nathanvc (6963) reviewed Duno Pils from BeerSelect 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Can at the office.
A: hazy golden, thin, white head.
A: honey, pale malt, cereals, gooseberry, mandarin.
T: sweet honey, yeast, white bread, sourish berry & mandarin.
F: soft floral hops, sweet yeast & pale malt.
P: medium body, watery texture, soft carbonation.
Doesn't really deliver and weird to call this a Pils in the first place.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Duno Pils from BeerSelect 2 years ago
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
'Pils' flavoured with sea buckthorn berries, commissioned by Seaberry Liquids, a company set up by a chef to produce liqueur made of sea buckthorn - now followed by this beer, executed at BeerSelect (not a coincidence: the chef in question apparently works at LOF, a restaurant in the Hoogstraat in Ghent). Thick and foamy, egg-white, fizzing, very moussy, lightly lacing head sustained by a 'tornado' of champagne-like sparkling fiercely rushing through a clear, warm and pure 'old gold'-coloured beer turning into a misty yellow gold with sediment - looks beautiful. Perfumey and unexpectedly sweet aroma of mandarin juice, exotic citrus (pomelo, even lime blossom), strong guava, pitaya, white bread, blossom-scented shower gel, dry straw, hint of raw potato underneath the perfume. Sweetish onset but not overly sugary or sticky, clean and sleek with notes of freshly cut apple, guava, prickly pear and mandarin, minerally side notes but more softly carbonated than expected based on looks, supple and slightly oily mouthfeel, slender; clean-edged cereally to lightly white-bready pale maltiness under this guava- and mandarin-like 'perfume', feeling a tad artificial and not quite reminiscent of actual sea buckthorn berries, before a mild floral hop bitter note brings the ride to an end. I recall sour ales made with real sea buckthorn and its astrigent, tart effects, but nothing of that is to be found here: surely this contains some or other aroma based on these berries, but I doubt if any actual berry ever touched the beer. Perfumed version of a standard pale lager (though I doubt if it is actually a lager in the technical sense of the word - rather a Belgian style blonde I suspect), which, if I would be really mean, can be said of awful things like Desperados and the like as well - and though something does feel a bit 'unnatural' here, the base is certainly more honest and solid than those abhorrent industrial mouthwashing products so I will not be too harsh on this novelty. I was just expecting more real sea buckthorn tartness, but got a kind of sweet guava-like drink instead... Odd and a bit of an artificially tinged one-trick pony, but not undrinkable, I am sure many sweet fruit beer lovers will be able to enjoy this.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Woest Tripel Chardonnay from BeerSelect 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
A fairly recent addition to the Eastern Flemish beer scene, this beer tries to connect beer to wine and is effectively a tripel infused with white wine, produced in BeerSelect’s kettles in commission of the creator, located in Assenede (in the Meetjesland region northwest of Ghent). Bottle at Café ‘t Schoon Zicht in Mariakerke, cheers Gido! Snow white, frothy and thick, bubbly, stable head over an initially clear, orange-glowing deep golden beer with lots of visible sparkling, turning misty with sediment. Aroma of apricot, red apple, cooked carrot, ‘wet dog’, some iron and something sulfuric, indeed a sweet white wine hint, wet kitchen towels, wet cardboard perhaps, withering grass. Sweet, cleanly fruity onset, pear, cooked red apple and apricot, but surprisingly little grape at least in the beginning – apart from a persistent sourish undertone running till the end. Medium carbonated, very slick body, smooth cereally and very lightly caramelly malt sweetishness, straightforward with a very mild floral hop bitterish touch in the end but primarily a retronasal effect of damp kitchen towels and slight iron. Some vague grape sour-sweetness does linger about in the end, along with a dash of warming alcohol, but for a beer presenting itself as “from hops and grapes”, I expected it to be much more grape- or wine-forward; Italian grape ale the Belgian way? Not too impressed by this: see Italy’s grape ales for truly great examples of how to connect wine to beer…
BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Woest Tripel Chardonnay from BeerSelect 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Dumpy 33cl bottle: BB 20th June 2024. Poured into a Duvel glass (2000 version) at home on 18th September 2023 during a random tasting session with myself. No sediment left the bottle (will add it later) so I've got a lovely golden amber beer, clear and clean looking, on top a thin white blanket of foam. Yeasty front with a white wine like undertone, feels like it might cause a hangover to me. Peachy taste in with the wine flavours, interesting. OK, time to add the sediment; last third of the beer now a murky, sediment floating mess. More yeasty, more 'winey' and more 'boozy', it's like two different beers in one bottle, I think I preferred the cleaner first pour, but the latter is also fine for those that like to have the whole bottle and I'm sure it will 'aid my digestion system' in the morning!
