Sample @ kulminator , from personal notes . I was told this was the same beer as de smoel, but I’m not sure , and can not follow if it is true or not . Anyway Pours clear blonde, ok white head . Smell and taste are - as to be expected - very perfumy . As well as the to high carbonation . Pretty much like any beer in the style that they call champagne-beers ... I seriously don’t get it and think they’re not good and very often overpriced . Maybe I need to drink em at a blind tasting , but in memory of having one or the other, I dont taste much difference between different beers in this style Earlier Rating: 10/7/2013 Total Score: 3modeste 2013 pours fuzzy blonde, good white foam . smell sweet, very gentle and elegant . sharp and high carbo . sour touch ( a bit) , bitter. way better than deus, yes .

Very good, dense and white head, leaving shards of lace; cold hazed orange-golden beer with fine and lively carbonation. Milky, obvious alcohol; then lots of citrus and citruspeel. Fresh-smelling, but for the alcohol; some exotic fruit and dried apricots. Dry-fruity (mainly citrus) and spicy flavour; subtle and yet powerful, again txs to the alcohol, also giving quite some sweetness, more in the finish. Fine spicy bitterness is in good balance with the fruity and alcoholic sweetness, and some effervescence from the CO². Quite well-bodied & slick, well-carbonated, alcoholwarming. Rather remarkable beer, its characteristics usually lying very difficult with me, but with an undebatable good result.Earlier Rating: 10/6/2013 Total Score: 3.4Disappearing white head, hazy pineapplejuice-coloured beer. Herbal nose, garden herbs, smelling a tad astringent, but not in an off-putting way. Sweet-sourish, For some reason, I’m again thinking of pineapple(ester). Finish is a tad empty, as sweetened and out-fermented. Feels quite carbonated, medium bodied at best. For Den Triest, I find this a bit characterless, I’m used to more fireworks. Of course, when you want to emulate Champagne, character is out of order.

75 cl. bottle sampled @ Modeste 2013. Hazy citrus, white head. Nose is citrus peel, vicks, heavy spices, touch BE yeast, white bread. Taste is thick very heavy BE yeast, bitter spices, light barn, touch candy sugar, hint farm, hay, very BE profile. Body is very thick BE yeast; Not getting any of the Champenoise treatment, avg. but enjoyable BE blond.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Dame Jeanne Brut d'Anvers (by Dame Jeanne):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

A double rating, the scores on RB being the average of both ratings.

Original rating: 5/X/13 - 75cl bottle @ Modeste Bierfestival (Antwerpen) - BB: n/a (2013-919)
Ar: 4, Ap: 4, T: 5, P: 4, O: 10, total: 2.7

Clear light orange beer, small creamy white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: dairy, some nasty sewer smell ("putje"), cow stable, pretty dirty, yeast, sulphur. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity start, bit sourish, dairy, yeast, citrus, hay, a dirty touch. Aftertaste: bit hoppy, citrus, hay, dirty, little sweet. Hard to describe what it is I don't like about this one, but this must be the first bad beer I ever had from Den Triest.

New rating: 17/III/14 - 75cl bottle from Willems (Grobbendonk) @ home - BB: 1/XII/14 (2014-xxx) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the bottle!
Ar: 7, Ap: 4, T: 8, P: 4, O: 15, Total: 3.8

Note: A complete different experience this time! Either what we got at Modeste was a test batch, or it was way too young, or infected, I don't know. This was definitely much better.
Clear dark blond beer, creamy white head, stable, bit adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: fruity, some citrus, sweet malts, bit sugary, caramel, little chemical. MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity start, citrus, nice bitterness, bit grassy. Aftertaste: a bit sweet, sugary, little banana, some citrus, overall fruity impressions.