Brouwerij Walrave Toverhekske

Toverhekske

 

Brouwerij Walrave in Laarne, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Belgian Style Regular
Score
5.88
ABV: 5.9% IBU: - Ticks: 17
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5.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle 0,33ltr: Hazy amber coloured ale with a load af spices, but this isn’t a bad brew but you have to learn to drink this one. Need another try.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2024 at 11:40


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Amber color. Spicy aroma with toffee and peach. Spicy fruity sweet flavor. Indeed mysterious spices, as the label says. Coreander, cardemom and ginger maybe. Decent beer from a very small brewery.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:07


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Walrave Toverhekske (by Brouwerij Walrave):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

31/I/16 - 25cl bottle @ Cybu's place - BB: 1/IV/17 (2016-90) Thanks to Cybu for sharing the bottle!

Clear amber beer, creamy irregular off-white head, very stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: spicy touch, grains, hay, some orange peel, fruity, caramel. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, yeast, spicy touch, bit metallic. Aftertaste: malty, caramel, soft bitterness, bit spicy.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Jan 2016 at 15:08


6.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Laarne is a village with a witches’ folklore and apparently, after decades of silently, almost secretly brewing solely their old school Pick Up ’pils’, the local family brewery of Walrave decided it was about time to join in on the local folklore. This was the result, in 2006: a stereotypical ’spéciale belge’ style ale, with stable, regular, yellowish white head and copper, almost bronzish colour, clear. The aroma reveals pure nutty maltiness, subdued caramel, a lot of iron, some phenols, dried leaves, flowers, dried fruit, some peppery hops. Soft dry fruity taste, fresh, strong nutty and caramelly maltiness, clean with thinnish mouthfeel and a relatively long grassy and leafy hop bitterishness in the finish, which also appears a bit phenolic, even medicinal. Interesting, it seems as if the recent ’wave’ of beer attention in Belgium has awakened this sleeping brewery, prompting it to this shy attempt at joining the beer revolution. Needs more work, agreed, but the fact alone that Walrave created a new beer was enough to get me on a trip to Laarne to find it.

Tried on 24 Oct 2014 at 13:34


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Pours red amber, lowish head. Light resiny fruit aroma. Dry body, light metallic on the palate. Light berrylike notes, demera sugar, fairly lightfooted. Quick finish.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Apr 2012 at 14:00


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle: Amber, smaller off-white foamy layer, malty-sugary nose, metallic traces and some coriander-like spices detectable; sweetish-bitter flavour, almost medium bodied; sweetish-sugary - with a light acidity - finish, some fruits and coriander detectable. Not unpleasant…

Tried from Bottle on 13 Nov 2011 at 14:24


5.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

(bottle, 25cl) Hazy, orange to amber colour with a nice and slightly beige foamy head. Slightly yeasty, lemon-fruity and very spicy, even slightly soapy aroma. Sweet flavour, light to medium bodied with a moderate carbonation. Sugary sweet and yeasty malty taste with citric notes and spicy accents towards the sweet malty finish with only traces of bitterness. 14.VI.11

Tried from Bottle on 14 Jun 2011 at 14:01


4.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Clear golden with a medium off white head. Malty nose that also met phenol and caramel. Flavor had plenty of phenols, caramel and toasted malt. Finished sweet.

Tried on 08 Sep 2010 at 12:27


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

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of yespr. Pours a clear deep golden with an off-white head. The nose is fruity and phenollic. Medium body, sweet overripe fruit and some phenols. No real hoppiness. As Belgian as it gets. 080910

Tried from Bottle on 08 Sep 2010 at 10:37


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

25 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is slight mouldy and fruity yeasty. Sweet and fruity flavoured. Light phenolic. Fruity and slight yeasty finish.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Sep 2010 at 10:27