Brasserie Atrium PAM!

PAM!

 

Brasserie Atrium in Marche-en-Famenne, Luxembourg, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular Out of Production
Score
6.74
ABV: 5.9% IBU: 32 Ticks: 30
Copper color and a white top. Its dry-hopping results in resinous and fruity notes (grapefruit and other citrus fruit). PAM!, an explosion of hop with a fine bitterness, harmoniously combined with its malted character. To drink frequently and happily!
PAM, short for Pale Ale Marche, a high-five to Marche-en-Famenne, an active and festive town that welcomed us in its very center. Dry-hopped with Citra and Cascade.
 

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6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle, thx Hrabren! Hazy dark amber-copper body. Off white head. Caramelly, fruity, dusty aroma. Medium bodied, going lean, lean fruit jam, caramel, candied caramel, no bitterness, light alcohol, alcohol warmth, nearly no carbonation either. Meh.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Sep 2021 at 22:07

4.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
0.33 l bottle shared with Marko at Valhalla Craft Beer Bar, Zagreb. Unclear golden to amber, small off-white head. Soapy, plastic. Earthy, rotten fruit or vegetable. Cardboard. Thin, empty, abrupt finish.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Sep 2021 at 22:03

7/10
Tried from Bottle on 03 Aug 2021 at 20:20

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
330ml bottle from Chope n Shop. Unclear amber orange with good off-white head. Caramelised malt aroma. High carbonation, moderately hoppy, lightly sweet, gently sugary Amber pale. A bit average, but becomes more likeable as you journey through.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Nov 2020 at 17:28

8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
La brasserie Atrium veut donc nous faire découvrir une Pale Ale Marchoise. Avec sa fraîche amertume (32 d'IBU) mis en relief par une base peu sucrée et ses arômes plaisants de mandarine, zest d'orange alliés à dans une moindre mesure des herbes, du citron et du miel, celle-ci est d'ailleurs agréable. Mais un alcool, à 5,9% poussif la limite quelque peu et ne lui permet pas de prendre plus d'envergure. En verre nous sommes sur un ambré surmonté d'une mousse crémeuse blanc cassé de 1 cm. Le nez est sur les agrumes (mandarine, zest d'orange) avec de légères herbes et une pointe citronnée provenant d'une légère acidité. On retrouve ce cocktail à la dégustation avec en complément une base plus douce sur le miel et la pêche. L'alliance fonctionne bien malgré une effervescence un peu trop poussée. Si la première bouche est très limitée en présence, la deuxième plus ample, est plus appréciable. Un léger piment vient donner un peu de pep's de surcroît, de bon aloi, l'alcool ayant de son côté des difficultés à conférer du tonus. L’arrière-bouche est quant à elle un peu brouillonne. Final sobre, un peu court sur les agrumes. Globalement sympathique, ou si on contracte Pal Mal, cela nous donne PAM !
Tried on 22 Sep 2020 at 15:03

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
330 ml bottle, as Atrium PAM!, from Être Gourmet, Belgium. ABV is 5.9%, IBU 32. Moderately hazy orange to brown colour, moderate white head. Aroma of malts, moderate fruity hops, hints of jam. Reasonably hoppy, citric and slightly spicy flavour, on a base of not-too-sweet malts.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Aug 2020 at 16:36

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6.5 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Rerating:
15/XI/20 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: I/2022 (2020-xxx)
Ap: 6, Ar: 6, Flav: 6, Text: 6, O: 6, Total: 6

Clear orange beer, big creamy off-white head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: caramel, malty, bit yeasty, grains, grassy, hay. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very bitter, grassy, bit fruity, resinous, malty touch. Aftertaste: very bitter, grassy, bit resinous, some sweet malts, hoppy, bit unpleasant, slightly sourish, yeast, some banana, dry finish.

