Couleuvre
La Source Beer Co. in Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Sour / Wild Special|
Score
7.39
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Refreshing sour notes layered with a powerful double dry hopping of Sabro, Mosaic & Citra hops. Tropical dankness ahead!
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Towering, just off-white head over pale ochre beer with shards of lace. Lunaria, green grapes, grapefruit, lime, kafir lime. Very nice, I malse /I acidity, fruity, with lime, rhubarb, lunaria. Not really light, but light for a double IPA. Feels better carbonated than it looks. Nice! Despite not an explosion, managed to be the best beer of a long tasting.
Tried
from Can
from
Billie’s Bottle Shop
on 05 Jul 2020
at 08:30
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
330 ml can from Etre Gourmet, bb 15.02.2021. Orange, hazy body, with a big, frothy, lacing, off-white head. Aroma of sweet-sour passion fruit flesh, pineapple, lemongrass, citrus, dankness, moderate young cheese, lemon candy. Tastes similar, with a moderate salty impression, slight pine. Medium, slick mouhtfeel, with an average carbonation. Finishes smooth and crisp, medium sour, medium bitter, moderate sweet, slightly warm, citric, very fruity, slightly funky, a bit mineralic, with lots of tropical fruits. Very tasty! Extremely fresh and clean for the ABV, perfectly balanced, sour, bitter and sweet notes in great harmony. Loads of fresh, tropical fruits, combined with dank and funky notes and just enough malt body. Outstanding Sour IPA! Score: 8 / 4 / 8 / 5 / 17
Tried
from Can
on 25 Apr 2020
at 18:22
8/10
BB 15/02/21;Alluring tropical aroma, basket of tropical fruits such as ripe mango, papaya, half ripe stone fruits, smooth kettle tartness, bright fruit sweetness, light bread dough underneath, restrained malt profile, smooth green & grassy notes, hop dust
Tried
from Can
on 22 Apr 2020
at 20:41
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Hoppy kettle sour of 8% ABV - so obviously sold as a sour DIPA... Can from Etre Gourmet. Snow white, irregular but very mousy, initially very thick but quickly dissipating head, cloudy yellow blonde robe, bit milky and looking like homemade lemon juice. Very dank, but also very citrusy aroma of raw pineapple, lemon-scented detergent, sweaty cheese, freshly cut raw shallot, frying white onions, lime zest, diesel, kefir, margarine, weathered dill, olive oil, cumin cheese. Crisply sour onset, sharpish even with a firm, bit puckering lemony edge, hints of raw pineapple, cucumber and starfruit as well, fizzily carbonated; bread crumb- and thinly cracker-like malt body sharply edged by this ongoing poignant sourness, yet decreasingly so, leaving more and more room for a citrusy hoppiness to develop, adding fresh citrus and slightly tropical aromatics (pineapple, starfruit) as well as a soft bitterness, initially fighting a bit with the sourness, but the citric aspect of both ties them together in a most elegant way. Alcohol, though considerable at this ABV, remains all but hidden. Medium long, fruity-sourish, crisp, 'yellow-green' finish, very - I'd say dangerously - refreshing at 8% ABV. Very streamlined, focused 'hipster beer', a simple kettle sour cleverly and elegantly hopped and thus lifted to a higher level - making it a very intelligent beer. Bit too dank for some, perhaps, but there is no denying that it is extremely refreshing and quenching. Very well done in this 'genre', I think this is new Brussels 'hit' La Source at its best.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Apr 2020
at 01:25
6/10
Tych hamerykanckich tropikow obiecanych to jakos tak malo. Zdominowane przez lacto i jakies takie nuty ogorkowe, swiezo-kapke kiszonkowe. Kwasnosc niezawysoka, ale po mojemu to to piwo jest w polowie drogi do zepsucia sie na amen... daty rozlewu nie widze
Tried
from Can
on 26 Mar 2020
at 09:06
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cannette 33cl de LaSource Taproom, BB 15/2/2021.
Dorée paille assez trouble, col épais blanc crémeux.
Arôme est fruité - note de pin, fruité tropical, citron vert, rétro fin de mangue. Le houblonné sort très bien, le malté restant plus en retrait.
Palais est épais grains finement 'sour' avec un beau punch de fruité : retrouve des notes tropicales plaisantes, avec un retrait fin mentholé. Le Sabro brille de mille feu avec un léger côté cèdre. Citron vert en retrait, léger pin ponctue cela. L'effet sour est là sans jamais être surfait, pointe épicée revenant en retrait et du seigle.
Dorée paille assez trouble, col épais blanc crémeux.
Arôme est fruité - note de pin, fruité tropical, citron vert, rétro fin de mangue. Le houblonné sort très bien, le malté restant plus en retrait.
Palais est épais grains finement 'sour' avec un beau punch de fruité : retrouve des notes tropicales plaisantes, avec un retrait fin mentholé. Le Sabro brille de mille feu avec un léger côté cèdre. Citron vert en retrait, léger pin ponctue cela. L'effet sour est là sans jamais être surfait, pointe épicée revenant en retrait et du seigle.
Tried
from Can
at
La Source Beer Co. - Taproom
on 11 Mar 2020
at 19:49