Reinickendorf
De Laatste Drinker in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij BroersBerliner Weisse - Flavoured Regular
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Score
6.82
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Bierridder (4318) ticked Reinickendorf from De Laatste Drinker 5 years ago
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Reinickendorf from De Laatste Drinker 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
17 August 2019. At Gents Bierfestival X. Cheers to Anke, Kevin & the crew! Clear pale golden, no head. Aroma of gooseberry, starfruit, kiwi, lemon, lime, tangerine, spruce, garden herbs. Taste is light to medium fruity sour, lemony notes supplemented by unripe mandarin & gooseberry, yeasty & wheaty character supporting bitter pepper, grass, herbs, faint sweetish apple in the back. Dry, tart, fruity finish, some grassy hops, lots of wheat, yeast & herbs lingering, medicinal almost. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Very remarkable twist to a BW, enjoyable. 5 October 2019. At Amabieris Tasting. Cheers to Ama Deke & Ghent beer crew! From the bottle. More apparent basil in the aroma, but in an old, bit 'wet' manner. Mint, lemon, soap, detergent perhaps (wc-blokjes, dixit Ama). Taste is still quite solid, with a stronger herbal quality in the middle & into the finish. Less enjoyable now, but I'll keep the original rating.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Reinickendorf from De Laatste Drinker 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Straw blond with quite fizzy, foamy head. Aroma does have some basil and is a little metallic too. Lightly tart. Decent body for a Beliner Weisse. Finish has basil and Ouzo (aniseed).
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Reinickendorf from De Laatste Drinker 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Experimental, basil-flavoured Berliner Weisse by this somewhat underexposed yet fascinating Ghent ‘bierfirma’, thanks to the brewer for offering the last bottle available at Gents Bierfestival, shared with my girlfriend Goedele. Snow white, medium thick, irregularly lacing, opening head on a pale straw blonde, misty robe with somewhat greenish tinge. Aroma of raw gherkins, chalk, sour yoghurt, indeed basil but in a ‘withered’ and preserved kind of way rather than in-your-face fresh basil leaves, green apples, lemon peel, piccalilly. Crisp onset with green apple, raw ‘courgette’ and pumpkin impressions, fizzy carbonation, soapy wheat body dried by yoghurty lactic sourness though not too sharply so; chalky aspect in the finish (as is so often the case in this style) with a lot of basil retronasally, but again in a ‘distorted’ kind of way, dried and / or withered and combined with other flavours lending it another ‘colour’ than what you normally get from fresh basil (and what you get in e.g. Lindemans’ Spontanbasil, to name another basil beer); lingering, very refreshing lemony sourness in the end, low hop bitterness (only ‘structural’). Well-composed, highly interesting beer: in its base, this is indeed an accomplished and typical Berliner Weisse, but the basil adds a very expressive, somewhat mysterious herbal quality to it that I have never encountered in a sour before. I came to understand that this is one of several Berliner Weisse experiments from Laatste Drinker so if they all follow this pattern, then cheers Jerôme, bring them on!
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Reinickendorf from De Laatste Drinker 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as De Laatste Drinker Reinickendorf (by De Laatste Drinker):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5
18/VIII/19 - on tap @ Gents Bierfestival, BB: n/a - (2019-1295)
Clear pale yellowish beer, no head. Aroma: bit oxidized, orange peel, fruity, bit dirty, floral. MF: soft carbon, medium to light body. Taste: bit watery, malty, grains, hay. Aftertaste: some grapefruit, bitter touch, orange peel, metallic, soft bitterness, more metallic, nice.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Reinickendorf from De Laatste Drinker 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
No head; clear pale golden beer. Very herbal/pharmaceutical, lavender, cypress. More of the same, lavender, rosemary, garden herbs, some restsugars. Quite slik but light. Rather low carbonation. It's no surprise that I can't find any basil in the flavours. Basil often seems to disappear, giving hints of other herbs.