Gallant - Jubileum
(Batch of Gallant Grand Cru Special)
De Achelse Kluis in Hamont-Achel, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.52
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Jybi (2414) reviewed Gallant - Jubileum from De Achelse Kluis 7 months ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10
Je ne sais pas si je suis entièrement objectif sur cette notation. Mais je vais l'assumer entièrement car c'est pour moi un grand coup de cœur que j'ai eu pour cette Achel Gallant. Il faut dire qu'il m'est relativement difficile de trouver des bières belges en Nouvelle Calédonie, et tomber sur une telle bière qui reprend les codes de la tradition brassicole belge avec une excellente maîtrise me fait forcément vibrer le cœur. Le visuel est déjà un sans-faute avec un joli blond doré avec une fine effervescence poussée et une mousse blanc cassé crémeuse. Le nez sent bon le Belgique avec des céréales, de la coriandre, de la pêche et des notes florales provenant des fleurs de bruyère intégrés dans la recette. On y retrouve également cet alcool, si belge, donnant du caractère et de la force. A la dégustation, à l'identique, l'alcool, du haut de ses 9,5 % est structurant en conférant beaucoup de tempérament sans nullement dénoter. La base maltée est merveilleuse, merveilleusement belge même, riche, tout en étant raffinée. Les fleurs de bruyères confèrent des notes florales très appréciables de surcroît pour une bière qui m'a rappelé mes virées belges.
gave a cheers!
Fin (18516) reviewed Gallant - Jubileum from De Achelse Kluis 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle picked up from Dranken Vandewoude, Veurne, Belgium. Consumed at home Saturday 1st March 2025 listening to Antony Szmierek - Service Station At The End Of The Universe. We have a Wild Garlic Lasagna for tea tonight (homemade last year and frozen). Pours warm gold with a white head. Nice beer, good amount of oomph, warming from the start and this is what you want from this type of beer. Nice spicy and yeasty edge, soft mouthfeel, there is a fruitiness but it's sweet big malty Belgian loveliness, I think that Achel might be Dutch but regardless it's the style we're hitting here.
Benzai (24654) reviewed Gallant - Jubileum from De Achelse Kluis 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle shared by Joen. Clear yellow golden color, full sized fairly quickly diminishing white head. Aroma and flavor are malts, notes of apple quite clearly, sweetish with a bitter-ish hint slightly. Fizzy carbonation, average body, thin texture.
Goozen (5582) reviewed Gallant - Jubileum from De Achelse Kluis 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle 0,75 ltr: Cloudy golden yellow coloured brew sweet bitter of taste with hints of orange, caramel, coriander and subtle honey.
Franclh (7604) reviewed Gallant - Jubileum from De Achelse Kluis 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9.5
Proefglas tijdens het 23ste Bierpassieweekend in Antwerpen gedeeld. Zacht, fruitig, yeasty, banaan, citrus, sinaasappel, lichte honingtonen, licht kruidig, licht bloemig. (22-6-2924).
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Gallant - Jubileum from De Achelse Kluis 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Three-grain tripel (barley, wheat and oats) flavoured with heather blossoms created as a tribute to Marc Gallant, the former abbot of the Achelse Kluis abbey who decided in 1998 to recreate the Achel trappist beer brand (which had been discontinued since the First World War); last year, after the departure of the last trappist monk, Achelse Kluis ‘de facto’ ceased to be a trappist abbey and the whole operation, including the brewery, became a secular one, run by entrepreneur Jan Tormans. It was his idea to pay tribute to Marc Gallant with this flavoured tripel, shared with Craftmember and Jo at home. Thick and foamy, egg-white, pillowy, plaster-like lacing head over an initially clear, pure ‘old golden’ beer with lively sparkling everywhere and pale orangey glow, turning misty further on. Aroma of drying white bread, ripe pear, young ‘graanjenever’, field flowers (or indeed dried heather blossoms), linseed, green apple, halfripe banana, wet white pepper, clove, honey. Sweetish, fruity onset, hints of pear, apple and banana again but not over the top, with some honeyish residual sweetness persisting over a smooth, fizzily carbonated middle, built from sweetish pale malts with a light wheaty slickness and indeed oaty velvetiness supporting it. Notable floral, herbaceous notes in the end – some natural clove-like phenol, but also the heather flowers, perhaps not easily recognisable as such but certainly recognisable as an added ‘florality’ in general, matching with a gentle floral hop bitterness. Warming ‘jenever’-like alcohol ensues, heating the throat a bit – and frankly becoming just a tad too astringent. Sparkly, spicy, warming tripel reminiscent of Tripel Karmeliet in more than one way; the heather flowers add a delicate but quite noticeable floweriness and herbalness to it all, but the alcohol could have been better hidden even at this ABV. Solid tripel for sure, but not quite a match for the former Achel Extra Blond or Achelse Zomer, (more or less) equally strong tripels created when Achelse Kluis was still a trappist brewery (even if the actual brewing was done by laymen).
EvNa (6176) reviewed Gallant - Jubileum from De Achelse Kluis 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Color: Clear golden, white head. Aroma: Malty, floral. Taste: Malty, subtle floral and herbal / spicy notes of the heather. Hoppy backbone. Moderate sweet, light to moderate bitterness. Medium body, average carbonation. Nice.
Rubin77 (10243) reviewed Gallant - Jubileum from De Achelse Kluis 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
75cl bottle from the De Achelse Kluis bottle shop as my beer #3500 from Belgium. F: big, white, almost good retention. C: gold, light hazy. A: malty, peach, floral, violet, light herbal, banana, apples. T: full malty base, floral, violet, banana, red apples, light bready, light herbal, perfumed, nice balanced bitterness, medium carbonation, delicious, enjoyed.
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Gallant - Jubileum from De Achelse Kluis 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
15/I/24 - 75cl bottle from Colruyt supermarket (Lochristi), shared @ Syntra Zytho class (Ghent), BB: 31/XII/25 (2024-34)
Clear orange blond beer, creamy white head, stable, non adhesive. Aroma: ripe to unripe banana, a bit malty, floral, honey, sweet impression, caramel. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: alcohol, sweet start, yeasty, banana, some honey, sugary, more alcohol, ripe banana. Aftertaste: gentle bitterness, sweet, alcohol, banana, yeasty, a little soapy, floral, honey.