Amuse
Bryggja in Moerkerke, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.16
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Amuse was introduced in 2014 and initially brewed by De Graal but since 2015 in the own brewery.
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blackisle (5698) reviewed Amuse from Bryggja 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Hazy deep golden colour, tall frothy off-white head, half-way lasting, fair lacing. Gingery nose, aroma pale malt, apricot, yeast, hay, spices & herbs (ginger, gentian, quinine). Taste medium bitter and light sweet, grainy, spices & herbs. Medium body, prickly mouthfeel, soft carbonation, dry bittersweet aftertaste, citrus pith, wormwood, lingering peppery notes, too spicy/herbal, lacks fruitiness and balance.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Amuse from Bryggja 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Carrefour, Sint-Kruis. Pours hazy ochre with an unstable, thinning, frothy, white head. Aroma of ripe orange, apricot, pineapple slice, banana peel, coriander, kitchen herbs, perfume, soap. Taste is medium fruity sweet, quite perfumey still, ripe orange & pineapple, estery banana on top of a honeyish, bready malty base with a dash of white sugar; sourish touch of wheat in the light spicy bitter middle, notes of 'generic' herbs, coriander & grass. Dryish, floral & earthy hoppy finish, lingering coriander, ripe fruit, honey, a tad metallic which gives rise to a more bittering effect. Medium body, slick texture, lively carbonation. Bit of a mess all in all, too much perfume and not well-balanced.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Amuse from Bryggja 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
The 'ordinary' Belgian blonde in Bryggja's range, steinie bottle from Willems in Grobbendonk. Gusher, but lacking trust in this one, I opened it very slowly over the sink and managed to reduce the loss to a few millilitres. Coarse and foamy, eggshell-white, rather irregular, moussy head remaining closed for quite some time and leaving some traces of papery lacing over a hazy, pale orangey-tinged 'old gold' coloured beer with some large bubbles rising up from the bottom; shifts to a deep, more ochre-orange-hued mistiness with sediment. Somewhat weird aroma, perfumey and malty, notes of old lemons, bergamot, star anise, bath foam, unripe pineapple, green apple, banana, fresh mint leaves, orange juice, honey, toilet soap, stale sweat, damp hay, watermelon, strawberry, hints of ripe pear, ladies' perfume, meringue, lavender-scented hand soap, canned peaches, old bread. Crisp, fruity onset, lots of bubblegummy banana ester as expected, notes of pear, pineapple and melon, sweet with a deeper sourish edge, very lively carbonation, very minerally and stinging quite fiercely (a mouth filled with fizz really), marring an otherwise supple, lean mouthfeel. Bready malts with a strong soapy wheat factor underlie ongoing Belgian esters and phenols in a somewhat disordered manner, leading to a suddenly very bitter finish, harshly tonic water-like, rooty and very expressively (yellow) grapefruity, stopping the initial perfumey and fruity-spicy sweetness in a remarkably abrupt way. This grapefruit bitterness lasts for a long time, becoming rather wry in the end and impairing drinkability, though much of the wheat soapiness, barley breadiness and fruity esteriness passes through more or less unscathed. An attempt at making the old familiar, boring Belgian blonde more hop-forward under international IPA pressure I assume, but this kind of harsh, rooty, quinine- and wormwood-like leaf bitterness hardly saves the day - if Bryggja would have understood what this international trend is about, they would have incorporated more aromatic hoppiness in this one, rather than creating expectations with colourful (though in this case suspiciously perfumey) fragrance and then ruining this with a blunt yellow grapefruit juice- and Schweppes-like bitterness. I have nothing against hoppy beers whatsoever, but the Anglo-Scandinavian innovations in beer of the past thirty-odd years have amply shown that there are much more elegant ways to convey this idea than whatever has happened here. Don't get me wrong, though: this remains quite drinkable once you get used to it and the idea to inject the sleepy Belgian blonde style with an overdose of bittering hops is attractive enough conceptually speaking, but Bryggja should and could have executed this idea in a less confronting way than they did here. And what's that weird lavender and ethereal spice perfume all about? Isn't it about time that the Belgian legislator callously obliges brewers to explicitly mention the spices they use? Not amused really, a bizarre concoction, in which this overt spiciness clashes with the bitter hoppiness; have an extra point for boldness - and for dividing opinions, as is clearly demonstrated in previous ratings on this site, but that still doesn't make up for the fact that the flavours here keep violently clashing until the last drop.
Jybi (2409) reviewed Amuse from Bryggja 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Cette bière est vraiment étrange. Déséquilibre total avec des arômes qui font chimiques, nous sommes très loin des sommets brassicoles. Je préfère encore une bonne vieille pils insipide. Peut être que les non amateurs de bières, plutôt tournés vers les soda l'estimeront? Et encore.... En verres nous sommes sur un blond abricot légèrement troublé (EBC aux environs de 23) surmonté d'une mousse blanche de 2 cm. Le nez est un brin violent sur le citron, le vinaigre...pas terrible. Cela continue à la dégustation par une attaque complètement déséquilibrée sur des arômes de type synthétique de citron, d'orange, pêche, légèrement épicés. La deuxième bouche à la fois un peu plus amère et acide n'arrange rien. Quant à l'arrière bouche, du citron aigrelet. La troisième bouche est linéaire pour un final court légèrement astringent et épicé. L'alcool avec ses 6,6 % Abv est aux abonnés absent et n'arriva à aucun moment à structurer la bière. Etrange composition qui ne m'amuse pas du tout.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Amuse from Bryggja 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle as a gift. Hazy yellow colour, lots of creamy long lasting foam. Nose of spices (eucalyptus, dried flowers) Light sweet, some hints of citrus and grapefruit. Bitter and dry finish.
Franclh (7477) reviewed Amuse from Bryggja 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Fles 33cl in Brugge. Anijs, bloemig, licht kruidig, zoeten, bitters, drogig. (6-2017).
oh6gdx (51139) reviewed Amuse from Bryggja 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled. Orangeish golden colour with a small white head. Aroma is fruity, some yeasty notes, mild herbs, grains and some slight acidicness. Flavour is bitter, with some fruits, mild yeast and slight crisp maltiness.
Kermis (23416) reviewed Amuse from Bryggja 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sampled at Brugge beer festival 2016. Hazy orange with an off white head. Aroma is grassy, herbal, nettles, yeast and light fruit. Flavour is light moderate sweet and over moderate bitter. Light medium bodied with light carbonation.
Bierridder (4318) reviewed Amuse from Bryggja 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
16/04/2015 @home. Sample of 33cl bottle from Bi erhalle Deconinck, Vichte. Hazy golden with massive white head. Aroma : fruits, malts, yeast, spices. Taste : bitter hops, citrus, spices, some sweetness