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

Bottle from Carrefour. Pours clear golden with a big, lasting, frothy, off-white head; some lacing. Aroma of ripe apple & pear, banana peel, gin, honey, dough, white pepper. Taste is medium fruity sweet, notes of ripe apple & banana, phenolic ripe pear, residual white sugar & white bread, a tad spicy. Dryish, earthy hoppy finish, spicy, more ripe apple, honey, warming gin-like alcohol. Medium body, creamy texture, fizzy carbonation. Bit too sweet & spicy, roughly executed, quite unnecessary Belgian Tripel.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Towering dense, very stable lightly yellowish head over darker golden beer with a light greenish sheen. Huge head seriously hampers smelling. Seems rather neutral, even a bit malty at first, then a bit spicy and leafy. Very bitter flavour, hops - unfortunately not the C-hops, but EU bittering hops. Rest is... well, not much. Warming up, thankfully a bit more balance tries to creep in. Medium bodied, quite slick, almost overcarbonated. The way many Be breweries prove they don't understand IPA. Thanks to Barbara & Tim!

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Nice dry peat, sometimes a bit solvent but not too much.

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

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

One of very few beers in Belgium that are apparently ‘green-hopped’, with four different hop varieties; bottled in a nice 37.5 cl ‘geuze’ bottle with paper wrap. Regular, dense and creamy (hops-enhanced), yellowish beige, thick, paper-lacing head on an initially clear, deep and ‘darkish’ copper-tinged amber beer, misty with a brownish tinge after adding the sediment. Aroma of orange peel, peaches, sugared bread, peanuts, some rusty iron, bitterroot or raw ‘witlof’, old chewing gum, honey, red apple, gin. Cleanish fruity onset, red apple and apricot sweetness with honeyish residual sugariness on top, softish carb, sweet and bit resinous, very caramelly malt body with peanutty edges but also something thinly metallic, remaining sweet with an orange juice-like aspect retronasally but in a ‘stale’ kind of way, while the hops establish a late, bitterrooty, leafy bitterness, blending with that pronounced caramelly malt sweetness, warmed by an afterglow of somewhat whisky-like, but altogether – considering ABV – relatively soft alcohol. Unusual for a Belgian beer, this Meester creation has more in common with old and classic English style ESB or something along those lines, albeit with considerably more alcohol and residual sugars; not too estery or phenolic, so in all very malt-forward and clean, with the hops adding depth in an earthy, deeply ‘grounded’ kind of way, but little aroma - the orange peel aspect apparently comes from actual orange peel added to the mash; the coriander meanwhile remains altogether subtle and does not become soapy or obnoxious anywhere. Sadly a bit metallic which began to bother me a little bit in the end, otherwise an interesting, quite idiosyncratic brew and among the better Meesters I had so far.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

33cl bottle: at home on 2nd Oct 2019. Poured into a Forbidden Fruit chalice, slight haze to the golden body, thin white head. Barley sugar sweet with some yeasty and spicy notes in both the nose and taste. Two of these would give a huge hangover, but one is a great idea if you have a sweet tooth and like alcohol!

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Mørk brun tåkete med fingerhøyt beige skum. Lukter brent karamell, brunt sukker og svisker. Fyldig. Søt alkoholrik smak. Melasse og brunt sukker.

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

22/08/2019 @home - 37,5cl bottle from Willems & Zoon, Grobbendonk. Clear red, big pink head. Nose is full cherry, sweet. Taste is cherry, bit sweet, nice MF.