Brouwerij Serafijn (prev. Microbrouwerij Achilles)
Client Brewer
in Heist-op-den-Berg,
Antwerp,
Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Huisbrouwerij Achilles
- Out of business
Established in 1999
In 2015 Achilles became part of Caupona bvba (of the Prik & Tik stores in Heist-op-den-Berg and Herselt). The brewery is now called ''Brouwerij Serafijn.'' That is the new company in Heist that houses the Serafijn beers. The former microbrewery in Itegem has been dismantled.
The beer is now brewed at the Pirlot brewery in Zandhoven.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Hazy amber reddish colour, beige foam. Nose of marzipan, dried fruit. Taste is rather sweet, typical Belgian yeast profile.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Fles 33cl thuis. IBU66. Bitter, salmiak, as, zoeten, roasted malts, wat laurier, maple, , chocolade. Wat in onbalans. (30-12-2021).
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Not sure where I picked this bottle up from, but regardless I consumed it at home Thursday 2nd December 2021, we had Salmon and Cream Cheese Stuffed Pasta Shells for tea, listening to Gideon Coe on 6 Music. Pours hazy light amber with a white head. Some sugars on the nose, malt nose, with a little spice, toffee and caramel. The nose description is pretty much replicated in the mouth, it's also warming a little bit boozy and a jolly pleasant Barley Wine. .
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle from Prik & Tik Dranken Marlou. F: big, tanned, creamy, good retention. C: dark brown, hazy. A: rich malty, bit roasted tones, caramel, dried fruits, banana, candy sugar, bit rum. T: full malty base, dried fruits, figs, caramel, leaves, bit bready, brown sugar, rum touch, medium carbonation, toast, good one, enjoyed.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Very good, very dense, lightly yellowish head over finely carbonated clear copperish golden beer. Faint glue, green apples, lightly coloured malts. Sweet flavour, almondy, bit in a big way alcoholsweetness. Some scorched sugar, alcohol wryness. Unfermented white grapejuice. Quite a bit spicy too. Sticky, well bodied despite alcoholthinning, alcoholheat and its wryness. OK, not much more. Txs to Stef!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
28/VIII/21 - 44cl can from Willems (Grobbendonk), shared @ summer holiday in France, BB: 3/XI/23, L20200067 (2021-983)
Clear pale blond to yellow beer, big creamy pillowy off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, lots of banana, yeast, bit oxidized, sweet impression. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sweet start, bit malty, lots of alcohol, little bitter, some banana, sweet and sugary. Aftertaste: more ripe banana, pretty bitter and hoppy, bit oxidized, yeasty, sweet caramel malts, orange peel. A quad at best, but by no means is this a barley wine. Too much yeast in the taste profile…
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
bottiglia 33 cl, bel cappello di schiuma bianca fine persistente, color giallo arancio torbido, al naso spezie miele spezie e alcool, in bocca miele zucchero candito frutta a pasta gialla, carbonazione piatta (male!), oily, corpo medio, l’alcool si sente un po' troppo, dolce con amaro accentuato. Sarò esigente con le Tripel ma questa è scarsina. c. Enoteca del Corso Luino 16.07.21
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Copper colour with quick fading head. Aroma has some balsamic vinegar notes, mostly sour but with some caramel undertones. Flavour starts out similar with sweet and sour notes. There's some muscat and white port elements too. In the finish the wood really comes through. The residual sugars and the heavy notes of old wood give a slightly nutty feel. It's not far away from a Vlaams Bruin in many ways but has added layers of depth and complexity.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Fles 33cl thuis. Redelijk kruidig, rood fruit, zoetje, caramel, maltig, wat kaneel. (1-12-2020).
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