Boelens

Regional Brewery in Belsele, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

Established in 1993

Contact
Kerkstraat 7, Belsele, 9111, Belgium
Description
Regional brewery that is very known for both it's own brands, as well as their contract brews.

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.

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6.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Clear pale golden colour, tall soapy white head, half-way lasting, light lacing. Aroma malts, peach, pear, canned tangerine, yeast. Taste medium sweet and bitter, malty, fruity, light citrus. Sweetbitter aftertaste, fruity, orange peel, spicy notes, medium body, oily to creamy texture, soft carbonation, decent blond ale.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Sep 2017 at 09:53


6

Tried on 24 Aug 2017 at 13:53


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

28/07/2017 @home - 33cl bottle shared by jerre. Cloudy yellow, just a small rim as a head. Nose is is sweet malty, low spice, banana. Taste is sweet malts, banana, honey. Not brilliant.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Aug 2017 at 05:54


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Thank you Alengrin! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ “Belgian Ticks Tasting Ghent”. Golden, solid white head. Nose is classical Boelens chemical, sweet, cleaning products, banana,… Taste is massive banana, sugar, chemical, washing products, industrial,… Body is industrial chemical, sweet washing powder, chemical,… A typical Boelens affair.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Jul 2017 at 02:15


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Imported from my RateBeer account as Boelens De Schat van Belsele (by Boelens):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

21/VII/17 - 33cl bottle @ Belgian Ticks Tasting (home) - BB: 16/III/19 (2017-1087) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!

Clear blond beer, big aery irregular off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: fruity, some grapefruit, kiwi, bit sweet, spicy yeast. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sweet in the start, honey, bit sugary, some citrus, little bitter. Aftertaste: soft bitterness, sweet, spicy, lots of orange peel.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jul 2017 at 18:01


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Pours clear, light blonde. Small white head. Smell is rather yeasty. Doughy from the malts. Taste is reeasonably bitter. Creamy. Bit doughy malts. Slighly off to me ( cooked vegetables ? )

Tried on 21 Jul 2017 at 09:25


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Apparently a new tripel commissioned by a group of hobby brewers at Boelens, who has actively been doing commissioned beers at a high rate in the past years - maybe taking advantage of the fact that nearby ’Proef’brouwerij is a lot harder to get in than before, with all that Danish gypsy brewery activity going on there... Spotted this bottle by coincidence in a night shop in central Antwerp, returned there afterwards for cigarettes at which point Erwin purchased it, and shared it at 77ships’s place. Textbook cobweb-lacing, off-white, irregular, stable head, hazy peachy-hued ’old gold’ robe. Aroma of soggy white bread, hay, coriander seed, turnip, pear, cooked potatoes, celery, banana, some vague DMS. Fruity, bit estery onset, banana as expected, pear and peach hints, supple mouthfeel, fizzy but not overcarbonated. Dryish bread crust- and cereal-like malt body, phenolic effects retronasally along with soapy coriander seed and an earthy, mildly spicy, floral hop bitter touch. Very stereotypical, I do not see why yet another cliché tripel has to be added to the already overcrowded market for this type of beers in Belgium, but technically okay.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Jul 2017 at 10:22


4.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Thank you Alengrin! Procured at a night store & shared from the inside pocket of his jacket. Things were long weird by this point. Beautiful! “Late night” tasting @ home. 330 ml. bottle sampled. I am not interested in the whole Belgian Tripel scene or what Boelens makes. Lots of fans in Belgium but I am not one of them. Hazy orange, big creamy white head. Nose is sweet chemical Boelens rubbish soap, bland, industrial affair,… Taste is weird alcoholic standard Boelens plastic low fish guts, oily plastic,… Body is chemical, soap, plaster,… The usual stuff, not my thing at all.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Jul 2017 at 14:09


5.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Imported from my RateBeer account as #5 Belgian Golden Tripel (by Boelens):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.7/5

15/VII/17 - 33cl bottle from some night shop near Suikerrui (Antwerp) @ post-Billies cool-down at 77ships' place (Antwerpen) - BB: 30/IX/18 (2017-1031) Thank to Erwin for sharing the bottle!

Clear orange beer, big irregular foamy off-white yellowish head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet, malty, alcohol, sugary, floral, yeast. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: bit malty, rather sweet, some banana and banana peel, vanilla notes, alcohol is very noticeable. Aftertaste: sweet, grains, a lot of yeast, not a big fan of this one.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Jul 2017 at 18:00


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

at M-Cafe. Pours clear blonde, stable, fluffy, white head. Smell is mild hoppy. Taste is full, bit sweet, fruity, some aromatic hops. Bit malty. This actually ain’t to bad !

Tried on 12 Jul 2017 at 20:10