Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sampled @ Zythos Beer Festival 2022. A almost clear reddish brown beer with a beige head. Aroma of red fruits, strong malt, lacto. Taste of sweet strong dark caramelized malt, lacto, mild sourness.
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed KraaiKe Sleedoorn from Craywinckelhof 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sampled @ Zythos Beer Festival 2022. A slightly hazy purple red beer with a beige head. Aroma of sour red berries, grapes. Taste of sour red berries, grapes, brett, refreshing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Beer #4800, Sample at Zythos 2022, black beer, small head. Aroma is roast, laphroaig whisky, peat, smoke, chocolate, coffee. Taste is the same, sweet, chocolate, malt and then laphroaig whisky, peated aftertaste, very nice
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Getebier from Craywinckelhof 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Towering ultra dense and fine, just yellowish head over lively carbonated copperish orange/golden beer. Fresh herbs, weeds and leaves, fresh hop; toasted malts, grains' bread, bananapeel. Bitter, hoppy, straw, grassy. Again weeds/herbs, fresh; none agressive. Honey can be traced if searched for. Refreshing, well-carbonated, light body, and very drinkable. Surprisingly good, yet simple. Better than the sum of its parts.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
25/XII/21 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ my parents’ place, BB: V/2023 (2021-1608)
Clear pale yellow beer, small creamy dense off-white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: floral, bit soapy, some citrus, grapefruit. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit soapy, pretty bitter, floral, oxidized, some citrus, grapefruit. Aftertaste: more soapy notes, pretty bitter, dry, floral, more soapy.
Tom (2085) ticked Horny Hornet from Craywinckelhof 4 years ago
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Horny Hornet from Craywinckelhof 4 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
26/VI/21 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent), shared @ Abeel’s, BB: X/2022 (2021-536)
Clear pale yellowish to beige beer, small creamy to aery irregular white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: malty, bit yeasty, some grains. MF: ok carbon, lively carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, bit malty, grains, nice bitterness, little fruity, bit soapy, floral. Aftertaste: yeasty, soft bitterness, banana peel, dry, decent, not great.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
33 cl. bottle @ home, gift form Dennis and Patries.
Hazy golden with a white head. White candy sugar en fruity yeasty aroma's. Sweet taste with a sweet finish. Decent but would have bene better with more bitterness I think.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed HeRoes Tripel Dry Hopped from Craywinckelhof 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Dry-hopped tripel developed by a hobby brewer called Dirk Heroes and at first commercialized by 4Pajot (as (He)Roes Tripel); since early 2019 the production has moved to Craywinckelhof in Lubbeek. Bottle from Streekproductencentrum Halle. Thick, frothy and dense, egg-white, papery lacing, stable head on a misty apricot blonde beer with pale orangey hue. Aroma of melting butter (quite pungently so - a clear sign of diacetyl), ripe pear, white grapes, quite strong DMS (spoiled cabbage soup), young 'jenever', freshly cut chicory leaves, potato peel, wet flour, soap, some band aid-like phenols and melting paraffin. Fruity onset, sweetish but restrainedly so, hints of banana and pear with a sourish undertone, lively carbonated; smooth, bit fluffy mouthfeel. Bready and somewhat doughy, cereally, dryish maltiness with grainy aspects and a buttery diacetyl edge (fortunately far less so than feared based on aroma), but also something soapy and wheaty, bittered by a firm hoppiness but in an earthy, bit rooty way, hardly providing the aroma urgently needed here to counter the retronasal effects of DMS and over-enthusiastic phenols. The alcohol remains better hidden than expected, but then this should be expected at below 8% ABV, which is on the light side for a beer referring to itself as 'tripel'. Flawed, unfortunately, but even with the diacetyl, DMS and unpleasant phenols theoretically taken out of the equation, what you would be left with is still a tripel trying to cash in on international 'hop forward' trends and missing the point entirely there; a better option would have been to take the 'Belgian IPA' direction here, and ending up with something along the lines of e.g. Houblon Chouffe, Gouden Carolus Hopsinjoor or the yearly special magnum-bottled editions of Lupulus... Not a success, alas, but who knows, the previous 4Pajot version may have been better, and hopefully this Dirk Heroes brews it better at home too - where, given that this is the current commercial version, it better had stayed. Craywinckelhof has done much better than this on a technical level.