yespr (55501) reviewed Kerel Saison from VBDCK Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33 cl bottle. Pours hazy yellow, small white head. Aroma is mild fruity, estery. High carbonation. Mild fruity. Fruity. Estery and slight bitter to herbal. Estery finish.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Kerel Bière de Garde from VBDCK Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
At Ghent Beer Festival 2017. Hazy amber/light brown with a lasting, small, off-white head. The aroma contains hay, caramel, yeast and herbs. It tastes medium sweet and medium bitter, with a dry finish, even some alcohol popping up (which is saying something). Medium body, slick texture, lively carbonation. Interesting balance between caramel and yeast notes, but I can’t call it a good one.
Bierridder (4318) reviewed Kerel Stout from VBDCK Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
28/07/2017 @home - 33cl bottle shared by jerre. Black colour with beige foam. Nose is light roasted malts, licorice, bit caramel. Taste is roasted malts, licorice, some caramel, sweet, herbal touch.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Kerel Saison from VBDCK Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from the brewery, bought at their opening day. The saison in this first series of six beers from this brand, with very thickly cobweb-lacing, off-white, irregularly shaped, coarse head, clinging tightly to the edge of the glass but breaking quickly in the middle, over a lightly hazy peach blonde beer with vaguely olive greenish hue and lively string of fizz, turning into a more ochre-ish and equally cloudy peach with sediment. Aroma of ripe peach, strawberry, sugared orange juice, overripe pear, stale lime juice, withering green herbs, sourdough, tulips, hints of sour yoghurt, urine, melon, spoilt cucumber, soggy white bread, minerals. Fruity, fizzy onset, apricot, yellow plum, banana, red apple, sweetish with sourish, lime-like edges, the sourishness further accentuated by sharp carbonation but acceptable for the style. Smooth sourdough- and bread crust-like malt body with grainy sides to it, fruity esters persisting till into the finish but quite to the point for a beer intended as a saison; ends with a leafy, spicy, softly grapefruity hop bitterness on top of the juicy malt sweetness, floral and quite adequately bittering; the lime-like sourish accent from the onset lingers at the back but malt sweetness remains as well. Yeastiness is apparent as a powdery, lightly starchy impression after swallowing, with lots of retronasal spicy phenols rising up. A bit ’dirty’ perhaps, but in a saison I usually cannot be bothered by that; there is a kind of ’off’ sourishness to it as well, maybe the result of an onsetting infection, and the urine-like aspect in the nose, likely the result of old hops being used, did bother me a bit as well. Otherwise, though, this is acceptable for what it is - and like my esteemed colleagues have observed below, so far the only of these Kerel beers which can actually be called ’true to style’ to a significant extent, which cannot be said of their other beers (regardless of their quality), nor of many other new (Belgian and other) beers called saisons these days simply because the term has become fashionable under international influence.
77ships (14506) reviewed Kerel Dark IPA from VBDCK Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thanks to Alengrin! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ “Belgian Ticks Tasting Ghent”. Dark amber (seriously) tanned head. Nose is poor stale old hop, herbal with overly sweet malt. Taste is soap, banana, stale old chemical hop,.. Body is caramel malt,… Poor and that is ignoring the abysmal style interpretation here, so bloody Belgian.
77ships (14506) reviewed Kerel Stout from VBDCK Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thanks to Alengrin! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ “Belgian Ticks Tasting Ghent”. Dark brown amber (but of course, yay) tanned head. Nose is BE style thin chicory roast, cacao, herbal, thin iron dark beer,… Taste is herbal, thin cacao, chicory roast, grainy, weak & even weaker if you realize that they actually added coffee & chocolate,… Body is chicory, cacao, tin, metallic, thin herbal roast,… Kind of “stout” that only an average & below Belgian brewery could release. Strangely not that different in build-up to their RIS which had double the ABV.
77ships (14506) reviewed Kerel Saison from VBDCK Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Thanks to Alengrin! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ “Belgian Ticks Tasting Ghent”. Label has a Dry Hopped sticker. Pale clear golden, big solid white head. Nose is big banana, vague connection to Dupont yeast, grass, far too sweet & banana heavy. Taste is green banana, stab at Dupont style, sugar, far too sweet, soap, lacking hop,.. Body is green banana, yeast,… Too bloody sweet & banana heavy, still the most respectable beer from the 6 which we tried from the first series of this brewery.
77ships (14506) reviewed Kerel Bière de Garde from VBDCK Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thanks to Alengrin! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ “Belgian Ticks Tasting Ghent”. Clear amber, huge tanned head. Noe stale BE, caramel, overly sweet stone fruit & iron. Taste is sweet caramel, industrial, iron, sugar, far too sweet bland caramel, BE,.. Body is BE & iron. At best very plain but the cloying, iron qualities of this,… Heavy BE character & Bière de Garde style goal can open up discussions about style but having had their Grapefruit IPA, RIS & Dark IPA, I feel no need to venture there, those were quite off from their respective styles as well.
77ships (14506) reviewed Kerel Grapefruit IPA from VBDCK Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Thanks to Alengrin! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ “Belgian Ticks Tasting Ghent”. Dark orange, creamy white. Nose is weirdly sweet, milky, sugar, dough, candy, malt,… Taste is industrial sweet, oily, sugar, dough, caramel, fruit is lost, nothing IPA in the regular sense here,… Body is caramel, wort, oily, sugar,… It has one great rating on here but this is very weak compared to the international scene I think, there are BE breweries making far, far, far better IPA’s than this.
77ships (14506) reviewed Kerel Pink Imperial from VBDCK Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thanks to Alengrin! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ “Belgian Ticks Tasting Ghent”. Dark brown, creamy thick mocha coffee head. Not really black but okay. Nose is weird metallic, you get some muted stale raspberry the rest is all grainy chicory, cacao, coffee grounds,… Taste is thin burned cacao, chicory roast, lacking fruit, very BE attempt at an RIS all thin grainy cacao, roast, chicory coffee, herbal, bark,… Nothing really bad but far removed from what an RIS should be in my opinion & too thin chicory bitter ashes etc.