Brasserie Surréaliste Pale Ale

Pale Ale

 

Brasserie Surréaliste in Brussel / Bruxelles / Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪

Brewed at/by: The Brew Society
  Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular
Score
6.90
ABV: 5.6% IBU: - Ticks: 28
Our signature pale ale balances a smooth mouthfeel and gentle bitterness with intense hop aromatics. Showcasing Mosaic, Citra and Simcoe hops, it delivers bold tropical and citrus flavors, bridging dream and reality.
 

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5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Bottled 330ml (Beergium)
A bit hazy yellow colour, medium-sized white head and lace. A bit honeyish, fruity aroma. Light-bodied. A bit fizzy. Pale malts, mango, citrus in the flavour. Light grapefruity finish. Easy and simple sweetish pale ale.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Jan 2020 at 16:25


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Blond colour with massive foaming head. Very floral hop notes. Light citrus. A little fruity sharpness.

Tried on 29 Jan 2020 at 20:21


6
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Lichtgeel bier met veel stevig schuim. Smaak is licht bitter en licht zoet kruidig met iets van graan, ananas en een vleug citrus.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Jan 2020 at 14:51


5

Tried from Draft on 26 Nov 2019 at 22:55


7
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Pours rather unclear blonde, medium sized, rather stable white head. Smell is a bit malty, nice, rather fruity hoparoma. Mild tropical, mild 'candy' even. Clear fermentation profile. Taste is sharp, bit bitter, nice maltyness. Bit 'slick' body, perhaps fermented a bit to warm ? ( not overly phenolic or estery though ) . Bit too high carbo. bit bitter. Decent, the negative sides are very minor in intensity, yet give a chance to improve this beer.

Tried on 02 Oct 2019 at 10:17


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

The (American style) pale ale from this apparently new contract brewer from Brussels, whose range also seems to include a witbier, a DIPA and a saison - something to be discovered perhaps, if his quality level is anything like that of the other Brussels 'nouvelle vague' brewers... Thick and frothy, eggshell-white, creamy and dense, irregularly edged, stable head, hazy pale straw blonde robe with apricot hue and thin strings of sparkling rising up everywhere. Powerful, enticing and 'pure' bouquet of strong ripe mango, yellow kiwi, mandarin, sugared lemon flesh, sweetbread, meringue even, white pepper, dried wormwood leaves, yellow curry, sweet paprika powder, hints of lavender soap, jackfruit, freshly grated ginger, whipped cream. Lively, fruity onset, colourful with notes of sweet ripe mango, sweet citrus (mandarin), yellow kiwi, rambutan and ripe pear, sourish undertone accentuated by lively, fizzy but not too harsh carbonation, smooth and almost creamy, soft mouthfeel - with that carbonation still dispensing some stings here; sweetbready, fluffy, bread pulp-ish malts with a cereally edge, quickly soaked in aromatic hoppiness releasing tropical, zesty colours retronasally, mango, pomelo and jackfruit with a lot of orange zest; meanwhile a soft but effective, powdery, initially only mildly grapefruity but eventually somewhat quinine-like, long-lasting, bit peppery bitterness comes up too, tying everything together in a very accurate, cleverly balanced way and highlighted by (almost magnesium-like) minerally accents adding crispness and subtle complexity. Sleek, streamlined yet colourful and characterful beer, very up to date and heavily drawn from the NEIPA hype like so many APAs and IPAs these days - yet keenly curbing its fruitiness, 'tropicalness' and sweetness so never descending into simplistic tropical fruit lemonade territory. This kind of decidedly un-Belgian, 'internationally styled' beer fits perfectly in the new Brussels elan indeed - and even surpasses some of the more familiar names. A pleasant discovery.

Tried from Can on 06 Sep 2019 at 20:56


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

15/07/2019 @home - 33cl bottle from Malt Attacks. Clear yellow, medium white head, Nose is wheat, lemon. Taste is malts, lemon, fruity, some bitterness. Nice and fresh.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Jul 2019 at 10:44


7

Tried from Draft at GIST on 26 Jun 2019 at 23:18