Sour Session IPA
Brouwerij Broers in Wachtebeke, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Sour / Wild Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.52
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle at home (17 IX 2020), as Brouwerij Broers Sour Session IPA. A light sour session ale - indian pale ale as it is the brewer's intention - with 15 IBU, 8 EBC, 7,3 PLATO with 3% AVB. A summer session brew from my home region (as always, I was one of the first to sip this experiment) which colours golden amber with a very vivid body, and a frothy slowly diminishing white head. A beautiful eye-catcher with a ditto nose. Omnipresent yet restrained hop notes, very floral and slighty herbs which make me think of peaches, mandarine oranges and perhaps some plums. There is a sweetness in the flavours as well. The mouthfeel is light bodied for sure, with a sparkling soda appearance, and has neutral malt notes together with a gingerlike sour tongue. A hoppy ending makes up for a nice bitter finish. The overal taste has passiflora fruits, even banana leaves, and a nice sweet-bitter balance. Too bad this is not a real powerhouse: even within the session ale tradition, one can find better executions. The sour touch, which is quite intrusive, can seem bold at first and could be indeed a that awkward. But it has natural lemon hints which make up for a neat and tidy whole. This approach is a brave and experimental for sure, when overviewing the dull Flemish brewscape, and it has nothing tedious. This sour session ale (or indian pale ale for that matter) has some interesting features, but the faint body and narrow range of the hops flavours does not tilt this summer beer to a higher level. Faint body, decent execution and non-traditional beer style are the delineation words to go.
Kraddel (15872) reviewed Sour Session IPA from Brouwerij Broers 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Sampled at Gents bierfestival 2018. Thnx for sharing, everyone ! Pours clear blonde, nearly no head. Smell is sweaty. Taste is sharp, tart, sweaty, not very hoppy. Very weak, yes, even for this abv.
77ships (14509) reviewed Sour Session IPA from Brouwerij Broers 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thanks to sharing RB crew. Sampled bottled @ Gents Bierfestival 2018. Golden orange, small white. Nose is quite metallic, dull, iron, faint glue,… Surprisingly bland beer, neutral grain, orange, metallic, vague kettle sour, almost mineral, overall surprisingly neutral.
mike_77 (15880) reviewed Sour Session IPA from Brouwerij Broers 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Golden colour with thin head. Aroma is sharp but has some grapefruit and pineapple. Sharp flavour too. Interesting mix of tropical fruit and sour.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Sour Session IPA from Brouwerij Broers 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
No head; clear & bright orange-golden beer. Bit sweetish nose, honeyish, blossomy, straw. Sourish, lactic, fruity flavours, non-specific. Light body, rather undercarbonated; long sourish aftertaste with lipsmacking acidity. Light but rather nice!
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Sour Session IPA from Brouwerij Broers 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Broers Sour Session IPA (by Brouwerij Broers):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5
18/VIII/18 - 33cl bottle @ Gents Bierfestival - BB: n/a (2018-1021) Thanks to the Belgian Ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!
Clear orange beer, practically no head. Aroma: malty, grains, banana, bit of yeast, slightly fruity, sweetish, meh. MF: soft carbon, medium to light body. Taste: sourish start, some passion fruit, bit cheesy, weird, meh. Aftertaste: more cheesy notes, some passion fruits, soft acidity, sweaty feet...