6.3

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

Towering, dense, just yellowish head over lively carbonated pale yellow beer, fully veiled. Bit oppressive nose, strong garden weed aromas. Continental hops, but also as wild hops, and above all, a strong smell of asparagus (DMS?!), untreated. Again asparagus in the taste, if combined with a strange flavour of toasted malts (colour???), and human sweat. There might be coriander indeed, but this flavour is warped, transmongrified. Light body; on the verge of overcarbonated; bit sticky, filmy MF. Doubtful result. I wonder if this is intentional. from Dranken Goegebuer, Knesselare

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5.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5

The tripel version in this new series, brewed by what is apparently an actual new microbrewery in Passendale, known for its World War I history and its cheese. Thanks to Think Cool Bontinck in Zele for buying in this one after I requested it - after all, this beer shop is listed as one of Obuz's official distributors on the Waterfields website... Thickly moussy, egg-white, pillowy, membrane-like lacing, largely even-bubbled, stable head on an initially crystal clear, pure golden blonde robe with vague apricot tinge and hardly any visible sparkling (if some), turning misty with sediment. Aroma of banana, chewing gum, plaster, honey, cooked pear, breakfast cereals, rubber, granulated sugar, bitter garden weeds, 'perzikjenever', candy apple, wodka, hints of chamomile, still warm brioche bread, freshly cut grass and cooked bitter roots. Sweet onset, lots of isoamylacetate (banana ester, in a bubblegummy way), hints of ripe pear and pineapple but generally quite 'dull' in its esters, with an unexpectedly 'painful' sting of 'hidden' carbonation, adding a souring effect and minerality in a coarse kind of way; sweet pear and pineapple accents travel along with the much more dominant banana over a slick cereally pale malt sweet middle with an unpleasant rubbery effect to it. Some 4-vinyl-guaiacol (soup meat in this case) briefly appears retronasally, adding insult to injury; clove-like effects from the same source are also present, as well as a whiff of floral hops, adding an 'end' bitterness too feeble to withstand either the sweetness or the ensuing onslaught of crude, 'jenever'-like alcohol which had made its presence clear earlier on. Ends unpleasantly boozy, sweet, unrefined and even a bit 'thin'. Granted, the hops eventually become a tad rooty and their bitterness lingers on - but too little and too late. This beer totally lacks depth, finesse and yeastiness - I have the impression it is trying to compete with Duvel, Omer, Hapkin and other 'edelbieren' instead of aiming at 'true' tripel, but even then it greatly falls short in comparison with the established brands. The raters preceding me have been very benevolent, but I had enough crap like this: this is utterly redundant, too boozy, too sweet and badly structured, a 'Belgian strong blonde' the bad way and almost approaching the 'drain pour limit' for me, sorry...

6.8

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

Thx to @JefV for this bottle. Clear golden color and a white head. Herbal and banana nose, taste is also yeasty, faint herbal and rather sweet. Nice.

5.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle from somewhere.
A: clear golden, big, foamy, white head.
A: grass, apple, leek (vague DMS), yeast, coriander.
T: sweetish apple, unripe pear, vegetables, soapy wheat.
F: spicy coriander & grassy hops.
P: medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation.
Nothing special and too vegetable-like.

2.4

Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 1.5 | Flavor - 2.5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2

Stark karbonisiert. Süßer Beginn mit viel Gemüse. Helles Malz, wenig aromatisch, unrund, falsch. Bäh. 8/4/5/4/7/4

3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3

33cl bottle. A clear pale yellow golden beer with a white head. Aroma of herbal malt, vegetables. Taste of vegetables, old malt, herbs, high carbonation. Meh..

5.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

33cl bottle. A clear yellow golden beer with a white lacing. Aroma of honey, sweet pale malt. Taste of honey, sweet pale malt, mild bitterness.

5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Süßlicher, mild herber Beginn. Mild würzig, die Süße bleibt konstant, helles Malz, leichter Hopfen. Süffig, rund, ok. 9/8/9/8/8/8