No Nuts
't Paenhuys in Nieuwkerken-Waas, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular|
Score
6.51
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed No Nuts from 't Paenhuys 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Dubbel with hazelnuts by Paenhuys, one of their new, more experimental beers; apparently the addition of the nuts has brought an infection to the beer so they quite cleverly sold this as an 'oud bruin' at Modeste... Pale yellowish 'ecru', stable, moussy, shred-lacing head over hazy burgundy-hued chestnut brown robe. Unusual aroma: grape jam, passionfruit, orange candy, sourdough, soggy brown bread, pear, hazelnut 'petits fours', damp tree leaves, raw red cabbage. Sweet ripe blue plums, maracuja, pear and sourish brambleberry in the onset, fizzy carb, supple bready maltiness with nutty flavours indeed clearly present; dim sourishness persisting, leading to a background 'dirtiness' and earthiness in the end, with ongoing grapey and passionfruity effects and low in hoppiness. Very idiosyncratic to say the least, apparently obliviousness to international beer style tendencies still leads to these very individual, if not downright weird beers in largely inward-looking Belgium and this is a good example; for me and for my companion beer taster, however, the flavours did fall well together, but I can imagine this beer dividing opinions. Surprising, really, perhaps Paenhuys' most interesting creation to date, but I wonder how they'll manage to repeat this subtle infection effect if they want to produce it a second time - should that be the intention...
77ships (14506) reviewed No Nuts from 't Paenhuys 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Thank you! Sampled bottled @ Modeste 2018. Dark red amber, little head. Nose is dull empty, metallic, rotting fruit,..; Dull, thin, basic rotting, fruit, basic gum, zero sourness oddly,… Thin, dull, no sour? Poor.