Alengrin (11609) reviewed Casa Grimaldi Grimaldieken from Boelens 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
New Boelens beer with wine added, made by a Flemish winery in Zottegem, Casa Grimaldi, which also commissions a blonde version (Grimaldie, elsewhere in this database). This is the ‘red’ version (“Grimaldie Rood”, so to speak), tasted from a bottle bought at Willems in Grobbendonk. Medium thick, off-white, opening and unstable head leaving behind some thin islands in the middle; lightly hazy, deep copper-hued amber robe with ruddy tinge. Aroma at first quite reminiscent of rosé wine, with additional notes of tea bags, candyfloss, fried red apples, iron, caramel, rosehip, dried apricot, dry clay, fig, raisin bread, glue and weird – probably largely phenolic – aromatic background notes of cough syrup and patchouli. Sweetish onset with a thin sourish edge which, with the necessary imagination, could indeed be compared with wine tartness, but only very faintly so; red apple, banana and apricot fruitiness, lively carbed, with a smooth-edged, bit resinous mouthfeel. Caramelly malt base with a sweet-nutty edge but a bit metallic too, leading to a herbal, still largely sweetish finish with rosehip and cough syrup accents as well as some rusty oxidation and again that vague rosé wine effect; hoppiness is of an earthy, herbal nature but offers very little bitterness, while the throat is gently warmed by gin-like alcohol. Weird, certainly among the most unusual Boelens beers I had to date, but interesting to their standards at least; there is indeed a clear ‘wine-esque’ feature to it. Too sweet for me though, and seemingly intended as a fruity, sweet ‘apéritif’ beer like there are more around in Belgium since several years.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Grimaldie Blond from Boelens 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Hazy blond beer, white foam. Nose of peach, white wine. Taste is refreshing, notes of grapes and wine, light body.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Broere Marcel from Boelens 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as Broere Marcel (by Boelens):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.1/5
19/I/19 - 33cl bottle @ Nieuwjaarsreceptie Gentse Biervereniging, BB: n/a - (2019-107) Thanks to everyone for the huge bottle share!
Clear yellow beer, creamy white had, very stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: some honey, sweet impression, pretty oxidized, ripe banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty, grains, hay, unpleasant bitterness, metallic touch. Aftertaste: grains, hay, cow fodder, sugary, ripe banana, too sweet, yeast, sugary, meh.
Iznogud (14627) reviewed Dubbel Klok from Boelens 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle, 330 ml, from De Caigny, Essen. Brown, medium beige head. Caramel, malty, some dried fruit, brown sugar, sweetish. Medium bodied.
diabel (1874) reviewed Hubert from Boelens 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Clear blond body. White creamy head. Lightly hoppy flavour. Heavily bitter, lightly sweet.
diabel (1874) reviewed Waaslander from Boelens 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Hazy golden body. Rich creamy head. Aroma of hops. Relatively bitter. Well balanced.
SinH4 (15499) reviewed Ne Wapper from Boelens 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle, with a corporate label by Vanhoucke "Blummecke", I reckon it is just a relabel, many thanks to Max. Unclear golden color with white head. Aroma is honey, apple, light vanilla, custard, belgian yeast. Taste is vanilla, honey, red apples. Thick oily mouthfeel with high carbonation. Very sweet.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Zageman from Boelens 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Beer made for the release of a book about Belgian pubs, very likely an alias, though I am unsure as to what the mother beer could be so I hesitantly decided to add it here anyway. Bottle from Streekproductencentrum in Halle. Medium thick, yellowish egg-white, moussy, regular, hardly lacing but well-retaining head on an immediately misty, warm apricot blonde beer with straw-ochre tinge and lively, but thin strings of sparkling here and there. Aroma of dried peaches, cooked carrot, potato juice, straw, dusty old coriander seed, camomile, earth, dried out orange peel, red apple, bread crust and a - fortunately very vague - whiff of something 'stinky' and sulfuric, but not so much that it ruins the entire aroma. Spritzy onset, sharply carbonated, stinging and minerally, souring; fruity notes of peach, apple and a dash of banana, quite restrained in sweetness. Supple, cereally, bit bready maltiness, eventually soaked in 'dusty-spicy and soapy coriander seed and a note of curaçao (dried bitter orange peel), with some lingering fruitiness; ends bready, a bit earthy and fruity, with the orange peel effect lingering on the tongue, paired with quite prominent, earthy, leafy hop bitterness, sticking a bit to the throat after swallowing. Could be a hoppier version of Hubert; in any case: acceptable Belgian style blonde, a bit more hop bitter than average and in that sense far from the worst I had in this range. But, as is all too often the case, this is again one of those beers where the 'story' and back label are more complicated and lengthy than the beer itself...