Banzai
Houblon Noir in Vaux-sur-Sûre, Luxembourg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brasserie MinneBelgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular
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Score
6.46
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Jybi (2414) reviewed Banzai from Houblon Noir 5 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Forcé de constater que le « mugicha », cette orge grillée japonaise utilisée dans cette Banzai n’est pas magique, et que cette bière en reste quelque peu quelconque. En verre nous sommes sur un joli blond doré limpide avec une mousse disparate. Au nez des notes de sésame grillées nous donnent l’espoir d’une bière quelque peu spécifique. Des arômes de céréales, de pomme avec un léger miel complètent la palette. Si à l’attaque nous avons un bon équilibre malt/houblon (EBU de 26) la bière conserve encore surtout une base maltée permettant de donner un petit intérêt ave une alliance simple mais pas mauvaise sur les céréales, la pomme, un léger poivre. A partir de là, notre Banzai se recentre sur une amertume simple, très moyennement intense, sans grand intérêt. Corpulence et longueur sont limitées et l’alcool, à 6,1 % se fait quelque peu ressentir sans soutenir convenablement l’ensemble. On n’en est pas à se faire Hara-Kiri, mais ce n’est pas exceptionnel tout de même.
SVD (7213) reviewed Banzai from Houblon Noir 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Golden, small, aroma is malt, dough, fruit, yeast, taste same, sweet, bitter, dry, meh
daniele (14510) reviewed Banzai from Houblon Noir 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
oro velata fenolico lieve infezione piuttosto maltata mielosa amaro medio non armonica
nathanvc (7053) reviewed Banzai from Houblon Noir 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
28 April 2019. At Zythos Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke, 77ships & tderoeck! Hazy golden, lasting, thin, unstable, foamy, white head. Aroma of orange peel, grass, onion, bell peppers, mango, yellow grapefruit. Taste is light to medium fruity sweet, notes of orange, apple & pear, bitter notes of grapefruit & mandarin peel, a bit piney & grassy, leading to a dry, hoppy finish where fruit rinds & yeast linger. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Decent, drinkable IPA, maybe a bit too ‘Belgian’ still.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Banzai from Houblon Noir 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
One of the three first beers from this contract brewery, set up by an enterprising young lady, with the beers actually being brewed at Brasserie Minne (formerly Bastogne). This one is flavoured with mugicha, a Japanese form of roasted barley which is not normally used in brewing, but for making barley tea. Egg-white, creamy, dense and stable head on a misty ochre-hued 'old gold' coloured beer. Aroma of ripe pear, banana, stewed apple, dry old bread, hay, an 'animalistic' urine- and sweat-like note (even clear Brettanomyces 'horseblanket') and indeed something quite distinctly herbal, almost tea-ish, but subtle and subordinate to the Brett effect. Fruity onset, sweet peach, banana and pear, softish carb, soft bready and fluffy mouthfeel, quickly shifting to outspoken retronasal Brettanomyces effects (wet hay, horseblanket, stale urine) and ending with long, leafy, eventually even somewhat astringent hop bitterness. Not a bad beer per se: the muchiga is rather unnecessary for me - it's the Brett, intentional or not, that makes this beer more interesting rather than the muchiga...
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Banzai from Houblon Noir 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Houblon Noir Banzai (by Houblon Noir):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 2.9/5
28/IV/19 - sample @ Zythos Bierfestival 2019 (Leuven), BB: n/a - (2019-645) Thanks to nathanvc, 77ships & Anke for sharing today's beers!
Clear orange blond beer, creamy white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: soapy, some artificial brett, bit funky, green apples, sourish impression, rather unpleasant. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: little bitter, banana, yeasty, sweet malts, little biter. Aftertaste: rather soapy, unpleasant bitterness, not a very good beer…