Kerel Winter Glow Ale
VBDCK Brewery in Tielrode, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Speciality Grain - Rye / Roggenbier Winter|
Score
6.28
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This shiny blonde beer with frothy head is brewed with chestnut honey and rye malt, which give it a lovable, delicious and abundant flavour. The perfect thirst quencher with a slightly sweet aftertaste!
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mike_77 (15875) reviewed Kerel Winter Glow Ale from VBDCK Brewery 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Clear yellow colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have a dusty, grassy note. Dry. Some dried yellow stone fruit.
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Kerel Winter Glow Ale from VBDCK Brewery 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle from Delhaize Chazal in Brussels. F: medium, white, quick gone. C: gold, almost clear. A: malty, bit honey, bready, apples, banana. T: medium malty base, bready, honey, nice balanced bitterness, bit herbal, banana touch, soft carbonation, ok, enjoyable.
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Kerel Winter Glow Ale from VBDCK Brewery 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Kerstbier Festival. Clear golden beer with a white lacing. Aroma of intense grainy malt and cereals. Taste of dry grainy malt, cereals, straw.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Kerel Winter Glow Ale from VBDCK Brewery 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
The newest Kerel beer to date, from the familiar pharmaceutical bottle; apparently a blonde ale containing rye malt and honey, intended as a sparkle of light in this gloomiest time of the year - a bit of an odd choice as traditionally, most Belgian brewers opt for a Scotch or quadrupel to warm the winter days, but admittedly original as a concept (though nowhere new or unique - see e.g. Verhaeghe's Noël-Christmas-Weihnacht, also a blonde of medium strength and dating back decades). Moussy, firm, medium thick, egg-white, regularly shaped, closed and stable head on a clear (all the way - so apparently filtered), warm and pure 'old golden' beer with lots of lively sparkling everywhere. Aroma of freshly baked biscuits and bread crust, dried apple peel, hay and field flowers (the chestnut honey I suppose), moist white pepper, unripe pear, something very lightly soapy, dust, dry cereals, vague note of green banana. Crisp, cleanish onset, some smooth 'basic' fruitiness of apple peel and unripe peach, touch green banana again, sweetish but not quite, with minerally effects from all this lively effervescence; slick, somewhat oily mouthfeel, a slickness possibly explained by the rye, which also adds a deeper 'bread-crustiness' and mild spiciness to an otherwise straightforward yet pure pale malt sweetishness. Honey is noticeable as a retronasal floral presence but only subtly so, while in the end quite a long-lasting, white-peppery and even somewhat wormwoody bitterness builds - hops of course, but given that the IBU is only 8, they come out much more outspoken than one would expect for some reason (I am guessing elements in the brewing water, like magnesium or carbonate, play a part here). Still a (very) thin trace of malty-bready and, who knows, honey-derived sweetishness lingers too. Basically a Belgian blonde with a few minor twists - or indeed a Belgian style honey beer, which is, again, somewhat of an odd choice for this time of the year; I would associate a beer like this more with spring than with winter. Very clean, almost industrial-feeling, but admittedly balanced and highly drinkable, if not adding much to the existing Kerel range...