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marlou beerfestival

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle at home. Bit hazy golden with huge fluffy almost white head. Sweet malts, grapefruit, yeast, berry skins. It's supposed to have elderflower but I get actually more elderberry. Medium sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with quite some carbonation. A bit yeasty and weird.

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Just nog wat chips en noetjes

6.8

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

Tripel made by a 'bierfirma' Meelberghs which completely escaped my attention so far but seems to have been inspired by home brewer François Severijns, after whom this beer is named. I assume the recipe, containing wheat, oats and spices, is originally his (?). Mousy and frothy, egg-white, foamy, quite dense head, lightly lacing and slowly thinning and breaking in the middle; lightly hazy, warm peach blonde robe with pale orangey tinge. Aroma of quite outspoken (fresh, even sweet) orange and orange peel, ripe peach, old 'jenever', red apple, caramel candy, vague and volatile whiff of barbecue spices, ginger powder, hints of cold camomile tea, coriander seed, apricot candy, rusk, Cointreau, straw. Fruity onset, peach, ripe banana, freshly cut red apple, pineapple, altogether sweetish with a thin sourish edge, lively carbonation adding lots of minerally effects, slick mouthfeel, feeling 'slimmer' than 8% ABV, with smoothly dry-cookie-, slightly peanut- and somewhat bread crust-like maltiness with some residual sugariness on top, but only thinly so; wheat adds a deep and dim sourish accent but only very faintly so, while the oats no doubt contribute to the overall slickness of the beer. Spices are apparent in the finish, some bright orange peel again as well as a spicy, yet not too soapy coriander seed touch - while phenols add further 'additional', more clove-like spiciness. A honeyish and orange peel-like, not unpleasant and rather ornamental sweet aspect accompanies this softly spicy ending, the softness only harshened by very obvious, warming and annoyingly wry, 'jenever'- and Cointreau-like alcohol, while hops add a more powdery and floral end bitterness. Spiced tripel indeed, but the spicing lends it an orange liqueur-like allure, not unpleasant to the nose; the alcohol, however, is clearly insufficiently masked and becomes really tiring and wry in the end. If this latter flaw can be resolved, you'll have yourself a decent Belgian strong blonde, guys - one that will no doubt honour the late Mr. Severijns even more than this already fairly decent execution. Quite distinct for a tripel, all things considered, but distinct only in a very subtle kind of way.

5.8

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

Sample from bottle. Intense speculaas aroma. Malty sweet speculaas flavor. Spicy, sticky. Slightly out of balance.

6.3

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

Bottle. Amber color. Caramel and pineapple in the aroma. Malty caramelly sweet flavor with pineapple and soft herbal notes. Not Unpleasant.

5.3

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

Bottle. Blonde. Citrus in the herbal spicy aroma. Wheaty sweet citric spicy flavors. Too much spiced and too perfumed to be enjoyable.