Royal
Het Boerenerf in Beersel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Mead - Braggot Regular|
Score
7.55
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mike_77 (15880) reviewed Royal from Het Boerenerf 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Dark red colour with lasting thin head. Notes of cherry and other red fruit. Quite floral too. Touch of rose.
beerhunter111 (50837) reviewed Royal from Het Boerenerf 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
A slightly hazy purple red beer with a beige head. Aroma of tart red berries, red grapes, berries, apples. Taste of tart red berries, redcurrants, easy to drink
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Royal from Het Boerenerf 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Good, bit fluffy pink head over fully veiled, deep red beer. Honey, old cards, honeywaffles, faintly fruity, Asian herbs. Again the Asian herbs/curryleaf, honey. There is red fruit, yes, but I'm missing the typical valerian/cassis stamp. Fruitjam - with honey and a whiff of curry, sparadrap. Feels rather well carbonated, fruitslick. I'm a bit left on my hunger. What is this blend? It's good, but not 100% convincing compared to the blurb.
Iznogud (14911) reviewed Royal from Het Boerenerf 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle, 750 ml at the brewery. Nice ruby colour with pinkish head. Some funk, wood, dark berries, medium sourness. Subtle honey notes.
RichTheVillan (12446) ticked Royal (Oogst 2022) from Het Boerenerf 2 years ago
Fergus (31537) reviewed Royal from Het Boerenerf 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared at 3 Fonteinen, for Rich's 50th Bruxelles adventure. A hazed plummy red coloured pour with a halo of pink head. Aroma is nice big sweet, honey ribena pollen, red grape, light funk,. Flavour is composed of drying red berries, spicy wood, some earthy wood, light earthy honey. Light mineral in the finish. Palate is dry mineral, little tequilla note in the finish.
Theydon_Bois (46756) reviewed Royal from Het Boerenerf 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle split at Het Boernerf taproom, Huiziengen, 10/02/24. Deep blackcurrant red with a crimson cap that dissipated to a swirl. Nose is blackcurrant, honey lozenge, bramble berry, hedgerow, bitter sweet notes. Taste comprises blackcurrant, honey dollop, herb, perfume, red berry compote, hedgerow, bitter sweet elements. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying with a balanced puckering edge. Solid.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Royal (Oogst 2022) from Het Boerenerf 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
The possibilities of hybridization and cross-over are endless with Boerenerf, it seems: this Royal is a blend of lambic with homemade mead, further enriched with blackcurrant - so it can be regarded as either a fruit lambic (but not quite) or a fruit mead (but not quite)... Medium thick, irregularly lacing, pale greyish off-white, firm head, remaining remarkably stable over a misty, deep purple coloured robe with burgundy glow. Intense bouquet of very strong and fresh blackcurrant and cassis (blackcurrant-based soda, a Swiss invention it seems), blackcurrant jam and juice all over the place, over subtler hints of Roosvicée, forest fruit-flavoured black tea, thyme, fruit yoghurt, dry earth, homemade plum wine or even some ruby port, autumn leaves, old wood, dried sage, old leather, stewed cherry tomatoes, glazed beetroot. Utterly fruity onset, a wave of ripe and fresh blackcurrant juice in all its sweet-and-sourness with that typical herbal aspect to it (I can actually taste the blackcurrant skins and seeds too), side notes of blackberry and plum, minerally carbonated in a lambrusco-like, elegant way; supple, juice feel, with a bready 'beer' core deeply steeped in fruity acidity, fleshiness and juiciness, blackcurrant all over the place but handled well by the lambic, which in itself seems softened by the mead, resulting in a generally sour-sweet experience. Lactic and fruit sourness as well as tannins from fruit skins and wood add drying effects, but the mead part keeps smoothening out everything, as does the sheer juiciness of the fruit. Delicious and incredibly smoothly drinkable till the last drop - a product that can appeal to both lambic and natural wine lovers, I think.