Bucketlist Series N°15: Walk On Fire
Brouwerij The Musketeers in Sint-Gillis-Waas, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Series|
Score
6.53
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Het aroma is fris en fruitig, gecombineerd met een lichthoutige toets en een vleugje vanille. De smaak begint zacht fruitig en volmondig tot de subtiele, gebrande nuances je tegemoet komen. Je ervaart een lichtzoet kruidenmengsel van mokka, nootmuskaat en vanille. De lichte, rokerige ondertoon en gebrande toetsen brengen extra complexiteit in de smaken en aroma’s. De afdronk is zacht en de gebrande toets blijft lang nasmeulen.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Can from the brewery.
A: clear golden, thin, white head.
A: ripe pear, plum, white bread, wet grain.
T: sweet apple & pear, herbal tea, grain, bit metallic.
F: floral hops, yellow fruit, flowers, bitter grain.
P: medium body, slick texture, soft carbonation.
Quite empty despite the can's promises. Is it me or does this even feel like an amplified Lager?
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Shortlived white head over darker golden beer, finely carbonated. Sweet, Belgian buns, cookies with glazing. Again sweet, with something as pineapple sweets, but artificial-like. Fruity esters. The CO² lends some almost-acidity. Quite slick; fine but present carbonation; maybe medium bodied. Come on, Stefaan, Kristof! The bucket list's last items seriously miss inspiration, and I'm not talking labels. And adding oak chips is not 'oaked' in my book.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Pours zlmost cleare, medium dark blonde. Small white head. Scent is a tad sweet, honey, malts. BE yeast. Taste is malty, mild BE yeast. Tad sweet, but easy drinkin'. Oak is very hidden. Touch of vanilla. OK
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
33cl can, BB 22/02/2026.
Dorée, claire, col épais crémeux blanc-cassé plutôt léger.
Arôme sur de fins effluves boisés de chêne - pointe vanillée, le tout reste sur un nez belge sur les esters - petite sensation de céréales fermentées - rustique avec une pointe de caramel en rétro-nasal.
Palais sur une base restant dans l'approche belge avec une bonne dose d'esters fruités - dont la banane. Le tout repris par un ajout délicat de chêne - et je note plus ce côté chêne américain pour un fini léger sur la vanille. Sec en fin de bouche, apport délicat des malts, pils, cara pâle, léger ambre qui procure une sensation de grillé, léger chocolaté.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
The latest one in Musketeers’ “bucket list series” to my knowledge, an ‘oaked blonde’, so a basic Belgian blonde ale flavoured with oak chips, I suppose. Can from Stacks, Sint-Andries. Thick and foamy, egg-white, lightly lacing, even and stable head on a crystal clear, deep orangey-tinged ‘old golden’ robe – clearly filtered… Aroma of wet toast, something lightly smoky (cigarette shag), dried apple peel, dry cotton cloth, green pear, grass, halfripe banana, unsugared chewing gum when warming up, dry tree branches (the oak chips, no doubt), tea, bitter garden weeds. Very clean and slick, sweetish with some dried apple peel and candied persimmon effects but subtly so, medium carbonated; very smooth, somewhat glueish mouthfeel. Simple and ‘thinnish’ cereally core with a light toasty-bitterish edge, the latter reinforced by a touch of tannic woodiness, but hardly an actual wood flavour, let alone that typical vanillin effect you get from oak; I wonder what wood has been used here… It adds a plain smoky element retronasally, reminiscent of burning paper or cigarette tobacco, creating a slight astringency in the finish. Grassy and even lightly wormwoody hops join in for bitterness and dryness, but everything remains remarkably slick, clean, superficial and ‘industrial’ – more so than I am used to even from the ‘new’ Musketeers. Reeks of wanting to imitate Palm’s popular Cornet beer, also an ‘oaked blonde’ – and equally boring and bland, to be frank. So if that was the intention, I guess they accomplished their mission…
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Hazy blond colour, white foam. Nose of vanilla, some oak, light citrussy, a bit bready. Medium sweet. Not very well balanced.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
26/VII/24 - 33cl can from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ Ardennes Holiday, BB: 22/II/26, L9011240222 14:39 (2024-610)
Clear orange beer, small creamy white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: malty, banana, yeasty, some solvents, fruity notes, a hint of vanilla. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very yeasty, malty, banana peel, a little bitter, grassy touch, metallic. Aftertaste: bitter, a bit grassy, yeasty, banana, sugary, caramel, meh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Blik 33cl thuis. 6,9%. Maltig, fruitig, licht hout, grainy, steenfruit, zoetig, licht kruidig. (28-6-2024).
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can..6.9%. Dark blond colour with thin head. It's a sweet malty blond. There is a slightly dry woody element too. Overall lacking a bit of punch and is too sweet.