Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle shared at HBF 2023. Poured unclear and golden in color. Spicy belgian hoppy brew, fruity and crisp. Strong.

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

Bottle at HBF2023, Helsinki. Color is cloudy golden with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Fruits, some Belgian yeast, malts... Little bit of easy.

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

330ml. bottle. @Trollekelder, Gent (Belgium). 07/09/2022 [#5.394 Global - #230 Belgium - #1 De Laatste Drinker (My Belgian brewery #97)] Pours dark golden to orange with a frothy whitd head. Aroma: apricot, yeast and phenolic. Taste: strong spiced malts, banana and belgian yeast. Very yeasty indeed. Reminds of a homebrew. Next one please!

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Compliqué de trouver une ligne directrice à cette bière qui part dans tous les sens avec de surcroit un équilibre médiocre. Pas réellement emballant donc. En verre nous sommes sur un blond orangé trouble, une effervescence poussée avec de très fines bulles et une mousse blanc cassé de 5 mm. Le nez est sur les fruits jaunes (pêche, abricot, ananas), une pointe de citron et du caramel. Peu enthousiasmant. La dégustation est dans la lignée. On n’y retrouve pas contre des épices à un niveau assez élevé mais ne s'intégrant pas à l'ensemble. A l'attaque on retrouve alors les arômes présents au nez sur une base un peu trop douce et légèrement acidulée. L'alcool couvert pas le sucre se ressent également en sous-jacent. Mais ce n'est qu'en seconde bouche que celui-ci s'affirme réellement faisant plus que ses 8,5%. L’arrière-bouche est en 2 temps, une première douce sur le caramel puis avec un alcool au maximum de sa forme. La troisième bouche voit les épices mettre le turbo, girofle en tête, sans que l'on s'y attende et sans que cela ne soit opportun. Le final, d'une bonne longueur, est plus stable mais pas réellement intéressante. Un grand foutoire.

Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

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

22 July 2018. Gentse Feesten @ Brouwbar! Shared with Anke.
Pours hazy golden with a lasting, small, frothy, white head; little lacing. Aroma of banana, apricot, honey, perfume, hand soap, white bread, ripe orange, lemon. Medium fruity sweet onset, notes of honey, perfume, some orange, a bit yeasty, and light hoppy bitter, grassy somewhat; weird hint of spice & mint in the back - phenolic? Dryish, floral hoppy finish, lingering yeast, banana ester & honey, a dash of warming alcohol. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Unusual Strong Ale (Tripel?), reminded me a bit of Tripel Karmeliet, though I'm not wholly impressed.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Thick creamy beige head stayed well on an murky reddish orange body. Aroma of spice, orange, zest & Belgian yeast. Full bodied with a slight tingle & soft back. Well balanced tastes of brief malt to the fore followed by orange, bitter pith, spice & a heavy hit of Belgian yeast and a long hoppy tangy finish.

