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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6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 7
Weird beer. It’s grassy and has a genuine taste of strawberry. But it’s also a bit flat.
Tried on 29 Sep 2013 at 12:49

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Nice beer with a tasty base of herbs and speculaas. Good that they didn’t overdo the sweetness.
Tried on 29 Sep 2013 at 12:41

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Standard honey beer with a spicy and yeasty aroma. Better than the usual honey beer, but still average.
Tried on 29 Sep 2013 at 12:38

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle @ Home. Pours hazy golden with a white head,. Aroma of malt, light yeast, honey, fruits, little cellar, brett. Flavor is malt, yeast, little sour, honey, sweet fruity, peach, apricot, a hint of brett. Medium body, soft carbonation, light warming alcohol. 270913
Tried from Bottle on 27 Sep 2013 at 14:03

7.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as Boelens Melseels Pijpke (by Boelens):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5

26/IX/13 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker) @ home - BB: n/a (2013-890)

Little cloudy amber to orange beer, fizzy white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, bit sweet, banana, peaches, some caramel. MF: quite some carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, malty, smoky touch, pretty bitter, fruity, some banana. Aftertaste: pretty bitter, fruity, some overripe fruits, malty, touch of dark bitter chocolate , bit smoky. Nice touch, that smoke, or am I imagining things because of the name???
Tried from Bottle on 26 Sep 2013 at 11:11

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 8
bottle @ bierhuiske pours blonde, good white head smells sweet, but nice taste is sweet, spices, bit malty, some bitterness, soft carbo . good complexity, very nice ! i know ( name, label AND text ) there’s honey in this . but even though its sweet, blindly i woudnt have guessed honey, ta-hats why its not in my rating. the honey part is very soft, subtile. love that !
Tried from Bottle on 22 Aug 2013 at 13:18

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 9
bottle @ bierhuyske pours blonde, very biog and rising white foam hoppy smell bitter, grainy, some honey ( no sweetness) and pretty sour from the hops, actualy . intresting !
Tried from Bottle on 09 Aug 2013 at 15:47

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
@ antwaerps bierhuyske pours amber, soft and good white head . smells rather sweet, soft carbo. taste is some coreander and other ’spices’ . some malts. like lager meets dubbel . very thin, yet it has more taste than you’d expect .
Tried on 31 Jul 2013 at 12:15

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Slightly unclear brown colour, cream head. Somewhat sour flavour, caramel, malts, butter and raisins. Light sour, light sweet flavour, caramel, malts, incense and banana. Finish yeast, hay, red wine, butter and wood.
1999th rating. Party, yeah!
(From 75cL bottle @ RBESG 2013 Grand Tasting, Bodegraven. Thanks for sharing, Abijen!)
Tried from Bottle on 25 Jul 2013 at 10:53

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
cloudy yellow, small white head. dry yteastry belgian cellary aroma. flavor is malty, wild yeasty, slightly fruity.
Tried on 20 Jul 2013 at 03:56