Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Clear ruby color, short lasting head. Tart aroma. Very watery flemish sour ale, weak.
caesar (10841) reviewed Wittekerke from Brouwerij De Brabandere 22 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Typical white appearance. Aroma of lemon and coriander. Also quite typical white taste, though a bit more watery. Refreshing palate. Average white.
omhper (45152) reviewed Wittekerke from Brouwerij De Brabandere 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Bottled. Cloudy pale yellow. Lemony aroma. Sweet, clean and mild, obvious wheat flavour, and notes of orange liqueur.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Wittekerke from Brouwerij De Brabandere 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
(draught) Very pale, hazy, yellow. Fumed glass impaires real assessment). Very thick, white head, very stable. Nose gives lots of coriandre, not much citrus, and wheat. Taste: coriandre, a bit of vanilla, wheat, but no acidity from the wheat. Quite dry mouthfeel. Typical characterless Belgian wit.
Silphium (4309) reviewed Wittekerke from Brouwerij De Brabandere 22 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Smells like a Budweiser...I'm relieved at my first sip. Certainly not a powerful Witbier, rather Bavik is pure refreshment, with light lemon, orange, and malt flavors laced with just the hint of sweetness. A previous review called this a "beach beer" and I have to agree. Throwing a few of these on the ice and hitting the sand is not a bad plan.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Petrus Speciale from Brouwerij De Brabandere 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
White-yellowish head, lacey. Orange-foxy beer, clear. Nose of coulour malts, hops, bitterish. Slight malt sweetness, balanced by a little hopbitterness and by the carbonation. Rather neutral overall, a bit characterless. Light bodied. Aciditiy from the carbonation last longest. Good balance overall, but not very remarkable beer. Classic for its style.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Bavik Super Pils from Brouwerij De Brabandere 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
(Draught) Completely clear-pale gold. Thick regular white head. Nerbal nose, some hops, little malt, chaff. Taste is reasonably hoppy, with a very outspoken malty underbuild, character like of müesli. Empty mouthfeel, bittereffect in aftertaste. A pilsener, unimportant, unthreatening.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Dark red-brown. Thick yellowish head, fast disappearing. Lactic acid, besides old wet wood in the nose, vineous. Restrained acids (lactic mainly) in the taste, some wood, and some port – but much drier. Complex fruit tastes, light sweet underbuild. Dry, a bit empty. Long woody finish. A quite good old brown.
caesar (10841) reviewed Petrus Speciale from Brouwerij De Brabandere 23 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Slightly hazy copper color, short but lasting head. Palm-like aroma, bit malty. Weak malty taste, bit watery. Very much like Palm or De Koninck.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Petrus Aged Pale from Brouwerij De Brabandere 23 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10
AT LAST!! This beer, made by Bavik to blend with younger dark beer, for obtaining the "P. oud bruin", or "P. Oak aged dark" in the USA, is as such only obtainable in the USA. In Belgium the brewery refuses to recognise its existence; breweries' representants not knowing about it, or claiming not to... Thanks to a friendly American visitor, here I go. Colour: dark golden-yellow, dusty-hazy. Slight, but seen the acids quite stable white head. Nose: vineous, woody, lactic & acetic acid. Then lemony, green apples. Taste: Beautifully aged. The wood is very discernible. Mellow acids - acetic acid kept below recognition treshold. Hints of sweetness from malt or unfermentables. WOW - this epitomizes the 'Oud bruin' style. Mouthfeel : there is acid-burn, no mistake. The beer is far from empty, a firm underbuild by malt presents itself. Aftertaste: long wood notes. The sweet underbuild gains strenght given some time. Overall: HELL! I couldn't get enough of this beer, were it available here. As it stands, it is a crying shame. It's like making Romanée-Conti unavailable in France!