mike_77 (15875) reviewed Brut Purple IPA from Brouwerij Anders! 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Purple colour with foamy head. Smells and tastes like stale old beer. Quite unpleasant.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Color: Golden, white head. Aroma: Malt, yeasty. Taste: Malt, yeast, banana notes. Medium body, average carbonation. Smooth mouthfeel, foamy. Moderate to medium sweet and bitter. Ok.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Brut Purple IPA from Brouwerij Anders! 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Anders Brut Purple IPA (by Brouwerij Anders!):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5
28/IV/19 - sample @ Zythos Bierfestival 2019 (Leuven), BB: n/a - (2019-616) Thanks to nathanvc, 77ships & Anke for sharing today's beers!
Little cloudy very purple beer, lots of debris floating around in under a big purple head. Aroma: grapefruit, citrus, some tropical fruits, yoghurt. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity, citrus, grapefruit, bitter. Aftertaste: bit sourish, soft bitterness, more citrus, bit acidic, some tannins, bit sugary, black currant (?).
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle. Color: Clear golden, white head. Aroma: Malt, sweetish, bit herbal. Taste: Over medium sweet, notes of yeast, caramel and herbal notes, toast. Sugary, notes of honey. Hints of yellow fruit. Bit metallic finish. Medium body, average carbonation. Drinkable but not that special. Lacking complexity. Not my kind of beer.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed De Soldaat (2012-...) from Brouwerij Anders! 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Beer made for Prik & Tik, the buying group that incorporates many drinks stores including some of the top quality ones; 33 cl 'trappist' bottle from Lokerse Drankencentrale. Apparently this beer has been made before by Affligem, but this is clearly the present-day Anders version. Intricately cobweb-lacing, medium thick, fine-bubbled, snow white head, slowly showing gaps, over a misty peach blonde beer with pale orangey hue. Aroma of old wrinkled apples, strong effect of dried orange peel (the old familiar curaçao, I guess), deep-fried banana, clear 'rusty' oxidation, old bread crust, damp kitchen towels and jute bags, damp straw, honey, dried ginger powder, soapy and 'dusty' coriander seed, hints of stale tomato soup, spoiled basil leaves, sweet potato, dust, sweet cicely or even aniseed note, touch of dry earth. Fruity onset, quite crisp still, with peach, banana and pineapple notes, well-carbonated but very tolerable for a Belgian blonde, smooth-bodied with a light soapy edge enhanced in the finish by coriander seed effects, sweetish-cereally and lightly caramelly malt body underneath, with a thin layer of honeyish unfermented sugariness on top. Phenolic clove-like spicy effects join in near the finish, almost overpowering the coriander and curaçao effects that clearly have been effectively used as spicing; grassy, floral, bit earthy hop bitterness in the tail as well, lingering a bit on the root of the tongue. Some coriander soapiness accompanies this hop element but it is the unfermented sweetness - clearly this is not an all-malt beer - that prevails; retronasally, a brief anise-like scent appears too, likely of phenolic origin. Your run-of-the-mill sweet and accessible Belgian blonde, as stereotypical as it gets (and too old, even oxidized, in my particular sample) - so this is hardly something I can recommend, even if it is brewed correctly. Beers like this - I keep encountering them all the time even after having had thousands of Belgian brews by now - do nothing to educate the consumer or to extend the Belgian beer map. Completely unnecessary and way too 'easy', but not a failure technically speaking, I think that about sums it up.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Sample at ISM-International Sußware Messe. Amber beer, small head. Aroma is some chocolate and malt. average malty sweet beer that actually gets better with chocolate, but it was rather dull
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed 888 Tripel Eight from Brouwerij Anders! 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle (3,35€) from Prik&Tik Kampenhout. F: huge, white, good retention. C: orange gold, hazy. A: malty, banana, honey, red apple peels, chewing gum, bit spicy, mellow fruity, yeasty. T: malty, mellow fruity, banana, juniper alcohol touch, bit herbal, decent bitterness, bit yeasty, spicy, medium to full body and higher carbonation, drinkable over-priced tripel that’s all, marketing beer
Bierridder (4318) reviewed 7PK from Brouwerij Anders! 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
09/03/2019 - 33cl bottle @my sister's place. Cloudy orange coloured. Big white head. Nose and taste : malts, fruits, caramel. Tad too sweet.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Tornado 67 from Brouwerij Anders! 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
24 February 2019. Wieze Bierfestival - cheers to Meeki, Ama Deke & the lovely Anke! Clear orange-amber with a lasting, thin, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of cookie dough, cinnamon, candied banana, plum, apricot, dark honey, peach, butterscotch. Taste is light to medium malty sweet, cookie dough filled with honey & caramel but not overly sugary, minor notes of (dark) fruit (raisin, plum), vague banana; light spicy bitter middle brings aniseed, pepper, cookie spices & nutty accents. Dryish, faintly herbal hoppy finish, more plum & honey, vague cabbage-like note. Medium body, slick texture, lively carbonation (too much effectively). Well-balanced and tasty, too bad about the palate.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Rex from Brouwerij Anders! 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Beer made at Anders for the renowned cheese “affineur” Van Tricht, a Belgian ale hopped with Cascade, bottled in 75 cl with cork and intended as an accompaniment for cheese plates (note: see tderoeck's absolutely correct remark below that there is no beer that could possibly match with all cheeses, so this cheese affineur should at least have gone through the trouble of specifying which cheese this beer is intended for!). Egg-white, thick but relatively large-bubbled, irregularly shaped and slowly thinning head over a warm ‘metallic’ old gold robe with a pale orangey tinge, lightly hazy at first with strong, almost champagne-ish fizz, misty with sediment. Aroma of apple peel, young abbey cheese, banana, clear but not too obtrusive DMS (overcooked Brussels sprouts), dried apricots, straw, white bread slices, dried orange peel, pumice, butter, minerals, subtle clove-like phenols. Fruity onset, apple, banana and peach notes, sweetish but not overly so, lots of minerally side activity and lively carbonation yet nowhere harsh and in that sense pleasant enough, like champagne. Smooth pale malt sweetish, lightly bready and cereally body with a sweetish layer of honeyish residual sugar on top but very thinly so, as well as a dull sourishness underneath; the finish brings a dried orange peel aspect but not the luscious fresh citrus effects I was hoping for when I read that Cascade, the archetypical New World hop variety, has been used here. Some cheesy notes are noticeable – ‘old’ hops I assume, but in this particular case perhaps to be considered a happy coincidence… Lingering, earthy and mildly spicy hop bitterness pairs with equally long, bready yeastiness and maltiness. Not a bad beer per se (only the DMS bothered me a bit), typical Anders quality standard I reckon, but do not promise me a Cascade-hopped IPA if it just going to be yet another cliché Belgian blonde, because the Cascade here is faint and thin, to the extent that I would probably not have suspected the presence of a New World hop in this beer if I hadn’t known. Van Tricht is a cheese specialist and not a beer specialist – perhaps they need to involve old Ben Vinken again to come up with some more Belgian cliché beers to match with their cheeses…