Brouwerij De Vlier

Microbrewery in Holsbeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪

Established in 2008

Contact
Leuvensebaan 219, Holsbeek, 3220, Belgium
Description
Brouwerij De Vlier is een kleine artisanale brouwerij oorspronkelijk gestart in Kessel-lo en nu actief in Holsbeek. We brouwen 9 bieren

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5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as De Vlier Dreke (by Brouwerij De Vlier):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5

18/IV/17 - 75cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ American BBQ Guy Tasting (ElManana+1's place) - BB: 1/III/20 (2017-458) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the bottle!

Clear dark blond beer, small creamy white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: bit sweet, almonds, bit oxidized, yeast, overripe banana. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sweet start, malty, soft bitterness, yeast, bit metallic, some orange peel. Aftertaste: little bitter, hoppy, yeast, almonds, bit oxidized.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Apr 2017 at 17:07

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5
On tap, @BBF 2017, Barcelona 26/03/17 Cata Lovaina Color amarillo espuma blanca, aromas acidos y citricos el sabor es especiado, con notas dulce y final acido.
Tried from Draft on 29 Mar 2017 at 13:07


7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Deep dark body. Lightly brown head. Heavily malty aroma. Moderately bitter, moderately sweet flavour. Nicely balanced.
Tried on 05 Mar 2017 at 00:47

7/10
Vergadering @BierKultuur (BYOB)
Tried from Bottle on 20 Feb 2017 at 18:41

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Bottle at home, from Belgiuminabox a while back. Pours hazy pinkish apricot with a fizzy head. Aroma is yeasty with artificial raspberry, dough, Sweet, one-dimensional raspberry taste with grains, syrup and wheat.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Jan 2017 at 11:58

6.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Smoked Belgian ale from a 75 cl bottle, vintage of two years old. Very violent gusher: I lost about 1/3 of it even with careful opening, so be warned if you happen to stumble upon one of these... Thick and frothy, irregular, egg-white, coarse but stable head leaving thick ’papery’ lacing, lightly hazy ’old gold’ colour with lively sparkling, showing a warm, somewhat peachy hue which becomes a lot more opaque and ’muddy’ after the yeast sediment has been added. Aroma is heavily impaired by unpleasantly rusty, cooked chicken- and very old white wine-like oxidation, apart from hints of dried apricot, white currant, fermenting apples, lemon zest, cereals, banana peel, unripe nectarine, hay, honeysuckle, gin (the juniper berries!), green tea, minerals - during and after which indeed a sharpish smoky aspect shows up, smoked mackerel almost and something cigarette-like too, but not completely overpowering the rest, or at least not as strongly as the oxidation does. Fruity onset, lots of sourish gooseberry, raw pineapple and white currant along with sweetish notes of peach and banana, sharply carbonated, resulting in a somewhat coarse, yet fairly ’full’, somewhat oily mouthfeel. Grainy and cereally middle with a softer caramelly edge and ongoing fruity notes; meanwhile the smokiness builds, ending in a retronasal combo of smoked wood and rusty oxidation. Back in the mouth, a resinous, herbal, green tea-like hop bitter accent prevents this beer from becoming too boringly sweet, though admittedly the smoky factor has a lot to do with that as well; a glueish, gin-like, ethereal spiciness is mixed into the whole, clearly the juniper berries at work, but luckily not as ’destructive’ as in many newer juniper beers (I hope this is the last time Palm’s Hop(e)less Ginny comes up). Very bizarre beer - this kind of idiosyncratic spicy brews are the essence of the somewhat surreal Belgian ale history, I suppose, but clearly too old even if coming from a 75 cl bottle at only two years of age; the smoke has a cigarette tobacco-like quality which seems to clash a bit with the ordinary fruity, sweetish, malty character of the rest of this beer, and then there is the juniper factor - doubtlessly linked to the current gin craze - which I am unable to appreciate even in this more subtle dosage than I had to endure in several other gin-themed beers. The far-reaching oxidation and the fierce gushing bothered me more than anything else, but I can imagine having appreciated this beer in younger condition - something I will never get the chance to now. Unusual, but not undrinkable, in all.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Dec 2016 at 18:40

6.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle. Pours rather unclear blonde, small white head. Smell is weak, bit dusty ( age ... ) Taste is rather dusty as well. mild bitterness left. Some malts. Ok, but a bit weak .
Tried from Bottle on 03 Oct 2016 at 00:21

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle from Belgian Beer Shop, Leuven. Dark brown, beige foam. Alcohol well hidden. Nose of mocha, chocolate, coffee, sweet dark fruit. Ok beer.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Oct 2016 at 07:11

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Golden colour, white head. Malty aroma, coffee. Light coffee flavour, green coffee, malts. Malty finish, quite vegetable, green coffee.
(from 75cL bottle @ RBBSG IV, the Hot and Sweaty Edition, Gent 2015. Thanks for sharing, JefVerstraete!)
Tried from Bottle on 22 Sep 2016 at 15:02