1074
Brouwerij Affligem in Opwijk, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style Regular|
Score
5.96
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Rubin77 (10187) reviewed 1074 from Brouwerij Affligem 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
F: big, egg-white, average to good retention. C: gold, hazy. A: malty, apples, fruity, banana, yeasty, spicy, bit of pineapple, coriander, orange, bit of bubble-gum. T: malty, banana, fruity, peach, coriander, light soapy mouthfeel, bit sugary, hint of metallic, medium body, quite high carbonation, nothing very special tasty and yes commercial as well, 30cl bottle from Prik & Tik ABC Drinks in Leuven.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed 1074 from Brouwerij Affligem 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle. Pours rather clear blonde, good white head. Smell is maltsyrup, sweet, some sugars. Mild yeasty esthers, notes of banana. Tatse is sweet, Sugar-forward , much bananayeast, far more than the average Belgian beer even. some maltsyrupy sweetness as well. harsh Sugar pushes out most of the rest. High carbo, weak body. Low bitterness.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed 1074 from Brouwerij Affligem 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Allegedly ’spiced’ version of the blonde Affligem, bottle from Fontana in Sint-Niklaas. Medium thick, off-white, very dense and ’uniform’ head leaving a steady rim around the glass and elaborate patches of foam in the middle, but very thinly so; cristal clear ’old gold’ robe with no visible fizz. Aroma of sharply sour green apple peel (acetaldehyde), a lot of banana-flavored bubblegum (isoamylacetate), powder sugar, canned pineapple slices, sourdough, industrial honey, white pepper, quite a lot of iron in a non-natural way, heavily industrial apple juice (almost Minute Maid), something sulfuric when warming up (freshly struck matches and even very faint rotting egg somewhere), coriander seed and the unmistakable cooked corn-like smell of pasteurization. Spritzy onset, fairly neutral, minerally with only a ’sterile’ kind of apple-ish fruitiness along with unmistakable, yet not over-the-top banana ester, sweetish with sourish accents but in all fairly neutral still, slick mouthfeel (though clearly overcarbonated) with a strong metallic ’zing’ to it, cereally sweetish, corn-like with a slight caramelly edge, adding a soapy hint of coriander at the back along with a faint dash of drying, grassy and very simple hop bitterishness; the metallic effect lingers as well as the slick corn-like sweetishness. This beer seems to be intended to celebrate the birth of the Affligem abbey - which has nothing to do with its brewing history - but clearly this is not a great honour. I remember - ever more vaguely - that the Affligems were among the more decent commercial abbey beers in Belgium, feeling more natural and filling than their Leffe, Grimbergen or Tongerlo counterparts, even after Alken-Maes took over in 2010, but apparently these days have long gone: in 2013, the brand effectively became a victim of Heineken’s global ambitions, and ever since then, quality has gone downhill at a rate I have seldom seen in my lifetime. All of these beers have become metallic, thin and very strongly industrial shadows of themselves, and the ones that were added after the take-over are merely variations on the same death theme. This particular example has been cooked to death, it is overly metallic, sulfuric and ’underspiced’ (never thought I’d ever use this phrase in a beery context) and completely and utterly lacking in any kind of complexity at all. Offendingly industrial bullshit, absolutely not worth purchasing if you’re not a ticker ’pur sang’. And this goes for all the Affligem beers in their current, Heineken-raped form. I cannot express the passion with which I hate this extreme form of industrialization in beers especially when it concerns old Belgian classics or, as in this case, variations on it.
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed 1074 from Brouwerij Affligem 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
33cl bottle. Klare kräftig goldene Farbe, mittelgroße leicht beige schaumkrone. Geruch mild würzig hopfig, leicht süß getreidig malzig. Geschmack süß getreidig malzig, mild blumig bitter hopfig, gering metallisch.
Icedwarf (4896) reviewed 1074 from Brouwerij Affligem 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Donkergeel bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is licht hoppig bitter, licht zoet en fruitig met iets van citrus. Komt wat waterig over.