Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
A ’beer of love’ so to speak, unusual fruit beer with four different fruit extracts (no real fruit, unfortunately). Delicate, moussy, snow white, sticky head over an orangey copper beer, clear. Aroma of banana liqueur, grenadine, vanilla, shampoo, passion fruit liqueur, cinnamon, mandarin. Fresh but artificial sweetness in the onset, candied fruits, sugary, with eventually the dreaded lemonade- and bubblegum effect cloying for quite some time, with a hint of ascorbic acid to make things worse. Original alright and I’d even go as far as to recommend this over dozens of other overtly sweet fruit beers - but too sweet and sugary for me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
The Christmas beer from this brewery, a cloudy blonde ale with an aroma mostly dominated by cinnamon, next to aniseed, dried fruits, gingerbread, cake, soft and fluffy mouthfeel, sweet spicy taste very much reminiscent of ’speculoos’ and apparently intended as such, some lemony sourishness too. Very weird but not unpleasant. I read somewhere this is to be "ferrated", i.e. warmed up with a red-hot fireplace poker, which causes the excess of sugars to caramellize and stick to the poker so that the beer becomes less sweet and more balanced (as well as partially heated). Too bad I have no fireplace to try this, but it sounds attractive, on a cold winter evening. Perhaps the same effect can be achieved by placing this under a grill or something... Points for originality, in any case.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Thirst-quencher, basically a "tripel tafelbier", with thick, cream white, moussy, firm head and pale yellow blonde colour, clear but hazy with deposit due to dusty yeast particles, vivid sparkling. Aroma of sweetish pale malts, an ethereal, fresh lemony acidity, green apple peel, banana, butter, flowers. Neutral onset with minerally carbonation, light and ’thin’ malt sweetishness sets in with subdued fruitiness and a faintly sourish accent, very mild bitterishness in the finish, which otherwise mostly consists of some malt sweetness lingering. Utterly light in all senses of the word - too light, in fact.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Specialty beer with yellowish beige, equal, moussy, sticky and stable head and very dark chestnut brown colour with ruby hue, misty. Aroma reveals a strong spicy sweetness of gingerbread, star aniseed, cinnamon and mint, some ’speculoos’ too, chocolate, cloves, blackcurrant, candied cherries, liqueur. Explicit sugary and syrupy sweetness in the mouth, soft and rounded mouthfeel, becoming more spicy but in a ’pastry’ kind of way, with ginger, aniseed and cinnamon impressions, a certain leatheriness and woodiness, resinous, port-like with weak hoppiness in the finish, which is dominated by the lingering initial candi sweetness. Unusual, very sweet but nevertheless interesting. Recommendable for those who enjoy thick, utterly sweet yet rich beers.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Ecaussinnes’ second beer, a potent ’massieve ale’ with a deep dark brown colour and medium thick, light beige head. Chocolatey and caramelly aroma, walnuts, candied fruits, raisins, brown bread, yeasty notes, floral hops; fluffy, mouth-filling maltiness, deep dark fruity sweetness, caramelly and chocolatey, slightly bittering in the end with indeed a kind of Scotch-like effect, and the expected warming alcohol. Complex and well-made, I really enjoyed this.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tripel with yellowish white, moussy and somewhat rocky, stable head and deep ’old gold’ colour, clear but cloudy with deposit, including somewhat off-putting protein strings. Very estery aroma, apricot, banana, orange, coriander, white pepper, caramel, honey, floral hops. Fruity, pleasantly malt sweet palate, light spicy hints, yeasty, rounded and straightforward with light hoppiness in the end. Decent but nothing extraordinary, just another tripel - again.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
This was apparently Ecaussinnes’ first beer, taken over from the retired Brasserie des Carrières; an amber coloured, cloudy beer with fruity and somewhat honeyish sweetishness, drying palate with herbal hop bitterishness in the finish. Decent Belgian amber ale - or rather, Wallonian ’ambrée’.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 5
An average witbier. If I had known it was exclusively brewed for the Russian market I probably wouldn't have bought it.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle Gusher Pours unclear blonde . Thnx to the gushing, you cannot pour this beer ( even withoud disturbing the yeast yourself ) for 5 cl , before you got yeastflakes . They settle slowly, but look awefull . Good white fluffy head Smell is yeasty , some dust ( no best by date on the bottle ) sweet , sweatfeet . . Good carbo Taste is pretty simple , sweet, some yeast, some malty tones . Soft , buttery mouthfeel . Mouthfeel also is ruined by those pieces , that are very easely loosened . Kinda dissapointed by this . Tastewise, its OK , but the scent is bad , and the appearance is just awefull.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
BOTTLE 33CL.
Look: clear ruby red with big east flakes, beige medium head.
Aroma: rich dried fruit, cranberries, raisins, a bit of alcohol make it feel like a fruity liquor or a desert wine, brown sugar.
Taste: very sweet, dried fruit, caramel malt, light spicy bitterness, no alcohol, medium body. By the time you finish the bottle, it starts to feel a bit cloying.