BCB (Formerly known as Brouwerij Eutropius)
Contract Brewer
in Menen,
West Flanders,
Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated User:
BCBrouter
Established in 2011
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Strong aroma of toffee, caramel and chocolate. Clear dark brown color, stable small offwhite head. High sweetness, some bitterness afterwards, creamy texture, full body.
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25/II/25 - 33cl can as a gift, shared @ home, BB: 27/II/25, lot LA102702242 20:43 (2025-150) Thanks to Jan for the can!
Clear copper orange beer, big solid creamy off-white to yellowish head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, wort, grains, a little metallic, cow fodder, sugary sweet impression. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: very malty start, grains, floral, pretty soapy, bitter, rather unpleasant, some oranges. Aftertaste: soapy bitterness, a bit malty, grains, floral again, some coriander, a little yeasty, unpleasant bitterness in the finish.
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Bottle from Lekkerbier, Sint Nicolaasga. Yeasty and sugary overripe fruity aroma with malt, notes of apricot and ripe pears. Sweet and ripe flavour, medium body. Hardly a beer I'd associate with the fine art of death metal, this is unexciting.
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Bottle 0,33ltr: Hazy blonde colored brew with a lot of carbonation, big foamy head. Taste is sweet bitter with hints of sweet fruits and sharp fruits. This is an very good First World War beer i have tried.
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Bottle 0,33ltr: Hazy blonde colored brew with an sweet bitter taste and hints of mellow citrus fruits,peaches and spices.
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Bottle 0,33ltr: Dark brown colored brew with an dry bitter taste, hints of chocolate and coffee.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Fles gedeeld met SandervdL. Het is een licht troebel goudgeel bier met een volle witte schuimkraag. Het heeft een aroma van hop en gist. De smaak is fruitig, kruidig en hoppig.
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Blik 33cl bij Racine in Antwerpen. Citrus, grapefruit, wat bloemig, bitters, moutig, tropisch fruit. Beetje dun. (22-6-2024).
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Hefty tripel commissioned by Gino Mannaert, former proprietor of the Mangini's Cafeeken in Kerksken, a village about five miles southwest of Aalst. Named after his dog (who also graces the front label), this is apparently already the third Mangini beer he has commissioned, of which the second one was also named after... one of his other dogs. Oddly, the guy has explicitly declared that he himself is not a beer lover - he prefers other beverages over beer, which raises suspicion to say the least... Very thick and foamy, yellowish egg-white, very dense and creamy, pillowy, membrane-lacing head over an initially clear, warm orange-blonde beer with deep old golden hue, misty and a bit deeper orange with sediment (almost tilting towards amber), and lots of enthusiastic sparkling. Aroma of freshly baked croissants, 'oude graanjenever', raw parsnip, coriander seed, halfripe peach, toasted pine nuts, warm 'roux', dried rosemary, red apple peel, some banana, glazed carrots, clove, moist white pepper, hints of dusty old 'herbes de Provençe', pear, old dried orange peel (curaçao?) and juniper berries. Sweet onset but not too sticky, rather honeyish, envelopping impressions of ripe pear, candied orange and baked banana, with active, minerally carbonation distracting a bit from the actual flavours. A rounded, white candi syrup-filled, thinly biscuity maltiness ensues, upon which this honeyish residual sweetness heavily weighs; a very light toastiness (as in toasted pine nuts) is noticeable, but sweetness remains the dominant factor, adorned by clove- and thyme-like phenols and floral hop bitter notes in the end. Coriander seed, silently present from the start, comes to full development at this stage too. Unsurprisingly though, a 'jenever'-like alcohol effect sets in a few stages too early, creating a rather wry finish in which sweetness is still the main factor. Rather crude, overly sweet and boozy tripel, lacking in finesse and elegance - very reminiscent of the very similar Piraat 10.5 by Van Steenberge, which may have served as a source of inspiration here. Taking the ABV down to, say, 8% would perhaps improve this brew a lot already, but even then I think it would still generally feel like a boozy, coriandered, sugary tripel; maybe considering another executing brewery to do the job could lead to more satisfying results as well. Not something to travel all the way to Dendermonde for - a coffee bar there, often frequented by the commissioner, is allegedly the only place where one can obtain this beer. Nonetheless: cheers to Bazieleke (the dog)!
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Hazy blond colour, white foam. Nose of wet cardboard, grass, light sweetness, citrus peel. Metallic, bitter, unbalanced
