Belgian Psycho
Brasserie du Brabant in Genappe - Baisy-Thy, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Imperial / Double Special Out of Production|
Score
6.96
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oh6gdx (50921) reviewed Belgian Psycho from Brasserie du Brabant 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Murky brown colour with a mediumsized foamy slightly off-white head. Aroma is sweet malts, some floral and mild toasted tones with some slight spiciness. Flavour is parfumed soap, some floral, toasted malts with some spiciness and mild toffee to it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Geers. Hazy amber/brown colour, beige foam. Nose is sweet, lots of pine, pine needles. Sweet, caramel, harsh bitter finish.
madmitch76 (40205) reviewed Belgian Psycho from Brasserie du Brabant 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
20th April 2017
Black IPA? No no no no no! Light haze on this amber beer, big bubbly cream colour head. Airy palate, dry and with reasonable fine carbonation. Thin malts, not that sweet. Trace of unsweet caramel. Bitter tea! Bitter floralness. Bitter seltzer. A touch of orange and tangerine before a spicy bitter finish. Mmmm not a fan of the way Brabant do hops, this scrapes a pass but iI could not drink much of it.
lore (7817) reviewed Belgian Psycho from Brasserie du Brabant 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
opalescent Brown colour, large, dense beige-ish off-white head; aroma of dark chocolate, boiled vegetables and rotten fruits; taste of (over)toasted rye bread, dark chocolate, orange zest, tropical fruits, soy sauce and grapefruit notes; good one
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Belgian Psycho from Brasserie du Brabant 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
"Winter DIPA" from Brabant, from a 75 cl bottle with crown cap. Tightly, intricately cobweb-lacing, fairly thick, moussy, off-white head, showing gaps in the middle after a while but generally well-retaining; deep, warm, pure copper colour with orangey hue, in any case much darker than average for a DIPA, initially clear but turning hazy and more brownish with the sediment gradually being added. Pungent, strong, dank aroma of cypress leaves, cedar oil, caramel, cranberries, dried grapefruit peel, olive oil, tangerine, soap, toasted pine nuts, old dried apple, wet leather, wormwood, dried out lemon zest, cigarette tobacco (unsmoked), toasted bread, vague Worcestershire sauce, dried ginger, bayleaf, dry earth, nutmeg. Crisp onset, no wild esters but rather a sedate presence of dried fruits, dryish with low sweetness, sourish red berry edges and a rim of olive- and even somewhat beef stock-like umami, spritzy carbo but correct for the style, notably resinous, even soapy, smooth mouthfeel. Nutty and very toasted maltiness in the middle, bittering almost from the start, but with a softer caramelly accent deeper below; the toasted bitterness, however, prevails and provides ample support for a long, dry, uncompromizing hop bitterness in the end, very spicy and wormwood-like, the white underside of citrus peel, with retronasal piney accents, lasting for a very long time while that malty soapiness continues along with it. Fairly clean, technically correct in its carbonation amount (often a problem with these new Brabants) and completely uncompromizing, this is not a beer that will please anyone - anything but accessible, clearly, but well crafted, I dare say with a certain international allure. IPAs in Belgium far too often get stuck in the middle, as a compromise between ’real’ 21st-century IPA on the one hand and classic blond or tripel on the other hand, but this revived micro brewery has the guts to go beyond those clichés and follows its own path with no needless concessions; I found the same spirit in e.g. Plato’s Chariot. This is the darker counterpart of it, so to speak, and in using a darker and much more toasted malt profile than usual, this beer lands somewhere in between classic (West Coast inspired) DIPA and black IPA and actually much closer to the latter category, without truly belonging to it due to its lack of roastedness (and ’blackness’). It does, however, have the pungent aromatic profile and intended ’wryness’ one would expect from a BIPA. In any case: very interesting concept, well carried out. Cheers to the audacity of this one!
Benzai (24278) reviewed Belgian Psycho from Brasserie du Brabant 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sampled @ KBF 2016, Essen. Murky brownish color, average sized off-white to beige head. Smell and taste malts, hops, but also something fruity in the flavor that annoys me, dishwasher water - ish. Nice bitterness though. Decent.
Rubin77 (10150) reviewed Belgian Psycho from Brasserie du Brabant 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
F: medium size, off-white, quick gone. C: coppery to deep amber, hazy. A: malt, orange, hint of brett, tropical fruits, earthy, caramel, basement. T: malt, earthy prominent bitterness, grapefruit, caramel, passion fruits, full body, medium carbonation, good balanced and tasty with long lasting bitterness on the palate, sample from vat @ Kerstbierfestival Essen 2016.
yespr (55607) reviewed Belgian Psycho from Brasserie du Brabant 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
From tap. Pours hazy orange with a small white to tan head. Aoma is toasted and slight fruity. Solid hoppy. Dark malty. Fruity and toasted malty. Bitter and grapefruity. Bitter and dry malty. Fruity far finish.
Sebletitje (15832) reviewed Belgian Psycho from Brasserie du Brabant 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle sample @ Vini Birre Ribelli ’16. Ambrée, col crémeux blanc-cassé Arôme offre un bouquet renforce niveau des houblons, le tout garde un nez poudreux, épicé, oignon, sur une petite impression côté ouest américaine C-hops / CTZ malt cara pâle, Munich. Palais met en avant les 8% met gardant une impression herbacée sèche en fin de bouche, pointe épicée sur la fin avec un ajout houblonné rappelant les agrumes. Garde cependant, un côté très sec que je retrouve dans les autres versions, et qui freine un peu le bouquet houblonné.
77ships (14509) reviewed Belgian Psycho from Brasserie du Brabant 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
750 ml. bottle sampled @ Vini Birre Ribelli 2016. Very murky brownish amber. Nose has low mocha malts, interesting mocha-like malt base, almost some chocolate malts, mixed with herbal & rather green hops, both ends don’t entirely mix but it is a pretty interesting idea. Taste is pine resin, lower green hops than in the nose with some mocha & almost milk chocolate malts, bit watery, finish is harshly green grass bitter. Body is bit watery, two sides don’t entirely jell, bit too bitter for me liking. It is a very interesting malt base for a DIPA. Follows the concept of a Winter DIPA pretty well, intriguing beer to say the least.