Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Billenbijter Blond from BeerSelect 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
33cl bottle from Prik & Tik Dranken Marlou. F: medium, white, good retention. C: gold, hazy. A: malty, mellow fruity, honey, peach, floral, orange touch, banana. T: medium to full malty base, honey, mellow fruity, red apples peels, dough, banana, mineral touch, medium carbonation, bit weak bitterness but quite nice Tripel, enjoyed.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Tony Belgian Beer from BeerSelect 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Now here is one I love to rant about: a young entrepreneur, running a successful digital design company in Ghent which has zero to do with beer, having smelled money in the current beer hype and setting up a hip website to promote a beer he allegedly created along “the best recipe we could imagine” – complete with a somewhat dramatic photo of him diligently operating the stirring stick, a slogan (“are you a Tony”), webshop and so on. Obviously the brewery that actually created this beer called Tony is mentioned nowhere on the site, but all the circumstantial evidence I could find, points at BeerSelect, though at this moment I admittedly do not have one hundred percent certainty yet (I will further investigate this and correct it when necessary). Note that this Tony beer is sold under a whole string of different names: my bottle stated “Horny Tony” on the front label, but apparently there is also a “Drinking Tony”, “Lost Tony”, “Stony Tony”, “Found Tony” and so forth – but do not be fooled, these are all labels for one and the same beer. Very thick and foamy, eggshell-white, pillowy, cobweb-lacing, stable head on an initially crystal clear ‘old gold’ coloured beer with lively, fine sparkling, turning misty and a bit ochre-tinged with sediment. Aroma of banana peel, soggy old bread, quite a lot of DMS (overcooked broccoli), coriander seed, old cotton cloth, dry earth, raw turnip, damp straw, apple peel and a whiff of petrichor. Cleanishly fruity onset, banana ester mingled with some pear and green apple, sweetish with lively carbonation, minerally, over a glueish, smooth body, cereally and white-bready with some light phenolic effects that eventually become a bit plastic-like towards the end. Meanwhile a dash of coriander seed and some floral and grassy hop bitterness pass by gently, until a soft glow of warming, wodka-ish alcohol shows up, though in a mild and generally well-concealed way. Seemingly intended as an ‘edelbier’ (see Duvel, Delirium Tremens and so on), and a very trivial one if you ask me, adding absolutely nothing to the Belgian beer culture but instead rehashing late 20th-century clichés – and not even flawlessly so, as the DMS in the nose kept bothering me (even if I had worse cases of it). What irritates me the most about this beer, is of course the fact that it is as opportunistic as it gets: passion for beer, knowledge of current beer trends or traditions and love for the craft beer community are completely absent here, instead this one is designed to generate money and nothing else. Point off for that, and hopefully this whole beer hype “à la belge” with its continuous stream of meaningless and repetitive tripels, blondes and strong blondes will calm down a bit in the coming months and years. In any case I am definitely not a Tony.
bergstaden (9523) reviewed Du Monde Blanc from BeerSelect 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Golden with a white head - Malt and somer citrus in the aroma - Malt body with some citrus and corrinader flavour - The malt goes into the finsih with some yeaty notes - This was nice
Lmojoh (4073) reviewed Du Monde Blanc from BeerSelect 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Uklar gylden med hvitt skum. Aroma hvetemalt krydder humle. Smak hvetemalt koriander humle sitrus gjær. Fruktig og saftig med godt krydderpreg. Godt øl. Flaske fra Vinmonopolet Evenskjer
Finn (18112) reviewed Du Monde Blanc from BeerSelect 4 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Appelsinfarget. Uklar. Filmskum. Litt lacing. Aroma: Litt gjær. Søtlig krydder. Myk munnfølelse. Smaken litt søt. Mere krydder. Forsiktig tørr avslutning.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Billenbijter Blond from BeerSelect 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from LDW. Hazy yellow colour, white foam. Floral, citrussy, some banana, malty sweetness. Well balanced, medium carbonation. Not a bad tripel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
17/III/21 - 33cl bottle from the client brewer, tasted blind and shared @ home, BB: 8/XII/22 (2021-205) Thanks for the bottle!
Clear orange beer, small creamy white head, little stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, grains, cow fodder, bit of caramel, sweet impression, hint of ginger. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very malty, grains, cow fodder, hay, pretty bitter, coriander, some banana peel, very yeasty, metallic touch. Aftertaste: malty, yeasty, grains, hay, lots of coriander, pretty bitter, sugary touch, overripe banana, bit metallic, not a big fan of this beer.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Juffra from BeerSelect 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Another one in the wave of commissioned (and rarely inspired) brews facilitated by the concept of BeerSelect here in Ghent, this time for an Antwerp fraternity (Magistra). Towering high, foamy, egg-white, very pillowy and ultimately even cauliflower-shaped, plaster-like lacing head (filling your entire glass if you do not pour carefully), sitting on top of an initially lightly hazed, warm apricot blonde beer with pale orangey tinge and fierce sparkling rushing throughout, turning misty and deeper peachy with sediment. Aroma initially muffled by two inches of head, but then slowly revealing impressions of unripe peach, banana peel, coriander seed, white bread pulp, clear iron (confirmed by the hand test - and probably explaining the explosive and rocky head formation too), drying grass, old abbey cheese, dry clay, dust, vague accents of pineapple, green pear and cooked chicken. Spritzy onset, fruity but somewhat restrained in sweetness, hinting at halfripe banana, pear and unripe peach, lively carbonated with minerally effects, supple and bit 'fluffy' body; a thin layer of honeyish residual sugar lingers over a slick cereally maltiness, with that iron effect clearly noticeable at the sides and an increasing apple-like aspect towards the end, where dusty coriander seed and a floral hop bitterness take over. Some bready yeastiness remains in the end, running parallel with the hops, providing a late but eventually leafy and confident, yet ever friendly bitterness. An ordinary Belgian style blonde ale once again - of which there are thousands around in this country already. I can understand its purpose, this is clearly to be preferred over the cheap industrial lagers most students tend to drink - but what's with the iron? An attempt to solve an initial lack of head retention, perhaps?
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
from a trade with tderoeck.
Tasted blind as requested by my dealer :). Cloudy blonde, nice white head. Nose is malts, herbal, bit spice. Taste is malts, bit fresh hops, spices. Well yes, another blonde, not the worst I must say but nothing new too. Don't know if I would've ever bought it when I saw it with the label and name but I must say Tietje en Boezemvrienden is well found.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Halve Gare from BeerSelect 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
5/III/21 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: n/a, just a smudge of ink (2021-179)
Clear orange beer, small creamy off-white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: passion fruits, orange peel, juicy, yeasty, bit spicy, some tropical fruits. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter, bit spicy, sesame seed, bit dirty, sulphur, very bitter, slightly fruity. Aftertaste: very bitter, bit metallic, sulphur, yeast, dusty, bit chemical, some band-aid, medicinal finish, meh.