Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Can from Delhaize in Dok Noord. Pours hazy yellow with a lasting, thin, frothy, white head. Aroma of honey, soap, ripe apricot, pepper, grass, perfume, banana peel, white bread. Taste is light fruity sweet, notes of apricot, pear, apple, vague banana, quite some bready & honey-like malts dominating a wheaty sour undercurrent, as well as bitter notes of pepper & grass with a whiff of perfume in the back. Dry, grassy hoppy finish, lingering honey, bread, apricot & spices. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Very pleasant surprise, delicately balanced.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Kerel Kaishaku from VBDCK Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Head gone in seconds flat; clear yellow-orange beer. End of bottle solid yeast. Sweet, dried oranges, curaçao, apricot, apricot/other fruitliqueur, wild yeast, and effeminately perfumed. Really bitter overtones, but not hoppy, more like biting in orangepeel. Finish is more neutral - and empty. Again a bit wild yeast impression. Light body, undercarbonated, CO² as all knocked out on pouring. Perfumey-sweet, strange bitterness, falling dead. Not a success, this.
DirDec (2083) ticked Kerel Flower Honey Saison from VBDCK Brewery 6 years ago
daniele (14510) reviewed Kerel Saison from VBDCK Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
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mike_77 (15875) reviewed Kerel Kaishaku from VBDCK Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Hazy pale blond colour with thin head. Aroma is quite grassy and also has some citrus peel. Flavour has some bitter citrus elements too. Weird kind of perfumed yeast too. Pretty heavy in alcohol but doesn't match up in depth of flavour.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Kerel Beach Cabana Lager from VBDCK Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as VBDCK Kerel Beach Cabana Lager (by VBDCK Brewery):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.6/5
23/V/19 - 33cl can from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte) @ UGent Happy Hour, BB: n/a - (2019-774)
Slightly cloudy blond beer, big fizzy irregular white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very malty, all grains, hay, some cow fodder, bit of caramel, little grassy. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: malty start, bit sweet, some caramel, grains, cow fodder, pretty linear and straightforward. Aftertaste: slightly bitter, sweet malts, grains, boring and one dimensional beer.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Kerel Beach Cabana Lager from VBDCK Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
The newest Kerel, a pale lager flavored with a dash of mango purée (but since I found no flavored pale lager category in this new beer style system, Pilsener seemed the most appropriate categorisation); canned and only available for the summer. From a sixpack bought at the brewery, cheers Charlotte! Off-white, loosely mousy, bit thinnish and open, eventually dissolving head, leaving some thin and disparate patches in the middle; hazy straw blonde robe with pale apricot tinge. Aroma of dried out white bread, dusty old birdseed, unripe green banana, indeed a whiff of background mango but very subtle, rainwater, jute bags, dried camomile and other field herbs, light green apple, hint of sulfuric DMS (cooked white cabbage), cold French fries, melting margarine. Crisp onset, lively carbonation with a minerally effect but refreshing rather than harshly stinging, sweetish cereally and white-bready, almost wheaty maltiness with a very light sweet-and-sourish 'colour' to it that clearly comes from the mango purée, even if actual mango flavour remains hidden; supple, rounded body, rainwater-like touch in the end just as a delicately floral, very subtly zesty hop note comes in, bringing some light bitterness to the finish. Pale malt sweetishness, in a bready, almost powdery or bread crumb-like way, remains the dominant factor though, with a crisp, fruity sourish accent from the mango accompanying the tail. Interesting little lager, easily drinkable, with it being unfiltered adding some fullness and breadiness that feels very pleasant in the mouth; too bad for the DMS note, I guess this has everything to do with the addition of the mango purée, but on the plus side, this - for a lager - exotic ingredient does add a lightness, playfulness and summeriness that I can certainly appreciate. Feels modern, 'young' and hip, with a very refreshing character - and I came to understand that this was the intention, so mission accomplished.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Kerel Grapefruit IPA from VBDCK Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Firkin Alehouse Folkestone. Hazy amber colour lasting white head. Belgian ester aroma. Some hop. Better in the mouth. Some hop some bitterness. Some grapefruit. Lots of carbonation. Settles down. It's OK. A decent apa. It's fine.c
thanatosti (4472) reviewed Kerel Dark IPA from VBDCK Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ van Rooij, Culemborg. Clear brown with an off-white head. Was expecting a darker colour somehow. Caramel aroma with some hops. Grainy sweet taste with a semi-bitter finish. Didn't like it at all