Kraddel (15844) reviewed Kapsuul - Zomer Uur from Craywinckelhof 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Pours a hazy strawyellowblonde. Medium sized white head. Scent is lemongrass, mild maltyness, fairly elegant, light and fresh. mild BE style yeast underneath (isoamylacetate) , all and all not bad. Taste is fairly simple as a base (Belgian blonde) with some lemongrassy notes. Hoppy, yes, but it also has a dried-spice character (maybe unlisted added spices? or is it just by the phenols?) which I'm not to fond of. Overcarbonated - as is to be expected in this style of beer. Mild bitterness. OK. Mild malty sweetness in the finish
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Tripel Will Edegem from Craywinckelhof 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Small white head over fully hazy darker golden beer. Rather perfumey (malt)nose, fine herbs, leaves and obvious white candi sugar. Yeast and meaty esters, human sweat. Bitterish-spicy with sweet malts underneath. Spiciness, bit of ureum, enhanced by the spritzy carbonation, almost arriving at light acidity. Dried citruszeste, unlike that conferred by C-hops. Highly attenuated, see the white candi sugar and medium bodied at best. This is not a bad tripel at all. Of course, very limited distribution.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Horny Hornet from Craywinckelhof 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Sandersput, Ninove. Clear golden, thin, white head. Aroma of honey, plum, ripe yellow apple, pear, white bread, spice bouquet, vague mandarin. Taste has sweetish apple, pear & plum, bit lemony sourish over honeyish and white-bready maltiness. Grassy hoppy finish, herbal & spicy still with ripe, yet not overly sweet yellow fruit notes. Medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. Pretty decent honey beer, which never feels artificial and that alone is a big plus.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy blond colour, white foam. Fruity, estery, citrussy. Medium carbonation. Not a bad tripel.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed KraaiKe Sleedoorn from Craywinckelhof 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
21/V/22 - sample from tap @ Leuven Innovation, BB: n/a (2022-590) Thanks to Sebletitje for sharing today’s beers!
Clear red to ruby coloured beer, small aery irregular white head, pretty stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: a bit metallic, earthy, pretty faint. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sour, pretty fruity, acidic, more sour fruits, a little bitter, some tannins, good fruity notes, berries. Aftertaste: clear acidity, spicy, earthy, tannins, wood notes, ok.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Sample during Leuven Innovation '22, shared with Tderoeck and Untappd duo.
Couleur entre ambre et acajou, col fin rosé mais retombant vite.
Arôme est fin sur un léger bouquet fruité de baies/prune avec un bouquet sur le funk assez marqué - les deux barriques étant déjà 'sour' cela vient encore rajouter aux effluves acidulées.
Palais garde cette approche 'sour' sans être surfaite - ici deux barrqiues de Porto et Cognac déjà 'sour' sont utilisées - cela enlève du caractère des deux mais bon. Retrouve un léger côté fruité de prune sauvage - épine noire aussi et déjà utilisé dans une version récente de Ermitage - je dois admettre avec plus de succès - ici, le côté 'sour' astringent et âpre est trop dominant et se fait à défaut du fruit. Effet un peu de baked soda tout en ayant un fini léger de prune - avec l'acidité.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Horny Hornet from Craywinckelhof 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Honey beer commissioned by a bee keeping business in Aalst, obviously made with honey from their own bees; the regular version, as a hoppy version with green label also exists. Bought at the Gentse Floraliën, an internationally renowned four-yearly flower festival in Ghent dating back to the 19th century. Medium sized, moussy, bit irregular, egg-white, sparsely dot-lacing, slowly breaking head on an initially crystal clear, pale straw-yellow blonde beer with visible sparkling, turning misty yellow with sediment. Aroma of indeed perfumey acacia and lavender honey, brown banana peel, oxidized sweet red apple slices, damp cotton cloth, stewed turnip, white bread dough, overripe sweet shallots, lemonbalm, sweetclover, pineapple, clove, hints of dried rosemary, kitchen towels, leftover dough and potato peel. Fruity, sweet onset, ripe pear, red apple, banana and pineapple, touch of melon perhaps, lively carbonated with minerally effects, slick but relatively full mouthfeel; somewhat sugary, residual sweetness quite heavily hovering over a slender, white- and brioche-bready middle, clearly honeyish - and this is not just autosuggestion this time: that flowery, sweet-herbal, delicate aromatic effect of honey is very clearly present. Grassy hop bitterishness in the finish along with some minerally notes and ongoing ripe yellow fruit esters, but the honey aspect continues unabatedly as well, a tad perfumey here and there, but never becoming boring. A cliché Belgian blonde spiked with honey, with not only that herbal, fragrant floral aromatic effect that all good honey beers have, but also a lingering sweetness which actually tastes like artisanal honey. Some calvados-like alcohol warms in the end, perhaps a bit much so for a beer of this relatively moderate strength (to traditional Belgian standards). It rarely happens that a showcased ingredient is 'forced' upon a basic Belgian ale in an elegant and flattering way, but Craywinckelhof has managed to pull it off. Too sweet perhaps, but by all means a solid, old school, very typical Belgian honey beer, joining the likes of Lefebvre's Barbãr, Boelens' Bieken or Binchoise's Bière des Ours. Expected worse - and the fact that the honey is not obscured by hops like in the hoppy summer version with green label, probably makes this original yellow label version the better of the two, though I sure like myself some extra hops as well and cannot seem to make up my mind in that respect... In short: delivers exactly what it promises in a technically correct way, so I cannot complain.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Special Amarillo-dryhopped version of a honey beer commissioned by a beekeepery in Baardegem (near Aalst), flavoured with acacia honey; bottle bought at the pop-up shop linked to the Floraliën, the famed flower festival in Ghent going back to the 19th century. Very thick and foamy, plaster-like lacing, beaten egg-white, fluffy and stable head on a misty pale yellow blonde beer with a 'storm' of champagne-like sparkling rushing through, turning more deeply hazed and deeper golden coloured with sediment. Aroma of dried field flowers, old grapefruit peel, sweetclover, chamomile, white bread crust, straw, wrinkled green apple, withering sorrel leaf, dry hay, halfripe banana, potato peel, hints of dried sweat and gypsum. Fruity onset, banana ester mingled with hints of oxidized green apple, Conference pear and a vague dash of unripe apricot, lively carbonated, restrained in sweetness; supple, lean body, dryish white-bready pale maltiness with cracker-like edge, developing a play of phenolic spiciness (clove), ongoing traces of 'yellow-green' fruitiness and a flowery, herbal effect from the honey, all increasingly bittered by a floral, grapefruity and eventually quinine-ish hoppiness, lasting for a long time and bringing dryness and body to the finish. Quite a dry, hoppy, almost somewhat saison-like "Belgian IPA", adorned with herbal, floral honey accents but no honey sweetness - quite decent, in all; the long, rooty hop bitterness saves the day for me here. Better than expected, actually.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Pours black, medium sized head. Scent is sharpn oak, soy Taste is sharp, mellow, buttery bourbon. Very mild acidity. Bit bitter. mild chocolate. Roasty. Tad creamy. Not very intense.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sampled @ Zythos Beer Festival 2022. A clear reddish beer with a white head. Aroma of sour red berries, grapes, wood oak. Taste of red berries, wood, oak, mild sourness.