Abdij van Averbode
Client Brewer
in
Averbode,
Flemish Brabant,
Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Abdij van Averbode Abdijcafe Moment
Established in 2014
Contact
Description
Averbode Abbey beer is a tribute to history: from the 14th to the early 20th century the abbey was already actively engaged in brewing. For the production of the ‘new’ abbey beer the abbey opted for Brouwerij Huyghe, which also has a rich history of its own.
However, there are also similarities. Respect for the environment and society play a central role in the brewery. Indeed, Brouwerij Huyghe is the only brewery in Belgium to produce the Mongoza-beer that has received the fair trade, gluten free and organic label. It also actively invests in a smaller footprint and social employment.
However, there are also similarities. Respect for the environment and society play a central role in the brewery. Indeed, Brouwerij Huyghe is the only brewery in Belgium to produce the Mongoza-beer that has received the fair trade, gluten free and organic label. It also actively invests in a smaller footprint and social employment.
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Blond, yellow colour, a lot of white foam. Lively carbonation. Light sweet taste with bitter hoppy finish. Good drinkable but nothing exceptional. Boring belgian tripel.
Tried
on 14 Jul 2014
at 00:05
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pale yellow with spongy white head, malt aroma, slightly metallic taste followed by the sweetness of a high alcohol brew, medium carbonation, longish finish. Happy to report that the metallic taste disappeared with the second mouthful.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jun 2014
at 08:37
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle at the Brouwcafe, Scheveningen. Poured a crystal clear straw colour with a big frothy white head. The aroma is light yeast. The flavour is medium bitter with a fresh crisp yeast, hop bitter, boozy alcohol palate. Light bodied with lively carbonation. A "poor" mans Duvel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jun 2014
at 11:36
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Very metallic-golden beer, medium carbonated, clear; all the yeast collected on the bottom. Initially big, but soon reduced white head. Bit spicy nose, with the unmistakable scorched sugar/alcohol/toasted malt Huyghe imprint; yeasty esters. Sharp, dry flavour with toasted-bitterish and sweet components; yeast-intoned. Hints at spices & herbs, impossible to say which, probably yeastesters, really. Sharp, dry, alcoholic. Heard that one somewhere before. Really? Oh, can’t be Trappist everybody that might want to.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jun 2014
at 11:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as Averbode Abdijbier (by Abdij van Averbode):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5
22/VI/14 - 75cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker) @ home - BB: IV/2017 (2014-655)
Clear blond beer, huge rocky head like whipped cream, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: fruity hops, spicy, coriander, bit sweet, banana. MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: yeasty, banana, pretty spicy, coriander, candi sugar, quite some orange peel. Aftertaste: lots of coriander, orange peel, bit sweet, soft bitterness, bit grassy, floral notes.
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5
22/VI/14 - 75cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker) @ home - BB: IV/2017 (2014-655)
Clear blond beer, huge rocky head like whipped cream, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: fruity hops, spicy, coriander, bit sweet, banana. MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: yeasty, banana, pretty spicy, coriander, candi sugar, quite some orange peel. Aftertaste: lots of coriander, orange peel, bit sweet, soft bitterness, bit grassy, floral notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2014
at 12:11
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330mL bottle at Delices et Caprices, pours a clear pale blonde with a medium white head. Aroma brings out dry crackery malts and lots of grains. Flavour brings out lots of yeast, sweet cereal malts, light dry hops, and champagne yeast. Very lively carbonation that brings out the complexity. Excellent tripel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2014
at 10:39
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pale golden colour, white head. Aroma of banana, malts, yeast, hint of spices. Malty flavour. Quite dry. Light body. Malty finish, banana. Decent, but eh.. Meh.
(from 33cL bottle shared @ home)
(from 33cL bottle shared @ home)
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2014
at 10:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Deep yellow colour, with a huge white head disappearing very slowly. Smell is yeast, malt and some grassy hops, with some alcohol hints. Taste is less intense, with bitter finish. Ok but average.
Tried
on 08 Jun 2014
at 15:38
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Helder geel bier met schuim. Smaak is hoppig met fris citrus fruit. Blijft lang hangen. Uitstekend bier.
Tried
on 08 Jun 2014
at 14:54
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
33 cl. bottle @ home. Procured from Delhaize. Gorgeous label, that much I have to admit. Pours a lighter, lightly hazy citrus with a sinking soapy white head. Smells very heavily of perfume, flower air refresher, synthetic apple, quite soapy, smells like a German hefe processes and managed to death at a factory. Tastes very synthetic as well, air refresher, perfume, synthetic apple, chemical, light fish guts, strange off-putting soapy synthetic taste, soggy white bread, white sugar sweet. Carbonation is a tad higher. This is Huyghe and this is a commercial brew so nothing here that surprises me, it isn’t as terrible as I feared but it tastes like a mix between a Belgian Strong Ale where mass appeal and cheap alcohol were the main goals mixed with a coriander-less rubbish Belgian white. I can drink it and it is okay but as a special, premium or craft beer of any kind this is an insult to anyone who understand even a little bit about beer in my opinion.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 May 2014
at 11:13