BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Kerstbier from Boelens 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
33cl bottle (as Santa Bee) at the Botteltje on 20th October 2024. Deep ruby body, off-white crust. Sweet malty little number, dark fruits and some winter spice action.
BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Dust! from Boelens 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle in the Botteltje on 20th October 2024. Light mist in my golden pour, white head that hung around. Hoppy blonde with a few spices added (maybe), yeasty and pleasant.
Bierridder (4318) ticked Cyclist from Boelens 1 year ago
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Dust! from Boelens 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Botteltje Ostend. Cloudy gold colour lasting white head. Esters on aroma. Yep it's an esters hoppy blond. Spicy hop. Yes it's fine. Tasty.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Dino from Boelens 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
"Savage tripel" developed by a self-proclaimed student-entrepreneur from Bonheiden (in the south of the Antwerp province), commercially produced at Boelens. Very thick and rocky, thickly plaster-like lacing, egg-white, bath-moussey, firm and stable head on an initially near clear, pale yellow-golden robe with a column of steady sparkling rising up from the middle; misty and a bit deeper apricot-tinged with sediment. Aroma of crumbled Betterfood cookies, white bread, ripe banana, pear, some canned pineapple and peach jam, honey, grass, dry hay, young beech leaves in spring, daisies, mugwort leaf, cooked parsnip, limestone dust, waffles, petrichor, wodka. Fruity onset, sweet with a lot of ripe banana, ripe pear and ripe peach, next to notes of red apple and pineapple as well as a very dim sourish undertone, enhanced by lively, very minerally (limestone, gypsum) carbonation; smooth, bit fluffy, agreeable mouthfeel. Residual, honeyish sugars sweetly - but not too cloyingly - linger over a slick white-bready malt core, lending it a somewhat dry cookie-, Betterfood- and even brioche-like character; this honeyish sweetness pairs well with delicate floral hopping, providing a mild finishing bitterness. Phenols are largely kept at bay, while sweet yellow fruit, residual sugar and pale malt sweetishness linger, slightly bittered by the abovementioned floral hops, into a warming finish where a wodka-like alcohol glow flares up, creating an unnecessary, somewhat obnoxious heat down the throat. The alcohol should be better hidden in a tripel of this strength and it is clear that this student-entrepreneur and Boelens have opted for a sweet tripel to please the masses, so in that sense there is nothing savage about this: instead of raw Mesozoic power, I get yet another boring, straightforward, sweet mass-market tripel, adding absolutely nothing to the already vast lake of similar beers in this country. That said, in this particular market segment it is admittedly well made and very easily drinkable, so at least the creator's entrepreneurship has a reasonable chance of commercial success with this beer. And if not, surely he will choose something completely different than beer to satisfy his commercial appetite, because that is what natural-born entrepreneurs do. You know what is missing in this beer, apart from complexity and originality? Love and passion, not for the sake of having an own entreprise itself, but for beer. I think that by now, we have had enough of these opportunistic guys skimming the market with bland, distracting, mass-marketed and uninspired run-of-the-mill blondes and tripels just because they can make a buck out of it - have we not?
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Hubert from Boelens 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Clear golden yellow beer with a white head. Aroma of pale malt, some grains, some belgian yeast. Taste of herbal and grainy pale malt, straw, yeast.
Koelschtrinker (42542) reviewed Hubert from Boelens 1 year ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Trockener, herb getreidiger Beginn. Schnell auch bitter werdend, was aber auf geringem Level verharrt. Spritzig, hellmalzig, mittellanger Abgang, rund. 7/8/7/8/6/7
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Dust! from Boelens 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Clear golden yellow beer with a white head. Aroma of dry grainy malt and some straw. Taste of dry grainy malt, straw, mild grassy hops.
Moretum (2327) reviewed Tripel Klok from Boelens 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Trübe goldene Farbe mit weißer Schaumkrone. Hefiger, fruchtiger, malziger Geruch. Geschmacklich hefig, fruchtig, malzig mit Vanille und Koriander. Mittlere Süße mit mittlerer Bitterkeit, mittlerer Körper mit spürbarer Kohlensäure.
Moretum (2327) reviewed Dubbel Klok from Boelens 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Dunkelbraune Farbe mit weißer Schaumkrone. Malziger Geruch mit Karamell. Geschmacklich malzig mit Karamell und Anklängen an Trockenfrüchten. Hohe Süße mit leichter Bitterkeit, mittlerer Körper mit spürbarer Kohlensäure.