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Silenrieux Joseph Spelt Ale

Silenrieux Joseph Spelt Ale

Rated 3.345 by BeerPals

Brewed by Silenrieux

Silenrieux, Belgium

Style:  Witbier

5% Alcohol by Volume

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ID: 944 Last updated 2 years ago Added to database 22 years ago

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Overall Rank8074
Overall Percentile84.9
Style Rank72 of 819
Style Percentile91.2
Lowest Score3.2
Highest Score3.8
Average Score3.475
Weighted Score3.345
Standard Deviation0.183

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  • OH6GDX 8392 reviews
    rated 3.5 14 years ago

    Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

    Bottled (from lahoublonniere.be). Hazy yellowish golden colour with mediumsized white head, that vanishes quite quickly. Flavour is fruits, wheat/spelt , some yeast and slight sweetness lurking. Very refreshing and pleasant.

  • PHILB 2479 reviews
    rated 3.5 15 years ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    Bottle: Poured a pale yellow color ale with a large pale white foamy head with good retention and good lacing. Aroma of light funk and fruity ester with some pale malt. Taste is also dominated by some light funky notes with some discernable fruity ester and a light malt backbone. Average body with great carbonation. Well done but maybe lacking some funk to some ester to be truly exceptional.

  • ANTE 2674 reviews
    rated 3.4 16 years ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    Hazy golden with a rich licely white foam. Dryish yeasty aroma of banana-peels, lemon, mild flowers and biscuit. Soft, lively and somewhat wheaty flavour of banana, yeast, bread, spices and mild pepper. Soft airy and sparkling mouthfeel. Light finish of yeast, pears, banana and almond-paste.

  • SIGMUND 6606 reviews
    rated 3.5 16 years ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    250 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal pub, Stavanger. Also available in Norway at Vinmonopolet. ABV is 5%. This spelt beer is organic (French: "biologique")., and has had a secondary fermentation in the bottle. Very pale blonde colour, hazy. Large and fluffy white head. Yeasty, spicy (cloves a.o.) and citrussy aroma, nice. Spritzy mouthfeel. The flavour is wheaty, fairly dry, notes of citrus and pepper. Not very different from their buckwheat beer "Sara". Joseph is a decent beer, but not worth the ridiculously high price in Norway.

  • STALEYIV 1405 reviews
    rated 3.8 18 years ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

    The aroma is bitter to some extent with some flowery characteristics and is sweet with maybe some spices coming through with with maybe some fruit like pears or apricots. The appearance is a bit murky and is a light yellow to golden in color with a big, fuzzy head on top that is bubbly and discipates leaving white lacing that clings to the glass. The mouthfeel is light-bodied and smooth with nice fruity complexity as well as good balance with a pallet that is nice and dry to some extent. The flavor is sweet with some spice with fruity flavors like apple, pear, or apricot with some slight bitter in the aftertaste that is somewhat creamy and maybe some very slight sourness with a finish that is refreshing and smooth with much sweetness and is slightly dry. Overall, this is smooth and tasty stuff that I could drink more of, this is a good witbier.

  • EYECHARTBREW 1451 reviews
    rated 3.2 18 years ago

    Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

    I wasn't sure what to expect with this one. I mean, how often do you hear about "spelt", anyway? Well, exotic grains aside, this type of beer only reinforces my thinking that most "organic" beers are boring.

    Pours rather dull, with little head production -- no where near the billowing foam monster that I expect from Belgian beers. Not much in the way of head retention, either.... In other words, this looks kinda dead.

    Fairly interesting aroma, with something of an apple-like nose. But even that doesn't save the rather dull flavor profile. Not horrible, but there isn't much here to work with. I kept on expecting something to develop as the beer warmed up and progressed, but no go. I think that if this had some noticiable acohol highlights, it would at least have some sort of character... of ill repute, perhaps..., but that's better than nothing.

    I was thinking about closing with some sort of play on the word "spelt" (i.e. "this beer is spelt wrong!"), but that would require way too much effort, for a beer that really does not deserve such work.
    //TB

  • CLASH 2576 reviews
    rated 3.6 19 years ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    Aroma is apricots, pears, and bananas. Appearance is a murky golden color. Flavor is light with some citrus and vanilla. The aftertaste is slightly sour with a creamy mouthfeel. This is not very complex but a very enjoyable light belgian ale.

  • BOV 1743 reviews
    rated 3.3 22 years ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    light orange colour, spicy, refreshing, sweet

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