Col Roulé
Klootzakske in Deerlijk, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: BeerSelectBelgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular
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Score
6.13
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Benzai (22911) reviewed Col Roulé from Klootzakske 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Col Roulé
Bottle at home. Clear (initially) yellow golden color, huge foamy bubbly white head. Aroma and flavor are malts, a bit yeasty, somewhat bitter. Meh and way too much carbonation. 6-5-5-4-5
beerhunter111 (43004) reviewed Col Roulé from Klootzakske 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle. A clear golden beer with a white head. Aroma of mild citrusy and grassy hops, wheat malt, yeast. Taste of herbal pale malt, grassy hops, citrus, refreshing hoppy finish.
Sloefmans (14286) reviewed Col Roulé from Klootzakske 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Huge, towering, very dense & fine-bubbled just yellowish tinted head over a bit of lemonjuice-looking beer, lots of lace. Bit soapy nose, herbal, grassy, lots of pale malts, spicy. Very spicy taste, rootspices, overlying pale malts. Dried lemonpeel, peppery (especially the finish, building up). Good carbonation, very dry finish & aftertaste. OK, it's not average, it's definitely not mainstream. But I still don't know if there's a necessity for this. And as for the cyclists' aspect, they will all buy Kwaremont, since they see that on TV on daily basis. And why anyone wants to call his brewery 'Klootzakske' is utterly beyond me. Thanks to Stef!
Alengrin (10989) reviewed Col Roulé from Klootzakske 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Belgian blonde from the 'bierfirma' that gave us the memorably, but in my opinion distastefully named Klootzakske, fitting in a long tradition of 'cyclist beers' (think Louwaege's Flandrien from a few decades ago, for example). Opens with a hissing sound and some foam slowly tries to creep out of the bottle neck a few seconds after that, but no true gushing. Inches thick, egg-white, very foamy, towering, dense and pillowy head over an initially lightly hazy, yellow straw blonde beer with warm golden hue and fierce sparkling feeding the enormous head. Aroma (after the minerally sting of carbon dioxide has faded) of banana peel, white bread crust, coriander seed, raw potato, old dry lemon peel, dried lemon thyme, freshly cut green pear, white pepper, freshly cut grass, baking soda, old aspirin tablets, sweat gone sour. Crisp onset, green apple, unripe peach and hard pear notes with a weird and unpleasant old and expired aspirin sourness and wryness lurking from below, initially still somewhat 'masked' by very sharply stinging, overly minerally carbonation; light, cereally and white-bready core, spiced with coriander seed and some clove-like phenols, leading to a grassy and somewhat peppery hop bittering finish - yet this weird old aspirin effect grows stronger and stronger, eventually shape-shifting to something more akin to sour sweat, which pushes itself upwards retronasally - and very unpleasantly so. Needless to say, this latter aspect ruined an already 'suspicious' beer for me - so half of it went down the drain. I assume drinking this ice cold - as it is intended, since the label mentions 4° C to 6° C - will indeed muffle the flaws, but in trying to critically assess beers, such temperatures are of course ridiculous, so I had this at a higher temperature than that, revealing its flaws (other than being dramatically uninspired). Most of it ended up down the drain. This whole Klootzakske project doesn't do it for me anyway and in the new jungle of self-proclaimed 'bierfirma's' and would-be breweries today in Belgium, it is one of the least I would miss if it were to disappear again.