Radon
Siphon Brewing in Michelbeke, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Brouwerij Omer Vander Ghinste (Bockor) / Fuller's BreweryMild Series
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Score
6.58
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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 Sam Quartier of Omer Vander Ghinste and Henry Kirk from Fuller’s in the UK.
RADON is a dark, low-gravity, malt-focused British session ale; refreshing, subtle and flavourful. The various malts deployed—Golden Promise, Light Crystal, English Brown Malt, Special B, Chocolate Wheat and Oats—equip the beer with a wide range of subtle dark malt expression: think caramel, toffee, toast, nutty, chocolate, coffee, roast and liquorice. The English Ale yeast strain delivers some subtle ester profile, reminiscent of plum and raisin.
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DvdP (5043) reviewed Radon from Siphon Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6.5
Foam party. Reddish brown, clear, fluffy yet firm light brown head. Smells malty, bit damp cellar, some dried fruits. Highly carbonated, but decent body for abv. Taste is some cardboard, bitter, malty, some subtle sweetness. Some nuttynesss, hints of plum
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Radon from Siphon Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home. What an interesting collab choice ! I never heard anyone doing a collab with Omer, and Fullers also seems to be looked at as 'Old School', but perhaps belong a bit more in the craft / Collab world. But still ! Very happy to see a Mild Ale. I've only drank very few, still. In between all the 'ooh look I made an IPA / Stout/ Sour ( insert lactose, adjuncts etc anno 2021 ) , we've returned to the point we were trying to fight in the first place - everyone making the same thing. It used to be Tripel / Dubbel things in BE, but now we're truly original by making another IPA... like anyone else. So yeah, pretty psyched to find a unique set of names, making a unique style of beer that deserves much more love !
Pours Extremely foamy ( bit of a gusher, too, but not extreme ) . Dark brown, slightly tanned head. Scent is roasty, cocoa, dark ( not black) malts, minor hoppy touch. Taste is full, fairly creamy. Soft roastyness, minor (hidden) dry, almost 'ashy' aspect, but not as sharp. Pillowy foam matches the silky body, an accomplishement at only 4%. Very mild bitterness. The maltyness has the biggest part here, no real fermentation-driven flavors. Easy drinkable, yet full in both body and intensity. Great to drink a low ABV beer that's not just about hops. More of this, please !
blackisle (5698) reviewed Radon from Siphon Brewing 5 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Opaque dark brown colour, tall fizzy beige head, sizzles down slowly. Aroma roasted malt, cocoa, caramel, light molasses. Taste medium sweet and light bitter, malty, roast, chocolate, light caramel, thin mouthfeel. Medium body, watery texture, coffee groundings, average carbonation. Dry roasty sweetbitter aftertaste, earthy notes, interesting brew, complex mild ale, not completely convincing but overall very nice.
Sigmund (14587) reviewed Radon from Siphon Brewing 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
330 ml bottle, from Être Gourmet, Belgium. ABV is 4%. Very dark brown colour (certainly not nut-brown), nearly black. Large beige head. Aroma of burnt breadcrumbs and burnt caramel, not very pleasant. Fairly dry flavour, notes of roast malts, biscuits, roasted nuts, mild coffee, chocolate, a hint of chili in the finish. Fairly light bodied, but nice enough to drink.
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Radon from Siphon Brewing 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle from Etre Gourmet web shop. F: big, tanned, long lasting. C: dark, opaque. A: malty, nutty, toffee, caramel, dark bread, bit cocoa. T: light to medium malty base, light roasted tones, caramel, bit toffee, cocoa, dry on the palate, coffee touch, medium carbonation, ok, not bad.
