6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5

Thank you for sharing German speaking RB Crew! Sampled draft @ ZBF 2017. Hazy orange, little white head. Nose is massive bubblegum, bitter vegetable esters, too BE esters heavy with vegetable notes. Taste is vegetable bubblegum, rubbish BE esters, green,... Body is big esters & bubblegum. Not a fan but there is worse.

5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Tap. Hazy golden color with white head. Aroma is bubblegum, and not much more, estery. Taste is bubblegum, soapy. Meh.

5.3

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4

Imported from my RateBeer account as Toetëlèr Tazettein (by Brouwerij Den Toetëlèr):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 8/20, MyTotalScore: 2.5/5

23/IV/17 - 33cl bottle @ Zythos Bier Festival 2017 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2017-537) Thanks to kraddel for sharing today's beers!

Cloudy orange beer, big aery creamy off-white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet, marzipan, doesn't smell like much. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sweet start, pretty sugary, little bitter, some alcohol, marzipan. Aftertaste: cookie dough, sugary, little bitter.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Sampled at Wieze 2017. Pours unclear pinkpurple, small white head. Smell is bit weak. Taste is full, berries, very fruity ! way more fruit than the regular version. Nice malty back, bit complex, fruity and malty aspects. very nice, honestly ! the biggest surprise of the festival for me

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Sampled at Wieze 2017. Pours unclear amber. Small white head; Smell is weak. Taste is full, bit sweet, fruity. Simple, but not bad at all ( honestly, this was surprisingly better than expected )

5.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Pale version of "Blauwe Bessenbier", making use of blueberry juice rather than complete blueberries so that there are no fruit skins to darken the beer, not coincidentally parallelling the difference in production method between white and red wine. Also made for the Schrijnwerkers family’s blueberry plantation in Meeuwen-Gruitrode; contrary to the Blauwe version, which was made by Gaverhopke before Toëtelèr took over, there seems to have been no precursor to this version so I guess it has been added to the range afterwards. Tasted from tap at Wieze Bierfestival, I have no idea if this secondary version of Blauwe Bessenbier is also bottled; if it is, I would recommend to elaborate a bit on the name (call it "Witte Bessenbier" for all I care), as calling it simply "Bessenbier" is a recipe for confusion - already happening at Untappd, I noticed. Anyway: irregularly shaped but densely moussy, egg-white head, peach blonde colour with ochre hue (but certainly no real amber), hazy. Aroma of sweet blueberry juice, sweet white grapes, peach, stewed pear, apple sauce, soggy white bread, some DMS (cooked red cabbage). Fruity onset, estery (some banana and apple) but unsurprisingly a lot of real blueberry juice fruitiness as well, very juicy with a lot of residual sugary sweetness but not as extremely cloying as most industrial fruit beers would be, softish carbo, smooth and supple mouthfeel; bready malt sweet core underneath ongoing sweetened blueberry juice, the sweetness of it lingering till deep into the finish, soggy apple pie-like in combination with the esters and the fluffy bready maltiness underneath, some retronasal DMS and earthy yeastiness, no hop bitterness worth mentioning; a very mild sourishness cuts through it all and barely prevents it from becoming overly sweet, though like its darker Blauwe counterpart, this beer is themed around (admittedly ’artisanal’) blueberry jam sweetness. More straightforward than the Blauwe one and in that sense perhaps a tad less interesting, missing some of the - very subtle but still noticeable - ’berry skin tannins’ the Blauwe has, but by itself not the worst sweet fruit ale I’ve had so far.

5.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Blueberry beer made with actual fresh blueberries cultivated by the Schrijnwerkers family, who specializes in this fruit, in Meeuwen-Gruitrode. Up until last year, this was brewed by Gaverhopke at a slightly lower ABV and bottled in steini bottles, but now the honours are done by Toëtelèr, about 35 kilometers north from the family’s blueberry plantation. There is a ’Bessenbier’ without ’Blauwe’ as well - confusingly - and the difference seems to lie in the fact that this ’blue’ (dark) version also makes use of the skins of the fruit. Off-pinkish, tightly lacing, moussy head, cloudy dark lilac-coloured beer with vaguely brownish hue. Aroma strongly reminiscent of homemade blueberry jam, next to real blueberry juice, sweet dark cherries, brambleberries, sourdough, moist raisins, honey, beetroot, some sweat and vague DMS (cooked red cabbage). Estery fruitiness mingles with a generous amount of actual ripe blueberry juice, in combination with some banana ester and a stewed apple-like accent lending the onset a blueberry jam-like effect, sweet and a bit sticky but still more or less balanced by this (actual) berry sourishness and subtle spicy notes from the blueberries; medium carbo, smooth and ’fluffy’ mouthfeel; bready malt backbone drowned in this blueberry jam flavor, sweet with sourish edges, and it is this flavor which survives everything else and dominates the finish, teaming up with somewhat ’dirty’, earthy yeastiness and a strong, eventually even antacid-like chalkiness. Weird, I have no idea how this is different from the original Gaverhopke rendition of the same concept for the same commissioner, but in any case it is far less cloyingly sweet than expected, feeling like a very old-fashioned top-fermented Belgian fruit ale with real fruit from a time when industrial extracts and syrup were not yet commonplace. I had way worse sweet fruit ales than this.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Fles 33cl thuis. Laurier, drop, roasted malts, bitters en zoeten wisselen elkaar af. (3-2017).

6

Limburgse Bierenavond van Limburgia en BierKultuur

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Sample, amber beer, small medium head. Aroma is malt, caramel, hint of roasted. Taste is the same, ok beer.