Temple du Ciel 5.2% (Hallertau Blanc + Chinook)
Nanobrasserie de l'Ermitage in Anderlecht, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Herbal Regular|
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6.91
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
One of apparently two versions of this Temple du Ciel by L'Ermitage in Brussels, a pale ale flavoured with tea, green tea but also fruit tea (rather an infusion) made from different kinds of berries; my sample comes from a can rather than the bottle depicted here and mentions "European hops", but the Chinook, though clearly a New World variety, could have been grown in Europe for all I know so I assume it is the same thing. Egg-white, moussey, regularly shaped, dense and frothy, stable, lightly lacing head on a misty yellow blonde robe with khaki tinge. Sweet and very fruity aroma of indeed dried and even candied fruit - Turkish delight-like almost, with elements of blueberry crumble, yellow plum jam and cassis upfront, as well as some side aspects of ripe pear, orange and canned pineapple somehow, followed by impressions of lemon candy (or even homemade artisanal lemonade), ripe mandarin, green tea subtly piercing through in an almost 'minty' way, background hints of leftover dough, chalk, mud or clay. Sweet onset (though not in a cloying way) with lots of candied and dried fruitiness from those fruit tea blends, cassis and blueberry clear enough, less yellow plum, some Groseille (as in the redcurrant lemonade my grandmother offered me in my childhood), with again ripe pear and pineapple lurking behind the corner; a mild, mandarin-citric sourish undertone tries to maintain balance, but the dried fruit sweetness prevails, with again that Turkish delight-like feel to it somehow. Carbonation remains soft and while the dried fruits remain till the end, they do become less pronounced as the palate progresses, so that an old-dough- and soggy cereal-like pale maltiness becomes increasingly more 'bare' - with retronasal green tea herbaceousness joining in as well. Unfortunately, the finish fails in bringing balance: the hop bitterness remains very low (a bit floral though) and there is just not enough 'body' as a result to prevent it from going down rather watery. A more herbal tea-derived bitterness (and slight astringency) does linger, so this is, in all, among the most tea-like beers I had in a long time, with fruit tea being the last impression after swallowing. I am nowhere near the greatest tea enthusiast so I cannot say I enjoyed this one a lot, in spite of my genuine appreciation of this brewery as one of the foremost of the whole Brussels 'nouvelle vague'; though I am convinced that many less 'beery' consumers will thoroughly like this, I guess it is just not a beer for me. I prefer the jasmin-flavoured Théorème de l'Empereur, which has become an Ermitage classic, way over this...
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330 ml bottle, from Être Gourmet, Belgium. ABV is 5.2%. Made with European hops and Chinese white and green tea, blackcurrants and plums. Golden colour, huge white head. Distinct aroma of said ingredients. Medium sweet flavour, again with notes of said ingredients, spicy and fruity character. .
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5
Tap at 100 piv. Very clean, I actually do not get none of the flavouring, not even the hops. Slightly phenolic yeastiness, feels but a really sessionable good golden ale, but I am completely puzzled by the list of ingredients. Uhm.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at Brasserie L’Ermitage, Brussels on 10th January 2020. Rated as a novelty ale. Pale amber with white foam and scant lacing. Intensely fruity aroma. Rich plum and blackcurrant in-mouth with tangy citrus notes. A finish to match. Light bodied with a zingy mouthfeel.
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Imported from my RateBeer account as L'Ermitage Temple du Ciel 5.2% (Hallertau Blanc + Chinook) (by Nanobrasserie de l'Ermitage):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5
9/VI/19 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared @ home, BB: 22/X/19 - (2019-838) Thanks to Bierridder_S for the trade!
Clear orange beer, big creamy off-white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: fruity, peaches, bit malty, bit chemical, dirty, yeast, rather unpleasant. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: quite some tea, bitter, funky, infected, something very weird going on here, brett notes maybe. Aftertaste: herbal, little miny, tea, bit funky, soft bitterness.
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07/11/2018 - draught sample shared with rubin77 @Ermitage taproom. Clear yellow, creamy head. Nose is fruit gum and ripe fruits. Taste is fruits, some yeast, bit sweet and on the wattery side for me but still nice.
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Keg at the source. A clear golden orange coloured pour with a white head. Aroma is sweet. Midget gems, peach curd, tangy peach melba,. Flavour is composed of drying light grains, floral peach, white peach, little white sugars. Palate is semi sweet, light tang, highish carbonation.. Fun enough.
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F: medium, off-white, average retention. C: gold, almost clear. A: sweet orange, mango, pineapple. T: sweet orange, bit plums, mellow tangerine, peach, tropical fruits, medium body and carbonation, good yet bit more on the sweet side, enjoyed, tasting sample shared with Bierridder_S @ Nanobrasserie de l'Ermitage Taproom in Brussels.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Keg at the Brewery tap, 08/12/18. Almost clear golden orange with a decent off white cap. Nose is mellow red berry fruits, orange peel, straw, toasted malts, hint of blackcurrant. Taste comprises tarte citric peel, peach flesh, grass, plummy depths, light spice. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Ok.