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

Draught @ Tilburg Bierfestival 2017. Clear dark orange to amber color, average sized white to off-white head. Smell and taste malts, a bit alcoholic, orangepeel tart bitter. Hmm I don’t like it very much. Not really my kind of beer.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Hobby brew from - if I am not mistaken - a member of the Gentse Biervereniging originally brewed at Wilde Brouwers, also in Ghent; I am however unsure if this is still brewed there, as this hobby brewer has also worked with both Verzet and Broers. Anyway, I visit the city of Ghent a lot and have seen this name pass by regularly but I’m glad I can finally taste it in controlled circumstances - at home at my tasting table, that is. Comes from a 37.5 cl ’geuze’ bottle, bought at De Moor in Haasdonk, so almost thirty miles from Ghent city; older bottle, of about one year and two months of age. Lots of pressure on the bottle during opening but no gusher. Frothy, egg-white, audibly fizzing, very moussy head leaving a thin ’membrane’ of lacing and slowly dissolving, leaving behind a steady, thick moussy rim and thin patches of foam in the middle, over a lightly hazy, warm orange blonde beer with near-amberish hue, hazed by a ’fog’ of tiny yeast bits throughout; adding the sediment results in a very murky, ochre-tinged orange blonde robe, too murky actually to remain attractive to the eye. Aroma initially suffers a bit from the dreaded, ammonia-like ’lightstruck’ effect (skunked) so I guess it must have been sitting on this shop’s shelves for a bit too long, but I know from mere experience that this effect tends to fade away, and after this has happened and the beer has been allowed to ’breathe’ for a while, more flattering impressions appear: warm toast, dried apricot, egg yolk, banana but no overt bubblegum, unsweetened home made tomato sauce somewhere, fresh grass, bitter honey, dried apricot, fried turkey, cloves, dried orange peel, very slightly rusty and chicken soup-like oxidation already lurking in the background, sugared fried apples, cooked carrot, ginger powder, carrot, bread crust, sweet clover, old dry biscuit, dried wormwood leaves, hints of dry earth, gin, powder sugar, pineapple, cheap brandy, very vague burning rubber (DMTS?). Fruity onset, very ’Belgian’ in combining the banana ester (isoamylacetate) with residual sugary sweetness, but almost countered by a deeper but very superficial background sourishness of redcurrant, raw pumpkin flesh and green gooseberry, whilst adding some peach and pineapple notes; minerally aspects join a medium to strong carbonation, I guess the aim may have been to achieve a geuze-like sparkling effect, but this is a lot more coarse, impairing an otherwise smooth, bit resiny mouthfeel. The fruity esters continue over a ’soil’ of bread crust- and eventually soggy sandwich-like maltiness with a cleanly, sweetish caramelly edge to it, accentuating the somewhat resiny effect and becoming more pronounced and sweeter towards the finish - but before it gets the chance to become too sweet, gets overruled by an indeed (to Belgian ale standards) fairly generous amount of drying, effectively bittering, herbal, floral and earthy ’noble’ hops, with the floral notes modestly rising up retronasally but receiving stiff competition from a considerable amount of spicy - if not eventually a bit medicinal - phenols. Ends quite juicy with this spicy hoppiness alongside, facilitated in the end by a warming, notably young ’jenever’-like alcohol effect which heats up the back of the tongue but does not become obnoxiously astringent in the end. Yeasty phenolic notes go down together with the earthy hop bitterness and fruity esters. The intentions here were doubtlessly good: pumping up a classic Belgian tripel (or indeed Wallonian-style ’ambrée’) with more ’noble’ hops, resulting in something ’strong saison’-ish, which cannot be a bad thing; I did, however, happen to stumble on an older bottle, already showing the first signs of oxidation. I remember having a chat with the brewer at the Gentse Biervereniging’s Nieuwjaarsreceptie and he seemed to be a knowleadgable guy in terms of beer, so all things considered, I need to find a fresh bottle of this in order to rate it properly - I’m going to pay special attention to it next time I’m in Ghent, and will revert to this soon. As for now: deceptively dryish but actually a sweeter-side tripel distinguishing itself in that particular sub-sub-segment by a more generous, primarily floral hop dosage, tasted from a sample that was probably too old already. Nice first attempt from this Laatste Drinker, though.

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

Bouteille de 33cl, merci Tderoeck. BB 16/09/2020. Couleur orange, col beige. Arôme au nez assez moyen, étant donné la description, retrouve des effluves portant pas mal les marques d’une base BE typique avec un grain et levure renforcés. Houblonné reste aussi éloigné de ce côté ’extra hop’ pour n’apparaitre que finement fruité et fleuri tirant fort sur le noble. Palais est malté pils, cara pâle, avec un alcool qui se ressent bien, grains avec un profil de levure persistant en fin de bouche. Retrouve un aspect pomme verte voire caramélisée avec impression d’abricot. Le tout est collant aux lèvres, autre signe de sucré résiduel pour monter l’alcool. Fini léger sur l’amertume avec une pointe de citron.