Benzai (24515) reviewed Turbeau The Hopper IPA from BeerSelect 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
Bottle shared at Kingsday Tasting 2022. Clear golden color, white head. Aroma and flavor are malts, softly hoppy, reminds me of an English IPA. Not too bad tbh. Just too much carbonation. Okay.
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Den Tuymelaar from BeerSelect 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sampled @ Zythos Beer Festival 2022. A clear amber beer with a beige lacing. Aroma of strong caramelized malt, nuts. Taste of nutty brown malt, caramel, nice! --- Beer merged from original tick of Den Tuymelaar Blond on 24 Apr 2022 at 17:03 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6. Original review text: Sampled @ Zythos Beer Festival 2022. A clear yellow golden beer with a white head. Aroma of sweet grainy malt. Taste of sweet pale malt, honey, some herbs.
Koelschtrinker (42542) reviewed Turbeau The Great White from BeerSelect 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5.5
Mild fruchtiger Beginn. Deutliche Herbe, trockener Hintergrund, getreidig. Konstante Aromatik, die Herbe lässt nach, mittellanger Abgang. Okay. 10/8/8/9//9
Koelschtrinker (42542) reviewed Turbeau The Hopper IPA from BeerSelect 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Mild bitterer Beginn. Wenig würzig, hell getreidig, zum Mittelteil hopfiger, rund. Langer Nachhall. 10/9/10/9//9
CambridgeUtd (3880) reviewed La Marlouf from BeerSelect 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Golden, cloudy with a medium white head. A fruity aroma with some yeast and spices sense. Light bittersweet with a malt, fruits, spices and alc end. bb 11.2023 vinmonopolet.no mar 2022
Sigmund (14587) reviewed La Marlouf from BeerSelect 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
330 ml bottle, from Vinmonopolet, Nettbutikken. ABV is 8%. Moderately hazy pale golden colour, some floaties. Moderate white head. Distinct aroma of the Moroccan spices that are added, also notes of "spicy" Belgian ale yeast, hints of yellow plums. Light bodied for its strength. Moderately spicy flavour, mid between dry and sweet. Moderate bittering hops in the finish.
Finn (18112) reviewed La Marlouf from BeerSelect 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Lys gylden. Klar. Middels høyt luftig skum som daler sakte. Lett krydderaroma. Smaken malt, gress & krydder. Lett tørr bitter avslutning. Uklar siste kvelling. Vel mye kullsyre.
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Perde from BeerSelect 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle. A clear golden beer with a off-white head. Aroma of mild sweet and semi strong pale malt, yellow fruits. Taste of pale malt, some yellow fruits, ripe friuts, apples, grains and yeast. Herbal bitter finish.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 3.5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 6.5
The first beer from a new hobby brewery in Leuven going commercial (since last year), centering around infusing exotic flavours into traditional Belgian ales (and ignorantly - or arrogantly - referring to this approach, which has been done before for decades, as a new beer style, dubbing it "authentic Belgian beer" - go figure...). This 'Mangold' is spiced with curaçao and fruited with allegedly 'freshly harvested mangos', but seen that this fruit is cultivated in tropical Asia, this seems highly unlikely; according to these guys' website, the idea is to evoke reminiscences of faraway holidays in a time governed by a pandemic and the restrictions associated with it. Well, I guess this idea is not so bad after all, considering the gloomy, rainy, dark weather we have to endure in Belgium these days... Thick and densely moussy, thickly plaster-like lacing, snow white, pillowy but slowly thinning head on a misty orange blonde beer with peachy glow and tiny dots of proteins floating around everywhere. Aroma of mango indeed jumps out immediately but in a very soapy, industrial kind of way, far removed from freshly harvested mango - in fact many NEIPAs evoke mango assocations more accurately without even using mango; other than that, I get impressions of red or green candy, bath foam (even lavender-scented conditioner), bubblegum and a lot of it, halfripe banana, candy apple, lemonade, vague caramel and even vaguer green tree leaves, bread crust and tea. Sweet onset - as sweet as feared based on the nose, but luckily not cloying to the teeth too much; restrained fruitiness of green banana, apple peel and some dried peach, medium to even slightly soft carbonation. Slick, very soapy mouthfeel, smooth-edged cereally and lightly caramelly malt core remaining covered under this blanket of artificial fruit sweetness, reminiscent of mango alright, but in a non-fresh and non-expressive, dull and almost 'cartoonish' way. Slight bitterness in the end, thankfully, from a herbal hop accent but also from the dried citrus peel, accentuating the overall soapiness; the whole bath foam effect fully returns retronasally. Ends sweet, continuously soapy in the worst way possible, and a bit thin, with a dull but consistent bitterness thinly coating the back of the mouth. At least these guys are honest about where this concoction is brewed - though only on the label (not on their website) and in very small print - but that is about the only positive thing I can say here; the mango, in whatever form it was added, is paired with a childish candy-like sweetness I thoroughly hate in beer (I would be drinking lemonade otherwise!) and which annoys me from the nose to the finish - as does that over-the-top soapiness. I was not expecting a mental journey to tropical Asia as I have never even been there, but at least they could have created a more 'believable' and serious beer with that kind of premiss? This feels obsolete, childish and totally unbalanced - one of the worst to come out of BeerSelect's ongoing stream of mediocre beers so far, for me at least. Sorry guys - and by 'guys', I mean the BeerSelect crew rather than the two self-proclaimed 'brewers' who came up with this silliness.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed La Marlouf from BeerSelect 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Tripel commissioned by a Belgian-Moroccan guy named Yasinne Kouysse, executed at BeerSelect in Ghent like so many 'standalone' brews these days - which is exactly why BeerSelect was erected in the first place, of course. Steinie bottle from a delicacy shop in Sint-Martens-Latem, close to where the brewery is. Thick and egg-white, plastery lacing, moussy head, misty peach blonde robe with ochre-ish glow, turning more cloudy with sediment. Aroma of unripe peach, brioche bread, apple peel, cooked sweet potatoes, green kiwi, a touch of white grape, powder sugar, field flowers, banana peel. Fruity onset, green pear and banana peel playing along but nowhere too sweet, sharpish carb, bit numbing in fact; rounded body, bready maltiness with an edge of leftover dough, carrying clove-like phenolic spiciness to a bittering, medium long finish dominated by a leafy, spicy hoppiness, adding aspects of dried flowers, old ginger powder and mugwort leaf. The overall, if somewhat restrained, fruitiness does remain too, however, so the beer never loses its light-footed character. I have no idea what is so Moroccan about this beer apart from the label, the name and the story behind it - in fact, when I was reading the label just before opening the bottle, I was expecting to receive effects reminiscent of Morrocon cuisine; I could, however, not even pull out anything ras el-hanout-like, let alone those wonderful sweets or tajine dishes typically associated with this country. This is as Belgian a tripel as it gets, but admittedly a well-made one from a technical viewpoint, and I can certainly appreciate the fact that this mr. Kouysse apparently wants to inject a Moroccan influence into the usually rather conservative Belgian beer culture - if this beer proves able to improve the dialogue between the 'native' community in Belgium on the one hand and the (at least originally) immigrant Moroccan community on the other hand, then I am all for it.