Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Hopduvel. Lacing, medium sized, pale greyish beige, moussy head retaining well, sitting on top of a warm, brownish copper coloured, initially lightly hazy beer with calm sparkling, cloudy with deposit. Aroma of lots of caramel, pear, red apple, dried orange peel, hazelnuts, butterscotch, dried banana, autumn leaves, black pepper, straw, honey, liquorice candy. Fruity onset, redcurrant and unripe peach sourishness paired with a subtle raisin and dried banana sweetishness, fairly strongly carbonated, lean body of caramelly, nutty and toasted maltiness but fairly ’thin’ and even a bit metallic, while some of the initial yeast effects persist, but not predominantly so; carbonation distracts a bit from the basic flavour. Finish continues this toasted bittersweet maltiness and adds both a quite lively, peppery, very leafy and lightly dried citrus peel-like hop bitterness with mild yet tenacious bittering power as well as a dash of warming, slightly ’jenever’-like alcohol. Ends mildly dry and bitterish, but the caramelly malt sweetishness peeps through. Obviously more rewarding than the ’industrial’ dubbels à la Leffe or Grimbergen many Belgian consumers are used to, a ’pimped’ dubbel so to speak especially considering the hops (Columbus and Equinox - weird for a Belgian beer in this style), but it did not conquer my heart. I’ve had hoppier dubbels from foreign craft breweries more interesting than this. That being said, this is still an interesting take on the style, at least conceptually; it just needs more ’oomph’, like most of Zonderik’s beers, which tend to hover between commercial compromise and true ’craft’ and mostly seem a bit too metallic to my taste.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
33cl bottle courtesy of and shared with Kermis. Thin ring off white head. Hazy amber pour. Very average
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle shared. Pours very hazy brown with a small cream head. Aroma of overripe dark fruit, toffee and malt. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Pours clear, dark copper. Small white head . smell is leaves-in-the-fall. Taste is weak. Mildly bitter, somewhat caramel in the back. Overall, very watery, both in mouthfeel and taste. High side of carbo. Not sure how one manages to put so little taste in a beer ?
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pours warm blonde. Small white head. Smell is intense, thick malty. Taste is Sharp, bit bitter , rather dry’ very mild sweetness (notes of hop ) in the back. Aftertaste gives the first hints of malts. Perhaps even some very hadden yeastyness. Ok beer. Rather simpele, but a good one for the style insuppose. Although i do deel like they (as like many others ) should be ashamed by freely using the name of Abbey beer. The bar isn’t high, Since some of the worst beers in Belgium are Abbey beers , but if you’re gonna call yoyrself an abbeybeer, at least be one as well.... This cheating people is just pathetic...
fonefan (84534) reviewed Bolderiaan from Zonderik / Columbus Management 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 330ml. [ As Bolderiaan ].Cloudy medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate to light heavy yeasty, spicy, belgium yeast, fruity yeast. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light moderate bitter with a long duration, yeast, fruity, belgium yeast. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20140817]
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Cuvée from Zonderik / Columbus Management 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Zonderik Cuvée 2015 Limited Edition Huge, towering yellowish head over unclear peach to copper coloured beer. Vinous, wine-soaked wood, lactic acid, fruitesters. Toasted, liquorice, scorched sugar, alcohol, wood. Apricot, apricotbrandy. Bit raw, actually, certainly compared to the nose. Medium bodied at least, burning MF, well-carbonated, alcoholheat. Nose promised more than deliverd. Still, good strong sipping beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Abt Fundum Blond (by Zonderik / Columbus Management):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5
31/X/15 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte) @ home - BB: 24/IV/17 (2015-1528)
Clear blond beer, big creamy off-white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: grapefruit, some exotic fruits, new world hops, citrus, some lychee. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: citrus, pretty bitter, grapefruit, exotic fruits, bit sugary, sweet. Aftertaste: alcohol noticeable, citrus, pretty grassy, some bubble gum, decent, except for the sugar probably used to crank up the ABV. That was not necessary.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Bolderiaan from Zonderik / Columbus Management 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
At Het Haasken in Diest. Thickly lacing, firm, creamy, snow white head over a hazy golden beer with greenish hue. Aroma of raw rhubarb, dry saffron, grass, shallot, green apple, watermelon, gin, sorrel. Fruity taste of apple, starfruit and passion fruit, sweetish and sourish in good balance, soft carbo, somewhat grainy pale malt sweetishness in the middle, bit yeasty ending with grassy and lightly spicy hop bitterishness, drying but still malty finish. Not too impressive in terms of style, but well-crafted, technically correct and balanced, so an enjoyable beer for sure.