Small off-white head over fully muddy ochre-orange beer. Caramel, chalk, dusty nose... As to wine? Sweetish, a light bitter streak, old cookies. Slick, light, looks better carbonated than it feels. Where is the wine??? Txs to Stef!

Another tripel with a modern packing (longneck bottle and English name) but classical content - do we really need yet another one of these in this country? What is even more annoying, is that some people here think that because some or other commissioner (this one is being brewed at BeerSelect, close to where I live) markets a single beer and puts his own company name (Beer I Like in this case) on the label, said company immediately deserves its own 'brewery' status on this site, long before they have proven how serious they are about it - and how creative they will turn out to be. I would simply have put this one under BeerSelect as such, but who knows, maybe this Beer I Like project will spawn more creations in the future and become a respected client brewer ('bierfirma') one day... Anyway, on to the beer: very thick and frothy, tightly plaster-like lacing, egg-white, stable head on a misty, deep orange-golden peach blonde beer showing a whirl of sparkling raging through the mist. Aroma of peaches drenched in 'jenever', ripe banana, ground coriander seed, fried red apple, sugar loaf, a minerally aspect of cold rain falling on hot rocks, cooked carrots, hints of roses, honey, glue, dry earth. Sweetish onset with light sourish edge, clear banana ester mingled with ripe peach, red apple and orange notes, lively carbonation but not harshly so and very well fit for the style, soft, bit 'fluffy' body. Bread-pulp-like and lightly caramelled, honeyish maltiness with spicy aspects woven into it, mostly from coriander seed and seemingly from dried citrus peel as well but more subtly so, but also from well-dosed and very mild background phenols; floral hop character, offering some lightly earthy 'end bitterness' but the sweetness remains the prime element, until it is 'broken' a bit by a very obvious, somewhat wry, 'jenever'-like alcohol effect that brings yet another kind of bitterness all the way at the back. Conceptually, this is as cliché as it gets: no fancy English name or longneck bottle can change the fact that we are in old school, 20th-century Belgian territory here without even the slightest nod to the huge international developments in beer that have taken place since then. Judged as the 'standard' tripel that it is, I have to admit that it is anything but bad: it is streamlined, technically well done and easily drinkable, there are many (and much) worse tripels around in Belgium especially today; the only thing bothering me a bit, is the (very) badly hidden alcohol, making for a very boozy, annoyingly astringent finish, in which one can actually feel the alcohol heat gliding down in the chest. It was a good idea from these guys to turn to BeerSelect to have their boring creation commercially realized, I reckon.

25/VII/20 - 33cl bottle as a gift, shared @ Social Distanced BBQ, BB: 19/V/22 (2020-682) Thanks to Bouvier for the bottle!

Little cloudy blond to orange beer, big cream off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: floral, fruity notes, some honey, cheese puffs, soapy. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty start, soapy bitterness, bit fruity, dry, some orange peel. Aftertaste: very soapy, grains, cow fodder, unpleasant bitterness.

Blond colour, white foam. Sweet and fruity nose. Taste is malty, some fruitiness, medium bitter finish. Ok.

Caramel, some plums, grapes. Light tart, sweet, a bit messy and not very nice.

One of several 'Grimaldie' beers - the original blonde one, in fact, a tripel infused with Italian white wine. Thick, mousy, bit irregularly edged but very stable, frothy head on a misty apricot blonde beer with vague ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of ripe banana, cooked apple, white wine indeed but in an old and somewhat 'stale' kind of way, damp cotton cloth, stewed parsnip, sugared bread, 'honingwafels', fresh camomile. Sweet fruity onset, residual white candi syrup sweetness mingling with banana ester and hints of stewed pear and peach; subtle, featherlight tart white wine undertone growing a tad stronger towards the end. Sweet white grape aspects even unfold on top of a supple, bready malt sweetish base, harshened by sharp, very minerally carbonation; phenolic spicy effects in the end, even a bit solventy, with again that white wine element persisting in a rather 'muffled' way, but unmistakably present. Floral hop bitterish accent in the end accentuated by warming, vinous, somewhat 'jenever'-like alcohol, while the fruity and malty sweetness lingers along with the more basic sweetishness of the white wine. This is what it is: a sweet Boelens tripel with some or other white wine poured in. Dolle did something similar (though much more outspoken) with their Zannekin many years ago, but the result here is considerably more 'down to earth' and straightforward. I don't get the idea of pouring white wine in a sweet tripel but this version is admittedly much better than the 'red' one I had before. I am not, however, very motivated to go out and hunt for the amber version...

Honey beer developed by four friends (constituting the umpteenth would-be ‘brewery’ in this country – as these guys are not brewers but marketeers, using this project as their graduation project in management training); actually brewed by De Graal, with real honey. Thanks tderoeck for sharing. Thick and mousy, egg-white, stable head on a misty peach blonde beer. Aroma of indeed (sweet) honey, drying apple flesh, banana, cloves, soggy bread but also a very strong, obnoxious solventy effect (varnish, paint thinner). Fruity onset, sweetish with banana, pear and pineapple impressions, medium carbonated, soft bready malt base, supple with sweet honey (as from a jar from the supermarket) spread on top of it in a thick layer; spicy phenols and esters galore in the finish, as well as some late bitterness lasting only briefly, with that strong ‘paint thinner’-like solvent aspect returning retronasally. Something clearly got out of hand in the phenolic department here, and the honey addition feels artificial, rather than being fermented away and adding interesting flowery aromas as is the case with only the best of Belgian honey beers.