Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ home. Clear golden color, medium to full sized white head. Smell and taste malts, quite hoppy, floral and blossomy in the beginning but those flavors mellow down into a not unpleasant moderate bitterness. Decent body and carbonation.
Benzai (24515) reviewed Klets Bruin from Bier & Karakter 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle @ home. Hazy a bit murky red-brown color, average sized white to off-white head. Smell and taste malts, sourish, sourish bitter, lightly brown malts and perhaps a distant hint of brown candy sugar. Average body, medium carbonation. Overall: not good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Extra hoppy version of the regular Klets. Irregular, ’membranously’ lacing, egg-white, moussy head over a hazy light orangey peach beer with salmon-coloured hue, turning ochre and muddy with deposit. Aroma of fresh sorrel, freshly cut grass, cooked pasta, chamomille, banana and even slight bubblegum, dry earth, ginger, overripe peach, white bread, sweet white grape, ’spinach’-like iron, honey, raw turnip, faint lime zest, cooked and sugared rhubarb, even faint vanilla, clove-like phenols and ’jenever’. Fruity, crisp onset, pineapple, banana and lots of ripe, sweetish-and-sourish gooseberry, minerally and spritzy carbonation, supple and smooth but ’filling’ caramelly and bready malt sweet body, a tad grainy here and there, slight iron presence without becoming overly metallic, spicy phenols showing up and joining the ongoing estery fruitiness, leading to a very earthy, drying, softly but thoroughly bitter finish, spicy and floral retronasally, with a glow of ’jenever’-like, warming alcohol in the end which mingles a bit with the hoppiness, while juicy malt sweetness persists till the very end. Very typical Belgian IPA again, mixing (European noble) earthy hop bitterness with a lot of Belgian yeast effects; this combo can go wrong in some cases, but for me it usually works just fine. This is not too distinctive in a sea of new Belgian IPAs, in fact it is nothing else than a slightly hoppier version of their regular which is nothing but another boring, banana-laden, phenolic, estery and yeasty tripel, but in all its modesty and redundancy, I did manage to enjoy it, after all. Not very inspired to say the least, not technically perfect, but nothing terribly wrong here either.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Klets Bruin from Bier & Karakter 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5
Pours hazy amber/brown with a minimal white head that leaves lacing. The aroma contains caramel, yeast, roasted malts, but skunky, earthy and dusty overall. It tastes medium sweet and light bitter. Nothing much going on there. The body is light and the texture is thin. Hard to finish. Bad.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Klets Blond from Bier & Karakter 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle as Kasteel van Staden blond. Hazy golden, white foam. Citrus, sourish nose, caramel, bit banana. Lively carbonation. Unbalanced, not very good.
Dirk Ramaekers (800) ticked Klets Blond from Bier & Karakter 10 years ago
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Rex Artus from Bier & Karakter 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
"Craft beer brewed in Belgium" at Anders, commissioned by Biernatie apparently, though this is not explicitly mentioned on the label. Thick, snow white, moussy head leaving thick patches of lacing on the edge of the glass, colour is a deep, almost amber-like orange blonde with a diffuse haze of yeast divided throughout. Aroma of apricot, damp cloth, rainwater, raw celery, ginger, field flowers, dry cookies, biscuit, dried banana, bell peppers, red apple, dry earth and a lot of dry hay, young ’jenever’, hints of rusty iron and very faint burnt rubber (DMTS?). Crisp, fruity onset, sweetish bubblegum and banana isoamylacetate, soft gooseberry sourishness, sweet apple, peach, quite spritzy carbonation even for the style, yet smooth and supple mouthfeel; a lean, notably caramelly and honeyish malt sweetness underlies this and the soft, slightly soapy wheat flavour is noticeable as well. Spicy phenols are on top of this and return retronasally along with floral and spicy hops, though they have limited bittering effects (though an earthy bitterness does linger around in the back), so the caramelly malt sweetness persists almost undisturbed in the end - almost, because the interfering factor here is ’jenever’-like alcohol, already more or less apparent from the middle as a slightly burning, bit wry presence, increasing in the finish; it leaves a mild astringency on the root of the tongue as well. Clearly the alcohol is not well hidden in this beer, even for a tripel; it is also a bit ’generic’ and Belgian all the way, in that it is not that different from many Van Steenberge, Huyghe or other ’classic’ (read: boring) tripels this country is teeming with. Decent for the style, but nothing more than that and not more so than e.g. Bornem Tripel, Piraat Amber, Tongerlo Tripel or countless other ones in this league - and therefore completely redundant.
yespr (55501) reviewed Rex Artus from Bier & Karakter 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33 cl bottle. Pours cloudy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is medium dry and phenolic. Sweet, light fruity. Toasted malt. Lingering light fruity and mild phenoloc finish.
Dedollewaitor (22132) reviewed Klets Bruin from Bier & Karakter 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2
Bottle @ Orla, Bickle and Dolle goes bananaz. Pours Hazy amber with a creamy white head. Tart and infected. Grain and Dark fruit. Thinnish. Eggs and Leather with sewer Water and dust beneath.
Beertalk (16424) reviewed Klets Bruin from Bier & Karakter 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Kochsgade Friday afternoon tasting in November. Dark amber with floaties. Lasting white head. Malty caramel aroma with sweet fruits. Sweet and sour fruity and caramel flavour with lots of phenolic off-notes