nathanvc (6963) reviewed Beet on the Brett from Het Brouwateljee 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
20 May 2023. At Leuven Innovation Beer Festival. Shared with the lovely Anke!
A: hazy red, stable, foamy, pink head.
A: beetroot, red onion, earth, malt vinegar.
T: sweet-sour beetroot, earth, lemon acid, redcurrant.
F: vague earthy hops, beetroot, some funky acidic berries.
P: medium body, slick texture, soft carbonation.
Beetroot incorporated nicely, cool.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
20 May 2023. At Leuven Innovation Beer Festival. Shared with the lovely Anke!
A: hazy amber, thin, off-white head.
A: 'Sprite', dried orange peel, lemon candy, herbs.
T: sweet orange peel, caramel, cardamom, clove.
F: herbal hops, spicy liquorice, dried fruit, warming herbal liqueur-like alcohol.
P: medium to full body, oily texture, soft carbonation.
Bit messy, but quite refreshing for the style.
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Brabantse Bio Dubbel from Het Brouwateljee 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Organic dubbel by this new microbrewery in Lubbeek east of Leuven, bottle from Bier Bazaar. Pale greyish white, mousy, even somewhat creamy, membrane-lacing, thick and frothy head on a misty caramel brown beer with ruddy tinge. Aroma of hard caramel, soggy brown bread, old raisins, ripe pear, banana, coriander seed, hints of rusty iron, apple peel, bubblegum and fig. Sweet, rounded onset, rather clean with banana ester sweetness and impressions of raisin, pear and fig, fizzily carbonated, sleek mouthfeel, a bit resinous; caramel candy- and raisin bread-like middle with this brown honey- or indeed candi sugar-like sweetness remaining without becoming cloying. Coriander seed appears towards the finish with clear soapy effect, before a spicy, leafy hop bitterness, combined with a gentle toasted bitter touch, turns things in another direction. The sweetness remains, but the bitterness gets the last word, enhanced by a glimpse of the alcohol – which should not at all be noticeable at 7% ABV. Very typical for what small brewers in Belgium see as a dubbel these days: sweet and clean, but with that toasty bitter malt aspect you will not (or much less) find in the macro-brewed examples in this segment. Predictable and not very exciting, but admittedly well executed, like the other beers in this Brouwateljee’s range. --- Beer merged from original tick of Brouwateljee Brabantse Bio Dubbel on 10 Mar 2021 at 14:39 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5. Original review text: Organic dubbel by this new microbrewery in Lubbeek east of Leuven, bottle from Bier Bazaar. Pale greyish white, mousy, even somewhat creamy, membrane-lacing, thick and frothy head on a misty caramel brown beer with ruddy tinge. Aroma of hard caramel, soggy brown bread, old raisins, ripe pear, banana, coriander seed, hints of rusty iron, apple peel, bubblegum and fig. Sweet, rounded onset, rather clean with banana ester sweetness and impressions of raisin, pear and fig, fizzily carbonated, sleek mouthfeel, a bit resinous; caramel candy- and raisin bread-like middle with this brown honey- or indeed candi sugar-like sweetness remaining without becoming cloying. Coriander seed appears towards the finish with clear soapy effect, before a spicy, leafy hop bitterness, combined with a gentle toasted bitter touch, turns things in another direction. The sweetness remains, but the bitterness gets the last word, enhanced by a glimpse of the alcohol – which should not at all be noticeable at 7% ABV. Very typical for what small brewers in Belgium see as a dubbel these days: sweet and clean, but with that toasty bitter malt aspect you will not (or much less) find in the macro-brewed examples in this segment. Predictable and not very exciting, but admittedly well executed, like the other beers in this Brouwateljee’s range.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Brabantse Winter from Het Brouwateljee 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Off-cream head, very fast gone over unclear brown beer. Various spicy aromas, not all well integrated. Bit sour, lightly acetic/pickles, and orange(peel). Liquorice, again orangepeel Sweet, with a more ore less acetic background, all in all in reasonable balance sweet-sour. Retronasal a spicy flavour, not indentifiable. Bit thinnish body, slick, medium to well-carbonated. Wondering. Goal achieved or... ? And where is this brewed/bottled?
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Clear dark reddish brown colour, beige foam. Nose of dried fruit (plums, figs), caramel, chocolate, some cocoa. Rather thin body. Medium bitter finish. Nice dubbel.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Brabantse Bio Dubbel from Het Brouwateljee 5 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 3.5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2.5
Pours a beautifull dark amber / Caramelly brown. Medium sized, relativbely unstable white head. Scent is chlorophenols (bandaid and plastic). very off. So is the taste. Sharp, bitter, touch metalic but mostly chlorophenols. Very, very off. What a dissapointement.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Brabantse Zomertripel from Het Brouwateljee 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
First beer from a brand new (May of this year) brewpub in Lubbeek, an initiative of Steven Bollion and Jan Haegemans, familiar names in the Belgian beer world, as they were and still are also the guys behind the Malterfakker brand; Bollion is the former landlord of Leuven’s reputed M Café, while Haegemans is an experienced homebrewer. Tasted their Brouwateljee tripel from tap at Diesters Bierfestival 2019. Egg-white, intricately cobweb-lacing, mousy, irregularly edged but stable head, misty warm peach blonde robe with orangey tinge. Aroma of ripe peaches, dried orange flesh, ripe banana, hint of mango juice even, gin, rainwater, camomile, bread crumbs, honey, cooked parsnip, wet white pepper, dry earth, old ginger powder. Sweetish onset, crisp and fruity hinting at peach, pineapple and some banana with a certain orange ‘fraîcheur’ to it as well, fizzy minerally carb, supple and smooth, bready malt middle with a thin caramelly edge; some honeyish residual sugars linger over this, but the initial sweetness is suddenly countered by a long-stretching, wormwoody, quinine- and bitter citrus peel-like hoppiness, a drying, rooty, spicy bitterness that lingers for a long time. The malt sweetness does peep through in the end, along with a mildly earthy yeast note and an afterglow of warming, gin-like alcohol. Very confidentally hopped, this one clearly has the guts to steer away from the vast lake of overly sweet tripels populating the Belgian beer landscape, even if it begins like any sweet, fruity tripel. Even if this is still a very Belgian tripel, there is a modern, hop forward twist to it which enlightens this classic tripel character. Very good within its style, as far as I am concerned.