Imported from my RateBeer account as Mareklop IPA (by Mareklop):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 2.6/5

8/IX/18 - 33cl bottle from the brewery, shared @ home, BB: n/a (no markings on the side of the label to mark a date) - (2018-1222)

Clear orange to amber beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: sweet malts, some caramel, bit chemical, paint thinner, green apples. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty, grains, very bitter, bit chemical, unpleasant bitterness, dry, caramel. Aftertaste: dusty, bitter, bit resinous, dried fruits, malty finish. Don't the chemical character in this beer...

Well balanced. Lci Gents bierfestival 2018

Black with thin creamy head. Aroma has light vanilla. Carbonation is quite high. Flavour has dark malts. Lots of dried fruits. Sweet finish.

"Marshmallow stout" - sounds hip - and the first stout 'tout court' by Mareklop, one of their newest. Bottle from Wijnegemse Drankenhandel. Medium thick, creamy, lightly lacing, pale yellow beige, dense head, slowly thinning and eventually opening, on a jet black beer with hazy chestnut brown edges. Aroma of 'fondant' chocolate bars soaked in water, salmiak, treacle, dried prunes, fried banana slices, burnt toast and burnt chestnuts, burnt brown sugar, dry earth, pipe tobacco ashes, hints of toffee, bayleaf taken from a boiling beef stew, wet leather, marshmallows but only in the original sense of the word and toasted black, shoe polish, brown rum, black radish, haemoglobin iron. Sweet onset with thin sourish undertone and early roasted bitter accents, dried prunes and banana slices, burnt brown sugar effect, spritzy carbonation but finely tingling and not impairing a full, heavy, oily mouthfeel, however feeling strangely lighter than 10.5% ABV. Caramelly and bitter-black chocolatey, severely toasted malt bittersweetness, lots of outspoken black coffee-like roasted bitterness in the finish, the bitterness of which is accentuated not only by a good dose of spicy, rooty, earthy and bit tonic water-ish hops but also by a strong, bit burning glow of rum-like alcohol, perhaps just a tad too boozy for my liking. The decadently sweet and creamy marshmallow effect I was expecting based on the premise, stays away, while the 'Belgian-ness' is apparent in the form of a bready, bit phenolic yeast effect at the back. Not the thick, overly sweet and creamy, luscious, 'fat' Scandinavian style pastry stout I was allowed to expect based on the name, but another Belgian attempt at imperial stout - yet within that context, one of the better ones I had so far, truth be said. Less condense, thick, complex and intense than the best of Belgian imperial stouts (Struise's Black Albert and its offspring, for example), but clearly above average, compared with the often overly yeasty, phenolic, estery, harshly or insufficiently roasty, 'raw' and dirty beers many other Belgian breweries come up with when venturing into this style. Probably the best Mareklop so far.

Bottle 330ml. @ home. [ As Mareklop Tripel ].Clear medium yellow orange colour with a average, frothy to fizzy, good to fair lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, light caramel, moderate yeasty, belgium yeast, sweet yeast, fruity yeast, fruity, light bubble gum. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a long duration, fruity, sweet yeast, fruity yeast, belgium yeast, pale malt, dry, light peppery, light leather - plastic. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180220] 6-3-5-3-12

33cl Bottle, thanks Harmen! Hazy golden colour, white head. Aroma is medium sweet, malty, apples, some coriander seed, citrus, spicy yeast. Flavour is sweet, fruity, peach, malts, coriander seed, light citrusy, slightly dry, light spicy, bittersweet finish. Medium bodied. Decent tripel.

Pours very dark amber ( PALE ???? ) with a good, dense, very creamy and very stable white head, with much lacing. Smell is hoppy, bit 'green' . Amarillo shows most. mild phenolic features. Taste is sharp, bitter, intense, somewhat green malty, very malty indeed, bit caramel. Mild esthers (more to the acetyldehyde side, but not over the top, no mistake here, as long as it's seen as a Belgian IPA ) and phenols ( peppery notes towards the back ). Overall, very malt-forward IPA with a very decent bitterness, and a thick, creamy, Amarillo forward hoparoma. Body is medium-thick, carbo is medium-low. Aftertaste is surprisingly short and weak though, preventing this beer to be top notch.

The newest Mareklop on the market (though I heard a new one is coming up), an IPA hopped with Citra, Cascade, Amarillo and Willamette, bottle from Gedeelde Vreugde in Sint-Niklaas. Quite irregular, also irregularly cobweb-lacing, off-white, medium thick, moussy head over a misty amberish-tinged orange blonde beer, a tad darker than average for an internationally intended IPA. Aroma of moldy old orange flesh, rain- or even green pond water, overripe mango, croissants, fermenting apricots, banana, green grapes, damp earth, cooked turnip, strawberry wine, spoiled potato mash and spoiled leek soup, withering anise plants, herb cheese, horseradish, egg yolk, pumpkin flesh, cloves. Fruity-estery onset, sweetish with expressive sourishness surrounding it, banana, pear, kiwi and peach hints, early announcements of hop bitterness, soft carbo, supple and lean body. Bready malt 'rotundity' in the middle, bit cereally as well, but softened by bready yeastiness - which really has no business in a true IPA. Esters and increasing spicy phenols in the finish, hovering above a decent but - frankly - somewhat insufficient hop bitterness, bit dank, withering garden herbs, old citrus fruit and a vague dash of overripe mango thrown in, providing an earthy, rather dull bitterness below, while that old Belgian yeastiness prevails with too many esters and too many phenols. Lingering breadiness too. Seen as a Belgian IPA, this is an acceptable beer, if you interpret "Belgian IPA" as "attempt to cash in on the international hop-forward movement and ending up with a yeasty blonde or tripel with mild international influences". I expected more from this, clearly these guys have no clue that refermenting an IPA with Belgian yeast strains can only lead to clashing flavours; on top of that, I suspect I stumbled upon a bottle that is a bit past its prime. I guess a beer like this should be enjoyed farm fresh from tap, but even then it will never be a true international-style IPA in spite of the four expensive - and, to most Belgian brewers, 'exotic' - hops that have been thrown in. Guys, listen: it is not because you mastered the blonde and / or tripel style indigenous to Belgium and add a lot of fancy hops, that you automatically end up with an IPA... Not an unpleasant beer at all, don't get me wrong, just another addition to the unintentional "Belgian IPA" range, in the league of Plukker's All Inclusive IPA series, Van Eecke's Hommelbier Nieuwe Oogst, Den Triest IPA and so on, and so forth. Within that very specific context, this functions fine, without topping any of them. I have enough experience with Belgian beers to be weary when the commercially interesting abbreviation "IPA" is mentioned on a Belgian label, but people from abroad may be unaware of this, so in this case: expect a Belgian blonde coloured with American hops, but still being a - yeasty - Belgian blonde.