case with Euphrosyne), clay, radish peel, old wrinkled apples, 'oude jenever' or even vague whisky, brick dust, chicken skin cracklings. Sweetish onset, fruity notes of peach, apple peel and light banana, very effervescent yet not in an annoyingly stinging way, in fact adding a pleasant sourish accent as well as quite some minerality; rounded, supple body. Cracker- and bread crust-like malt profile, sweetish with some residual sweetness on top but not too much so, with indeed a distinct effect from the peated malt, adding a retronasal smoky note, even somewhat sulfuric, but in the end clearly peaty as well; the DMS and band aid unfortunately return too, and quite strongly so. Clear clove and other phenolic effects are reinforced by that peated malt effect, while gentle fruitiness lingers - on its way to a warming, boozy finish, with gin-like alcohol clearly palpable on the root of the tongue. A dash of herbal 'background' hops add structurally important bitterness, but the somewhat wry effect from the alcohol proves stronger in the end. Unusual Belgian strong ale for sure, basically a tripel 'pimped' with a peaty accent, which I find more attractive here than in Euphrosyne (the bourbon infused variant), for some reason I cannot put my finger on. Still, the alcohol is very apparent and tiring especially after half a liter, while the DMS and strong phenolic effects bothered me a bit too, and kept hanging around till the end. If the alcohol could be better hidden and those off-flavours eliminated, this beer will be all the more glorious, I think. After having tasted all three variants in this Triootje series, I think it is safe for me to say that Thalia is by far the best one, though opinions will differ - which is why I am anxious to serve them to other experienced tasters and see what they think. In any case thanks to Joeri and Jan for the bottles!