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

Bottled. Hazy orange brown color, huge white head. Loads of carbonation. Aroma is spicy, ginger, fruity of orange, mandarin, distinct spice. Clean watery taste, hint of caramel, orange. Ends with a dusty spicy aftertaste, bit dry. Strange but nice brew.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Mar 2008 at 16:55


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

[i] [b] Bottle picked up at Dranken Geers, Gent, Belgium. Had this 13-03-08 [/i] [/b] Pours a hazy amber colour, darkish amber maybe with the odd yeast floaty in there. I get some bubblegum on the nose Loz said rotting vegetation? How we can differ so much I don’t know but I sort of know where she’s coming from, we both settle on there being a mustiness to this which isn’t unpleasant. I also get some ginger or galangal in the mouth but it’s weakish and more than balanced out by sweet malts and molasseses. I quite like this, but it’s quite difficult to catergorise.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Mar 2008 at 02:33


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

ZBF 2008 Etwas karamelliger Geruch, leicht würzig, Kräuter. Gewaltiger Malzantrunk, vollmundig, füllend. Ab dem Mittelteil bekommt das Aroma eine hopfige Unterstützung und wird etwas süßlicher. Im Abgang etwas brennend. Test vom 12.3.2008, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 10,11,10,12,-,11 - 10,89

Tried from Bottle on 12 Mar 2008 at 08:49


6.4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

ZBF2008: From tap. Pours hazy to murky orange/brown with a lacing white head. Caramel malt and light spiced aroma. Flavour starts sweet with a light toffee like caramel flavour. Subdued spice note too. Light butterish feel and flavour, not distinct diacetyl as such. Ends nice and smooth with a mix of toffee and spice.

Tried from Draft on 09 Mar 2008 at 08:05


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

ZBF2008: From tap. Pours hazy brown with a little lacing tan head. Light fruity and mild spiced aroma. Light fruity, mild spiced and quite sugarish sweet flavour. Lingering sweet caramel finish.

Tried from Draft on 09 Mar 2008 at 05:54


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

ZBF2008: From tap. Pours hazy red with a lacing light pink head. Aroma is berry fruity and sweet. Flavour strawberry, quite sweet and straight forward. Finish holds a light dry sulphorish note but is dominantly more of the same sweet strawberry flavour.

Tried from Draft on 08 Mar 2008 at 21:31


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

ZBF2008: From bottle. Pours dark brown with a lacing tan head. Light caramel malt aroma. Flavour is light fruity with a medium sweet caramel malt flavour. Light bitterness and subdued spice note.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Mar 2008 at 21:29


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

From the bottle at ZBF 08. Cloudy brown with lots of floaters. Lasting beige head. Attractive spicy dry malt aroma. Belgian yeast too. I like this. Odd flavours, but this ginger hop/dry malt works for me.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Mar 2008 at 06:09


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Fully hazy amber-orange, small yellowish head. Aroma’s of chocolate, cacaopowder, green matter, some coloured malts. Chocolate(malt), greenery, some acidity, ends on explicit chocolate. Maybe some honey. Medium bodied, quite slick, the acidity worries me. Still quite homebrew-like, bit it is obviously in its early stages. Actually quite enjoyable as tasted, but what in x weeks time?

Tried on 01 Mar 2008 at 12:11


5.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottled. Hazy orange colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is fruits, yeast and some fields during springtime. Also some spicyness as well as wood. Flavour is yeast, fruits and some malts. Grassyness comes in the aftertaste along with yeast and some mild spices.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Feb 2008 at 00:33