DA14 Drifter's Ale

Imported from my RateBeer account as Brouwbar DA14 Drifter's Ale (by Brouwbar):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5

17/VIII/18 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent) - BB: n/a (2018-997)

Pretty cloudy bright blond to yellow beer, small creamy white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots of rum notes in the nose, some tropical fruits, can sugar, bit of dried fruits, sweet ripe mango and passion fruit. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots and lots of what I would describe as Amaretto, a bit oxidized, fruity touch, pineapple notes, some citrus, marzipan, alcohol burn. Aftertaste: more amaretto, bitter touch, marzipan, fruity notes, some passion fruit, bit grassy, some grapefruit, lots of rum, bit too weird to make it really great for me...

The newest Brouwbar creation, tasted there from tap during Patersholfeesten. This is basically their house NEIPA with 5% rum added, a house rum made by Drifters, a pub at the other side of the street. Creamy, dense, snow white, tightly lacing, stable head on a hazy peach blonde beer with something ‘milky’ to it. Aroma weirdly blends the tropical fruit effects of the beer with the rum, creating unexpected impressions of pineapple juice, basil, pure white rum indeed, mojito and other rum-based cocktails, peppermint, banana candy, lychee, mango lemonade, passionfruit. Sweet onset, mango, lychee and passionfruit impressions with a very light sourish edge, medium carbonation, a bit minerally; soft doughy and bit soapy malt base, quickly overcome by this tropical fruit lemonade with rum cocktail, low in bitterness but all the more strong in aroma and flavour, mojito-like with a green basil- or peppermint-like spiciness to it. An ill-fated idea executed in a clever way – I normally hate rum, but admittedly it did something special and unexpected with the beer, something I can imagine lots of people can enjoy probably more than me.