vinivini (12734) reviewed Maître Tripel Filliers BA from De Meester 4 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 7
Light gushing. Clouded deep gold with a tall head. Pale malt, Spicy & funky yeast, dried apples & pears, grassy hop, warming alcohol. Good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Deep dark, almost black with red sheen under a cream-tan head. Bit rainwater, then outspoken vinous, red wint. Fruit, red fruit/berries. Wood, dry, ultra-dry wine, tannines, long aftertaste with red fruit. Pappy, alcoholwarmth. Very well-bodied, almost chewy. Excellent, but I think the cherry explosion might have been more pronounced.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Maître Tripel from De Meester 5 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Bottle at Toogoloog Middlekirke. Hazy orange gold colour lasting white head. Malty tripel aroma. Some fruit. Some hop. Some spicy hop. Fine. Decent tripel. Doesn't leap out of the glass but fine.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
Bottle at Toogoloog Middlekirke suggested by the barman. 9 euro. Dark brown red black colour lasting tan head. Malty black cherry vinous aroma. Yes oak yes red wine. Yes big in flavour. Its soaked up all that red wine.oak and vanilla flavour. Outstanding. Delicious really good.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Meester Skøll from De Meester 5 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
13 September 2025. At 17de Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to the whole crew!
Soap, lavender, yellow apple, lemongrass. Sourish green apple, lime, spicy lemongrass, soap. Grassy hops, spices, yellow fruits. Quite dull and soapy, I'm missing some of that champagne freshness.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Mayahuel from De Meester 5 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
13 September 2025. At 17de Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to the whole crew!
Fondant, coffee bean, toast, black pepper. Sweet fondant, liquorice. Peppery hops, boozy mezcal. Decent but not really my type of booze.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Saison from De Meester 5 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
De Meester's take at the - now - overexposed saison genre, on the market for six-odd years now but I am not this brewery's greatest fan so I have not bothered about this one so far. Bottle from De Picker in Zele. Opens with a hiss but no gushing. Medium thick, slightly irregular, membrane-lacing, egg-white, partially breaking but generally quite stable head on an initially clear, warm 'old-golden' blonde robe with vague khaki tinge and thin strings of visual sparkling. Aroma of a piece of white hand soap and even Aloë vera-scented body lotion (oddly), chewing gum, halfripe banana, sandwiches, touch grass, sweetclover, jade plant or mother-in-law's tongue juice, bee wax, matcha, pumice, bath sponge, touch apricot (still hard), brook water. Fizzy onset, sharp carbonation with stingy minerally effects, sweetish fruitiness reminiscent of banana, apricot and pear all in equal proportions, slick mouthfeel roughened by this ongoing sharp carbonation; white-bready maltiness, cereally, with phenolic spiciness on top (clove) as well as this houseplant-like 'waxiness' - think Aloë again, but now it is fortunately the plant itself rather than body lotion flavoured with some synhetic extract imitating it. That said, the effect remains weird, especially when an almost 'out of place' tonic water-like bitterness suddenly sets in, like a thunderbolt out of the blue; it stretches out over the finish in a rooty, inedible plant leaf-like way and at the same time fails to neutralise that initial ripe stonefruit and banana sweetness. I can see what this brewery was trying to achieve here - fruitiness at first, hop bitterness in the end, but this construction feels wrong somehow, lacking the natural saison yeastiness to guide these flavours in smoother ways that feel less 'forced'. I think this brewery better sticks to their strong beers - and even there, they have a huge amount of finetuning to do, if you ask me, but that is another story. I never liked De Meester's beers to begin with and this unbalanced, unnatural-feeling, odd and wry saison attempt certainly does not help to change my mind, on the contrary...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Old bottle from somewhere. Lot 210318. Hazy dark brown, stable, foamy, beige head. Aroma of candied date, rum-soaked raisin, dried fig, peat, tobacco, wet wood, whisky, brandy, toffee. Taste has sweet date, fig & raisin, lighter notes of plum & red apple, in a toffee-like and biscuity malt body surrounded by herbs & subtle smoke. Herbal & earthy hops in the finish, lingering dried fruits, slighty bitter wet wood & tobacco, complemented by a sweet and lightly peated whisky alcohol warmth. Full body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Very tasty, the barrel fits the base beer well.
Gerbeer (8214) reviewed Master Damnation from De Meester 5 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
330 ml bottle. Pours black with moderate dark tan head. Aromas of dusty wood, dark chocolate, dry vanilla, a bit of figs and licorice, and roasted malts. Flavors follow same with additional chicory and emphasis on inky roasted malts and licorice. Most excellent.