White label : Edelsaison
Brouwerij Brochus in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Farmhouse - Saison Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.67
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed White label : Edelsaison from Brouwerij Brochus 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle bought at Beerlover’s Bar in Antwerp during (and after) RBBWG, shared with the Ratebeer crew. Very thick and frothy, tighly lacing, creamy, off-white head, hazy, warm peach blonde colour with orangey tinge. Aroma suffers quite heavily from DMS (overcooked, even spoiled overcooked green cabbage), in a second bottle I tasted even more so than in the first - to the extent that for me, being highly sensitive to DMS, it rendered the entire beer barely drinkable, covering more flattering impressions of peach, old cheese, hay, dried field flowers, pineapple, banana, bread crust, old cookies, grass. Fruity, estery onset, banana ester but not overdone, peach, pineapple, spritzy carbonation with minerally effects, cereally and lightly bready malt middle with ongoing esters and some light phenols, ’deep’ sourish aspect (sourdough), earthy finish with bready yeastiness, lightly spicy and herbal hops, retronasal DMS and lingering esters. Not bad as such - yet not a true saison, and the extreme DMS overload (more so than I remember ever having encountered in any other beer) ruined this for me, I'm afraid...
77ships (14506) reviewed White label : Edelsaison from Brouwerij Brochus 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thank you ?Alengrin? 750 ml. bottle sampled @ RBBWG VI (2017). Hazy orange golden, creamy white head. Nose is BE yeast, sugar, white pepper, banana, faint vegetables. Taste is fizzy soap, banana, sugar, thin soap, white bread, sugar,... Too fizzy soapy,... Basic esters, white pepper, faint vegetable in the finish. I am sorry I don’t really get what others saw in this one. A very pricey generic BE blond for me to be honest. Maybe I should have taken more time with it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750ml bottle thanks to kraddel pours out golden topped with a fizzy white head. Nose is very complex bubble gum spice light banana esters and some wood. Taste is more of the nice fruit notes spice and a soft end.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed White label : Edelsaison from Brouwerij Brochus 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brochus White label : Edelsaison (by Brouwerij Brochus):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.7/5
25/II/17 - 75cl bottle @ RBBWG (Beerlovers Bar, Antwerpen) - BB: 28/XI/19, bottled: 28/XI/16, brewed: 15/X/16 (2017-256) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Clear orange beer, creamy off-white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet, very yeasty, cabbage, bit off. MF: lively carbon, medium to light body. Taste: sourish start, sharp, bit spicy, lemony. Aftertaste: pretty bitter, floral, bit hoppy, grassy.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed White label : Edelsaison from Brouwerij Brochus 9 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
White label-beer of the Brochus Brewery in Antwerp, meaning the batch is bigger ( in this case 2893 bottles ) . One should start with seeing the bigger picture here - being the packaging and idea. White label beers are 75 cl beers, wrapped in white paper. They have a necklabel which contains information over the style, the specific beer, the Brewery, and even the used malts and hops ( in percentages ) . The necklabel is attached with home-made wax, completing the look of a very, very nice presentation beer, that is so far typically served in the better restaurants ( star-restaurants ). This must be partly due to the great packaging, complete and efficient, as well as elegant and clean. Very nice ! The pour of the beer looks very nice as well. Unclear blonde, but not cloudy or anything like that. Just unfiltered blond beer, the way it should be. Rather small white head. The smell is complex, has some distant fruityness to it. Taste is very full, rather bitter, very complex, balanced, elegant... The fruityness remains. Of course there is saison yeast in there, but it’s not an overly yeasty-type of Belgian beer. To my own taste, it has a bit too high carbonation, but when looking to the style of saison in general, this one’s carbonation is very nice (compared to) . The mouthfeel is completely where it should be as well. Saison is not the most sexy style to me, but this for sure is 100 % quality. It fits the style perfectly, withoud being boring in it. Its very different than other beers, without having a ton of additives. Its simply very impressive. Take in concideration the packaging and idea’s behind it, and you got a beer that is more perfect than I would have ever imagined.