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.

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.

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.

Sampled at the RBBWG 2017. Thnx for sharing, everyone ! Pours unclear blonde, small white head. Smell is coocked vegetables. Taste is vegetables, bit bitter. Not too great.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Lokereire Blond - Blonde (by Brouwerij Danny):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 7/20, MyTotalScore: 2.4/5

25/II/17 - 75cl bottle @ RBBWG (Beerlovers Bar, Antwerpen) - BB: 2/II/18 (2017-252) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!

Clear orange to blond beer, small creamy off-white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very yeasty, lots of banana, sweet, band-aid, almonds, bit chemical. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very yeasty, sweet touch, very chemical. Aftertaste: bit spicy, chemical bitterness, dry, quite some coriander, bit sourish, infected? Not impressed.

Bottle pours out golden topped with a white head. Nose is vegetables light sour notes some garbage. Taste is more of the odd vegetables some cabbage and a sour note.

New regional beer (’streekbier’) conceived by a restaurant owner and now hobby brewer in Lokeren and locally promoted in pubs and bottle shops; this bottle comes from Van Eetvelde (an established name there), selling it in both 33 cl and 75 cl bottles. Label says "mild tripel" but at 5.6%, this is obviously a blonde rather than a tripel; allegedly made with four malt types, six hop varieties and spices. Quite fierce gusher! Medium sized, off-white, bubbly head quickly reduced to a moussy rim around the edge and some thin ’islands’ in the middle, atop a deeply peach blonde beer with vaguely greenish hue, immediately clouded - usually not a good sign. Very weird, vegetable-ish and, frankly, not all too inviting aroma of moldy lemons (suggesting ’new’ hops but in their least elegant way), non-pickled gherkins on the brink of rotting, spoiled vegetable soup, celery, garden weed juice, rainwater, medicinal phenols (effervescent tablet!), banana ester, orange peel, potato starch, dough, hard unripe nectarine, damp earth, pear peel. Estery onset, medium carbonated, hints of sweetish banana and peach surrounded by cucumber- and almost green tomato-like sourishness, minerally side notes, lean body. Slick grainy middle with softer bready edges, the breadiness being reinforced by a strong, almost ’powdery’ and starchy dosis of yeast in the end, where an earthy, leafy hop bitterness is added (yet still producing some citrusy aromas retronasally - before being ruined by too many phenols) - as well as the obligatory dash of soapy coriander, effectively leaving behind a soapy flavor. The initial, weird but fortunately not overly sharp sourishness continues throughout all this, and, combined with the quite strong gushing effect, seems to suggest infection. A rather ill-fated beer if you ask me: not a very original concept to begin with, to say the least (I think Belgium needs a lot less traditional blondes and a lot more ’new’ session beers like ISA - but I digress), coming across as amateurish, as if someone made this hastily in his kitchen and deemed ’being local’ more important than actually brewing a beer with any other functionality than quenching the thirst - or getting drunk; I have to admit, though, that some or other New World hop seems to have been used here, albeit in probably the least flattering way possible. To make things worse, this bottle is mildly infected - and incorrectly ’refermented'. Since this was a bottle from the first batch, I can only assume it was brewed at Kroontje (assume, because sadly the label only mentions the commissioner and not the actual brewery) so let's hope its apparent new home Danny has made it better meanwhile...

Draft @ Fonnefeesten. Hazy golden colour, white foam. Fruity ale, easy drinkable. Full body, and only 5.5%. Not bad!

Bottle. Dark brown, beige foam. Soft carbonation. Nose of prunes, dark fruit. Fruity tartness, roasted malts, caramel. Balance is ok. Not bad at all!