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

Flesje gedronken bij H en B. Oranje tot koperkleurig bier met mooie schuimkraag. Aroma is moutig en hoppig. Smaak en nasmaak is ook hoppig.

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

19/I/20 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent), shared @ Julia’s 3rd birthday party, BB: 30/IX/22 (2020-66)

Clear blond beer, big creamy dense white head, stable, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: grains, malty, spicy, coriander, hay. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty, little sweet, caramel touch, quite some coriander, bit yeasty, orange peel, very soft bitterness. Aftertaste: malty, slightly bitter, some orange peel, pretty sweet, spicy touch in the finish. Very average beer, very stupid name. I have no problem with crude humor, as long as it serves a purpose. The humor of just calling your beer a “ball sack” (Dutch swear word), including an actual drawing of a ball sack, is just way beyond me. Am I getting old, or is it really just teenage humor? “Haha, he said DICK!” Oh well...

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

De Meester tastelessly re-interpreting the name of an old locally brewed beer 'Kloterke', this 'Klootzakske' is no doubt a local commercial success due its provocative name alone (meaning both 'little scrotum' and 'scumbag'). Eggshell-white, mousy, medium thick, irregularly lacing head on a misty warm peach blonde beer with ochre-straw tinge. Aroma of peaches, banana, very obvious coriander seed, flour, soap, pear, touch of orange, baking soda, dusty old cotton rags, dried camomile. Sweetish onset with a dash of non-bubblegummy banana, some dried apricot and red apple, medium carbonated with a soft, fluffy mouthfeel; gently bready malt base with soapy edges but also something dry-grainy, quickly sprinkled with dusty coriander seed spiciness and a faint hint of old dried orange peel, both blending in with a soft floral hop bitterness that remains altogether a bit superficial, even if it does linger for a brief while. Ends a bit thinnish and 'dusty', as well as soapy - clearly the coriander dominates the tail more than the hops do. Overcoriandered, clearly, but otherwise technically very correct; a decent, albeit very stereotypical tripel (I don't get some of the ratings below discussing this beer as something IPA-like), better than expected if I have to be honest, but I absolutely hate the name and the lazy and somewhat offensive label.

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

330ml bottle from Biere Palais, Callicannes after a particularly gruelling MTB afternoon in Llandegla. Pours misty gold, thick off white head. Aroma is moderately sweet, creamy, distant spice. Taste continues along similar lines, yeasty creamy sweet, light sprinkling of spice, fruity citric hints. Like everyone else, I was hesitant about picking this up because of the label / name (as I understand it, it translates as 'nutsack', used in the same way 'asshole' is used in English?) but the beer's alright, just like the Hopman Brut IPA with equally cringeworthy artwork. If De Meester smarten their labels up perhaps they'd be taken a bit more seriously.

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

Bottle from Carrefour. Pours clear dark golden with an unstable, foamy, white head. Aroma of ripe melon, mellow peach, banana peel, yeast, apricot, white pepper, sugar, biscuit (LU's Grany cookie). Taste is medium fruity sweet, notes of peach & apricot, a bit sugary, estery, quite bready-yeasty but with a spicy edge of coriander, grass & pepper. Dry, grassy hoppy finish, rather bitter (in an unexpected way), lingering ripe fruit, some honey & warming alcohol. Medium body, thinnish slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Bit of a 'tepid' Tripel, far from an IPA of course, not really going anywhere and honestly, I don't see how the name would manage to lift this beer up from the sad 'drinking to get drunk' context.

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

33cl bottle from Spar Oostende. F: big, creamy, white, good retention. C: gold, almost clear. A: malty, sweet fruity, bit herbal, medicinal, caramel, very spicy. T: malty, spicy, herbal, bit watery citrus, light caramel, toast, medium body but almost light for such ABV, soft carbonation, this is more than common another tripel, quite nice for me, enjoyed.

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

01/06/2019 - tasting glass offered by the brewer (thanks!) @ Brouwers in het Bos, Ename. Cloudy golden, nice white head; Nose is malts, fruits, peach, bit hops. Taste is Tripel yes, malts, fruits, peach here too, bit caramel, bit spices but with a nice hopbitter. A tripel again yes, but not bad at all.

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

Ultra-huge, ultra-dense & -fine, just off-white head, leaving shards of lace and finally revealing hazy orange-copper beer. Creamy nose, gassy, dried herbs & spices, some alcohol, finishing in a sweetish-spicy streak. Again very spicy character, neutral to sweetish main taste, attenuated maltsugars, hint as from other grains or health food, white candi sugar, forgotten vegetables (which have been toasted/caramelized). Dry, bit empty palate, good carbonation (all underlining the dryness and attenuation). Feels light in body. Hmpf. I was tempted to substract a point for the moronic name, but in the end, the beer is futile enough in itself. br I had to correct the above, as the beer effectively bettered warming up a bit. The already present bitterness acquired a piney, spruce-like character, much more palatable. The caramelized streak comes out more that way too. Instead of substracting a point, +1. br 2 But the moniker remains infantile, all the same.

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