SI25 Session IPA
Brouwbar in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
7.31
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed SI25 Session IPA from Brouwbar 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
6 June 2019. At Brouwbar, Ghent. Cheers to Ghent beer crew! Pours clear pale golden with a lasting, thick, foamy, white head; lots of lacing. Aroma of fresh & ripe mango, orange juice, yellow grapefruit, lime, honey, passionfruit, white peach. Taste is light to medium fruity sweet, notes of rather young mango & orange with a sourish undertone of lime & passionfruit, a bready character links this to a bitter core of yellow grapefruit, mandarin peel & grass, even a tad more bitter in the dry, earthy hoppy finish where grass & fruit rinds linger. Medium body, creamy texture, fizzy carbonation. Another well-executed, quenching, aromatic & actually quite accessible Session IPA.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed SI25 Session IPA from Brouwbar 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brouwbar SI25 Session IPA (by Brouwbar):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.2/5
4/IV/19 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a - (2019-429)
Cloudy light beige to light orange beer, big solid creamy off-white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: oh yes, that's the sweet spot alright! Lots of peaches, mango, some passion fruit, slightly sourish impression, tropical fruits. Lovely! MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: nice bitterness, citrus notes, passion fruit, mango, super fruity, very refreshing, grapefruit bitterness. Aftertaste: super fruity, pretty bitter, orange peel, citrus, little grassy, onion notes, dank hops, very nice one!
Alengrin (11609) reviewed SI25 Session IPA from Brouwbar 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Brouwbar’s original session ale SA12 has already led to an actual session IPA (SI23) before, but this one, available for just a couple of weeks now, is another take on the same theme, with only the hops differing from the earlier SI23: this new version is hopped with Mosaic, Simcoe and Ekuanot, whereas SI23 contained Summer and El Dorado. This new version shows an irregularly edged, egg-white, papery-lacing, mousy and stable head and cloudy apricot blonde robe with vague ochre-ish tinge. Bright aroma of fresh mango, maracuja, mandarin juice, dough, green kiwi, freshly cut green bell peppers, minerals, some green olive, touch of stewing onion. Crisp, cleanly fruity onset, immediately reminiscent of mango but not too sweetly so, touches of kiwi and orange, very sharply carbonated with strong minerally side effects; soft doughy, very lightly biscuity malt ‘soil’, very ‘fluffy’ and smooth, soaked in highly citric, aromatic hoppiness, with lovely lime peel, mandarin, fresh bell pepper, mango, green onion and green kiwi effects – the citrus being prevalent – as well as a mild powdery bitterness in the end, enough to justify the ‘IPA’ moniker (contrary to its ancestor SA12). As I have stated here before, every time Brouwbar rethinks and redevelops a recipe, some or other improvement is there, clearly demonstrating that they are still growing in what they do – a key reason for me to keep close track of every brew they make, apart from the fact that they are very friendly and welcoming people, of course. This is a very crisp and brightly lit session beer, for me the best in the SA12-SI23-SI25 triangle because of this colourful and extremely refreshing citric aspect, which seems more outspoken here than in SI23. Now for that triple IPA that will be released next week – from the sample I got, that one seems very promising as well.