Beer Me! — Kasteel Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck — Emelgem, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

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Kasteel Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck

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Brouwerijstraat 1
B-8770 Emelgem
Telephone: +32 (0) 51 33 51 60
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Notes

Opened: 1900

Annual Production: 60,000 hl

U.S. Importer: Wetten Importers

Contributor: Mario Kornmesser

Updated: March 4, 2023

Beer List

Bacchus

Belgian-Style Flanders/Oud Bruin Ale

4.50% abv.
- Date: March 13, 2010 (#8175)
  
  Package: bottled
  
  Place: Brix, Omaha NE
  
  Score: 20 points
  
  Appearance (3)
  Bright crimson. Low head.
  
  Aroma (4)
  Caramel and Gueuze.
  
  Mouthfeel (10)
  Light, sweet, fizzy. Sweet dark caramel malt flavor on top of a mildly tart Gueuze.
  
  Overall Impression (3)
  It's a dark Gueuze. Very tasty beer!

Bacchus Frambozenbier

Fruit Beer

5.00% abv.

Bacchus Kriekenbier

Belgian-Style Fruit Lambic

5.80% abv.

Brigand

Belgian-Style Pale Strong Ale

9.00% abv.

Date: June 7, 2008 (#7090)

Package: bottled

Place: Beertopia, Omaha NE

Score: 20 points

Appearance (3)
Bright golden. Huge fluffy head.

Aroma (4)
Fresh malt. Bananas. Belgian spice.

Mouthfeel (10)
Medium body, fizzy. Nicely dry, with a big fresh malt flavor and loads of spiciness. Nice alcohol burn. Spicy and fruity and strong.

Overall Impression (3)
As good as Tripel Karmeliet.
Date: September 22, 2000 (#3536)

Package: bottled

Place: Belmont Station, Portland OR

Score: 14½ points

Overall Impression (3)
Deep golden, high carbonation, massive head. Belgian banana aroma. Light body, fizzy, intensely estery and highly alcoholic.
Date: August 24, 1999 (#3342)

Package: bottled

Place: Pat's Tap, Appleton WI

Score: 15 points

Overall Impression (2½)
Golden, MASSIVE head and carbonation. Strong spicy banana aroma. Medium body, enormously fizzy. Big sweet banana flavor, mildly bitter finish.

Garden (Fruit Wheat) Beer

Kasteel 11° Donker / Bruin 11%

Belgian-Style Dark Strong Ale

11.00% abv.

Date: October 10, 2005 (#5781)

Package: bottled

Place: Liquid Solutions, Tigard OR

Score: 16 points

Appearance (3)
Dark dark red. Moderate thick head.

Aroma (3)
Caramel apples. Spicy.

Mouthfeel (8)
Medium body, fizzy. Lots of dark sweet caramel. Lots of alcohol. Some tartness, and some dark fruit. Red apples.

Overall Impression (2)
Bottled 01-2004, best before 05-2009. Maybe it needs more age.
Date: November 13, 2000 (#3738)

Package: bottled

Place: Belmont Station, Portland OR

Score: 16 points

Appearance (3)
Deep red, extremely fizzy, thick head.

Aroma (3)
Caramelly, raisiny, estery aroma.

Mouthfeel (8)
Light body, huge sweet caramel flavor, intensely fizzy, sweet finish.

Overall Impression (2)

Kasteel 11° Tripel

Belgian-Style Tripel

11.00% abv.

Kasteel 7° Blond

Belgian-Style Pale Ale

7.00% abv.

Kasteel Barista Chocolate Quad

Belgian-Style Dark Strong Ale

11.00% abv.

Date: January 15, 2014 (#9325)

Package: draught

Place: Max & Joe's Belgian Beer Tavern, Omaha NE

Score: 18 points

Appearance (3)
Very very dark, with garnet highlights. Low dense head.

Aroma (3½)
Fresh coffee on a malt background.

Mouthfeel (9)
Medium-big body, smooth. Rich coffee roastiness, nicely malty. Hints of fruity esters, banana. Tastes like a fresh cup of espresso, without the bitterness.

Overall Impression (2½)
Is this the Brune with added coffee?

Date: September 28, 2010 (#8305)

Package: bottled

Place: Hy-Vee Stony Brook, Omaha NE

Score: 17½ points

Appearance (3)
Dark brown. Huge dense head.

Aroma (3)
Spicy, grassy hops. Earthy. Brown sugar. Yeasty.

Mouthfeel (9)
Big body, chewy and fizzy. Hugely malty, with lots of raisin and plum. Mild roasty note. Fruity and spicy esters. Warming and a little yeasty in the finish.

Overall Impression (2½)
Should age very nicely.

Date: June 7, 2007 (#6543)

Package: bottled

Place: Beertopia, Omaha NE

Score: 20 points

Appearance (3)
Bright golden. Incredibly high carbonation. Nice dense head.

Aroma (4)
Sweet malt. Hugely spicy. Nicely alcoholic.

Mouthfeel (10)
Light-medium body. FIERCELY fizzy and really alcoholic. Wow. Incredibly malty and spicy and complex and tasty.

Overall Impression (3)
This could very well be the best Tripel I've ever tasted.

Date: June 7, 2008 (#7091)

Package: bottled

Place: Beertopia, Omaha NE

Score: 15½ points

Appearance (3)
Bright deep red. Very high carbonation. Thick pink head.

Aroma (3)
Intense cherries: Smith Brothers cough drops.

Mouthfeel (8)
Medium-big body. Mouth-filling carbonation. Intense sweet cherry flavor, very mildly tart.

Overall Impression (1½)
"Belgian Ale with cherries and cherry juice added."

Date: April 9, 1998 (#2716)

Package: bottled

Place: Siebel Institute of Technology, Chicago IL

Score: 15 points

Overall Impression (2½)
Brown, low head. Winey aroma, some cherries, lots of almonds. Major almond flavor. Not much carbonation at all. Sweet, rather tart. The opinion in the room is that the brewery may have put the wrong label on this bottle.

Date: December 9, 2009 (#8074)

Package: bottled

Place: Liquid Solutions, Tigard OR

Score: 17 points

Appearance (3)
Amber. Hazy. Thick head.

Aroma (4)
Earthy. Tart. Malty and grassy.

Mouthfeel (8)
Really tart. Really light and moderately fizzy. Nice malt character. Some Brettanomyces in a lingering tart malty finish.

Overall Impression (2)

Date: January 17, 2008 (#6825)

Package: bottled

Place: Beertopia, Omaha NE

Score: 17 points

Appearance (3)
Bright red. Moderate dense pink head.

Aroma (3)
Tart cherries, malty, earthy.

Mouthfeel (9)
Light-medium body, moderate carbonation. Big tart cherry flavor, nicely malty. Mild lambic character.

Overall Impression (2)
Fairly sweet, but still tasty.

Date: January 19, 2008 (#6828)

Package: bottled

Place: Beertopia, Omaha NE

Score: 15½ points

Appearance (3)
Deep red. Low head.

Aroma (2½)
Raspberries, some DMS.

Mouthfeel (8)
Light body, moderate carbonation. Big raspberry flavor, mildly tart. Some malt in the background. Sweet raspberry finish.

Overall Impression (2)

Date: January 17, 2008 (#6826)

Package: bottled

Place: Beertopia, Omaha NE

Score: 16 points

Appearance (3)
Bright amber. Low head.

Aroma (3)
Mild peach, perfumey.

Mouthfeel (8)
Medium body, fizzy. Very sweet. Moderate peach flavor. Sweet finish.

Overall Impression (2)