De Graal Opst - ale

Opst - ale

 

De Graal in Brakel, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular Out of Production
Score
5.25
ABV: 6.0% IBU: - Ticks: 12
Beer brewed at De Graal by and for the people of Bierpallieters at Buggenhout-Opstal. Made with Scottish whisky malt.
 

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8.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

LCRBM2: Smoky aroma, like smoked ham. Smoked flavor. Brewed with whisky malt??? Didn’t taste it really, it was more like the Weyermann malt from Bamberg. Tropical fruit, especially citrus give a firm contraweight to the smokiness. Perfect balance. Lovely beer!

Tried on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:07


4.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

Dull hazy tan. Smokey, but also with burnt electrical cord. Smoke flavour, with some light malt. This doesn’t really come together - when was it last made I wonder?

Tried on 22 Jun 2009 at 12:13


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

WSF 2009. Cloudy amber with a small white head. Aroma of caramel and malt, with some peat-like phenols. Sweet and malty, slightly smokey flavour.

Tried on 10 Jun 2009 at 09:24


4.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

33cl bottle @ W.O.S.F. 3 year old bottle. Pours a cloudy amber with a creamy bubbly head. Nose is bread, fruit and yeast. Taste is heavily smoked - peat malt, sausage, bacon. Way too heavy for my liking. Medium to thin palate.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2009 at 10:27


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

Bottled. Hazy orange colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is smoked and hoppy. Very pleasant. Flavour is smoked, hoppy and malty. One of the first times a Belgian has been really smoked...

Tried from Bottle on 05 Jun 2007 at 23:44


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle @ 16th Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation 2007, Opstal. Unclear yellow orange color with a small fizzy fair lacing white to off-white head. Aroma is smoke, smoked meat, light malty. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. Not my kind of beer ! :o -

Tried from Bottle on 05 Jun 2007 at 07:57


4.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottled. A murky orange beer with no head. The aroma is smoky with some weird spicy notes. The flavor is malty with an acidic note, combined with notes of smoke, and the body is thin.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jun 2007 at 08:04


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Etwas rauchiger und gummiartiger Geruch. Leicht rauchiger und etwas künstlicher Antrunk. Danach wird das Bier sehr wässrig, erst im späten nachgeschmack regt sich wieder etwas, dort ist es abermals rauchmalzig und angenehm mild, stelenweise auch süß. Test vom 30.5.2007, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 11,10,10,13,-,12 - 11,42

Tried from Bottle on 29 May 2007 at 22:00


1.1
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5

Bottle. Burnt plastic smokyness. Muddy, dark orange colour. No head. Smoky flavour, lots of plastic. Very bad.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Oct 2006 at 14:35


2.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5

LCRBM2. Cloudy orange gold colour. Ashtray smoke and chemical aroma. It does get better in the mouth, but I thought that this was nasty.

Tried on 19 Sep 2006 at 01:20