Nom De Zeus
No Science Brasserie in Brussel / Bruxelles / Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Imperial / Double Special Out of Production|
Score
6.74
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Jybi (2409) reviewed Nom De Zeus from No Science Brasserie 6 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Amateur ou non du film retour vers le futur, cette IIPA est bien limitée. Avec 35 d'IBU, il aurait fallu une base très peu sucrée et un houblonnage à cru pour avoir une amertume conséquente. Cela n''est pas le cas et c'est donc une IPA faiblarde qui de fait nous est ici proposée. De surcroît, les arômes, s'ils sont globalement plaisants ne sont pas pour autant transcendants et sans réelle complexité. En verre, c'est passable avec un blond légèrement trouble (EBC de 6) avec une mousse blanche nappant la surface. Le nez est laiteux sur la pomme, la pêche, le jasmin et très légèrement herbacé. Une pointe d'épices apparaît également à l'attaque. Celle-ci est relativement douce, peu amère. La deuxième bouche est sur une corpulence correcte mais sans évolution aromatique et toujours avec une amertume poussive. Cette dernière s'affirme quelque peu en arrière-bouche et sur le final, mais en perdant quelque peu en arômes et sans être brillante. L'alcool à 8% est tout juste correct. Pas transcendent.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Nom De Zeus from No Science Brasserie 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
DIPA with wheat and oat apparently brewed for Hoppy House, a craft beer shop in Eigenbrakel near Brussels (note to self: visit this shop next time you're in Brussels...). Longneck bottle from Geers in Ghent. Pillowy, egg-white, creamy, dense, thick and frothy, stable head irregularly but thickly lacing over a warm golden blonde beer with pale apricot tinge, vivid but 'refined' sparkling and tiny dots of yeast throughout. Aroma of not completely ripe orange, yuzu, banana milkshake, ripe peach, sweet red apple, honey, cut flowers, withering grass, hint of toasted onions, sugared bread or even the icing on sweetbread, sweet dessert wine, cream, stewed turnip, chewing gum, touch white pepper. Sweet, fruity onset, lots of banana with even a light 'bubblegumminess' to it, hints of peach, pineapple and ripe pear, lively and minerally carbonation, a tad sharpish for the intended style, rounded mouthfeel; cereally, sweetbready maltiness, feeling a bit thinner than it ought to be at this ABV, slick wheatiness indeed with a light soapy edge made even slicker by the oats, leading to a grassy, mildly peppery and restrainedly citric hoppiness, providing some basic fruity notes retronasally but much too understated for the style, as well as a spicy but remarkably late and altogether relatively mild, slightly rooty and 'noble' bitterness; banana ester and wheat slickness (even downright soapiness) linger a bit in the background, drenched in gin-like, warming alcohol which provides a bit of wryness and could have been better hidden - especially since most of the end bitterness, altogether soft in nature, comes from the alcohol more than the hops. A lingering powdery effect is, alas, not to be ascribed to the hops, either, but is generated by yeast, getting evidently stronger after adding the sediment. In all, enjoyable enough as such, but let's be honest about it: this is by no means a double IPA, this has all the properties of a solid, hoppy Belgian tripel with a dash of citric U.S. hops thrown in. Much too estery-yeasty and not nearly hoppy enough for any kind of IPA with the alcohol not very well hidden, I recommend drinking this with tripel in mind and then it will be alright; for the enthusiasts expecting a true DIPA in American fashion, like me, a very obvious disappointment. I can still enjoy a good tripel, though, so I will not be too severe in rating this, but I cannot ignore the fact that promising a DIPA and not delivering it, means a point off for (totally) not being true to style. No Science, even if some of their beers are certainly decent if not great, misses the point of DIPA here; make sure you get your hands on a few bottles of Pliny the Elder guys, look up the recipe of a Pliny the Elder clone and start all over again, I'm sure you have the potential to pull this off!
Bibax (5406) ticked Nom De Zeus from No Science Brasserie 6 years ago
Bierridder (4318) reviewed Nom De Zeus from No Science Brasserie 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
16/05/2019 @home - 33cl bottle from a trade with tderoeck (thanks!) Clear blonde, huge pearly white head. Nose is fresh grainy, bit ripe fruits, Taste is grainy, caramel, grains again, bitterness in the end. Weakest one of No science for me until now.
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Nom De Zeus from No Science Brasserie 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bouteille 33cl de Malt Attacks, BB 14/03/2020, bottled 04/04/2019. Petit clin d’œil à Retour vers le Futur? Dorée, col éparse crémeux blanc. Arôme fin houblonné avec un rétro rappelant un léger cidre pommier voire poiret, douceur fine. En cherchant un peu plus, petite note tropicale rappelant la goyave et de feuilles de thé blanc rappelant le jasmin. Palais au premier abord est assez malté pour une DIPA avec un effet neutre au niveau du caractère houblonné qui surprend au premier abord. Le tout reste assez belge sur le caractère malté et de levure, alcool même à 8% semble moindre. Amertume fine et portant sur l'herbacé en fin de bouche. Rondeur de grains arrive en retrait. Houblon Zeus? je ne retrouve pas la côté classique CTZ - voire de Brewers Gold. Sans être mauvaise, le profil houblonné reste trop discret. Le nez me séduit plus.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Nom De Zeus from No Science Brasserie 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Geers. Hazy yellow colour, white foam. Nose of sweet malts, apples, some tropical fruit. Rather yeasty and malty, not very hoppy.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Nom De Zeus from No Science Brasserie 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as No Science Nom De Zeus (by No Science):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.1/5
6/XII/18 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: n/a, bottled: 9/VIII/18, brewed: 13/VII/18 - (2018-1960)
Clear orange beer, huge yellowish head, very stable, bit adhesive, leaving some patches of lacing in the glass. Aroma: ripe to overripe fruits, lots of bubble gum, sweet malts, some banana. How is this an ipa? MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: all malts, sweet caramel malts, hint of orange peel, grassy bitterness. Aftertaste: very bitter, banana, pretty malty, grains, hay, yeast, not and ipa, let alone a DIPA. Darn…
77ships (14506) reviewed Nom De Zeus from No Science Brasserie 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft glass @ CML Fontainas. Low hazy orange, creamy white head. Nose is grainy orange, bit bland, hay, basic yeast,.. Taste is weird sweetish, grainy, sweet oily, milky, cooked apple,… Oily bodied, yeast,… Weird, nowhere on par with what I expected & not too great with the sweetness, milky, sweet yeast,…