BS#0048 - Zimca
Beerstorming in Saint-Gilles / Sint-Gillis, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.92
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed BS#0048 - Zimca from Beerstorming 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
One of Beerstorming’s already countless one-offs with a mixture of common and much less common spices, in this case long black pepper (’timiz’) and cardamom. Off-white, moussy, stable head, lightly hazy orangey amber colour. Aroma struck me with dry meat-related qualities of chicken sausage or even tofu, the sweetishness of cardamom, chestnut mushroom, caramel, apple peel, hints of soap, honey and baker’s yeast - weird but not unattractive. Soft fruity onset, low in esters but still hints of apple and apricot, something vaguely tomato-like, cardamom becoming more and more apparent from the middle onwards, over a medium carbonated, softly and lightly bready middle with just a touch of caramel, increasing yeastiness towards the finish with retronasally that meat-like quality again, soft pepper flavor (the timiz well positioned at the back), soapy quality too, juicy, with a light hint of earthy hop bitterness which I assume has been deliberately kept subtle so as not to interfere too much with the spices, but resulting in a somewhat thin finish. Again a different, unusual beer, enjoyable, but a bit thin.
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed BS#0048 - Zimca from Beerstorming 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bouteille 33cl. Dorée-orangée sur léger voile, col épais blanc-cassé. Arôme au nez mettant bien en avant la cardamone, sans pour cela être surfait. Malté reste un peu neutre virant sur le pâle, rétro houblonné légèrement citronné. Le poivré est minimaliste. Palais est assez doux avec une fine pointe épicée surtout niveau cardamone. Poivré est modéré et encore bien que cela soit écrit sur la deScription. Je trouve la base assez neutre au niveau des malts avec une petite amertume arrivant en fin de bouche. Au final, Beerstorming continue son exploration des épices, la seule à vraiment en faire autant en Belgique. Parfois l’impression est un manque de balance ou de corps avec certaine épices se retrouvant trop en retrait. Mais le tout reste très intéressant, et ne pourra que s’améliorer avec le temps.
77ships (14506) reviewed BS#0048 - Zimca from Beerstorming 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sampled draft @ Beerstorming. Dark orange amber with an off-white head. Nose is big oily spices, tea, Spanish pepper. Taste is oily, low smoked tea, some malts, sweetish, low pine & some Spanish pepper. Oily & tad yeasty body. Interesting spice beer, not really getting cardamom here.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed BS#0048 - Zimca from Beerstorming 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pours clear amber. Small white head. Smell is bit malty. Taste is Sharp, bit bitter, dry, malty. Nice