Broodmakers KAF
CoPain in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: De ProefbrouwerijBelgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular
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Score
6.61
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Nisse666 (17550) reviewed Broodmakers KAF from CoPain 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle Bierwinkel De Hopduvel Gent 2020-05-21 Göteborg AR: sour citrus, Belgian blonde yeasty, sweet dough, AP: milky yellow, Snow White foam, wee grainy, lemon sour, wee lemon curd
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Broodmakers KAF from CoPain 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Blonde ale made with sourdough, commissioned by CoPain CVBA, a baking company situated at the F. Lousbergskaai in Ghent. Previously named CoPain I believe, but they were forced to change the name into Kaf due to a lawsuit filed by the brewer of another beer already named Copain - a typically old school Belgian affair, if you ask me. Anyway: steinie bottle from De Hopduvel, mentioning an ABV of 6,12%. Egg-white, frothy, quite regular and stable, slightly paper-lacing head on a misty pale golden beer with greenish tinge. Fairly outspoken aroma of indeed very prominent sourdough, slightly overripe Granny Smith apples, raw rhubarb, halfripe banana, sorrel, withering lemongrass, margarine, white dessert wine, gypsum, lemon butter, soapy touch, very faint DMS accent (cooked kale - with a light Sauerkraut-like effect combined with the sourness). Fruity, estery onset, raw pineapple and banana mixed with green apple, Conference pear and a dash of green gooseberry, sweetish in its core but surrounded by a pronounced sourness, with crisp, refreshing effect; medium carbonation, supple, bit soapy and even lightly creamy mouthfeel. Soft bready maltiness, doughy - or indeed 'sourdoughy', with soapy and gypsum-like aspects as well as ongoing lactic sourishness, with a mildly drying effect; lingering green-fruity notes over a gently sour but generally soft, malty and yeasty finish, with no true hop bitterness worth mentioning. Wow, this is something else - I was expecting the umpteenth boring (but correct because Proef) Belgian style, sweet and coriandered blonde, but this beer has quite a different profile: it feels like a blonde sour ale, but in a soft, gentle way, with a lactic sourness throughout, lots of green fruitiness and no hop bitterness so as not to interfere with the sourness. I think this would even be better classified as a blonde sour on this site, in order to avoid people thinking this is just another blonde - and skipping it. Worth a try, even if that soapiness and gypsum-like minerality lingering about are not my personal cup of tea - but in any case original, with the sourdough really acting as the star of the show. An interesting case, though for me, it could have been even more sour, while you're at it...
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Broodmakers KAF from CoPain 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as Broodmakers KAF (previously Copain) (by De Proefbrouwerij):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5
29/VI/18 - 33cl bottle as a gift, shared with T. @ home - BB: 9/IV/20 (2018-807) Thanks to Erwin for the bottle!
Little cloudy yellow blond beer, small creamy white head, little stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: sourish, infected, little dirty, lemony, weird (only learned afterwards this was a sour dough beer). MF: soft carbon, medium to light body. Taste: sour start, bit lemony, fruity, some banana, overripe fruits. Aftertaste: pretty lemony, bit malty, grains, sourish, some vinegar notes.