Baron Amber
Brouwerij Craeynest in Wevelgem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.57
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tderoeck (22711) reviewed Baron Amber from Brouwerij Craeynest 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as Craeynest Baron Amber (by Brouwerij Craeynest):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.1/5
20/IV/17 - 33cl bottle from a trade @ home - BB: X/2017 (2017-472) Thanks to Alengrin for the trade!
Clear orange to amber beer, small aery irregular white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: bit fruity, banana, sugary, caramel. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish, banana, malty, some caramel yeast, soft bitterness. Aftertaste: bit sour, wheat, banana, sugary touch, little fruity, yeast.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Baron Amber from Brouwerij Craeynest 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
The first beer from this new nanobrewery near Kortrijk, recently started up by a father and two sons. Moussy, bit irregular, off-white, dense and stable head, quickly showing a big gap in the middle but otherwise well retaining, over a very lightly hazy orange blonde beer with amberish tinge, but no deep ’copper red’ amber; deeper, somewhat brownish-hued opaque orange with sediment. Aroma of apricots, toasted peanuts, rainwater, candied banana, light bubblegum, dried orange peel, ginger powder, toasted tomato peel, white rum, dry leather, walnut shells, honey liqueur, red apple, dry straw, something vaguely sulfuric (sewer water - H2S). Crisp, fruity onset, estery but in a rather cleanish kind of way, with hints of apricot, redcurrant, the famous banana ester (though not overdone here) and apple, sweetish due to some residual white candi sugar sweetness but then soured again by sharp, numbing overcarbonation, with settles down after a while; notably resinous, slick and soapy mouthfeel. Caramelly and bready malt sweetness in the middle with ongoing peachy and light banana-ish fruitiness on top, very softly bittering nutty edges as is to be expected from a Belgian ’ambrée’, even slightly toasted in the end; spicy phenols adorn the tail but become a tad medicinal in the very end (when the sediment is added). Some earthy, balancing hop bitterness too, but the malt and residual sugary sweetness prevails; the finish is also dominated by a warming, if not heating, gin- and rum-like alcohol effect, which becomes astringent in the end - and should be far better hidden for a beer below 8% ABV. A bit too boozy and too soapy, but admittedly not all bad considering this is a first attempt. A blonde version seems to be on its way but I hope that, if this project lasts, they will soon turn to less traditionally Belgian styles as well, because this is still a very 20th-century Belgian cliché ale in all its elements.