8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Drucken på fat på Malmö bryghus belgofestival. En klassisk riktigt bra saison som är lätt jordig och stramt örtig, krispig och frisk. Mycket gott.

8

Bardzo smaczny, rzeski, kwaskowaty saisonik. Leciutki, do chlania. Ryli czadzik

6.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Imported from my RateBeer account as En Stoemelings La Tanteke (by En Stoemelings):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5

27/IV/18 - 33cl bottle from a trade @ home - BB: 30/IX/19 (2018-491) Thanks to Bierridder_S for the trade!

Rather cloudy orange beer, big creamy irregular yellow head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very fruity, lots of banana, yeast. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter, banana, fruity, yeast, more banana, slightly sweet, hoppy. Aftertaste: yeast, fruity, some green apples, bit sourish, malty, more banana.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Anniversary beer by one of Brussels' 'nouvelle vague' micro brewers, dedicated to the Berg van Barmhartigheid, nicknamed 'tanteke' - the story, unknown to me, is elaborately explained on the label. Medium thick, lightly lacing, egg-white, moussy head, stable and largely closed most of the time, crowning an initially cristal clear, warm pale orangey-tinged 'old gold' coloured beer, misty and deeper peachy with sediment. Bright and sweetish nose of banana mush, orange zest, camomile, kumquat, custard, fried apples, honey, mandarin peel, yellow kiwi, straw, ginger powder, coriander seed, bread crumbs, dried field flowers, melon. Fruity onset, mild banana ester mixed with nectarine, fresh apple and green melon notes, sweetish with a sourish edge, spritzy carbonation (perfect for the intended style), supple, lean, bit oily mouthfeel. Mellow sweetbread- and breakfast cereal-like malt body, sweetish but soon bittered by a confident, elegant, refinedly zesty, floral hoppiness, spicy and leafy on the root of the tongue, with camomile flower- and white pepper-like accents, quite long and drying; lingering fruitiness and maltiness in a relatively 'clean' way. Technically perfectly executed, elegant, juicy and lean saison in a very classically Belgian way, ticking all the boxes for the style, if Dupont and the like are to be taken as the standard. Very well done, better than expected really, based on previous experiences with this brewery.

6.2

Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Belgian spiced ale from a 75 cl bottle with red hangtag, shared with Goedele. Extremely strong gusher: it was impossible to remove the crown cap without considerable loss, and foam kept creeping out of the bottle in large quantities for minutes on end. What ended up in the glass, showed a typical ‘gusher look’: initially very thick and coarse, eggshell white, large-bubbled, irregular head collapsing into some loose patches quickly and eventually disappearing completely, over an immediately cloudy and murky, ‘dirty’ orange peach blonde beer with a brownish tinge that grows darker and more pronounced as more of the bottle goes into the glass. Aroma of oven-baked apricots, marmalade, apple sauce, melting powder sugar, strong spicy and even somewhat medicinal phenols (cloves, liquorice, allspice, even cough syrup), soggy bread crust, coriander, rhubarb pie, pear juice, honey, moist white pepper. Overly estery onset, lots and lots of peach, stewed apples and overripe pear and nectarine, some banana mush, with a load of residual white candi syrup sweetness on top but also a gooseberry-ish sourishness underneath with a ‘dirty’ flavour to it – probably the result of an infection, but not too overpowering, luckily. Carbonation is sharp and numbing initially, mouthfeel is fluffy and a tad powdery. Wet bread- and slightly peanut-like malt core with a thick honeyish residual sugar sweetness weighing quite heavily on it, leading to a ‘dirty’, very earthy finish with lots and lots of spicy and mildly medicinal phenols retronasally as well as coriander- and allspice-like ‘real’ spiciness and an orange flesh-like effect lifting the beer out of its own murkiness. Earthy, powdery yeast effects and residual honeyish sweetness linger, with a fair amount of peppery hop bitterishness for balance, but the ‘dirty sourishness’ of the infection continues along with it. Clearly – and like the previous En Stoemelings beer I had – something went technically wrong here, infection has struck with devastating effects on the appearance of this beer, but I must admit that I can still appreciate an earthy, ‘dirty’, phenolic Belgian every now and then and this one clearly falls under that category, yet better than average in pure terms of flavour, with an ‘orangey’ brightness and late but effective hop bitterness to it which I can certainly appreciate. Too bad for the heavy gushing and infected aspects, but the basic flavour as such was pleasant enough so I will not be too severe in rating this.

7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft at Moder Lambic. Hazy golden color dense white head with good retention. Aroma of pepper and dust. Taste is lightly peppery hay, straw fruit. Tasty.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft glass @ Barboteur. Orange, creamy white head. Nose is dirty grain, almost sweetish low yoghurt. Milky grainy, yeasty but largely clean even with the milky yeast, grainy, decent & one of their best beers for me.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Pours unclear amberblonde. Medium small white head. Smell is full on malty, phenolic, sharp peppery notes. Taste is full on malty, fruity (some orange, some citruss ) medium bitterness. Some banana esthers , especially in the aftertaste. Very full flavored' medium body and rather high carbo.