bottle from alkoholfributik.dk
hazy yellow, smooth creamy white head
citrussy lemon/lime juicy aroma, faint malty balance
flavor is citrus/lime, malty base, creamy texture, refreshing, mouthfeel as a solid beer, quite tasty and flavorful, citrussy.
excellent nonalc.

25 October 2025. At “Gentse Biervereniging Kelderschatten” (Baracuna). Cheers to the whole crew!

Pale malt, lime, pineapple, wheat, soap. Sweetish plum & apricot, soap, sourish lime. Soft floral hops, lingering citrus zest & soap. Bit too soapy, but not offensive as a whole.

Renamed "glutenvrije quadrupel" meanwhile, this is originally one of Slaapmutske's Hop Collection beers, featuring a different hop with each edition - Kent Goldings in this case. Steinie bottle from the Delhaize supermarket at Watersportbaan in Ghent. Rosy-tinged very pale beige, very creamy, hops-enhanced, frothy, huge and dense head on an initially near clear warm orangey peach blonde robe with ochre-ish tinge, misty with sediment. Aroma of young 'graanjenever' upfront, peaches soaked in gin, brioche, halfripe peach, drying orange peel, coriander seed, hints of vegetable stock, cold pumpkin soup, unripe pear, banana, raw carrot and a vague background whiff of manure but not in an overly offensive way. Sweet onset, canned apricot, ripe pear and banana peel, prickly carbonation, full and soft mouthfeel; white bread- and brioche-like maltiness with honeyish residual sugars on top along with coriander seed spiciness and some clove-like phenols which also become a bit 'soupy', another effect of an overdose of 4-vinyl-guaiacol. Floral hop bitter notes unfold - but before the Kent Goldings can unfold its 'rural', earthy and herbal features, it is halted and scorched away by a wry, cheap jenever-like, warm and crude booziness, extending the bitterness of the hops in a way that does not pay the hops the respect they deserve. Way too boozy for its own good: why not keep this at, say, 5-7% ABV in order to let the hops speak for themselves? Adding insult to injury, the brewer even renamed it 'quadrupel' and gives this term more emphasis than the hops, so the booziness is only being underlined that way - while in reality this is not even a quadrupel at all, lacking malty and sugary sweetness as well as colour. This is, if anything, a very typical Flemish tripel, and one of the unrefined and utterly boozy kind. Slaapmutske has a quarter of a century of experience now: sorry Dany, but you can do a lot better than this...

One of those typically Belgian ales which have a story more elaborate than their flavour - and very likely a simple alias of Slaapmutske Blond, the first Slaapmutske beer ever released, now a quarter of a century ago (as I indeed remember personally). Slaapmutske is located adjacent to the city of Ghent (in Melle) so it is not surprising that now-octogenarian Etienne Flerick, the eponymous 'Tjenne De Strop', came into contact with them to produce his own beer, celebrating the processional giant (a folkloristic thing I will not digress about here) that was made in his honour; Flerick is the dean of the St. Pieters station neighbourhood in Ghent ('dean' in this case referring to an ancient, secular and 'commercial' function in the traditions of this city which I cannot digress about here either), coincidentally the neighbourhood where I live, and grew up in this vicinity, so it feels appropriate for me to be the first (and probably last) one to review this ultra-local beer... Interestingly, Flerick was also the man behind Gensch Manneke Pis, a witbier launched in 2013 and still in existence today as far as I know. Anyway, long story short: egg-white, irregular, medium thick, very stable, irregularly but persistently cobweb-lacing head over an initially crystal clear, pure golden blonde robe with 'old gold' hue and clear visible sparkling rising upwards, turning misty with sediment. Aroma of ripe banana and even some chewing gum (isoamylacetate), white bread, coriander seed, wet powder sugar, rainwater, potato juice, chamomile, hints of grass, roses, wet dog, sweetclover, old turnips, unripe pear somewhere. Fruity onset, sweetish with a lot of banana ester but also impressions of ripe pear, ripe peach and red apple, with a vaguely sourish undertone reinforced by very active, though not painfully stinging, still minerally carbonation; smooth body, feeling a tad fuller than the ABV would suggest. Simple but effective pale maltiness, sweetish with some residual, honeyish sugars on top, grainy but also agreeably white-bready in its core, flavoured with the obligatory dash of coriander that lingers (too long) over the finish, which in itself adds a floral, gentle yet effective hop bitter effect to the whole. Earthy retronasal whiffs of old potatoes and old turnips, along with all the coriander, are less pleasant. The hop bitterness spreads a bit but does so very carefully - luckily though, the rather dominant banana ester begins to fade seconds after swallowing, even though the coriander effect annoyingly remains, even with a somewhat astringently herbal, unpleasant effect. I already used up a lot of words to describe something overly simplistic: this is yet another reiteration of the eternal Belgian blonde ale, incorporating the stereotypical banana ester and even (strong!) coriander - I guess zythologists could use this as a textbook example of the style. It has been too long since I last had Slaapmutske Blond (sorry Danny!) but I am almost certain that this is just an 'etiketbier' of it - a side by side tasting seems in order, for those 'thusly inclined'. Boring to the bone, but I sincerely hope old Etienne, or indeed 'Tjenne' as they say in the local dialect, enjoys this beer in his honour - as stated above, I happen to live in his deanery so I will remain very careful in my comments...

Old rating from 13-03-16 - 330ml bottle brought home from my trip to Belgium last summer. Pours a hazy golden colour with a large white head. Aromas of citrus & malt. Tastes of citrus, orange peel, spice & malt, leading to a sweet fruity bitterness finish. Overall, a nice summer drink.

Draft from GRNYBF. Golden pour moderate head, nice floral notes. Pretty decent tripel overall............

Old rating from 14-02-16 - 330ml bottle picked up in Belgium on my trip last summer. Pours a brown colour with foamy beige head. Aromas of caramel & malt. Tastes is on the rich side with a malty caramel, plums, spice leading to a sweet fruity aftertaste. Overall a decent beer.