Xenon
Siphon Brewing in Michelbeke, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: De Dochter van de Korenaar / Galway Bay BreweryPorter - Smoked Series
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Score
7.07
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XENON is a Smoked Porter of 7% ABV, brewed in collaboration with Brouwerij Dochter van de Korenaar of Baarle Hertog and Galway Bay Brewery from the west of Ireland.
It is part of a special six-pack of beers—the Noble Gas Project—created with twelve other breweries to celebrate the third birthday of Siphon Brewing.
Working with Siphon Brewing on the recipe and process beforehand and attending on brewday were Ronald Mengerink of Dochter van de Korenaar and Tom Delaney of Galway Bay.
XENON is a subtly smoked porter with a nutty, chocolate flavour and a full-bodied creaminess.
It is part of a special six-pack of beers—the Noble Gas Project—created with twelve other breweries to celebrate the third birthday of Siphon Brewing.
Working with Siphon Brewing on the recipe and process beforehand and attending on brewday were Ronald Mengerink of Dochter van de Korenaar and Tom Delaney of Galway Bay.
XENON is a subtly smoked porter with a nutty, chocolate flavour and a full-bodied creaminess.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Small mossy-beige head, irregular, over reddish brown-black beer. Smoked, smoked mackerel, salty-fishy, but also sweet-roasted. Roast, smoked. Bit mineral/rusty metal, rather than salty in the flavour. Bit of chocolated, surprisingly little smoke/phenolic flavours. Finish has a hint at oxydation and again somewhat rust. Feels quite spritzily carbonated; not much body, just a bit slick. Aww, I expected a lot more from this beer - as from this association. Bet all three have better smoked beers, than this, which remains a bit nondescript.
Tried
on 07 Jul 2019
at 15:40