Baptist IPA
Brouwerij Van Steenberge in Ertvelde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Belgian Regular|
Score
6.03
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Kleur: Blond
Alcoholvolume: 6,7% - 14° Plato
Aroma: Hop
Smaak: Lichtbitter, hoppig
Afdronk: Zacht
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CloakedDagger (37038) reviewed Baptist IPA from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 8 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 3
Bottle 33 cl. Pours an almost clear, deep golden with a lacing, off-white head. Aroma of overripe fruit. Medium body, sweet maltiness and overripe fruit with a moldy note. Some finishing bittering hops. Poorly and sloppy crafted - whatever it is. 190325
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Baptist IPA from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught Very fluffy, lightly yellowish head over lightly copperish tinted golden beer with a cold haze. Malts, partly toasted, bit shrubbery, faraway hint of mint. Bitterish, metallic, over an underlying sweetness. Again toast, ever so lightly burning MF. Treated malts. Quite slick, metallic aftertaste, sharpish. Oh well. Another "Belgian IPA". Another one to show Be brewers just don't get the style.
Gerbeer (8166) reviewed Baptist IPA from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
330 ml bottle. Pours an hazy amber with full head. Aromas of fruity esters,, a bit of banana, a bit of noble hops, and beady malts. Flavours of bitter banana peel, noble hops, and bready malts. Not really working for me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Bottiglia. Al naso l'aroma rimanda al fruttato. L'intensità olfattiva è normale e l'esistenza olfattiva è sufficiente. Il mantello birroso superiore resiste poco. La grandezza delle bollicine è a grana fine. Il liquido si presenta velato. Il colore è ambrato. Il corpo è pieno. L'amaro è pronunciato. La forza gustativa è normale e si prolunga in modo sufficiente. Le sensazioni boccali finali risultano di birra beverina. Il finale è stringente ed amarognolo. Il retrogusto è di decente intensità. Al gusto vengono donati toni di miele, crosta di pane, luppolo, un accenno di resinoso, agrumi, spezie ed erbe aromatiche.
Robin Svensson (12889) ticked Baptist IPA from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 3 years ago
nathanvc (6881) reviewed Baptist IPA from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
At Baptist, Wondelgem. Clear dark golden, thin, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of yeast, wet grain, unbaked bread, corn, soggy dough, apple peel. Taste has sweetish apple, plum & banana in a yeasty, dough-malty profile, corn-like, grain-like, bit wheaty & soapy too. Grassy hoppy finish, bitter but leaning towards metallic, still grainy & yeasty in a crude way. Medium to light body, slick texture, average carbonation. IPA - no way, José. Feels disturbingly bottom-fermented indeed. As my great former English teacher would say: this is an insult to your intelligence!
lore (7817) reviewed Baptist IPA from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Clear golden colour, moderate sized dense creamy ecru head which lasts for several minutes; aroma of floral, fruity, and bread crusty notes; taste of intensive hoppy and quinine-like bitterness and some fruitiness; not an extraordinary IPA but quite drinkable
wizzzzz (1784) reviewed Baptist IPA from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bière 33 cl bue B148. Blonde dorée, jolie couleur. Robe jaune dorée, IPA parfumée, sympa, pas assez exotique à mon goût. (M)
Tom (2088) ticked Baptist IPA from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 5 years ago
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Baptist IPA from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Another expansion of the Baptist brand by Van Steenberge, intended as an IPA. I do not trust this brewery one bit so this is probably an altered alias of an existing recipe again and I do not expect this to meet my expectations of IPA either, but let's give it a shot. Very thick and foamy, egg-white, very strongly cobweb-lacing (as in actual cobwebs in this case), very mousy, very stable head on a clear, pale orange-hued peachy 'old gold' beer with disparate strings of sparkling. Aroma of bubblegum, coriander seed, halfripe banana, white bread, cold camomile tea, plastic, raw white cabbage, paprika somewhere, washing powder, black radish peel, unripe green pear, dry earth, clove - but none of that lovely colourful New World hoppiness in any form or shape. Sweet onset, very bubblegummy with hints of halfripe banana, green pear and even raw cucumber somewhere, sharply carbonated with very minerally and souring effect; rounded, slick body, very cereally and even grainy, as in a pale lager (is this based on Sparta Pils?). Metallic and minerally notes, as well as this strong and very annoying 'bubblegumminess', linger alongside a dash of soapy coriander seed towards a crude, leafy, rooty bitter finish, skipping all of the lovely retronasal aromas that actually make people drink IPA; this bitterness lasts for a while, but so do this horrible soapiness and bubblegum effect. Green-grassy in the end, bitter in a rather primitive way: this is, as expected, not an IPA at all - if anything, I guess one could classify this as a Belgian bitter blonde, but a crude, inelegant and very blunt one. Unpleasant, with a kind of plastic-like chemical note lagging behind - I was unable to completely finish this one, which obviously means low scoring. I would not be surprised if this is just plain old Sparta Pils with (a lot of) extra hop bitterness - and even if it is not, I am probably not too far removed from the truth. We have seen a decline in the commercial 'drive' and influence of family brewers - see the takeovers of e.g. Palm, Bosteels and De Koninck in recent years - but if this particular one in Ertvelde north of Ghent would be taken over by some multinational and stripped of its endless series of aliases and near-aliases, I would probably be among the first to cynically applaud it. Another traditional Belgian family brewery trying to cash in on the craft beer hype, and painfully faltering - this is, to quote the great Tim Webb, another silly old uncle trying to make a hip dance move at his young niece's wedding and miserably failing at the job. Fooling the audience by tricking them into thinking that a more bitter version of whatever plain Belgian beer is automatically an IPA should be punishable by law.