7

Malm� October tasting (14/10/2023) - sweet fruity and malty, some apricot and lemon peel, sweet caramel malty notes, white icing sugar, medium body, whisky soaked and spiced malty finish. Nice one.

7

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

33cl bottle from Quali Drinks in Mechelen. F: medium, white, average retention. C: deep gold, hazy. A: banana, coriander, bready, red apples, spicy, caramel. T: full malty base, bready, banana, spicy, caramel, decent bitterness, bit warming alcohol, apples, soft carbonation, bit like barley wine, ok enjoyable for the style with more on the sweet side feeling.

7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Lichtbruin troebel bier met schuim wat snel wegzakt. Smaak is warm en krachtig met iets van hars, wat calvados en honing. Krachtig mondgevoel wat lang blijft hangen. Toppertje.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

The obligatory tripel from this newish, but classically oriented brewery in Geel, reviving an old historical brewery in name and intentions. Very thick and frothy, egg-white, pillowy, tightly lacing, dense head towering over an initially crystal clear, warm 'old golden' beer with metallic ochre-ish tinge and disparate strings of sparkling, misty with sediment. Aroma at first impaired by nose-stinging carbon dioxide, quickly making way for impressions of white bread crust, banana peel, coriander seed, old white pepper, vague dried orange peel, raw green kale (not in the DMS sense here), dried tree leaves, gypsum, raw parsnip, touch of old rubber. Fruity onset, sweet at first with ripe peach, banana and red apple, even ripe apricot somewhere, with vague sourish undertone and lively but not harshly stinging carbonation; smooth and 'fluffy' brioche-bready, bit honeyish and old cake-like maltiness, spicy notes as expected (clove, coriander) and then a floral hop bitter aspect which stretches out into the finish without overruling the initial sweetness. Some warming calvados-like alcohol in the end - a bit much perhaps, but at least not overly wry; sweet fruit and spicy clove linger about. Quite a correctly made tripel, the alcohol could have been better hidden and there are some odd notes orthonasally, but I had worse in this style. Still: I think we should agree on old-fashioned tripels adding nothing to the Belgian beer map anymore in the 21st century so again, this is a beer nobody asked for - at least not me.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle, 10%. Farty and caramelly aroma. Cloudy dark golden colour with bits of yeast floating in it making it greyish. Good stable white head. The flavour is malty and peppery. Not too boozy, but has a late slightly warming alcohol note. Fresh grass aftertaste. Late caramel note. Clean bitterness.

7

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

Bottle, 7%. Good brown sugar aroma. Cloudy light brown colour. Good stable light brown head. The flavour is caramelly with a faint metallic touch and lots of brown sugar. Later comes a warming alcohol note. Mild and flavourful and a good example of a dubbel.

5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Sampled @ Zythos Beer Festival 2022. A hazy yellow golden beer with a white head. Aroma of straw and strong pale malt. Taste of sweet strong pale malt, honey, grains.

3.8

Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Alkoholisch hefiger Beginn. Süßlich, dumpf herb, kernig. Würzig, ansteigend alkoholisch, nicht mein Fall. 8/7/4/6//6

6.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Huge, lightly yellowish head over crystal clear, finely carbonated golden beer with textbook lacerings. Dry, weedy, herbs and a faint cigarleaf aroma; green & dried leaves, white candi sugar. Caramel, in a sticky way, scorched sugar. Again leaves, but nowhere as distinctive. After some time, sweetness becomes marzipan-like. MF is sticky, boozy; not very carbonated. From the first sip I got a Huyghe Delirium Tremens Blond impression, could be a carbon copy. Awful disappointment, the more as the nose promised a lot better ending. Does Pirlot use Huyghe yeast, no? Thanks to Stef!