Bromance Imperial Weizen
Kompaan in Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Collab with: Poesiat & KaterWeizen - Hefeweizen Special
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Score
6.67
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For this collaboration with our Amsterdam-based comrades at Poesiat & Kater, we went big. Really big. Bromance is a bold, amped-up take on a classic German-style wheat beer. Think banana esters, creamy wheat body, and clove-spice vibes dialed up to imperial levels.
Built on a complex grain bill of pilsner, wheat (malted, flaked, and torrified), plus rice hulls and dextrine for smoothness and head retention. Hopped with Hallertau Magnum, Polaris, Hallertauer Mittelfrueh and Saphir for layered bitterness and subtle herbal notes. Fermented with Munich yeast to keep things soft, spicy and fruity.
The result? A full-bodied, smooth sipper that brings the best of both our houses together
GRAINS: Pilsner, Wheat Malt, Torrified Wheat, Flaked Wheat, Cara-Pils, Rice Hulls
HOPS: Hallertau Magnum, Polaris, Hallertauer Mittelfrueh, Saphir
YEAST: Munich (Lallemand)
ABV: 8.3%
IBU: 35
EBC: 9
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Idiosynkrasie (18028) reviewed Bromance Imperial Weizen from Kompaan 1 month ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
440ml can. Slightly cloudy, dark yellow-ish to orange, golden colour with average, frothy to creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, white head. Minimally bready and grainy, wheaty malty and slightly yeasty spicy aroma, herbal-floral, hoppy overtones, hints of wheat crisp bread, a touch of clove, floral whiffs of basmati rice. Taste is minimally bready and grainy, spicy, wheaty malty, slightly grassy and herbal-floral hoppy, minimally yeasty spicy, a touch of wheat crisp bread, mint, eucalyptus, clove.
Creamy-oily texture, smooth and soft, minimally greasy palate, medium to fine, dense, creamy, mildly prickly carbonation.
Quite cautious, somehow condensed and homogeneous in such an extent that "monotonous" is the more precise term - hoped for more Weizenbock character due to the abv, but this is a Kristallweizenbock at best. A complete lack of fruit flavours, not many yeasty aspects in general - rather disappointing.