Vignale (8386) reviewed Radon from Siphon Brewing 5 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Flaska från Etre Gouremete. Mörkt brun opak vätska med medelhögt men mycket snabbt försvinnande smutsvitt skum. Doft av skog, jord, nötter, russin, mörkt sött bröd, köttbuljong och faktisk lite krossade tomater. Ok kropp men kanske lite vass för stilen, smak som doften vilket innebär att det är som att tugga i sig en hel måltid. Både lite skönhetsfläckar och värre blesyrer döljer de faktiska kvaliteerna som också finns där. Synd när det här ambitiösa projektet tar sig anen väldigt försummad ölstil. Ok
Icedwarf (4896) reviewed Radon from Siphon Brewing 6 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Donkerbruin bier met mooie stevige schuimkraag. Smaak is zoet en romig met iets van chocolade, hazelnoot en karamel. Is wat waterig in de mond.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Radon from Siphon Brewing 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Dark brown with foamy head. Aroma and flavour have lots f malt sweetness with notes of caramel and milk chocolate together with some sweet dried fruits too. Body is disappointingly thin and it's too gassy.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Radon from Siphon Brewing 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
One of Siphon's 'noble gas' beers brewed in collaboration with each time two other breweries, in this case good old Bockor from Western Flanders and equally good old Fuller's from London - I am still pondering about the combinations of collaborators Siphon has managed to assemble in this fascinating project... Intended as an - again, good old - dark mild apparently, but with a more ambitious malt bill than would traditionally be the case in this underexposed, but so thoroughly traditional style; it is very refreshing to see a Belgian brewery take on something as old-fashionedly English as mild ale, a style largely ignored even by the whole craft beer movement, which is otherwise quick to cover literally every beer style that ever existed on the face of the planet. Let's dig up memories from the mild ales I had back in London years ago and dig into the beer! Quite large-bubbled and loosely knit, yellowish pale beige, initially mousy and thick head, but quickly thinning into a thin, non-lacing ring; lightly hazed, deep and dark mahogany brown robe with burgundy-copper hue. Aroma of beef stock cubes, damp earth, old rubber tyres, ground walnuts, vegetable broth, stewed beef, some vague manure even, prunes, faint hint of Ersatz chocolate, nut bread, tomato sauce accent. Very spritzy onset, quite harshly stinging even, some basic fruitiness (prune, old raisins) but subtly so, jumping straight to maltiness, which in this case feels nutty above all, as in old crumbled nut bread or ground bitter walnuts, with a caramelliness at the sides which weirdly feels unsweetened; over all this hangs a weird and frankly rather unpleasant protein aspect that comes across as very broth- and beef stock-like, like cooked sausages or even dry beef stock cubes. The malts do aquire a toasty bitterness in the end, which is enhanced by a leafy hop bitter factor, making for a dry, even astringent finish, with a powdery feel to it; the whole beer behaves 'dirty' and ends very dirty as well, with an earthiness I do not typically associate with the style at all. I still have one more of these 'noble gas' beers to go, but this one very decidedly is the false note among them so far: something very clearly went wrong here, this beer is dirty, way too earthy and way too beef stock-like to be intended that way. Apparently infected, rendering it unpalatable - half of it went down the drain. Too bad: after four very pleasant experiences with beautiful beers in this series, I was looking forward to having a taste of a good old, very thoroughly English dark mild again - I haven't had one in many a year - but that is not at all what I got, unfortunately. Oh well, I guess you cannot have all winners in a series like this, right?
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Radon from Siphon Brewing 6 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Draft @ Brewdog Brussels. Brune quasi noire, col crémeux et tenace café au lait. Arôme au nez malté, chocolaté, grillé avec une petite note de houblons nobles, rétro-nasal porte des éléments de fruits noirs. Palais est malté, agréablement grillé avec un caractère marqué anglais au niveau des malts. Petite note de fumé, cendres séchées, finement chocolaté et note de crystal. Rondeur de grains/avoine en toute fin de bouche, les houblons ajoutent un côté noble, terreux, fleuri rappelant le pissenlit. Douceur en fin de bouche et rondeur avec un retour axé sur le caramel/moka, léger cendre.