28/07/2017 @home - 33cl bottle shared by jerre. Light yellow with soapy foam. Nose is spicy, malts, bitter touch. Taste is malts, spices, stiscky sweet honey touch, light bitter. Too sweet for a saison but not a bad beer.

28/07/2017 @home - 33cl bottle shared by jerre. Dark yellow with small fading white head. Nose is sweet and spicy. Taste has malts, sweetness, spices.

Thxn for sharin, Tim, Wim, And Eugene ! Pours clear amber, small white head. Smell is bit herbal, mild alcohol, some roast. Taste is rather bitter, grainy ( amber touch, mild toast ) aromatic malts. Rather bitter, sharp. Not really hoppy. Too high carbo.

Another new Leste, at tderoeck’s Belgian ticks tasting in Ghent. Cobweb-lacing, off-white, moussy, very stable head over a hazy peach blonde beer with amberish hue. Aroma of banana, cooked carrots, young ’jenever’, coriander seed, old potatoes, soap, peanuts, cloves and a lot of DMS (overcooked cauliflower). Fruity onset, peach, some banana, red apple, medium carbo, supple and rather soapy mouthfeel. Bready and bit caramelly malt sweet body, lots of spicy, clove-like phenols, earthy hop touch, earthy yeastiness as well (rooty and bready), some light coriander, touch of warming alcohol. Classically conceived Belgian tripel - nothing wrong with it apart from that off-putting DMS, but not really ’amber’ as well, if you are going to call the Wallonian ’ambr?e’ concept an ’amber tripel’ anyway...

Brand new Leste beer, not even mentioned on their website yet (which is clearly in need of an update, as it claims that Doenkere is still the only one officially for sale...). Trendy in the sense that with this new beer, they seek connection with Asian cuisine, see other new Belgian examples like Oude Maalderij’s Farang, or earlier foreign examples like Oedipus’s Thai Thai in the Netherlands. Thick, stable, egg-white, irregular head, lightly hazy peach blonde robe with somewhat salmon pink-like tinge. Aroma of ethereal Asian spices, could be ginseng or ginger, even candied ginger (gari), very perfumey with hints of lavender soap, bath foam, rosewater, candied banana, some bready malts underneath. Sweetish and sourish onset, banana ester, touch of green gooseberries and apple peel, medium carbonation, slick and soapy mouthfeel, bready malt backbone completely buried under this perfumey, sweetish ethereal, soapy spiciness, with still a bitterish touch in the end, bit spicy. Interesting idea, but I am not the greatest fan of adding a lot of spices to beer - I guess being Belgian, I had just too many overcoriandered and otherwise spiced ales - and this one has a whole lot of them, however exotic they may be. Not my beer, but I cannot have anything against the premise, really.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Leste Yin Yang (by Brouwerij Leste):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 9/20, MyTotalScore: 2.6/5

21/VII/17 - 33cl can @ Belgian Ticks Tasting (home) - BB: 8/VI/18 (2017-1084) Thanks to kraddel for sharing the bottle!

Clear pinkish orange beer, small irregular off-white head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: spicy, very malty, grains, cow fodder, some caramel, bit fruity. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of overripe banana, spicy, ginger touch (?), sweet and sugary. Aftertaste: spicy, sweet, lots of overripe banana, yeast.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Leste Amber Tripel (by Brouwerij Leste):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.6/5

21/VII/17 - 33cl bottle @ Belgian Ticks Tasting (home) - BB: XI/2018 (2017-1081) Thanks to kraddel for sharing the bottle!

Clear amber beer, big creamy irregular white head, unstable, dissipates quickly. Aroma: sweet, banana, sugary, yeast, bit chemical. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: little bitter, very yeasty, soft bitterness, bit spicy. Aftertaste: lots of overripe banana, sweet, slightly sourish.

Thank you kraddel! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ “Belgian Ticks Tasting Ghent”. Pale clear golden, creamy white head. Nose is chemical, extreme spice, ginseng or what? Rubbish cleaning product,… Taste is extreme, what is this ginseng, yikes, band-aid, cleaning product, rubbing alcohol,… Body is chemical, ginseng, rubbing alcohol,… Yikes, nope,…

Thank you kraddel! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ “Belgian Ticks Tasting Ghent”. BBF NOV 2018. Amber indeed, amber orange, off-white head. Nose is band-aid, painfully chemical, poor, esters,… Taste is chemical band-aid, harsh industrial, rubbing alcohol, plastic,… Body is rubbing alcohol, chemical,.. Unpleasant, another unpleasant to me BE tripel.