Original rating:
18/IV/20 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: XII/2019 (2020-345)
Ap: 10, Ar: 7, Flav: 7, Text: 6, O: 7, Total: 7.3

Clear orange to amber beer, big creamy dense off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, bit oxidized, herbal, cough syrup, caramel notes, sugary, grains. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice bitterness, malty, bit oxidized, bitter, grassy, herbal notes. Aftertaste: nice bitterness, some orange peel, bit oxidized, malty. Calls for a re-tasting. Seems like this one got lost in the stash...
Tried from Bottle from Dranken Geers on 18 Apr 2020 at 18:30

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle picked up from Etre Gourmet, Grez Doiceau, Belgium at home Attenkirchen, Friday 17th April 2020, on day 30 of CORVID-19 enforced lockdown, we are cooking Mean and Green Chicken Tikka Kebabs from the Dan Toombs Curry Guy Easy Book, with homemade Nan Bread and a Mushrooms Rice, we're listening to Craig Charles on 6Music (standing in for Steve Lamaq during this lockdown period) btw another glorious day! Pours amber, it is hazy with a white head. Light toffee notes on the nose, , soft in the mouth, the hops are a little pushy at first, perfume notes, quite dry finish, it's a little more complex than first thought. More citrus than anything but even then it is a little pithy. Good and gets better.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Apr 2020 at 16:18

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
2 February 2020. At Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke & Pieter! Hazy orange-amber, lasting, small, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of mango, dank pineapple, mandarin, pine, pink grapefruit, biscuit, straw, herbs. Taste has sweetish mango & mandarin, thick biscuity & bready maltiness, tad nutty even, before bitter grapefruit & mandarin peel kick in. Dryish, earthy hoppy finish, softly sour, lingering grapefruit peel, pine & herbs. Medium body, oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Layered & refreshing, nice by Atrium.
Tried on 11 Apr 2020 at 15:44

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
APA as interpreted by new Walloon brewing star Atrium, situated in Marche-en-Famenne, hence the 'pale ale Marchoise', classically 'New World (dry-)hopped' with Citra and Cascade. Very thick head (to be poured very slowly and carefully if you do not want your glass to filled by it entirely), thickly plaster-like lacing, yellowish egg-white, rocky and dense, very stable; very hazy, deep amberish orange blonde robe with a 'storm' of minute bubbles raging through the mist, a pleasure to the eye, but shifting to a more 'murky', slightly brownish-tinged and less appealing dark orange with the sediment added. Lovely citrusy roma of ripe mandarins, blood orange and fresh orange peel, soggy biscuit, old rusk, very 'dusty' aspect after adding the sediment (dusty old jute bags or strawbales), brown dried tree leaves, hints of dried peach, melon, old apple cake, dried wild plants taken from an old herbarium. Fruity, quite refreshing onset, notes of mandarin and peach with a dash of melon thrown in, sweetish but subduedly so and with a light sourishness at its edges, quite some minerally effects from carbonation but in a very 'refined' and subtle way, so that the effects of carbonation remain a bit 'behind the curtains' and the effervescence as such actually feels strangely soft. Soft, bit 'fluffy' mouthfeel as a result, full enough for its strength, with a core of notably bready, lightly biscuity and rusk-like maltiness, a tad less biscuity than I was hoping for really, and with a very light metallic 'sound' to it. Aromatic hoppiness, citrusy as expected, with retronasal notes of mandarin and orange but also that dried old plant material note; long, yet generally mild grapefruity bitterness, a tad rootier in the very end, mingled with spicy-phenolic hints and quite a lot of dusty-bready yeastiness, especially in the end when the sediment is added - which I would therefore advise against in this particular case. Very APA in its perfectly dosed hoppiness: aromatic and 'old school' citric, refreshing and spicy but not bittering to the point where the term IPA would be more suitable, but also quite 'Belgian' in containing a lot of yeasty elements that kind of, sadly, 'blur' the features of the hops a bit. Needs a bit of cleaning up, but generally a fine and enjoyable, sufficiently hoppy quencher.
Tried on 30 Mar 2020 at 22:07