5.8/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
(Bottle 33 cl) The type of beer that virtually "explodes" when the cap comes off. The foam floods out of the bottle and it just keeps on going. By the time, I locate a glass, only half of the original content is left. Aestetically, this scrapes the barrel: muddy grey-brown - pretty much the colour of Chinese river water. When it comes to the flavor it’s a bit like chocolate (milk), actually quite soft and malty with some bitterness. And a lot of sediment - like the bottom of the aforementioned Chinese river. At least a tea spoon full of it. 100104
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2005
at 05:34
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Spicy aroma. Golden colour. Small, creamy head. Spicy flavour, not too overwhelming, but nice. 7 3 6 3 13 ZBF08. Weak bready aroma. Sweet flavour, some OK bread aroma. Dark brown colour. Small light brown head. 6 3 7 3 15
Tried
on 30 Mar 2005
at 13:21
4.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Slightly aged sample - BBd + 6 months Gushing to fully flunky brown beer with olive shine and huge dirty-yellow head upheld by continuous carbonation. Sourish-phenolic nose, sulphury, cypress and laurel (bay leaf), berries, gooseberry. Quite sour taste, lactic and other organic acids. Pediococcus? In the depth dark and sweetish malts. Brown sugar too - the aroma, not the sweetness. Light body, allegedly partly by the acids, and slick, ’cobwebby’ feeling from the yeastload. I know sh*t of it, but Mr. Boelens, your beer has a yeast infection.
Tried
on 24 Mar 2005
at 14:16
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Distinct citrusy aroma. Yellow colour, small white head. Small bits of yeast at the bottom. Nice, mild citrusy flavour.
Tried
on 23 Mar 2005
at 16:51
3.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
Very pale gold; small but dense, quite white head. Something DMS-like: sulphuric, cooked vegetable, specifically celeri, corn, and of course, coriander for masking purposes. This is like a celery extract - flavoured with coriander. What is happening in this brewery? How can they sell it? Light to medium bodied. According to the brewer, "I know b*ll*cks of it". Which still leaves him with an enormous yeast problem. Does he lager this coriander concoction for longer than 1 minute?
Tried
from Can
on 06 Mar 2005
at 15:18
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Gusher. Very highly carbonated, everything churns in my glass. Little bits of yeast floating everywhere. Cloudy golden colour with nice, big, stable white head. Aroma is acidic/sour and perhaps also a bit malty. Refreshing acidic flavour reminding me of orange juice. This is good!
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Feb 2005
at 13:10
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Very highly carbonated, big head. Aroma fruity and sour. Very acidic flavour, a hint of strawberry. Tastes a bit like vinegar, but I like it. Possibly infected? Different bottle: Malty, perfumy/soapy aroma. Brown colour, small creamy head. Flavour also malty with a hint of perfume. Sweet aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2005
at 10:49
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Hazy wheaty-gold; very slim white head. Grainy, malty nose, some shrubbery or greenwood. Some liqueurish notes, rather than candy sugar. Flavours of chaff, old grain, much more liqueurish - the alcohol shows, on top of the typical (raw) grain character. If I had to classify this, I would think of European Strong lager, or malt liquor with all the bad associations going with this - despite the topfermenting. Medium bodied, alcohol thins it. Way too unrefined. If tripel was intended, it’s failed.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Oct 2004
at 03:06
3.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 2
Pale, slightly hazy yellow with orange-green shine; very slim head, reduced in seconds to film. Terrible nose of Belgian "pickles" (=lots of vegetable things in a sauce, involving a lot of vinegar or stomach acid, and a sickly unripe mango colour). Fruity too, but VERY unripe fruit. Sour, diacetyl, acetic acid. On the verge of undrinkable. Infected as the plague. Medium bodied, acid burn, (stomach burn guaranteed). Boelens ought to be ashamed of themselves. This is not acceptable - and I tried 2 bottles, both undrinkable
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2004
at 14:33
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottled Cloudy ruby colour. Sweetish, fruity and aromatic. Soft and medium bodied with aospy hop character. Another interesting beer from Boelens!
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2004
at 03:49