Selfish Session
Brouwerij De Feniks in Heule, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.43
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Ingredients: Water, barley malt (pilsner, pale ale), hops (Magnum, Cascade) and yeast.
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Rubin77 (10243) reviewed Selfish Session from Brouwerij De Feniks 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
F: thin, white, quick gone. C: gold, hazy. A: malty, mellow fruity, peach, bit floral. T: malty, light lemon, dry fruity, bit yeasty, bit spicy, medium body and carbonation, ok beer. Sample shared with tderoeck, 77ships and Bierridder_S @ Bruges Beer Festival 2018.
Bierridder (4353) reviewed Selfish Session from Brouwerij De Feniks 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
04/02/2018 - small glass shared with tderoeck, 77ships and rubin77 @BAB, Bruges. Hazy yellow, small lacing. Nose is sweet grainy, some spicy yeast, Taste is sweet and malty, some banana. Not bad but they can do way better.
77ships (14509) reviewed Selfish Session from Brouwerij De Feniks 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
Thanks to tderoeck, Bierridder_S & Rubin77. Sampled 330 ml. bottle @ Brugs Bier Festival 2018. Golden orange, little white head. Nose is awful metallic BE soap, grain,… Taste is rubbish chemical, rain, soap, insecticide, chemical, pain, metallic, bitter chemical,… Body is grain & plant bitter, not a fan.
Maakun (16718) reviewed Selfish Session from Brouwerij De Feniks 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at De Paas. Bit hazy golden with white head. Light herbs, marzipan, soft spicy yeast, peach candy, light herbs and minerals. Maybe cornflakes? Something grainy, sweet and slightly rough in the finish. Under medium sweet, medium bitter. Under medium bodied with fizzy carbonation. Meh.
Kermis (23501) reviewed Selfish Session from Brouwerij De Feniks 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
7 3 7 3 14 Bottle at Gekke Geit, Den Haag. Hazy golden with a white head. Aroma of herbs, cloves, coriander, caramel, citrus notes and yeast. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
sjogro (11784) reviewed Selfish Session from Brouwerij De Feniks 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at de Paas. Slightly hazy golden with white head. Sweet malts, coriander and cloves, yeast. Moderate sweet and bitter. Medium body and average carbonation. Light metallic and watery aromas.
Icedwarf (4944) reviewed Selfish Session from Brouwerij De Feniks 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Geel bier met mooie schuimkraag die lang blijft staan. Smaai is bitter hoppig met een licht kruidige ondertoon. Licht zoet met iets van kardemon en koriander.
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Selfish Session from Brouwerij De Feniks 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as De Feniks Selfish Session (by Brouwerij De Feniks):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5
11/VIII/17 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte) @ home - BB: III/2019 (2017-1197)
Clear blond beer, big aery irregular off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: sweet, banana, mandarins, grains, malty, some honey. MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: some citrus, lots of orange peel, fruity, nice bitterness, some mandarins. Aftertaste: nice furity touch, bit sweet, yeast, ripe banana.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Selfish Session from Brouwerij De Feniks 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
The session blonde from this new brewery, started by the former brewmaster of Unibroue in Chambly, Québec. Contrary to the two previous ones I had from them, this one does not gush. Very thick and foamy, dense, beaten egg-like, off-white head leaving behind a thick gird of membranous lacing and remaining stable and closed for the entire tasting session; hazy straw blonde robe with vaguely olive green tinge, the haze being perturbed by columns of enthusiastic sparkling; adding the sediment not only throws an equally cloudy, ochre-ish pale peach blonde veil over the entire beer, but also adds a few large flakes of pale proteins - not the prettiest sight I’ve seen in a beer so far. Aroma of old apple peel, a whole lot of obnoxious and very off-putting DMS (overcooked white cabbage), dough, dried garden weeds, unripe gooseberries, chalk, white bread, fresh chamomile flowers, hard pear, baker’s yeast, soap, moist white pepper, very old ginger powder, bubblegum hidden in the background, banana milkshake, melting powder sugar, jute, straw. Crisp, fruity onset, some banana ester but not overdone, impressions of hard pear, unripe peach and dito yellow plum, overall very restrained in sweetness with a softly souring edge, slightly rhubarb-like; carbonation is spritzy but ’normal’ for this type of beer, mouthfeel is supple and light but does betray the near to 7% ABV. Bready and sharper cereally malt middle, bit ’fluffy’, sitting comfortably under the ongoing ’unripe fruit’ accents and growing spicy phenols, though nothing medicinal or chemical happens; finish copies this bready yeastiness and maltiness along with the ’hard pear’-like fruitiness (I guess this is what my esteemed colleague below means with his Duvel comparison) and adds a grassy, floral, slightly leafy hop bitter touch, with a gently drying effect. The malt and estery sweet aspects keep prevailing, though, accompanied by a subtle chalky touch. Ends mildly sweet, much the same way it began. I am especially bothered by the DMS here: either this has not been cooked for long enough, or it has been cooled down too slowly after cooking, but this sulphuric ’stench’ is very pronounced in this case and I hate it. Other than that: ordinary Belgian blonde, on the dryish side and fortunately not too sweet, but a bit bland. As for style: again this brewery creates a lot of confusion by naming this a ’golden ale’, which implies Anglo-Saxon intentions - and those very clearly are not present here, as this beer is very obviously conceived as a simple Belgian blonde thirst quencher. If it weren’t for the overdosis of DMS, I would have recommended it within that usually boring - yet still commercially important - range of beers. And on a different note: agreed, this is Belgium, but if you give your beers English names in order to attract an international audience, I doubt if calling a near 7% ABV beer ’session’ is commercially viable...
Kraddel (15872) reviewed Selfish Session from Brouwerij De Feniks 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Bottle. pours clear blonde, huge white head. Smell is mild bitter. Bit malts, some yeast. Taste is indeed in the style of a Duvel. It comes rather close, actually. some sharp, very clean bitterness, as well as the malty flavor you’ll find in a duvel. Very well done !