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

33cl bottle from Spar supermarket in Oostende. F: big, white, good retention. C: deep gold, hazy. A: malty, peach, bit lychee, bit red fruits, strawberries touch. T: medium malty base, exotic fruits, lychee, bit strawberries, candy sugar, bit herbal, decent bitterness, medium carbonation, bit more on the sweet side yet ok, enjoyed.

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

More yellow foam than beer at pouring; hazy amberish orange beer, very lively carbonated to textbook lace. Spicy & herbal nose, dried leaf spices, curry/kari leaf, laurel; some caramel, hint @ ureum. Spiciness/herbs even more pronounced in the mouth. Bit peppery even. Obvious candi sugar, "hot" malts, caramel and bitterish autumn leaves as finish. At least medium bodied and very slick, high carbonation. Nothing wrong with the beer, nor very special. But as you can read on the blurb, the puberal utterances from the 'brewer' have not yet abated.

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

Flesje gedeeld met familie tijdens feest. Geel tot oranje-achtig bier, licht troebel met flinke witte schuimkraag. Aroma enigszins houtig en fruitig. Smaak is fruitig en zoet. Smaak trekt snel weg.

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

Fles 33cl thuis. Belgisch gist, matig kruidig, wat banaan, wat overrijp geel fruit, moutig, ergens pepertje, bittertonen, vrij droog. (18-7-2021).

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

Huge, towering, very dense & fine-bubbled just yellowish tinted head over a bit of lemonjuice-looking beer, lots of lace. Bit soapy nose, herbal, grassy, lots of pale malts, spicy. Very spicy taste, rootspices, overlying pale malts. Dried lemonpeel, peppery (especially the finish, building up). Good carbonation, very dry finish & aftertaste. OK, it's not average, it's definitely not mainstream. But I still don't know if there's a necessity for this. And as for the cyclists' aspect, they will all buy Kwaremont, since they see that on TV on daily basis. And why anyone wants to call his brewery 'Klootzakske' is utterly beyond me. Thanks to Stef!

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

Fles thuis geprobeerd met LiekevdV. Het is een helder goudgeel bier met een volle witte schuimkraag. Het heeft een moutige wat kruidige geur. De smaak is moutig, kruidig en wat peperig.

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

Belgian blonde from the 'bierfirma' that gave us the memorably, but in my opinion distastefully named Klootzakske, fitting in a long tradition of 'cyclist beers' (think Louwaege's Flandrien from a few decades ago, for example). Opens with a hissing sound and some foam slowly tries to creep out of the bottle neck a few seconds after that, but no true gushing. Inches thick, egg-white, very foamy, towering, dense and pillowy head over an initially lightly hazy, yellow straw blonde beer with warm golden hue and fierce sparkling feeding the enormous head. Aroma (after the minerally sting of carbon dioxide has faded) of banana peel, white bread crust, coriander seed, raw potato, old dry lemon peel, dried lemon thyme, freshly cut green pear, white pepper, freshly cut grass, baking soda, old aspirin tablets, sweat gone sour. Crisp onset, green apple, unripe peach and hard pear notes with a weird and unpleasant old and expired aspirin sourness and wryness lurking from below, initially still somewhat 'masked' by very sharply stinging, overly minerally carbonation; light, cereally and white-bready core, spiced with coriander seed and some clove-like phenols, leading to a grassy and somewhat peppery hop bittering finish - yet this weird old aspirin effect grows stronger and stronger, eventually shape-shifting to something more akin to sour sweat, which pushes itself upwards retronasally - and very unpleasantly so. Needless to say, this latter aspect ruined an already 'suspicious' beer for me - so half of it went down the drain. I assume drinking this ice cold - as it is intended, since the label mentions 4° C to 6° C - will indeed muffle the flaws, but in trying to critically assess beers, such temperatures are of course ridiculous, so I had this at a higher temperature than that, revealing its flaws (other than being dramatically uninspired). Most of it ended up down the drain. This whole Klootzakske project doesn't do it for me anyway and in the new jungle of self-proclaimed 'bierfirma's' and would-be breweries today in Belgium, it is one of the least I would miss if it were to disappear again.

Redelijk weeïg en moutig voor een tripel, maar ik ben wel weer toe aan wat meer middelmatige belgische brouwerijen