F: big, white, creamy, good retention. C: golden, light hazy. A: malt, fruity, herbal, green leaves, citrus, honey, yeast. T: malty, orange, herbal, dusty, grassy, coriander, bread, spicy, quite refreshing and interesting taste, medium body, normal carbonation, 0,75cl bottle from Delhaize @ Schaerbeek in Brussels.

New addition to this commissioned Orvélo range, tasted at GBF. Thick, frothy, lacing head over a hazy ochre blonde beer. Aroma of ripe banana, baker’s yeast, jute, raw potato, dried grass, sourdough, crabapple. Fruity onset, banana as is to be expected but also hints of peach and gooseberry, medium fizz, soapy wheat and somewhat thin, grainy barley maltiness in the middle, yeasty to even a tad starchy, sourish touch, earthy finish. I like a good German Hefeweizen - in fact, I tend to prefer them over Belgian witbier, but so far I have never encountered one from outside of southern Germany which can rival the classics; this one cannot change that, I’m afraid. Too earthy, lacking in refined phenolic spiciness, insufficiently bready in its barley component and a bit too messy.

Hazy blond with a lacy head. It’s very wheaty, fresh and clean. Nice, dry finish.

2 November 2019. 75cl bottle at Brocante Café Quiz, Bruges. Cheers, Ian & Cedric! Pours hazy ochre with an unstable, thin, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of unbaked bread, yeast, wheat, cheese, pepper, green banana. Taste has light sweet yellow apple, bready maltiness, quickly soapy-wheaty sourness kicks in, with bitter pepper & clove. Dry, grassy hoppy finish, more yeast & generic spices. Light to medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Still not impressed by this one. Missing a clear estery & German profile. Original rating: 20 August 2016. At Gents Bierfestival.

Thank you for sharing! Sampled 750 ml. bottle @ Gents Bierfestival 2016. Hazy orange, little creamy white head. Nose is like a caricature, low fish guts yeast, soap, lots of soap, dull stale wheat, plastic sweet. Taste is dull fish guts yeast, largely sweet plastic & soap, paper, sugar,… Body is soapy. Caricature, not too pleasant even if technically there is nothing wrong with it.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Orvélo Wijß (by De Proefbrouwerij):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.6/5

14/VIII/16 - 75cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker) @ home - BB: 26/IV/18 (2016-847)

Clear golden beer, big fizzy irregular white head, little stable, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: some banana, bit sugary, spicy, coriander, bit fruity, some citrus, soapy smell. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: bit of banana, some citrus, fruity, little sourish, bubble gum. Aftertaste: ripe banana, little sweet, sugary, spicy, yeast, coriander.

After the Orvélo Tripel, this dubbel version was added. Medium thick, moussy, regularly shaped, pale greyish tan head leaving light lacing and sitting atop a dark burgundy beer with vermillion hue, initially clear and fully translucent but hazy with deposit, with low fizz. Aroma of caramel, brown sugar, coriander seed, overripe pear, dried tree leaves, chestnut, white pepper, dried banana, hints of ginger powder, stewed apple, milk chocolate bar, dry earth, liquorish and cinnamon - in all, very cliché for a Belgian dubbel, but fortunately free of off-flavours and in that sense quite inviting. Sweetish onset of candied fig, banana with brown sugar and raisin with only a basic sourishness for balance, but the sweetness remains restrained and elegant, not becoming cloying at any point; carbo is medium and just fit for this style, mouthfeel is lean, supple and a bit resinous. Full, pleasant caramelly malt sweetness is the main theme here, but it has a nutty and eventually even subtly toasted bitterish edge working well with the herbal, earthy, gentle hop bitterness in the end; aftertaste is therefore agreeably bittersweet, something which is further accentuated by the obligatory dosis of soapy coriander seed, with some lingering esters (yet quite subduedly so for a Belgian dubbel), a liquorish-like flavour and a glow of warming, brandy-like alcohol all the way at the back. Earthy and stereotypical, but otherwise fairly ’clean’ and technically very well-executed example of a Belgian dubbel, with a good balance of sweet and bitter. I quite like this, no matter how predictable it may be, and I would even recommend this as a perfect introduction to this style, though it would benefit from a tad less coriander, like so many other Belgian ales.

10/10/2015 sample @ Bles Bierhappening, Zottegem. Yellow orange with white head. Typical tripel aroma & taste : fruits, some grains, spices, sweetness.

Bottle share round at Richy’s. Bubbly, cream coloured head. Chocolate biscuit malts. Dark, cake fruits. Light caramel. Taste is light dry. Some brown sugar sweetness. Soft, rich, massaging palate. Finishes light sweet.