Meubelmaekerke
Brouwerij Den Buiten in Kortemark, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: BoelensBelgian Style - Strong Ale Regular
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Score
6.49
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Meubelmaekerke from Brouwerij Den Buiten 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Strong Belgian amber ale with two kinds of candi sugar, now called 'Meubelmaeker' and no longer 'Meubelmaekerke'. Thick and frothy, pale yellowish beige, uneven-bubbled but dense and stable head on an initially near clear, deep and pure copper-hued amber beer, darker than average for an amber in fact, looking like something in between dubbel and blonde; misty with sediment and darker copper with a brownish hue, tipping the balance to dubbel at least in terms of appearance. Fruity, sweet aroma of candi sugar indeed, stewed pear, baker's yeast, candied orange peel, medlar, hint of iron shavings, brown honey, cashew nuts, freshly cut sweet red apple, hints of dust, nutmeg, brown bread dough, armpit sweat, onion jam. Estery, sweetish onset with a sourish edge (almost a bit citric or blackberry-like), pear, some banana, fried apple, medlar, fizzily carbonated (a bit stinging but not harshly so); soft, fluffy mouthfeel. Smooth brown-bready, lightly caramelly and very thinly cashew-nutty maltiness with ongoing fruitiness on top, a clear candi sugar effect but more in a dark-honeyish aromatic way than in actual sweetness, leading to spicy, mildly drying finish that combines yeasty breadiness (a tad 'starchy' even) and phenolic spiciness with lasting fruitiness and maltiness, as well as a floral hop bitter note rounding off the tail. The hop bitterness delicately lingers for a while, but so does that candi sugar effect, with a very slight metallic touch to it. Old school Belgian ale in its general make-up, but with an own personality - this would have fit in perfectly in the wave of idiosyncratic 'streekbieren' of the last quarter of the previous century, but I'm sure the good people of Kortemark and surroundings can certainly provide a market for this. Not bad at all, all things considered.
DirDec (2083) ticked Meubelmaekerke from Brouwerij Den Buiten 7 years ago
Benzai (24515) reviewed Meubelmaekerke from Brouwerij Den Buiten 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle @ home. Clear dark amber color, average sized off-white to beige head. Smell and taste malts, a bit bread, dark red fruits and dry raisins, dark candy sugar and quite malty with a moderately malty bitter finish. Decent body and carbonation. Ok beer.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Meubelmaekerke from Brouwerij Den Buiten 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Bottle at home. pours dark, rather unclear, caramelly. AVG sized head. Smell is bit creamy, dark bread, some caramel. Taste is very full, very aromatic. Sweet at the start, but immediately turns mildly bitter. Aromatic and complex maltyness. Very nice, I must say - to my surprise. this coming from boelens is just plain silly. This has got to be - by far -the absolute best they ever made.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Meubelmaekerke from Brouwerij Den Buiten 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Following info from OBAD, beer brewed @ DECA Services Medium cream-tan head over deep red-brown beer. Nuggy, porto, raisins, sweet-alcoholic, aged impression. Drier and more bitter in the mouth, bready, bitter almonds. Perfumey, and low on roast for such a coloured beer - the candi sugar....? Medium bodied at least, quite slick. Default of being stellar, quite decent.
Bierridder (4318) reviewed Meubelmaekerke from Brouwerij Den Buiten 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
03/11/2015 @home - 33cl bottle courtesy of jerre. Hazy amber colour with fast fading white head. Fruity, spicy, orange, caramel, sweetness, some hopsbitterness at the end.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Meubelmaekerke from Brouwerij Den Buiten 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Den Buiten Meubelmaekerke (by Den Buiten):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5
22/VII/15 - 33cl bottle from a trade @ Tom & Mieke's place - BB: 12/X/16 (2015-958) Thanks to Jerre for the trade!
Clear amber to red beer, small irregular creamy off-white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very spicy, fruity, lots of orange peel, caramel, liquorish and aniseed, banana, yeast. Aftertaste: sweet, sugary, banana, some cloves, spicy, yeast, sourish. Decent.