5.6

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle from a gift. Hazy golden, thinning, white head. Aroma of apricot, banana peel, old yellow apple, pear, clove, herbs, wheat. Taste has sweet fruitiness (apricot, apple, pear) mixing with spicy phenols, bitter pepper and sour wheat, the latter unbalancing the whole as if infected. Herbal hoppy finish, wheaty, dry spicy & quite yeasty, bittering and even somewhat metallic in the end. Medium body, oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Straightforward Belgian Ale but even then, shabbily executed.

6.8

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

The second beer by Huisbrouwerij Fienneke, a quiet and small 'bierfirma' in Beveren locally known for Fientje, a fine hoppy blonde brewed at first Bryggja and now Danny. This one too was brewed at Danny and is dedicated to the 'Puitenslagers' legend of Beveren, roughly translating to 'frog slayers'; a local yearly festivity keeps this legend alive and it makes sense for a hyper-local brewery like Fienneke to use this tradition as a source of inspiration. Thanks to Peter, the brewer, for sharing! Pale yellowish beige, mousy, slowly opening head on a misty dark caramel brown beer with mahogany hue. Aroma of brown bread, bubblegum, caramel candy, walnuts, diluted coffee powder, dried fig, cloves, nutmeg, minerals. Dried-fruity onset, old raisin, apple peel and dried banana notes, medium carbonated with hard-caramelly, brown-bready and lightly toasty-bitter malt body adorned with nutmeg- and clove-like spicy notes, a dash of coriander seed (adding light soapiness) and late herbal hop bitterness accentuated by the bitterish edge of the malts. Finishes medium long, malty and mildly spicy; a dryish, bit roasty dubbel like many other 'new' dubbels created by small local microbrewers in the Low Countries these days; traditional but technically well done and enjoyable, like its blonde predecessor.

6.5

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

Pours hazy dark amber with a stable, small, foamy, tan head. Aroma of sweet & sour cherry, plum jam, red apple, redcurrant, iron, pear syrup. Taste is a sour profile of unripe red apple, redcurrant & cherry; underneath there's sweet maltiness of caramel, plum & cake, a bit herbal with a faint touch of coriander. Tart, herbal hoppy finish, more sour fruit, syrup & heating liqueur-like alcohol. Medium body, thin syrupy texture, fizzy carbonation. Not getting that full-on syrupy sweetness here, I might even suspect my bottle was infected... Not sure I want to revisit, though.

6.6

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

The newest one in this Lokereire / Lokerasse series, commissioned by a company linked to the Bokmolenhoeve in Lokeren and also selling cheese. This one does not have a Kroontje predecessor like the others, but in any case the label (and website) refuses to mention the actual brewery, as if wanting to pretend this is all home brewed in Lokeren - a petty, dishonest, small town attitude I utterly detest. Anyway, as for the beer: very thick and dense, creamy, tightly plaster-like lacing, pale yellowish beige head on a misty, very dark chocolate brown robe with ruby red hue - but approaching black in general appearance. Aroma of melting caramel, Pepsi cola, candied cherries, old brown sugar, pan-fried apples, Liège pear syrup, fig jam, dust, crumbled 'speculoos', cinnamon, some 'koetjesreep', whiff of coriander seed, (very!) faint background hints of old rubber, freshly blown out candle and iron. Sweet onset, candi sugariness coating fruity hints of freshly cut red apple, blue plum and peach, with a sourish blackberry-like undertone as well as a faint brown game stock-like umami touch, medium carbonated; full, slick, lean body, with the dark sugariness a tad syrupy - and cloying a bit to the teeth. Underneath lies a smooth caramelly and lightly bready maltiness with a clear metallic 'zing' to it - albeit in the background, muffled by this syrupy, indeed very 'sirop de Liège'- as well as 'speculoos'-like sweetness, including date, pear and fig aspects. Some kind of syrup was added here, providing more body than the actual malts; this explains why the whole beer ends a bit on the thin side, with only a light herbal hop bitterish note, and a clear afterglow of 'jenever'-like, warming alcohol, not unsurprisingly of course, seen the ABV. Sirop de Liège and caramel effects linger alongside a spicy cinnamon and coriander seed note. Even for a quad, this is a bit too sweet and sticky (Kasteelbier-ish), and I would not be surprised if actual sirop de Liège went in here - it has been used in a few other Belgian beers before, in at least one case (to my knowledge) with tasteful result. In all, an overly sweet, slightly metallic affair, though - so surely this could have been better, but I must admit that it has a somewhat distinct accent to it (though I hesitate to refer to that as 'Lokers'...).

4

Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Imported from my RateBeer account as Lokerasse Bruin - Brune (by Brouwerij Danny):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 4/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 8/20, MyTotalScore: 2.4/5

26/VI/19 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared @ Schola BBQ, BB: VIII/19 - (2019-895) Thanks to Alengrin for the trade!
SLOW GUSHER ALERT! Clear dark brown beer, big very creamy beige head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: metallic, roasted, some caramel, dried fruits, figs, chocolate notes. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: pretty sourish, metallic, some red berries, soft roast, funky, earthy, tobacco. Aftertaste: sourish, pretty bitter, very metallic, tobacco, soupy, bit dirty, weird.

