Whitney
Innova Brewery in Haaltert, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.33
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tderoeck (22946) reviewed Whitney from Innova Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Innova Whitney (by Innova Brewery):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5
28/IV/19 - sample @ Zythos Bierfestival 2019 (Leuven), BB: n/a - (2019-650) Thanks to nathanvc, 77ships & Anke for sharing today's beers!
Clear black beer, small beige head, practically no head. Aroma: nice roast, some dark chocolate, coffee, caramel touch. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, bit sugary, ripe banana, soft roast, more banana. Aftertaste: sweet and sugary, more ripe to overripe banana, soft roast, way too much Belgian yeast for a proper stout.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Whitney from Innova Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
The attempted imperial stout in this new Innova series, steinie bottle from the brewery - as usual with difficult to read label, at least to my aging eyes. Slow gusher, but manageable if handled with the necessary attention. Very thick and frothy 'Belgian' head, pillowy, highly stable, yellowish pale beige in colour, very thickly 'plastery' lacing; cloudy, very dark chestnut brown robe, as good as black and nearly opaque, with a plaque of fungus-looking pale yeast resting on the bottom of the glass even with careful pouring - not a very attractive sight. Aroma of caramel, Ersatz chocolate ('koetjesreep'), blueberry jam, candied cherries, Liège pear syrup, cola initially even including the 'prickling' effect of carbon dioxide, soaking wet brown bread, brownies, candied figs, freshly cut red apples, hints of cinnamon, elderberry syrup, cassis, sugared tea, coffee grounds, damp tree leaves. Sweetish onset, candied fig, raisins, with a more crisp and sourish edge of freshly cut apple and blueberries, medium carbonated; smooth mouthfeel, very lean with slick edges but - surprisingly considering ABV - feeling quite light-bodied especially considering the intended style; caramelly-toffeeish and 'Ersatz-chocolatey' maltiness with a very nutty basic character, in a sweetish, pecan nut-like way and a light metallic 'zing' somewhere. Some roasty bitterishness does show up in the end, aided by an earthy hop bitterishness. Ends dry-sticky and earthy, with mildly phenolic spicy notes, a lingering 'deep' (typically stout-) sourishness as well as some basic malt sweetishness, and quite some bready yeasty aspects. Alcohol adds a certain warmth in the end, but generally remains well hidden; the general effect of the finish is however clearly too thin for what it intends to be. Drinkable enough for a Belgian style imperial stout of sorts, the likes of which we've seen more and more often here in recent years under international influence: too bready, not 'thick', dense and oily enough and, most importantly, not clean enough, as this beer is clearly teeming with yeasty effects that have no business in a thoroughly Anglo-Saxon beer style like imperial stout. Needs a lot of finetuning and considerably more density to get there, but there is a faint core of promise in here somewhere. In its current form, though, this is not an imperial stout: in fact, this is much closer to a Scotch ale as interpreted by the Belgians in the 20th century - and still today.
nathanvc (7053) reviewed Whitney from Innova Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
24 February 2019. Wieze Bierfestival - cheers to Meeki, Ama Deke & the lovely Anke! Hazy dark brown with a lasting, unstable, frothy, tan head; some lacing. Aroma of Coca-Cola candy, ripe plum, candied banana, tea leaves, peanuts, butterscotch, industrial feel. Taste is medium sugary sweet, notes of caramel, candy & Coca-Cola; this Cola effect stretches into the medium herbal bitter middle with tea leaves, earth, peanuts, vague licorice & cookie dough. Quite bland all in all, as the finish is rather short, malty, with vague herbal hops & some caramel, subtle dash of liqueur alcohol. Light to medium body, watery texture, soft carbonation. Too bland, and too sweet for what it aims to be... With great words come great expectations! What a coincidence, by the way, that the first rater here simply copies the commercial description...