Arthur's Legacy 11. Pretty P.IPA
Brouwerij Palm in Steenhuffel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Session Series Out of Production|
Score
6.01
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Helder lichtgeel bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is licht bitter hoppig en fruitig met iets van citrus, koriander en ananas. Best een aardig bier maar heeft niets van een typische IPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Tap. Le Marseillais, Brussels. A bar just down the hill from Restobieres. Straw colour. Light haze. Dense, sticky, lacing, white head. Looks good. Nose has a bit of a macro lager, sweet, metallic grain thing going on. Not a great deal else, really. Taste follows suit. Grainy sweet. Hint of green leaf bitterness. Flabby mouthfeel. Grainy sweet finish.
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Thanks to Kraddel + 90! Sampled draft @ Modeste 2017. Bright orange with a soapy white head. Nose is really terrible, massively watery, metallic, chemical. Taste is like carbonated bit dirty metallic water, chemical, truly terrible, lingering spoiled chemical aftertaste. I didn’t expect an IPA but this is just terrible, really what gives? Palm’s attempt at “craft beer”, De Hoorn remains an embarrassment but someone must be buying these things & they are prohibitively expensive on top. De Palm has no one to blame but themselves for their downfall their competitors from 15 years ago Jupiler & Stella are still going strong but De Palm’s flagship beer has long ago disappeared from sight.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
The eleventh edition in this series, intended to honour the late Arthur Van Roy, the man whom we have to thank for Palm, made at their own 'micro brewery' Den Hoorn; 75 cl bottle (n° 8369) with cork and muselet, from De Vidts in Sint-Niklaas. "Contains barley malt" (never a good sign if it is formulated this way) and Styrian and Mosaic hops, but at a meagre 30 IBU, my hopes of this being a true session IPA made by a larger producer, remain very low. Very thick and frothy, tightly cobweb-lacing, pale yellowish white, thick head slowly showing gaps in the middle, over a lightly hazy straw blonde beer with slightly olive greenish tinge. Aroma of chewing gum, unripe banana, freshly cut grass, papier maché, soap, raw leek, old popcorn, almost spoiled lettuce, some lime zest, tulips, margarine, powder sugar, hints of spoiled spring onion, white pepper, green starfruit, soggy old white bread, green apple, camomile tea, plastic, sage, white cabbage. Crisp, restrainedly fruity onset, almost a bit lager- or, more accurately perhaps, Kölsch-like, with hints of unripe pear, green banana and apple peel, only very restrainedly sweetish with a souring edge which is further accentuated by a relatively sharp, bit numbing and explicitly minerally carbonation; mouthfeel is lean and light, but also very soapy, much more so than I personally find agreeable especially in a beer advertized as a SIPA. Carbonation stings persist as the almost glueishly smooth and soapy cereal body flows over the tongue's surface, with sharpish grainy notes at the sides but a lot of soapy wheat in its core, with white bread-like aspects in between; a 'dirty' green hop character shows up, but only superficially so, releasing some retronasal camomile, vague (spoiled) onion and subtle and volatile lime zest notes but failing to seduce the nose with the expressive, fruity or piney aromatics I expect from any present-day IPA - and adding just a soft, feathery light, floral and mildly (green herb-)leafy bitterness to the whole. Some of this bitterness sticks a bit to the root of the tongue but it is the soapiness and the chewing gum factor, accentuated by something 'industrially' glue- and plastic-like, that dominates. This glueish flavour lingers after swallowing and I hate it - especially since it should be natural, aromatic hop flavours, regardless even of their degree of actual bitterness, that should linger here. This series never fails to disappoint it seems; I almost feel sorry for it actually, as I have argued in ratings of previous editions as well, it seems as if Palm - presenting itself as a 'craft brewery' shortly before it fell into Bavaria's clutches - was desperately trying to catch up, but never stood a chance, since it completely failed to understand what craft beer these days is all about. I cannot wrap my head around the fact that this beer is supposed to be a session IPA - did anybody at Palm, or in fact its microbrewery affiliate, took the trouble to get out, look beyond Belgium and purchase e.g. a Founders All Day IPA if only to get a rough idea of what a real SIPA should be like? Very clearly not - instead, they chose to gaze at their own navels and stuck to the familiar, hackneyed formula they have followed for generations, unaware of the fact that their business was getting suspiciously slow - in some ways, this product makes me feel like they brought their fate of becoming a Bavaria brand upon themselves. Not sure if I should feel pity or not - but regardless of the 'historical' circumstances and the obvious bad choices they made, this beer is very clearly 'out of style' and should be regarded as an ordinary Belgian blonde. And within that respect, I had more generously hopped ones than this, even without the ambition of being an IPA of whatever kind.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Fast gone, yellowish head over clear metallic orangey-golden beer; light carbonation. Bit fruity nose, rosewater, spoilage water, citruspeel. Citrus, Traubenzucker ... Hops??? Finish is rather sweet. Light, light body, and a bit undercarbonated; Choose your amount of hops as you pleas, but if you refrain of using them, DON'T CALL IT IPA!!! 5/4/6/2/10 Txs to Stef!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
F: big, white, average retention. C: blonde, hazy. A: citrus, passion fruits, grapefruits, tropical fruits, hoppy. T: malty, orange peels, grapefruits, grassy, bit pine, peach, light hoppy, medium body, medium to high carbonation, quite refreshing thirst quencher, good, brewed 30/05/17, 75cl bottle from Bierwinkel De Hopduvel in Gent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pours rather unclear blonde. Good White head. Smell is weak. Very mild hoparoma. Taste is bit bitter, but not so aromatic’ tad sweet in the back. Grainy. Inbalanced bitterness, even though not extreme. I feel like they’re going down a bit ever since the first one or 2
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Draft @ De Geus van Gent. Very clear pale colour, white foam. Nose of citrus and tropical fruit. Some banana in the nose, light malty sweetness. Rather bitter hoppy finish. Not bad.