6.6

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

Bottle from Van Eetvelde. Local beer from Lokeren, since last summer completing the blonde-brown-tripel triangle Belgian tradition prescribes (see Lokereire Blond, the original one, and Lokerasse Bruin). Slow gusher but nothing dramatic, apart from a hard to pour, towering high, foamy, egg-white, cobweb-lacing head, which quickly collapses to a thin layer of mousse on top of a misty peach blonde beer with vague khaki tinge. Aroma of ripe banana and banana mush, sweetclover, old 'jenever', lots of clove- and even anise-like phenol spiciness, meringue, soggy white bread, pear jam, honey, coriander seed, dried apple peel, hints of chewing gum, onion soup and white pepper. Fruity onset with strong but still enjoyable banana ester next to pineapple, red apple and apricot notes, very sharp and fizzy carbonation adding sourishness and a smooth, full mouthfeel. Old bread- and bread crust-like malt body, carrying ongoing fruity esters and a lot of spicy, but not medicinal or otherwise disturbing phenols to a somewhat soapy, mildly coriandered and florally and eventually even peppery hoppy finish, nicely bittering in spite of lingering bready malt and banana ester sweetness and followed by a gentle glow of 'jenever'-like alcohol. As cliché as it gets in terms of style, like the others, but demonstrably better executed, not hindered by off-flavours like DMS or things like that, and well-balanced between sweet and bitter, with the balance tilted towards the sweet. Based on the other two in this range, I must admit I expected way worse, this is very decent for a sweet Belgian cliché tripel.

6.9

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

Bottle at De Heeren van Liedekercke, shared with Anke and Pieter.
Pours hazy dark brown with a huge, frothy, tan head. The aroma contains roasted malt, caramel, licorice, spices, hops, some coffee & chocolate. It tastes medium to heavy sugary or caramel-like sweet and light spicy bitter. Medium to full body, slick (bit sticky) texture, soft carbonation. Your typical sweet, dark Belgian Ale. Say what you want, though, I liked it.

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

What started off last year with an ordinary Belgian blonde (Lokereire Blond) made for a tavern in the municipality of Lokeren, had to be followed by a tripel last summer of course, and now - since September - by this dubbel, the name of which roughly translates as 'female inhabitant of Lokeren' in their local dialect. Bottle from Van Eetvelde in Lokeren. Regularly shaped, hardly lacing, medium thick, pale greyish beige head, quickly showing gaps in the middle but generally well-retaining over a lightly hazy burgundy brown beer with near-vermillion hue. Aroma of very old dusty caramel candy, raw brown sugar, dead tree leaves, cold tea bags, blackcurrant juice, damp clay, pronounced minerals, baker's yeast, dried rosemary or very old dried bayleaf, nutmeg even, raw beetroot juice, spoiled potatoes, red wine vinegar accent (probably caused by onsetting infection), moldy acorn shells on a damp forest floor, apple peel, rotting turnips somewhere. Lively onset due to overcarbonation, numbing the tongue a bit and adding so much 'minerality' that it distracts from the actual flavour, which is sweetish with a pronounced, almost vaguely Acetobacter-like sourishness to it, yet still not too 'dirty' and reminiscent of fresh fig, plum juice and blackberries freshly picked from the woods; mouthfeel, apart from suffering from overcarbonation which resides as the beer 'breathes' for a while, is slick and supple. Slim, 'diluted' caramel-like malt sweetishness in the middle, bit nutty but very thinly so, with toasty edges towards the end adding a bit of mellow bitterishness; ends earthy and yeasty, with a lot of phenolic spiciness, herbal tea-ish hoppiness providing some background bitterness and the same sourish-sweetish fruitiness from the onset, with more sourishness than sweetishness (almost very remotely oud bruin-like, but in a far less complex and elegant way, obviously). Comes close to Rebelle Bruin by 't Kroontje where this beer seems to have been brewed, but less in ABV, less in 'rotting' earthiness and less in sourness - so this is clearly a different recipe, but seemingly related to it. I read on the internet somewhere that the testing brews were a lot more toasted, but that the 'cara' malts were tuned down in order to soften this toasty bitterness and make this beer more 'accessible' to the big masses. Needless to say, this is exactly the opposite of what I would like to see happen in the Belgian brewing world - don't we have enough of these boring, plain, simple and uninspired blondes, browns and tripels yet? Moreover, this beer suffers from a tad too much sourness in comparison with other mass-marketed dubbels, so in my opinion, it even fails to meet its own commercial conditions. Generally a bit more enjoyable than that blonde one, but still not good. Not very motivating to get my ass back to Lokeren and find that tripel version which escaped me so far, but a ticker's got to tick, I suppose? Oh well, at least this Bokmolenhoeve has its own hackneyed trio of blond - dubbel - tripel to present to its customers, I'm sure this meets their needs. But don't act surprised if a fourth one is added to this range in the form of, say, a witbier.

6.5

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

Imported from my RateBeer account as Lokereire Tripel - Triple (by Brouwerij Danny):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5

4/X/17 - 33cl bottle @ home - BB: n/a (2017-1755) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the bottle!

Little cloudy blond beer, big solid creamy white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: pretty fruity, apple sauce, bit yeasty. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: rather fruity, nice bitterness, bit grassy, apples, bit spicy. Aftertaste: sweet notes, fruity, some yeast, soft bitterness, not bad.