Boelens Balzello

Brewed by Boelens
Style: Belgian Ale
Belsele, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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33cl, new brew Anno 2008, from De Hopduvel Gent, complex brew, not balanced, cloudy, small head, nice brew

Bottle @ home. Amber color. Yeast, pineapple and vegetable aroma. Yeasty cellar flavor, sulphury with some tropical fruit. Home brew like and disappointing, but gets a little better in the aftertaste.

Bottled at Petalax Beer Festival. Hazy amber, brief head. Evident banana aroma. Sweet and bready nice wonderfully soft and sparkling mouthfeel. Mild and inviting with spun sugar and caramel as well as orange and almondy yeast. An usassuming beer that don’t stick out anywhere, but shows high quality in every aspect. A laid back beer of the type I’d like to find in a countryside brewery to just sit an anjoy. Though it’s not the typical beer that sticks out in a crowd of RIS and DIPA it was my favourite beer of the vast amount of beers we emptied in the Finnish woods during teh weekend of Petalax Beer Festival.

Bottled. Deep golden colour, small white head. Aroma is licorice and banana along with some sweet malts. Flavour is licorice, banana and some sweet malts. Rather toffeeish notes as ti warms up.

(Bottled, 0.75l) Very hazy amber with a small head. Aroma of anise, licorice, raspberry, banana fruitiness, some yeast. Anise-licoricey, slightly acidic flavor with caramely malt, toffee, medium bitterness. Some alcohol present. Medium-bodied, low carbonation. A sweet, but quite enjoyable and reasonably complex Belgian ale.

Amber beer with a white head. A lot of maltiness in the aroma together with candy sirup (pancakes) and hoppy notes. The flavor is outspoken sweet candy sugar with only at the very end a bit of hopbitterness. Also some alcohol warmth in the aftertaste. Medium bodied. Sticky mouthfeel

Bottle 75cl @ Zythos Bier Festival 2008, Sint Niklaas, Belgium. Unclear light to medium amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, moderate to light heavy hoppy, flowers, perfume, moderate yeasty, toffee, anis seed. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. (Flavor feels odd sweet). Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (010308)

Bottle at ZBF08. Sweet spicy aroma. Very cloudy muddy brown colour. Big stable light brown head. Sweet spicy flavour.

ZBF2008: From tap. Pours hazy brown with a little lacing tan head. Light fruity and mild spiced aroma. Light fruity, mild spiced and quite sugarish sweet flavour. Lingering sweet caramel finish.

From the bottle at ZBF 08. Cloudy brown with lots of floaters. Lasting beige head. Attractive spicy dry malt aroma. Belgian yeast too. I like this. Odd flavours, but this ginger hop/dry malt works for me.