Bar Belge
Stil Ende Brouwerij ( Bar Belge ) in Zedelgem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Amber / Red Ale Regular|
Score
6.26
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Bar Belge is an amber-coloured beer with an exquisite layer of frothy foam. In the nose: a bomb of spices and roasted malt. On the palate: bitter hops and delicious spices that complement each other. This is an elegant and fresh amber beer with a sizzling finish.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
26 July 2018. At Republiek, Bruges. Cheers to Ian!
Brand new beer by a brand new nanobrewery in Bruges, located at the beloved 'Stil Ende' spot; not much is known about it currently - apparently brewed at Eutropius. The waiter at Republiek compared it somewhat to Orval, so here it goes. Pours hazy amber, brownish, with a lasting, foamy, off-white head; some lacing. Sweetish aroma at first: overripe fruit, banana, prune, berries, marzipan, cookie dough & caramel, some yeast and spicy notes of cinnamon, perhaps even coriander popping up. Medium malty sweet onset with hints of ripe fruit, prune & faint banana, bread & dough. A yeasty profile takes over, with a medium grassy bitterness and a spicy note added to that. In the back, there's a faint berry-like sour touch and a note of almond, though the bitterness already renders a slightly metallic effect. Dry, grassy hoppy finish, drying even, more spicy notes and again, a slightly metallic effect, subverting its expected quenching character. Medium body, slick, quite 'fluffy' texture, fizzy carbonation. Indeed quite a 'wayward' beer in that aroma and taste don't really connect and the drinker is fooled. The malty aroma suggest more sweetness, in any case I feel it needs some 'cleaning'. The taste contains too little of the promised sourness and loses itself too much in the yeasty & spicy direction. Still, it has a rather modern hoppy character and I would gladly try this again. And for what it's worth, dear waiter at Republiek: no, I can't compare it to Orval.
Brand new beer by a brand new nanobrewery in Bruges, located at the beloved 'Stil Ende' spot; not much is known about it currently - apparently brewed at Eutropius. The waiter at Republiek compared it somewhat to Orval, so here it goes. Pours hazy amber, brownish, with a lasting, foamy, off-white head; some lacing. Sweetish aroma at first: overripe fruit, banana, prune, berries, marzipan, cookie dough & caramel, some yeast and spicy notes of cinnamon, perhaps even coriander popping up. Medium malty sweet onset with hints of ripe fruit, prune & faint banana, bread & dough. A yeasty profile takes over, with a medium grassy bitterness and a spicy note added to that. In the back, there's a faint berry-like sour touch and a note of almond, though the bitterness already renders a slightly metallic effect. Dry, grassy hoppy finish, drying even, more spicy notes and again, a slightly metallic effect, subverting its expected quenching character. Medium body, slick, quite 'fluffy' texture, fizzy carbonation. Indeed quite a 'wayward' beer in that aroma and taste don't really connect and the drinker is fooled. The malty aroma suggest more sweetness, in any case I feel it needs some 'cleaning'. The taste contains too little of the promised sourness and loses itself too much in the yeasty & spicy direction. Still, it has a rather modern hoppy character and I would gladly try this again. And for what it's worth, dear waiter at Republiek: no, I can't compare it to Orval.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Jul 2018
at 14:24