Alengrin (11609) reviewed 888 Tripel Eight from Brouwerij Anders! 7 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
After François Grand Cru, the "Belgian Beer Experts" (not hindered by any form of modesty), now present us with this second tripel - these experts apparently do not excel at originality to say the least. This one is their claim to fame, it seems, intended to conquer the Chinese market with a reference to the number 8 (which seems to symbolically refer to prosperity in China) and the colour yellow (the most prestigious of all colours in Chinese culture); contracted out to an importer in Hong Kong and entering in cooperation again with the familiar face of television journalist Patrick Van Gompel, this is clearly a beer with ambitions. Comes from a fancy black longneck bottle with golden letters on its label, but when removing the cap, also carrying this golden '888' logo on a black background, beer streamed out of the longneck's neck - gushing is never a good start for me, but does not necessarily affect the flavour of the beer so let's investigate what this is about. Typical 'gusher head': towering high at first, but collapsing rapidly and eventually reduced to a thinnish but stable, open, egg-white ring and a few flat 'islands' in the middle. Lightly hazy, warm peach-hued 'old gold' robe with vivid strings of sparkling. Aroma of very strong isoamylacetate (banana-flavoured chewing gum), ripe pineapple, candied orange peel, honey liqueur, coriander seed, overripe cantaloupe, young 'jenever', granulated sugar, industrial cider, sweetsop and candyfloss, hints of freshly cut grass, pear, white bread, vague stewing white cabbage. Sweet onset as expected, lots of honeyish residual sugars carrying on throughout the palate along with strong banana ester, ripe pineapple and ripe pear notes with the banana ester being predominant; spritzy carbonation, slick and lean body. White bready maltiness almost bending under the weight of the residual, honeyish white candi syrup sweetness but maintaining its cereally character yet showing a thin metallic edge as well; it evolves into a medium bitterish finish in which a whiff of soapy coriander pops up, immediately followed by a grassy, simple, bit floral hop note providing some late bitterness and eventually finished off by a glow of heating, 'appeljenever'- or gin-like alcohol, which turns a bit peppery in the end. The banana ester and residual sugary sweetness keep dominating the entire picture. Like its predecessor, this is another sweet, simply structured and 'easygoing' tripel clearly intended to appeal to a large audience, and we all know the Chinese audience is a large one to say the least. Commercially this might work, but any beer geek will immediately see through the whole commercial mumbo-jumbo surrounding this essentially very conservative beer, which suffers from too much simplicity in its malt department, too much insufficiently hidden alcohol and too much sweetness; this is all about image and making money, even if these guys are apparently self-proclaimed beer experts. They very clearly are totally oblivious to the international tendencies that are making beer great again - no pun intended - and seemed to have no more inspiration than to turn to the worn-out sweet Belgian tripel formula, not for the first time, but for the second. Points off for that, for claiming to be hoppy while in this 21st-century context it clearly is not, for its badly hidden alcohol, and for the gushing.
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Tropical Milkshake 2018 from Brouwerij Anders! 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
F: thin, white, not long lasting. C: straw, hazy. A: citrus, orange, mellow tropical fruity. T: citrus, tropical fruits, grapefruits, medium body and lively carbonation, nice balanced, fully enjoyed, sample draft shared with Germany and BE RB crew @ ZBF 2018.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Süffiger, frisch hopfiger Beginn. Süßlich, angenehm herb, sehr süffig. Rund würzig-bitter, spritzig. Gefällt. 10/10/9/10//10
SinH4 (15499) reviewed Tropical Milkshake 2018 from Brouwerij Anders! 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap. Hazy pale golden color with white head. Aroma is tropical fruits, blueberries. Taste is blueberries, oniony, biscuity, lactose, juicy. Silky mouthfeel with fine-bubbled carbonation. I like!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
28 April 2018, at Zythos Bierfestival. Deputy Taster: Anke.
Hazy pale yellow with a small, foamy, white head; some lacing. Aroma of passionfruit, grapefruit, pineapple, mango, carambola, flowery hops. It tastes light to medium fruity sweet and light to medium hoppy bitter, some yeast & doughy malt in the back. Dry, hoppy, fruity & grapefruit-like finish, not overly bitter. Medium body, creamy texture, fizzy carbonation. One of the best beers at the festival.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sampled @ Zythos Bier Festival 2018. A murky pale yellow beer. Aroma of dry grassy hops, Lactose. Taste of dry citrusy hops, yellow fruits, lactose, long bitter finish.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Tropical Milkshake 2018 from Brouwerij Anders! 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy yellow colour with fluffy head. Aroma and flavour have a lot of bittersweet tropical fruits. Aftertaste has a lot of citrus pith.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Tropical Milkshake 2018 from Brouwerij Anders! 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Anders! 2018 Tropical Milkshake (by Brouwerij Anders!):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
28/IV/18 - on tap @ Zythos Bierfestival 2018 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2018-579) Thanks to the ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!
Clear pale yellowish beer, creamy white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of passion fruits, pineapple, mango, nice stuff, really lovely smell! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: soft bitter, hoppy, bit of citrus, mango, bit metallic. Aftertaste: fruity, soft bitterness, tropical fruits, little metallic, nice one!
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Mokke Bruin from Brouwerij Anders! 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
The third Mokkebier, a dubbel brewed at Pirlot. Steinie bottle from De Vidts in Sint-Niklaas. Very thick, frothy, foamy, yellow-tinged egg-white, thickly papery lacing, stable head over an initially clear, mahogany brown beer with vermillion hue, turning misty with sediment. Aroma of melting caramel, dried prunes, soapy coriander, very clear and way too strong, head stabilizing iron (the 'hand test' says it all), dry tree branches, vague chewing gum, unripe pear, walnut, brown bread crust, old coffee grounds, dried thyme, field flowers, dust, straw. Restrainedly sweetish onset with sourish edge, accentuated by quite sharp, even lightly numbing, fizzy carbonation, supple mouthfeel, hints of dried prunes, slight baked banana and unripe peach but subdued in its esteriness; medium thick, bread crust-, cereal- and hard butterscotch-like malt body with a very vague bitter chocolatey touch to it as well as far less vague, even obtrusive iron as described in the nose; toasty bitterish tail, retaining its caramelly sweetish character but adding a floral, lightly peppery hop note, the bittering powers of which remain limited. Most of the 'end bitterness' keeps coming from toasted malts, with a dash of hoppy spiciness thrown in as well as the obligatory coriander effect (spicy-sweet soapiness). The metallic effect lingers, flanking the 'caramelliness' and toastiness, softly bittering but remaining sweetish too. Bitterness is slightly more strong in the end than sweetness, lasting for a while, with even a very late (after swallowing) coffee-like flavour to it, convincing enough to make me wonder if a pinch of coffee hasn't been added. Decent as such, apart from that iron addition, which has been used by Belgian breweries all too often in the past - but Pirlot apparently still does it. Dryish dubbel, probably taking Westmalle Dubbel as an example, but feeling more metallic than that. Acceptable but I think this is a bit of a step backwards compared with Mokke Blond and Mokke Ros. I've encountered more enchanting brunettes...