Middenvakrijder
Hedonis Ambachtsbier in Michelbeke, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
6.28
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Heerlijke Sunny Session IPA die slechts 3,1 % alcohol bevat. Dit fris en fruitig biertje bevat 3 verschillende soorten hop.
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5.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle at home. Clear yellow golden color, white head. Aroma and flavor are malts, mostly bitterness there, don't get much else. Meh. Drinkable but meh.
Tried
on 08 Dec 2024
at 00:03
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Lichtgeel bier met mooie stevige schuimkraag. Smaak is licht bitterzoet en licht hoppig met iets van ananas, wat sinaasappel en citrus. Goed fris bier.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2024
at 13:08
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Explosive gushing to a glass full of varied bubbled dirty white foam, and a bit of dirty orange beer. Fruity esters, mainly as grapefruit, bit ureum and a bit of caramel. Faint solvent, DMS. Bitterish water, faintly fruity. Long-lasting bitterness, fruity and metallic. Light, overcarbonated, unrefined. This is not a session IPA, but a nablab in form & character. Session IPAs can be really tasty and wonderful, this is neither. Pity. From Dranken Goegebuer, Knesselare
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 May 2024
at 18:06
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Blond colour with massive foaming head and very strong carbonation. Aroma and taste have zesty orange notes. Nicely bitter. Just too gassy.
Tried
on 08 May 2024
at 18:17
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Clear golden beer with a white head. Aroma of fruity and floral hops, pale malt. Taste of fruity hops, tropical fruits, apricot, high carbonation.
Tried
on 19 Mar 2024
at 13:59
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Frisch herb-hopfiger Geruch. Grasig-hopfiger Beginn, trocken, deutliche Herbe. Schwacher, dezent säuerlicher Hintergrund, helles Malz, kurzer Abgang, erfrischend. 9/8/9/8/8/8
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Mar 2024
at 14:40
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pours fairly clear blonde, small white head. Scent is a bit fruity. Bit southeastern hop style ( NZ / AUS ) Taste is bit sharp, very sessionable. Citrussy, malty, bit sharp. Very drinkable !
Tried
on 02 Jan 2023
at 10:15
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
33cl bottle from Spar Oostende. F: medium, white, good retention. C: orange gold, milky hazy. A: fruity, orange, tangerine, bit spicy, unripe banana, floral. T: light malty base, orange, grapefruits, green banana, spicy, bit bready, mineral, higher bit disturbing carbonation, bit yeasty, long lasting bitterness, quite nice for low alc. beer, enjoyed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2020
at 18:52
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Geers. Pours clear golden with a thin, unstable, frothy, white head. Aroma of mandarin peel, apple, hard pear, wheat, flowery soap, breadcrust. Taste has sweet unripe apple, pear & mandarin against a bready-yeasty backbone with a rather strong wheaty undercurrent, quite soapy by result, a tad bitter spicy & grainy too. Dry, earthy hoppy finish, more unripe fruit, yeast & soap, all in all very 'minerally'. Medium body, slick texture, lively carbonation. Too much carbonation, yeast & wheat bury the noble hops, alas.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2020
at 15:45
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Low alcohol blonde (a sunny session IPA as the brewer calls it) hopped with Centennial, Mandarina Bavaria and Equinox and containing oats and wheat next to barley in different forms. Very thick and foamy, snow white, papery lacing, frothy head, hazy yellow-golden robe with apricot tinge, lively sparkling. Aroma of green pear, unripe banana, dried camomile, dry hay, white bread, old lemon zest, soap, apricot, gypsum, hint of burnt rubber. Crisp onset, very minerally and strongly carbonated, restrained fruitiness of green banana, hard pear and unripe apricot, very subdued in sweetness but with a sourish edge from the wheat, which also provides a notable soapiness; cereally and white-bready middle, softened by the oats but the soapiness of the wheat dominates, feeling altogether 'full' for only 3.1% ABV. Grassy and floral, mildly peppery hop bitterness in the finish, adding 'body' to the final stage as well as some retronasal aromas of dried field flowers and old citrus peel, but hardly any of the luscious fruitiness I was hoping for when I read 'Mandarina Bavaria' or 'Equinox'... Instead, a rather annoying gypsum-like minerality and strong wheaty soapiness linger. More a 'postmodern hop-forward session Belgian blonde' than a true ISA, a bit like L'Arogante Session, but much more 'wheated' than that one; fits in this recent string of low ABV Belgian beers, a trend clearly inspired by the global popularity of ISA in the craft beer world. In that segment, certainly not the worst one, but I maintain that more New World hop aromatics and less wheat soapiness would greatly improve this one - and, perhaps, turn it into a true session IPA.
Tried
on 03 May 2020
at 22:32