SI23 Session IPA
Brouwbar in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
6.97
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Fruitsalad (2249) ticked SI23 Session IPA from Brouwbar 6 years ago
nathanvc (6963) reviewed SI23 Session IPA from Brouwbar 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
7 March 2019. At Brouwbar, Ghent. Shared with the lovely Anke! Pours clear pale golden with a lasting, small, foamy, off-white head; lots of lacing. Aroma of lemon peel, lemongrass, papaya, yellow apple, lime juice, unripe mandarin. Taste is light fruity sweet, notes of apple, papaya & pineapple, mixing well with a medium hoppy bitterness - mango, mandarin peel, vague grass & pine too, sourish lemon & lime in the back, and only vaguely bready malty. Dryish, floral hoppy finish, a bit piney, lemony, faintly lingering tropical fruits. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Endlessly drinkable Session IPA, albeit perhaps a bit too delicate.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed SI23 Session IPA from Brouwbar 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brouwbar SI23 Session IPA (by Brouwbar):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5
8/III/19 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a - (2019-346)
Clear blond beer, small creamy off-white head, little stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: bit fruity, sweetish impression, peaches, some melons. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: little malty up front, some citrus notes, not really bitter, a bit fruity. Aftertaste: little bitter, malty, some citrus, fruity notes, some grapefruit.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed SI23 Session IPA from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
The newest Brouwbar beer to date, a reprisal of SA12 but hoppier and therefore dubbed “IPA” (SA12 was sold simply as “session ale”). Draught at Brouwbar. Creamy, dense, tightly paper-lacing, egg-white head, hazy pure and deep golden blonde robe with pale orangey tinge. Aroma of green kiwi, lychee, sweet onions sweating in arachis oil, white bread slices, touch of guava, lime juice, wet hay. Cleanly fruity onset – the cleanness and streamlined profile that typifies Brouwbar, I’m inclined to add – with notes of green banana, lychee and apple, slick and supple body, medium carb, with a ‘white-bready’ and cereally, smooth maltiness and pleasant mineral (soda-like) notes at the sides. Elegantly aromatic hoppiness in the finish, again lychee and guava, yet remaining fairly subtle; so does the bitterness, which lingers a bit in the distance with a faint spiciness, but remains a bit understated for an IPA, so that the finish as a whole remains a bit thin. Still, like all the new versions of earlier recipes, this one too is clearly an improvement compared with the original SA12, showing more expressive aromatic qualities. I could drink this by the gallon.