Cette Sporkin provenant de chez Deca ne fait pas honneur à la Belgique avec beaucoup trop de déséquilibres pour être appréciable. En visuel, nous sommes sur un blond doré, quasi ambré avec une mousse crémeuse blanc cassé de 1 cm et une fine effervescence soutenue. Le nez est sur l'alcool, la pomme de terre, les céréales, le candy, le caramel, de légères épices et une pointe de citron. Le cocktail n'est pas extraordinaire. L'attaque est acidulée ce qui compense quelque peu l'alcool qui n'est pas bien intégrée. L'effervescence, très soutenue gêne quelque peu la dégustation également. En deuxième bouche, l'alcool prend davantage de place, ce qui donne du caractère, mais celui-ci est dissonant. Le final est d'ailleurs quasiment que sur l'alcool, ce qui ne donne pas une touche positive à la dégustation. La corpulence et la longueur sont toutefois bonnes. Pas terrible.

Bottle 0,33lt: Hazy blond brew with an subtle spicy taste, and a wll balanced sweetbitter finish.

330ml. bottle. @T Centrum, Veurne (Belgium). 06/09/2022 [#5.376 Global - #213 Belgium - #1 Deca Services (My Belgian brewery #87)] Pours golden, medium off-white head. Aroma: soft citrus, yeast and coriander. Taste: sweet spiced malts, honey and belgian yeast. Next one please!

Many thanks for this beer to Jacek Wigier (wineofdreams@gmail.com). Fajna etykieta, ale wyglad piany mizerny jest srednia opada szybko, niespotykany to efekt w belgijskich piwach. Metne i to bardzo, smak za to rekompensuje utrate piany, jest cytrusowo-ananasowo. Ananas gora, slodowa, typowa podbudowa belgijska. Ogolnie fajne, ale liczylem na wiecej

33cl bottle from Carrefour market @ in Tervuren near Brussels. F: medium, egg-white, good retention C: orange gold, hazy. A: malty, fruity, pear, orange peels, spicy, yeasty, bit honey. T: medium malty backbone, orange peels, spicy, yeasty, oxidation, bit harsh bitterness, honey, fruity, medium body and carbonation, bit more on the sweet side with not harmonic bitterness and all together bit messy for me so nothing I would buy again.

Old school Belgian blonde brewed for some local 'giants' tradition in Veurne (a tradition which occurs all over Flanders and has been granted UNESCO protection in 2015). Older bottle. Snow white, medium thick, moussy, regular, lightly lacing and unstable head over a misty, warm peach-tinged 'old gold' coloured beer. Aroma of pear jam, apple sauce, quite a lot of chicken soup- and rust-like oxidation already, pumpkin and leek soup, honey, white pepper, potato starch, pineapple, orange peel, soggy bread, coriander touch. Sweet onset, lots of residual white candi syrup, fruity notes of ripe pear and pineapple, some banana, sourish apple peel in the background, medium carbo, light minerally touches here and there. Bready, soapy middle, powdery due to old yeast, drenched in residual honeyish sweetness which dominates till the end and even sticks a bit in the back of the mouth; earthy, rooty, weedy hop bitterness and more starch-like yeastiness are added in the finish along with quite outspoken retronasal oxidation, but the sweetness remains the main factor. Soapy aspects linger as well. Clearly aimed at the broadest audience possible in its easygoing sweetness, but it hasn't held up all too well I'm afraid: the hop bitterness I read in other reviews here, has long faded, and oxidation is getting the better of it by this time - so clearly not one to age, to say the least. Not very pleasant in this form, but I cannot imagine it scoring a lot higher when young, as I long had my share of overly sweet old-fashioned Belgian blondes and tripels by now.

Pours clear blonde, small white head fades instantly. Smell is mild, rather unfresh maltyness. unintense. Bit dry by the yeast. Taste is really harsh, astrigent, bit bitter, dry, yeast, rotten character, very stale honey. not very enjoyable.

330ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours clear golden with a thick white head. Aromas of yeast, lemon, faint spice. Taste is more of the same. Light sweet, nutty finish.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Deca Sporkin Veurns Reuzen Tripel (by Deca Services):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.5/5

31/VII/15 - 33cl bottle from de Zytholoog / Bierloods (Adegem) @ holidays - BB: II/2010 (2015-1020)

Bit cloudy orange to beige beer, fizzy aery white head, falls down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: honey, oxidation, sherry, cardboard, glue. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of cardboard, some citrus, sweet, little bitter, bit of marzipan. Aftertaste: almonds, bit sweet, spicy touch, cardboard, cookie dough, little sugary, chemical.

33cl bottle, bought somewhere around Veurne. Sehr trübe, dunkelgelbe Farbe, weiß-grauer Schaum. mild-süßlicher Geruch. Der Antrunk ist weich, mild, hefig. Leicht säuerlich. Zum Hauptteil wird das Bier vollmundiger, dabei leicht säuerlich, ohne aufdringlich sauer zu wirken. Mild. Im Nachgeschmack ist fast kaum Herbe spürbar, mild-weich, leicht süßlich und ein Hauch von Säure. --> Interessantes Bier...