In the period after 1850, the De Meester-Boelens brewery was founded at the current address in the Kerkstraat. in 1897 the name changed to Boelens-De Meester. Brewing stopped during World WarI, after the war the family continued the business as a bottling and beer enterprise. In 1978 Kris Boelens took over the beer business from his father. He reintroduced beer brewing in Belsele in 1993. In 2016 his son Yannick Boelens joined the brewery.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Brouwerij De Hazen Zilveren Haas from Boelens 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brouwerij De Hazen Zilveren Haas (by Brouwerij De Hazen):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5
11/V/18 - 33cl bottle, shared from a trade, shared with Brambo @ home - BB: 30/I/20 (2018-696) Thanks to Alengrin for the trade!
Little cloudy deep orange to amber beer, big solid creamy off-white to light beige head, very stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of banana, bit sweetish, caramel malty finish. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: quite some banana, sweet malts, bit sugary, dusty, coriander. Aftertaste: soft bitterness, sweet malts, overripe banana, hoppy touch, marzipan, bit oxidized.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Tripel Klok from Boelens 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
6 May 2018. At De Heeren van Liedekercke. Cheers to Anke's birthday!
Pours hazy ochre with a small, frothy, white head. Sweet aroma of ripe banana, mango, orange, yeast, spices, white bread & white sugar, dough, some honey. It tastes medium fruity sweet, a tad sugary, and light to medium spicy bitter, yeasty back. Dry, sweetish, fruity & yeasty finish. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Won't sweep you off your feet, but okay.
rami-pl (12989) ticked Heerenbier from Boelens 7 years ago
No taki typowy ciemny belg, slodkawy, przyprawowy, cieknoowocowy. Najs jest, 3.4?
SVD (7137) reviewed Epsilon Tripel from Boelens 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Best before Dec 2016, Thnx to the son of the owners of the bowling which it was brewed for. Gusher.... Golden beer, small head. Aroma is malt, fruit sweet. Taste is the same and very sweet, has aged quite ok.
caesar (10848) ticked Santa Bee from Boelens 7 years ago
Prima belgian strong ale
caesar (10848) reviewed Kerstbier from Boelens 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Beerwulf, thx to a friend, as Santa-Bee. Thought I would have rated this already, but apparently not. Slight hazy copper color, medium frothy head. Aroma of caramel and toasted malts, slight autumn spices, bit molasses. Bit sweet in taste, slight burned caramel. Decent belgian strong ale.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Broere Marcel from Boelens 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pours cleqr, amberblonde. Small white head. Smell is yeasty. Bit phenolic. Taste is full, tad sweet, very yeasty (phenolic and esthers ). Medium body, lower carbo. Bit unbalanced.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Het Verdronken Land (8.5%) from Boelens 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Boelens tripel made exclusively for the Verdronken Land pub, the only pub in Emmadorp, a tiny, remote village in the south of the Netherlands, near the Schelde river and an important, vast natural reserve area; I’ve known this pub since I was a child as it is only a couple of miles from where I live, but until last weekend I had no idea they had a decent beer choice including this house beer. Thick, regularly shaped, foamy, membrane-lacing, snow white head, initially clear orange-tinged peach blonde robe, hazy with sediment. Aroma of dried apricots, dried dandelion leaves, chewing gum, plastic, banana, honey, bread crust, apple, straw, clove-like phenols, ‘jenever’, coriander seed. Rounded, fairly ‘cleanly’ fruity onset, banana ester, peach and apple peel, sweet with a sourish edge, medium carbonated. Lean, rounded, slick caramelly and cereally malt body, lingering honeyish sweetness on top, a tad resinous; floral and a bit rooty hop bitter finish, bringing some balance against the sweetness. Soapy coriander-ish aspects and some clove-like spicy phenols as well as something plastic-like and badly hidden, somewhat wry, ‘jenever’-like alcohol. Very classically Belgian cliché tripel, nothing extraordinary going on here, but admittedly Boelens has improved a bit in recent years and this is a good example of his current quality level. One remark, though: I find it impossible to believe that a special batch would be made only for this small and very remotely situated pub, so this is without any doubt an alias – probably of Tripel Klok.
Vignale (8386) reviewed Tripel Klok from Boelens 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Flaska från belgiuminabox. BBD aug-17. Gyllengul med gigantiskt vitt skum och en hel del sediemnt i sista tredjedelen. Doft av alkoholburna fruktiga estrar, äpplen, syltade apelsinskal, jäst, marsipan. Trots åldern riktigt potent och kraftfull med värmande alkohol och söta fruktiga smaker. Torrare avslutning men en örtig beska som liknar en besk snaps som balanserar sötman bra. Mycket gott.