Pours a copper amber, fairly dark, clear. Medium sized white head, low average stability. Scent is caramelly, fairly sweet impression, but not very strong - which makes sense given the ABV. Bit of that amber malt crunchyness. Taste is full, medium bitter, kinda clashing with the amber malts. Doesn't taste very fresh, in terms of ingredients. Bit damp, fairly sweet finish. The beer doesn't really 'pop', at least not in a good way. Not nearly as special as I had hoped for, but in a way better than what I expected, given the other 2 beers I had by them were subaverage. This one is to be concidered OK, nothing much beyond that, but it's also priced as such.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Vaertlander (by De Blauwe Kuip):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

28/XII/16 - 33cl bottle from Willems (Grobbendonk) @ Delft - BB: VI/2016 (2016-1506)

Clear blond beer, small creamy off-white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: bit grassy, malty touch, little sourish, bit oxidized. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish, fruity, some peaches, citrus. Aftertaste: some almonds, soft bitterness, bit malty, bit oxidized, some orange peel.

Bottle shared by Inoven, this is a brown beer, with little head. It has a bit sweet taste.

Flesje gedeeld met Benzai. Tht. Okt. 2014. Troebel donker amberkleurig bier met gist residu. Weinig aroma, in de verte iets caramelachtig. Smaak is iets houtig, zoet en toch caramelachtig. Al bij al lekker bier.

Bottle @ home shared by Inoven. [Best before October 2014] Hzy dark amber color with some yeast residu floating in it, average to medium sized off-white to beige head. Aroma is malts, lightly dried fruits. Taste malts, caramel, raisins, figs, lightly sweet, slightly a hint of bitter. Aroma may be a bit gone but the flavor is more complex than I expected. Decent body, average carbonation. A nice surprise.

Bottle from Frui Vita. Membrane-lacing, medium thick, egg-white head with well-retaining edges, over a warm ’old gold’ coloured beer with orange hue, hazy from the start with minute bits of yeast everywhere. Aroma of industrial caramel, sundried tomato, dried apricot, dry hay, cooked Brussels sprouts but more pasteurization-like than DMS-like, dried flowers, nutmeg, some sulphuric yeast autolysis (struck matches even), raw turnip, grape peel wryness, persimmon, sweetish curry spices, papaja, strong can-like iron. Restrainedly fruity onset with hints of red apple peel, unripe gooseberry and dried apricot, more sourish than sweetish, spritzy carbonation, slick malt body with both simple pale malt sweetishness, bit grainy even, and burnt toasted edges adding some basic bitterness, slightly oily, thinnish seen its strength and a bit metallic, adding a deep, ’deaf’, earthy and leafy hop bitterness in the finish as well as a wry yeast bitterness and even ’jenever’-like alcohol astringency, eventually becoming wry and bothersome, tiring the rest of the palate. Alcohol is an issue here (clearly badly hidden) but the ’dead’, cooked, sulphuric smell bothered me even more, as in e.g. Leffe Blonde (or worse); in fact, this almost feels and smells like a pimped strong pale lager. I have no idea how this was made, but I stick to my standpoint that it feels lager-like, pasteurized and metallic - in other words: more industrial than it probably is. Neither aroma or taste could charm me - this is Belgian blonde at the lower edge of its broad spectrum. I think De Troetsel, the beer merchant who commissions this, should taste this anew, and then replace it with something else. I bought that Klinkaert too but after this, I am not really looking forward to it. N.B.: the aroma becomes less unpleasant as it warms up, so I’ll add an extra point for that, but expectedly the taste remains the same. Sorry, I tried, but I really don’t like this...

330 ml. bottle sampled @ home. Purchased @ Willems & Zoon. BBF 06/2016. Sparkling lightly hazy orange, fluffy, chemical looking, fluffy big-bubble head. Nose is phenolic, ester-rich with mild mandarin & candy sweetness and something washing powder-like. Huge carbonation. Dull candy, mandarin esters, candy sugar, overly carbonated, BE-yeast, faintly mineral, caramel & dried plaster-like finish,… There is a faint alcohol burn. But largely it just tastes of dull candy & Belgian yeast + too much carbonation. Highly boring and pointless but acceptable.

Pours between red and brown No head at all Smells a bit sweet Good carbo Very sugary . Dry , sweet . No complexity .

pours clear, lighter brown no real foam smell is pretty weak . medicinal and earthy taste is sweet, suagry, some chocolate, some hops . doable, actualy low carbo chocolaty-caramely aftertaste very late aftertaste is chocolaty-maltyness . actualy pretty damn nice !