Belgian Tempest
Harrington's Breweries in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.46
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explosivedog (14050) reviewed Belgian Tempest from Harrington's Breweries 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
500ml bottle. Pours a hazy bright orange. Orange peel, coriander, lots of black pepper, lots of sugar, lots of yeast to the point of eggy brioche type stuff. Bit clumsy and overbearing.
Travlr (30173) reviewed Belgian Tempest from Harrington's Breweries 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft at the source courtesyof staff, thank you! Clear golden color. Aroma of earthy and musty lemon and grapefruit. Taste is sweet, boozy citrus.
SimonF (3322) reviewed Belgian Tempest from Harrington's Breweries 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
(bottle) Hazy golden amber with very little head. Not a lot of aroma - slightly metallic with some spices and hints of esters. Medium body with nice smooth carbonation. Flavour starts somewhat sweet caramel, moving quickly to a more aggressive taste profile of spice, alcohol and a somewhat harsh metallic hoppy bitterness. Overall an interesting stronger ale, but a bit unsubtle and unbalanced.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Belgian Tempest from Harrington's Breweries 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled. A golden beer with an off-white head. The aroma has notes of spices, yeast, and peaches. The flavor is very sweet with notes of spices and malt, as well as lighter notes of alcohol and coriander as part of the spice picture, leading to a lightly dry and spicy finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle, 7C. Label and name presumed to be deadpan Kiwi humour. Pours clear amber with an inch of off-white head. Aroma of oranges, peaches, dough, pasture. Quite sweet with drying spicy bitterness that creeps up a bit too fast and then doesn’t stay around. There’s light caramel as well as fruit in the malt and some cloves and coriander seed as well as herbs and grass in the brief finish. Obviously strong, but the alcohol doesn’t really stick out more than you’d expect. Big doughy yeast present throughout. A little simple, but not crude.
Davros (5279) reviewed Belgian Tempest from Harrington's Breweries 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Pours amber with a large lasting head.Nose is overwhelmingly herbal at first, coriander or something. Some doughy wheat shows along with soft fruits: orange, peach, somewhat confectionery-like. Pretty weird.More doughy wheat shows as a flavours, also similar fruit and that bold herbal note. Finishes with a somewhat unpleasant boozy finish.Carbonation is pretty high.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
(Bottle 50 cl) Pours a slightly hazy golden with a white head. Aroma of yeast and banana and some diacetyl also. Medium body with tart fruit notes, yeast and diacetyl. The finish is dry. I agree with Craig that this is closer to a Tripel than the brewery’s own Saison suggestion. Harrington’s seem a bit confused about this "BelgiUM Tempest" - and a viking ship on the label?? But credit for trying to make a BelgiAN style beer which not many breweris do in NZ. 280108