tderoeck (22711) reviewed Aldaar Quadrupel from Hobbybrouwerij 't Atelier 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
21/IV/20 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Geers), shared @ home, BB: XI/2020 (2020-357)
Clear red brown beer, small creamy beige head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: bit malty, lots of ripe banana, lots of alcohol, bit metallic, caramel, sugary impression. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: bit sweet, some caramel, alcohol, malty, lots of grains, nice bitterness. Aftertaste: soft roast, malty, little bitter, milk chocolate, raisins, nice one!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
17 August 2019. At Gents Bierfestival X. Cheers to Anke, Kevin & the crew! Hazy dark brown with a lasting, small, foamy, tan head. Aroma of walnut shell, roasted chestnut, tree bark, hard caramel candy, raisin, dried orange peel, tobacco, toast. Taste is medium malty sweet, hinting at caramel, biscuit, bittersweet mocha, quite nutty & a bit toasty, spices & a herbal effect, some sourish dark fruits underneath. Dry, earthy hoppy finish, lingering toast, nuts & coffee ground, verging on powdery. Medium body, creamy texture, soft carbonation. Has a genuine & artisan character; I was surprised to see it's Belgian. From Maldegem, of all places.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cloudy dark brown with thin head. Aroma and flavour are plentiful with dark roasted malts. A little spicy from the cinnamon.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as Atelier Rageing Elephant Porter (by Hobbybrouwerij 't Atelier):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5
18/VIII/19 - 75cl bottle @ Gents Bierfestival, BB: n/a - (2019-1301)
Clear dark brown beer, small creamy beige head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: very malty, soft roast, caramel, bit sweet impression, yeast, some banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: soft roast, malty, pretty bitter, metallic touch, quite some chlorine. Aftertaste: malty, bitter touch, soft roast, coffee, alcohol, dried fruits.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Alier Tripel from Hobbybrouwerij 't Atelier 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Atelier Alier Tripel (by Hobbybrouwerij 't Atelier):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5
19/VII/19 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent), shared @ home, BB: VII/2020 - (2019-1057)
Little cloudy orange beer, small creamy white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: pretty oxidized, quite some orange peel, caramel malts, fruity, some citrus, spicy touch, not bad! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sweet, malty, hay, grains, little chemical, soft bitterness, lots of phenols. Aftertaste: pretty dry, spicy, little chemical, dirty touch, meh. Pairs well with a brie and smoked salmon sandwich.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Slightly irregular cream head, fed by fine carbonation in a hazy chestnut coloured beer; shards of lace. Bit gassy, melanoidins & roasted malts, autumn leaves, brown candi sugar, plywood. Roasted & brown candi sugar, molasses, but with a fine acidic edge, spoiling nothing. Finish is drier, wood, light bitter. Feels very slick, viscous, well-bodied and well-carbonated; faint alcoholwarming. Not bad, but there's room for improvement.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Alier Tripel from Hobbybrouwerij 't Atelier 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Atelier's first commercial beer, a classically conceived tripel; tasted in 'avant-première' at Chimipalooza last year (thanks to the brewer) but now that it is an 'officially' commercial beer, officially rating it from a steinie bottle bought at Hopduvel. Thick and frothy, fluffy, densely mousy, egg-white, stable head on a misty peach blonde beer with warm orange hue; refined yet fierce sparkling rages through this 'mist', a pretty sight, even so when the sediment is added and the beer acquires a clouded, bit 'dirty' orangey peach robe. Aroma of sharp carbonation initially (like opening a bottle of artificially carbonated sparkling water), receding quickly though and making room for impressions of old bread crust, fried carrots, cooked sweet potato, dried peach, spicy (but not so much soapy) coriander seed, roasted pumpkin, hints of tomato purée, soggy rusk, cold chervil soup, straw, red apple, strong phenols bordering on the stereotypical 'band aid', musty old button mushrooms, white rum, honey, vague iron pipes, brandy, very vague green olive and manure. Fruity onset, touch of banana but not in the dominant banana ester way, equally strong side notes of sweet pumpkin flesh, peach, apricot and even pan-fried cherry tomato (adding a light note of umami); fizzy