Argon
Siphon Brewing in Michelbeke, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Brouwerij De Ryck / Kaapse BrouwersBelgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Series
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Score
7.34
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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 An De Ryck from four-generation-old family brewery De Ryck and Tjomme Zijlstra and Étienne Vermeulen from De Kaapse in Rotterdam.
ARGON marries the caramel malt profile and ester character of a traditional Spéciale Belge with the orange marmalade and resinous qualities of the citra, simcoe and mandarina bavaria hop varieties used in late additions and dry-hop.
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blackisle (5698) reviewed Argon from Siphon Brewing 5 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle 33cl.@home poured into a shaker. Hazy pale amber colour, huge rocky off-white head, good retention, heavy lacing. Aroma sweet malt, orange, mango, caramel, pine resin. Taste medium sweet and bitter, malty, orange, some caramel, piney. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation, dry sweetbitter aftertaste, malty notes, light orange pith, good (but not a real Speciale Belge considering the hops).
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Argon from Siphon Brewing 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
33cl bottle from Etre Gourmet web shop. F: big, creamy, tan, very long lasting. C: dark coppery, hazy. A: orange, grapefruits, onion effect, pine, bit caramel, melon, bit banana, herbal touch. T: medium malty base, nice fruity, melon, bit banana, red apples, orange, bit onion effect, caramel, bit nutty, toast, nice hoppy decent bitterness, medium carbonation, very nice, fully enjoyed.
77ships (14506) reviewed Argon from Siphon Brewing 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
330 ml. bottle. BBF 18/06/2021. Dark honey amber, creamy beige head. Nose is orange low bitter, vanilla, dried fruit, mango, caramel, very faint thinner metal. Lively body, slightly thin, bit higher carbonation but nice dried fruit, orange, vanilla, caramel, low sugar, faint grain, hint alcohol, slightly thin but lots of pleasant notes, quite nice.
Vignale (8386) reviewed Argon from Siphon Brewing 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Flaska från Etre Gourmete. Kopparfärgad klar vätska med fluffig smutsvitt skum. Doft av kolaremmar och karamell, apelsinmarmelad och tallskott. Stilmässigt en röd IPA med fin knäckig kropp och matchande ganska snäll humle. Småtrevlig, hade funkat som jul-IPA.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Argon from Siphon Brewing 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Light brown colour with lasting head. Aroma and flavour have plenty of tropical fruit hop notes that dominate quite strongly. A nice beer but Speciale Belge is not better with Citra and Simcoe. Would love to see this with old world hops.
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Argon from Siphon Brewing 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft @ BBP Taproom. Cuivre, col crémeux blanc-cassé. Arôme au nez malté, accent belge, caramel, fin cristal voire un peu de Vienna? pas mal d'agrumes Palais est plaisant sur une base de levure belge, malt grillé, note d'amande et biscuité, qcq esters belges, houblonné sur le résineux, qcq agrumes et note de mandarine.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Argon from Siphon Brewing 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
One of six 'noble gas-themed' beers by Siphon, each one of them a collaboration with two other breweries that often seem to lie far apart from each other in terms of style - in this case old and traditional De Ryck from Belgium and modern 'craft brewing' Kaapse from the Netherlands. Intended as a 'spéciale belge' but with New World (style) hops, so effectively turned into a Belgian IPA of sorts, I suppose. Very thick and foamy, egg-white, densely frothy, tightly paper-lacing, stable head on an initially lightly hazy, deep coppery-orange, pure amber coloured beer, turning cloudy with sediment. Aroma of frying onion (Simcoe!), toasted peanuts, pink grapefruit, kumquat, bread crust, dried orange peel, leek soup, pumpkin seeds, bitter honey, ground hazelnuts, unripe peach, roasted carrots, some ripe melon (probably the Mandarina Bavaria speaking) and banana peel in the background. Crisp, fruity onset in a 'focused' kind of way, hinting at apricot, green melon, red apple and a touch of banana, sweetish but not overly so, with a light sourish edge enhanced by lively, minerally, 'cristalline' carbonation fit for the intended style; supple, smooth peanutty and medium toasted-bready malt profile, dryish with a soft and thin bitterish edge, feeling quite full; growing hop character from the middle onwards, providing an elegantly fruity and floral aroma retronasally (orange peel, kumquat, sweet onion, touch of melon) as well as an adequate, rooty, spicy, long-stretching, drying bitterness, a tad resinous and quinine-ish in the end but nowhere too harsh, matching very well with the toasty-bitterish malt character. Some spicy phenols and lingering fruity esters in the end, but well-behaved, as an elegant reminder of the 'Belgian' basic character of the beer. Indeed, 'pimping' a Belgian amber with modern fruity hop varieties results in what very typically has a 'Belgian IPA' character: a sort of hybrid between old Belgian traditions on the one hand and postmodern American craft brewing, so to speak. Balanced, expressive, quenching, focused and intelligent: this is a more than decent beer in all respects. I have yet to taste four more of these 'noble gas' beers but after two of them, I already dare to conclude that this will be an interesting ride: apparently Siphon needed a 'boost' from an eclectic bunch of experienced, well versed breweries to achieve this level of quality - not that their 'own' range is rubbish of course, far from it, but so far these 'noble gas' beers - for me - exceed their average level of quality. This is a series I want to - no, must - complete.
Idiosynkrasie (17851) reviewed Argon from Siphon Brewing 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
330ml bottle. Barely clear, copper-ish amber colour with average to huge, thick, fluffy, moderately to mostly lasting, moderately lacing, off-white head. Citrusy, fruity, hoppy aroma, notes of lemon, hints of dark berries, dried fruit, malty background with a biscuity and minimally toasty touch, very cautious hints of milk chocolate, spicy overtones with a touch of juniper berries. Taste is mildly bitter and minimally tart, citrusy hoppy, minimally piney, fruity, hints of lemon, dried fruit, dark berries, minimally toasty and biscuity, malty basis, with a minimally chocolately and bready touch, a spicy touch of juniper berries. Fine, efficacious carbonation, smooth and soft palate. Well crafted, very refreshing, mild, balanced and full of nice subtleties. Very nice.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Argon from Siphon Brewing 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Geers. Dark brown colour, creamy foam. Nose of caramel, dried fruit, hops. Taste is dry and hoppy along with sweet hints of caramel. Well balanced. Good!
Fin (18365) reviewed Argon from Siphon Brewing 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle picked up from Dranken Geers, Oostakker nr Ghent, Belgium. Consumed sat outside Frank at Campingplätz Felbermühle, nr Neustadt an der Donau, Saturday 10th August 2019 after a long cycle ride to Kuchlbauer Brewery and then Ingolstadt and back Pours amber with a white head, hoppiness shines through but it's got a good fruity and malty vein running through it. Lovely beer.