Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Golden color. Tripel aroma, vegetable. Classic body, quite dry, strong; vegetable note. Spicy, malty.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed La Dragonne Brune from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cloudy nut brown color. Nice aroma, rare in the Belgian beers, with some light roasted malt. Non interesting body, with a background sourness.
Boutip (9769) reviewed Bornem Tripel from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Good abbey tripel, nice golden color. Hides well the high level alcohol. Sweeter then your standard tripel and not a full body that a would have expected.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Piraat (10.5%) from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
The aroma is very sweet and alchoholic with notes of fruit. The color is a clear amber and it has a beutiful head, though it disappears. The flavor is very powerful and fruity. The alchohol content is hidden but gives it a great palate and prickles your tongue. It ends on a dry note instead of bitterness. A really great beer.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Piraat (10.5%) from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 22 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Piraat Amber
Cloudy light amber color, creamy head. Strong, persistent malt aroma; sweet. Smooth taste, malty, quite sweet; very well balanced in the end. Powerful and wrapping. Perfect afterdinner.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Bios Kriek from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 22 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
The aroma is powerful cherries, and slightly sweet - but contains no sourness - a little weird for a kriek. The color is an unclear dark red and it has a beutiful pink head. The flavor is dominated by cherry, and it is pretty sweet. It has no sourness nor metallic notes as krieks often have. Though it ends on a very slight metallic note instead of bitterness. This is not a kriek, but a cherry sodapop - is that because I had it from keg?
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Bios Kriek from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
Thick, fast disappearing white-pinkish foam. cardinal-red, clear beer. Breath-taking smell of cherry sweets/gums, overtly sweet. Hard cherry gums again in the taste, not really fruity. Slight acidity at the tonguesides. Light to medium-bodied, impression of fruit juice. Aftertaste carries most of the acidity. This is better and the only sign of a real fruit beer. It may not be complete disaster - it comes near enough. All the more a shame as the regular Bios is quite a nice old brown.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
The colour is quite dark-brown, little caramel-shine in it. The head is brownish. The aroma is spicy, little bit sweet. There is also some sweet in the flavour, some caramel. I like this beer.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Zeppelin from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
First version brewed at De Proef: 7/4/7/3/15 Brewed for the "Stadswaag" in Antwerpen, a nice square (now with lots of pubs) which was once the target of a bomb, dropped by a Zeppelin. Nearly black, but with red-brown shine. Very ample, yellow-brown head. Nose of roasted walnuts, coffee, celery. Sourish taste from the roasted barley, nearly vegetable-fruity. Roasted malt/barley, very few restsugars. Restrained bitterness. Retronasal quite some liquorice. Medium-bodied, strange, as the beer gives a strong stout impression. Slight burning sensation; long roasted aftertaste. A remarkable beer, but it ages fast. A younger sample would have Guinness, Rochefort and even Westvleteren notes. This, slightly older, ventures into Flemish brown territory. Guinness Foreign Extra Stout the Belgian way? Second version by Van Steenberge (notes as above) Amber to cardinal red; huge yellowish-amber, dense head, very stable. Sweet vinous nose, fruity, "Mon Chéri" bonbons, portwine, some faraway, sweet malts. Sweet, vinous taste with a distinct roasted tang. Figs’ flavour, some hidden chocolate hints. Extremely thick, viscous beer, creamy, velvety MF, alcohol obvious. Much sweeter than the Proef version. I would be tempted to say "less complex", but in truth, the complexity is on another level. A more sweet one, sadly.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Honey, apples raisins and the usual belgian background. Red brown, creamy head. Sweet malt, apples, citrus, but the flavors lack balance - the front of the mouth promisses a lot which the back does not hold. The strength gives it a seemingly full body. Nice nightcap.