tderoeck (22711) reviewed De Brouwbende Puit Blond from BeerSelect 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
12/X/24 - 33cl bottle @ Meneer Gustaaf (Wetteren), BB: 12/X/24 (talk about the right timing!), 2209/P1249 (2024-1130)
Clear blond to light orange beer, creamy white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: sweet impression, lots of bubble gum, a bit fruity, lots of almonds, a bit oxidized, floral notes. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, very yeasty, a little bitter, sugary, more yeast, floral, soft bitterness. Aftertaste: sweet, oxidized, quite some almonds, soft bitterness, floral, sugary, very yeasty, meh.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed François Grand Cru Soft & Fruity from BeerSelect 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2.5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 4
New addition to this François Grand Cru brand, and even though the label strangely - and suspicously - fails to mention it, containing some or other fruit syrup and / or colorant. Thick and moussey, plastery lacing, pale lilac-pink, irregularly edged but nicely stable head on a clear ruby red robe with rosy fuchsia tinge. Aroma of red Haribo candy and 'poepegatjes' even after lifting the crown cap for one millimeter, molten industrial strawberry ice cream, grenadine, more strawberry candy (Fruitella-like), candied cherry, white bread, bubblegum, something very faintly green leaf-like and something vaguely dusty. Utterly sweet onset with very dominant artificial strawberry effect - again this industrial pink strawberry ice cream I recall from childhood and Fruitella candy with strawberry flavour; with some stretching of the imagination, some cherry and red apple could be detected, but also in a very sweet and artificial way. Lively carbonation - very lively in fact, like some Coca Cola product, with light-bodied, smooth, slick body; some basic cerealliness lies buried under a heap of teeth-sticking sugars, candyfloss and that sweet industrial strawberry effect, but after that, not much more happens, with the finish remaining sugary sweet, strawberry-flavoured and thinly structured. Clearly another attempt to cash in on that dreadful 'rouge' hype of red candy beers (though in this case, in the lower alcohol range of it) - I have hated red candy my entire life and this 'trend' only irritates me. Monodimensional, cloying and childishly simplistic, even more so than expected. Drain pour for me - so at which audience are these ridiculous, unbeery, idiotically sweet concoctions aimed anyway?
sparta (4868) reviewed Kanet from BeerSelect 1 year ago
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 10
Õlle on selline jook, et iga uus kord kui klaasi või pudeli suule tõstad, siis leiad midagi uut, sõltuvalt tuhandest-miljonist pisiasjast, mis hetke olukorda mõjutavad. Seega piirdun iga õlle juures selle tekstiga.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Hazy golden colour, white foam. Messy, light bready, yeasty and bready, not the best balanced tripel.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Weyn Raspberry No Pi from BeerSelect 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Pours deep pink. Pinkwhite head. Scent is raspberry , natural, malty. Tasge is surprisingly bitter, some fruity acidity. Fresh, wheat beer base like even though its not. Quite enjoyable !
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Weyn Oaked from BeerSelect 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours cloudy amber. Medium small white head. Scent is malty, mild whiff of oak ( some vanilla). Taste is bitter, spices are milder than the base version. Woody (virgin wood like tannins are quite high). Mild vanilla. Medium body with medium high carbo.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed StaGent from BeerSelect 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
4/VIII/24 - 33cl bottle as a gift (I guess?), shared @ my parents’ place, BB: 3/V/24 (whoops), lot: 2204/929 (2024-687)
Clear gold blond to yellow beer, big creamy solid off-white head, irregular, stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: spicy, coriander, lemony, grains, meh, weird, almost infected, a bit oxidized. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: very spicy, lots of coriander, bitter, a bit sourish, some yeasty, ripe to overripe banana. Aftertaste: more sourish, grassy, a bit hoppy, citrus touch, ok.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Caladrius L'Originelle from BeerSelect 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
5/VII/24 - 75cl bottle, shared @ the Gibb’s crib, BB: 24/XI/25, P02162 (2024-486)
Clear blond yellow beer, creamy solid white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: ripe banana, very yeasty, sweet impression, hint of vanilla, pears, nice if a little boring maybe. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very yeasty, some chlorine, a bit sourish, weird bitterness, sweet, lots of ripe banana. Aftertaste: bitter, a bit soapy, floral touch, dry finish, very very yeasty.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Secondje Blond from BeerSelect 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Another blonde commissioned by a hobby brewer (this time from Opwijk in Flemish Brabant) and executed by BeerSelect, designed specifically to facilitate this kind of hobbybrewers-testing-the-market formula. The brewer, a young fellow named Fozzie De Clerck, has been tinkering with this recipe since 2015 but the beer only became commercially available in 2021. Snow white, creamy, thick and even-bubbled, stable head on a misty ochre- to beige-tinged straw blonde beer with lively sparkling, turning cloudy and even more beige with sediment. Aroma of raw turnip, soggy cereals, DMS (overcooked broccoli), old bread, raw potato, banana peel, dried thyme, cumin cheese, linseed and something soapy. Sweetish onset, some ripe apricot, banana and pear, fizzy carbonation, vague sourish undertone and frankly a tad ‘dirty’; slick cereally, doughy and old-bready middle with slight soapiness and sourishness probably pointing at wheat (as does the witbier-like glass), with only light residual sugars and some herbal effects retronasally (dried and old thyme and fenugreek) next to a soft floral hop bitterness. Banana ester and DMS linger a bit. Weird, earthy, spicy-phenolic, slick blonde with certain witbier-like features, marred by some unappealing off-flavours. Not a great success for me, this needs a lot of further finetuning.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Medium whitish head over cold-hazed, very finely carbonated golden beer. Shoepolish, dried herbs and branches, rainwater, dried droppings, young shoots. All the former, plus Chinese herbs, bamboo shoots, geesedroppings. Gets more dubious warming up, off-flavours. Bit slick, very demure for 8%... is it? Very disappointing. Maybe take a look closer to home?