6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

bottle at home, darker amber beer, small head. aroma is sweet, malt, caramel. Taste is ginger, spice, malt, caramel. meh

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from a gift (?).
A: hazy amber, small, off-white head.
A: candied ginger, orange peel, apricot, red apple, green tea.
T: sweet apple & pear, spicy ginger, herbs.
F: peppery hops, ripe red fruit, sweet-spicy ginger.
P: medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation.
Sweet and spicy but falls within the acceptable range.

4.8

Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Süß hefiger Beginn. Mild kräutrig, etwas zu süß. Monton, so dass das Bier nach einiger Zeit langweilig wird. Noch halbwegs süffig, mittellanger Abgang. Okay. 8/7/9/8/7/8

6

33cl bottle. A clear amber beer with a beige head. Aroma of herbs, some ginger, reddish malt. Taste of reddish malt, ginger, herbs.

7

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

C’est paré de curiosité que j’entamais la dégustation de cette Glezia (voire d’un brin de courage). Intégrer subtilement et intelligemment du gingembre dans une bière n’est pas chose aisée. Et il faut reconnaître que sur ce point, la Glezia est réussie avec un gingembre, présent, mais sans être agressif ni trop prégnant. Avec un sucre bien présent, celle-ci se laisse d’ailleurs très facilement boire, les 9 % Abv ne se sentant absolument pas. Côté complexité par contre, il faudra passer son chemin. Car de l’attaque au final, vous avez du gingembre avec que peu d’évolutions et de nuances. Coté couleur, nous sommes sur un ambré léger (couleur merisier, EBC aux alentours de 29), limpide avec une forte effervescence et une mousse blanc cassée, crémeuse de 5 cm d’épaisseur environ. Le nez donne le la, gingembre en principal avec tilleul et caramel en complément. L’attaque sur un bon équilibre malt/houblon se positionne d’entrée sur le gingembre. Celui-ci est bien dosé avec une bonne rondeur provenant du sucre bien présent. Au côté du gingembre des aromes de caramel, de tilleul et très légèrement pimentés viennent compléter la ligne gustative. La deuxième bouche est entièrement linéaire avec une arrière bouche sur la même lignée, légèrement plus amère toutefois. La troisième bouche se densifie quelque peu et présente des notes de coriandre en complément. Le final est quant à lui d’une longueur trop courte, sans envolée particulière, sur le gingembre et un amertume se faisant légèrement plus marquée. L’équilibre est plutôt bien trouvée pour une Glezia plaisante mais pas passionnante.

5.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

F: big, off-white, average retention. C: dark amber, hazy. A: malt, herbal, red apple, coriander, cardamom, spicy, caramel, yeast, orange peels. T: malt, crazy mix of spicy, orange peels, mineral, soapy, anise, juniper berry alcohol, medium to full body, medium carbonation, so not all BSA are good and this is fine example, 33cl bottle from Match Food & More supermarket in Eupen.

4.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottle @ home. Hazy orange color, medium sized off-white head that lasts for a long time. Aroma is malts and quite herbal. Taste malts, herbs and spices quite heavily with a light sweet touch initially and then ending with quite a firm bitterness. Medium body, firm carbonation. Don’t like it, too much herbs and spices.

7.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

3.6
22 april 2016
Cloudy orange amber colour, tall loose frothy off-white head, good retention, heavy patchy lacing. Srong herbal aroma, lavender, perfumed, anise, coriander, ginger, thyme, etc. Taste medium sweet and bitter, fruity, herbal, peppery notes, retronasal herbs, with long duration. Herbal bittersweet aftertaste that lingers on, fruity and spicy notes, especially the ginger and pepper linger on. Medium body, creamy texture, average carbonation; as usual from Grain d’Orge an unusual beer, heavy on herbs and spices, yet well-balanced and drinkable (if you like herbs). Very nice.

4.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Bottle. Light gusher. Pours dark, unclear amber, rather big white head. Smell is sharp, soapy ( dreft !!! ) Taste is once again some kind of weird spice ( seriously, in EVERY of you beers, grain d’orge ??? ) which makes it once again very unbalanced and weird. If only i’d use dreft to clean my glasses, I’d think there was some left on the glass, but I don’t, so it has to be the beer. I wonder why anyone would produce a beer like this - or, for that manner , like most of the ones I’ve had by this brewery . Oh, and it’s also overcarbonated , of course.

5.4

Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle from Willems. Heavy gusher, streaming out of the bottle upon opening but fortunately I was prepared so I managed to capture most of it in the glass, which does not mean I was not aggravated. Remainder showed a thick, papery, loosely structured, egg-white head with cobweb-like lacing and a cloudy orange blonde colour. Aroma of lavender soap, star aniseed, blood orange, caramel, coriander in huge quantities, roasted pine nuts, toasted bread, dry forest floor, earthy turnip, ginger root, potato chips, apricot, red apple. Estery, sweetish onset, very fruity, apple, persimmon, some redcurrant, fairly strong and minerally, tingling carbo, caramelly and toasted, bittersweet malt character superseded by heavy spicy yeast effects (phenols), soft with a rounded, resinous mouthfeel but drying in the end due to earthy, lightly peppery but in all very mild hop bitterness as well as slightly wry, old ’jenever’-like alcohol, but the malt sweetness continues along with a very bready yeasty ’feeling’ and retronasally, the strong glueish phenols are drowned in an even stronger coriander and aniseed, even lavender-like soapiness. Everything but subtle, that much is clear; the gushing did not do this beer a favour at all and the nose and flavour are clearly overspiced, not unlike the ’speculoos’-like Ultra Blonde de Noël I remember from many a moon ago. Many things are wrong with this technically - and even if those issues can be solved, I am still not convinced that would make this a truly good beer. And what is the point of this anyway, apart from celebrating the town of La Gleize?