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Goudgeel bier met mooie stevige schuimkraag. Smaak is bitterzoet en fruitig met iets van bloemen en wat graan. Heeft een warme afdronk die lang blijft hangen.
thanatosti (4472) reviewed Turbeau The Hopper IPA from BeerSelect 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
33 cl. bottle @ Alcatraz Festival 2023. Hazy golden with a big white head. Malty yeasty aroma with some hops. Sweet taste with a sweet finish. To call it an IPA, even a Belgian IPA, is too much but it certainly is a tasty Belgian blonde.
Beer5000 (11295) reviewed Woest Tripel Chardonnay from BeerSelect 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle @ home. Unclear orange golden body under a nice, dense, white head. Aroma is more like a typical triple than wine. Pale malt, sugar and Belgium yeast. Taste is also rather classic triple with a faint hint of white vine and wood. Nice, elegant and classic triple with just a hint of grapes/vine.
SVD (7137) reviewed Turbeau The Hopper IPA from BeerSelect 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle shared, golden beer, small head. Large amount of floaty shit. Aroma is malt, sweet, hop. Taste is the same, sweer, bitter, weak
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Uma Desi Beer from BeerSelect 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl can @ Mission Masala Ixelles.
BB 07/12/2023.
Dorée sur un léger voile pâle, col fin crémeux blanc.
Arôme est assez moyen sur de fins effluves de malts pâle, léger pils, rétro-nasal sur un fruité modéré tirant sur les agrumes.
Palais sur un léger caractère malté pâle, pils assez sec. Le houblonné et apporte un fruité agrumes, note de litchi, citron vert avec un fini sec marqué, acerbe sur pointe de fruit de la passion.
Tant au nez que en bouche, je n'ai pas vraiment été envoûté par cette bière et encore moins retrouvé la caractère de la cardamome.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Turbeau The Hopper IPA from BeerSelect 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Franky De Smet-Van Damme, lead singer of the Belgian metal band Channel Zero, successfully launched his first 'own' beer a few years ago (I was not in the least impressed by it but many others apparently were) and has recently extended the range of his Turbeau brand into several other beers, including this IPA. Steinie bottle from Drankenhal Van Callenberge, not mentioning the actual brewery anywhere; considering that there seem to be both longneck and steinie bottles of this beer on the market, I am wildly guessing that the first come from BeerSelect and the latter still from Strubbe, who brewed his first beer as well (Turbeau Noir) - so if this is correct, I can understand why the brewery is not disclosed, and I am the lucky one with the Strubbe version here in front of me... The Strubbe version seems to have preceded the BeerSelect version, from what I can find. Thick and frothy, snow white, intricately cobweb-lacing, rocky head, resting stable on an initially lightly misty yellow-golden blonde beer with dispersed dark yeast dots - usually not a good sign for anything with 'IPA' on its label; shifts to a deeper and hazy peach blonde further on (with even more visible yeast - a 'soup' effect, so to speak). Aroma of soggy old bread, raw potato, banana peel, cooked turnip, cold chamomile tea, clove, withering grass, moist white pepper, damp earth, apple peel and a very volatile solventy component (floor polish or something) which luckily vanished into thin air as quickly as it arose. Fruity onset in a restrainedly sweetish way, banana peel, apple peel and a touch of peach, moderately carbonated, with a vague sourish streak underneath; smooth, rounded but somewhat thinnish body. Cereally, soggy-bready malt core, pale maltiness with no further adornments, under continuing half-sweet fruitiness and rather 'dirty' yeastiness (as predicted by visual assessment), producing rogue phenols varying between clove and nutmeg to vague band aid. The hops, meanwhile, remain proportionally quiet - the opposite from what one would expect from an IPA - and even though they offer relatively little aroma (apart from dandelion, damp tree leaves and wet wood bluegrass), they do manage to produce a slight degree of hop burn in the end, something I would expect more from a NEIPA style 'hop soup' than a Belgian IPA. Leafy bitterness does linger, along with all that yeasty breadiness, solvents and spiciness. In itself drinkable enough and certainly not worse than many ordinary Belgian blondes of artisanal signature, but generally quite messy and 'dirty', lacking focus and - more dramatically perhaps - lacking hop aroma, in spite of those earthy and grassy elements it provides. Granted, this Turbeau IPA is more hop-forward than the ordinary Belgian blonde ale, but to call it IPA seems a bit of a stretch (even a Belgian one); this is one of those many cases of a Belgian beer trying to be hip by using the globally popular 'IPA' stamp but not having any idea of what true IPA is about nowadays. I think Mr. De Smet-Van Damme better sticks to what he does best, and that is to sing metal music - or talk to one of only few Belgian breweries capable of brewing an actual modern IPA (Totem, Uncharted, Source, Ermitage, whatever)...