nathanvc (6963) reviewed Black Banana Bliss from Verduyn Bier 6 months ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
13 September 2025. At 17de Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to the whole crew!
Cloudy black, stable, foamy, dark beige head. Banana, 'Oufti' (banana ice pralines), candied pineapple, chocolate sauce, vague cinnamon. Sweet banana, caramel & fondant. Earthy hops, spices, dried banana, warming brandy-like alcohol. Full body. Quite sweet with dominant banana, but well crafted.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Spiced Noir from Verduyn Bier 6 months ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
13 September 2025. At 17de Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to the whole crew!
Cloudy black, stable, foamy, dark beige head. Gingerbread, allspice, clove, cinnamon, dark chocolate. Sweet chocolate & cookie spices galore. Bitter spices, earthy hops, chocolate, some warming alcohol. Very spicy but it works well within the base beer, nice!
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Putain Schtrumpf from Verduyn Bier 6 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
13 September 2025. At 17de Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to the whole crew!
Hazy artifical blue, stable, foamy, pinkish head. Grain, citrus pith, shallot, red onion. Sweetish red onion, mandarin, bitter pink grapefruit. Bitter grapefruit peel, shallot, dry. Not really going anywhere at all. Whyyyy.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Violet Storm from Verduyn Bier 6 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
13 September 2025. At 17de Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to the whole crew!
Cherry cola, jaffa cake, 'Petit Gervais', red candy, dried blood orange peel. Very sweet cherry, strawberry, red candy, some bitter blood orange. Mainly sweet in the finish with warimng fruit jenever-like alcohol. Oof, I had high hopes given the Stouts that Verduyn brought to the festival, but this was nowhere near that quality.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Orange BA Tripel from Verduyn Bier 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Barrel-aged edition of Verduyn’s tripel, which I coincidentally had for the first time a month or so ago; thanks to Bart A. for sharing. Egg-white, frothy and moussey, membrane-lacing, stable head on a misty peach blonde robe with ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of ripe peach, apple sauce even, orange juice, coriander seed, indeed vanillin-breathing oak wood, canned pineapple, calvados, banana mush, brioche bread, vague marzipan. Sweet onset, sugary even but in a smooth and ‘thin’ kind of way, quite elegant with colourful fruitiness reminiscent of peach, pineapple, ripe apricot and banana, fizzily carbonated (a bit too harshly so in fact, even for a tripel) with smooth, brioche-bready, sweetish, soft core, honeyish sugariness on top, a dash of coriander seed and elegant vanillin-adding oak with only soft tannic effects. Orange, pineapple and a bit of coriander linger, in an almost desserty, fruit cocktail-like finish. Tripels are one of the most popular genres in Belgium yet very rarely innovated, but this one does add a meaningful layer of originality to this worn-out formula, by polishing an already sweet and vividly fruity example of the style into something almost desserty – and yet not so sweet that it becomes obnoxious or sticky. Well done.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Orange BA Tripel from Verduyn Bier 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
7/XII/24 - 33cl bottle @ the Big Bottles Tasting / Proevertjesdag (Oudenburg), BB: 25/V/28, L2305P318 (2024-1261) Thanks to Bart for sharing the bottle!
Little cloudy orange blond beer, small creamy white to light yellow head, unstable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: very yeasty, caramel, banana, malty, grains, some vanilla, phenols, esters, meh. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sweet start, spicy touch, very yeasty, some aniseed, more yeast, some citrus, sugary, banana, alcohol. Aftertaste: soft acidity, very yeasty, sweet touch, spicy, some coriander, meh. Not bad, but I’m not a big fan of B.A. Tripel beers.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Orange from Verduyn Bier 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
The tripel in this Verduyn series from Marke near Kortrijk, spiced with lemon peel and coriander. Bottle from Stacks in Sint-Andries. Thick, frothy but regularly shaped, egg-white, densely moussey, well-retaining head over an initially crystal clear, pure and warm yellow-golden robe with lively sparkling, turning misty and more peachy with sediment. Sweet aroma of indeed citrus but more orange- than lemon peel-like, obvious coriander seed, gin including botanicals, crackers, hints of marmalade, bread crust, dried 'herbes de Provençe', clove, some vague background solvents (varnish), peach, cooked carrots, pear. Sweet, spritzy onset, estery with hints of peach, pear and light banana, quite lively carbonated, with smooth, slick mouthfeel; slightly caramelly, bready malt core under lingering residual sugars, honeyish, further on flavoured by coriander seed and the lemon peel, respectively adding a dull soapy spiciness and a bitterish astringency as well as their familiar retronasal aromas. Hints of clove, dried thyme and white pepper linger at the back, while hops join the lemon peel in providing a finishing, bit leafy, spicy but 'balanced' bitterness, which is then directed into a triple sec-like alcohol effect, in the end becoming quite wry and tiresome. Overly boozy, overly spiced sweet tripel - do we really need yet another one of those? Granted, this kind of tripel will probably be to the liking of many an 'ordinary' Belgian consumer, but it could have done with a bit more restraint and refinement even in this overexposed genre. Technically not too bad though, apart from the booziness.
Bierridder (4318) ticked Black Tripel from Verduyn Bier 1 year ago
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Orange BA Tripel from Verduyn Bier 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Good dense, irregular white head, stable, over orangey golden, hazy beer. Oranges, preserved orange, Bourbon, whisky, molded orangepeel. Almonds, bitter & sweet, perfumed. Preserved oranges. Here, I'd rather guess jenever than Bourbon. Wormwood, but not that bitter. Medium bodied at least, viscous, bit oily despite good carbonation. I don't particulary care for this perfumed overdose, the combination Bourbon and oranges (coriander) doesn't seem to work, even when the base beer seems OK. Txs to Maarten!
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Orange from Verduyn Bier 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Pours an unclear, very hazy (yeasty?) darker blonde, with brown hints. As Verduyn is all about playing with colors ( read the full story online or in my review of their first beer, Black ) this is a bit dissapointing. Nevertheless, the brewer told me he's color it a bit more in future batches ( this is the first batch) . The coloring used here is juice made from beets, but he told me the taste shouldn't be beet-like . It's a spiced tripel with Coriander, lemonpeel, and half American, half Belgian hops. The foam is medium small and medium unstable. Scent is generic BE tripel, nothing bad about it, but nothing out of the ordinary. Isoamylacetate, citrus (from the lemonpeel , i suppose, but it presents itself more as, well, orange) Some coriander indeed ( not too much ) . Taste is full. Recognizable, has much similarities to their Black, actually. Similar maltbase, perhaps? This one a bit more pronounced, a bit more sweet, a bit more fullbodied. Actually a pretty darn nice tripel. Not overcarbed, not going into one boring direction. Nice bitter finish, but never overpowering. Even though this isn't a very specific beer ( which I had hoped for ) , it would be one of the few tripels i'd redrink regularly - the others all being standout and unique - . if anything is to be compared best, think Rochefort tripel, but less specifically rochefort. This one has similar bitter/sweet balance, body and carbo. As Rochefort triple is my new favorite tripel, this is quite an achievement to be compared to on a first attempt to this overly produced style. Hope they'll fix the color in future batches, and keep this nice balanced flavors. Very well brewed, but a bit out of concept.