carbonation but refined the way it looks, so not numbing too much. Full, fluffy body, dried by an astringent effect of spicing and alcohol; soft bready core with soggy-peanutty edges, soaked in spicy coriander adding some of the expected 'coriander soapiness' but more 'dry spiciness', accentuated when a floral, mildly leafy hop bitterness comes in, remaining altogether softish and proving itself less capable of adding appropriate dryness in the finish than the alcohol does. This alcoholic element impairs drinkability a bit - even for a tripel - and comes on a bit too strong, making it a bit harsh and 'jenever'-like in the end; interestingly though, this fried tomato-like umami effect seems to survive until the very end, making for a finish that bears a very, very vague resemblance to a Bloody Mary. Bready and phenolic (again, very slight band aid) notes are maintained and even strenghtened in the finish. That umami-ish aspect, likely linked to proteins, is subtle but still convincing enough to set this tripel apart from many others; too bad that there are just too many - albeit minor - flaws to generally lift up this beer to a high level even within the overexposed tripel style: too phenolic, too boozy, and, as the previous ratings sing in unison, not too well balanced. Needs further technical perfection, that much is clear, but then this was Mathias' first atttempt to go commercial and the later creations he has presented, show much more clearly his potential as a skilled craft beer brewer. Concentrate on those beautiful porters and stouts you made, Mathias, and forget about this tripel, is my advice... I somehow liked the unofficial 'hobby' version better too, but there can be loads of reasons for that, so I won't take that into account here.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Prik&Tik, Maldegem. Dark reddish brown colour, beige foam. Sweet, malty, notes of caramel, raisins, dried fruit. Rather bitter en hoppy. Ok Quadrupel.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Aldaar Quadrupel from Hobbybrouwerij 't Atelier 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
The newest beer by this young home brewery which very limitedly goes commercial (selling to a handful of local pubs but still expanding), a quadrupel released at Maldegems Bierfestival. Mousy and creamy, papery making, off-white, thick and stable head on a misty dark chocolate brown beer with ruddy hue. Aroma of hard caramel, nutmeg, chocolate powder, dried prunes, fig, bubblegum, diluted coffee grounds, wet toast, ‘jenever’, dry earth, old tea bags. Some dried fig and baked banana in the onset but altogether remaining restrained in sweetness for the style; still a clear bubblegummy undertone, though. Medium carb, full and rounded mouthfeel; dry hard-caramelly malt body with bread-crust- and toast-like edge, the toasty bitterness eventually becoming quite pronounced, especially when it gets accentuated by an earthy, bit leafy hop bitterness. Phenolic clove- and nutmeg-like accents complete the picture, while the alcohol remains altogether well hidden. Not a bad effort at all, notably more dry and bitter than usual for a quad, with the toasty-bitter edge making it somewhat akin to a Scotch ale. Will revisit when I come across it in Ghent, as apparently the brewer now lives there and is trying to get his beers into the city’s main beer pubs.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Porter flavoured with vanilla beans and Costa Rican coffee, sampled at Maldegems Bierfestival from a two year old bottle. Creamy, dense, papery lacing, thick, mocha-beige coloured head, black robe with hazy burgundy edges. Aroma of dry coffee grounds and coffee filters, black chocolate bars, cigar tobacco, leather, dry old liquorish, toasted walnuts, indeed vanilla but subtle, a whiff of damp kitchen cloth somewhere. Dried fruits in the onset (fig, raisin) but the fruitiness remains clean and restrained as it ought to be in a porter, softish carb, light sourish accent; smooth but powdery body, nut shells, toast and ‘fondant’ chocolate maltiness, quite rich, dryish with roasty bitterness being stronger than caramelly sweetness – to the point where this could just as well be regarded as a stout. The added coffee accentuates the roasted bitterness but also provides a lovely, warming, aromatic and unmistakable coffee flavour retronasally, while the vanilla remains in the background; cinnamon and liquorish notes as well, all blending in perfectly. Dry, powdery, spicy finish with a good dosage of peppery hoppiness, well rounded. Progressive, very Anglo-Saxon, not Belgian in style or make-up at all and well executed: this is clearly the best of the few Atelier beers I had so far, even if the vanilla component has obviously faded after all this time in the bottle. Very well done, Mathias!