Plato's Chariot Triple India Pale Ale
Brasserie du Brabant in Genappe - Baisy-Thy, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Triple Special|
Score
7.21
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottled. Hazy orange colour with a mediumsized foamy white head. Aroma is tropical fruits, some mild citrus, marmalade and mild alcohol tones. Flavour is sweet malts, some toffee, mild citrus, marmalade, alcohol and some spruce tones.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5
La brasserie du Brabant envoie du lourd avec cette Triple IPA de très grande facture. Racée, elle est basée sur une amertume puissante et enlevée. Mais de la puissance elle en possède également sur l’alcool qui titre à 11,2 % sans se démarquer et un malt bien présent qui n'étouffe pas l'amertume. Très grand équilibre donc à un niveau d'intensité qui ne pardonne la fausse note. Côté visuel, rien de sensationnel, mais je m'y attendais : un ambré voilé avec tout de même une présence d'une mousse blanc cassé de 5 mm. Le nez est sur l'orange, la clémentine, le résineux et les épices. On y décèle déjà un bon équilibre malt/houblon. L'attaque est très riche aromatiquement : on y retrouve des fruits exotiques (Goyave, Mangue notamment), pêche orange et clémentine accompagnés d'épices et de résineux. La complexité est excellente. Ce n'est qu'en deuxième bouche que l'amertume devient saillante et très intense. Les arômes sont alors davantage sur l'orange, le pamplemousse et la clémentine. L'arrière bouche est d'ailleurs sur une amertume encore plus intense. Celle-ci emplit intégralement le palais et reste très longtemps en bouche. Le final se rééquilibre entre le malt et le houblon, plus doux sur la pêche, l'orange, le miel et le résineux. Sans conteste une excellente IPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Dranken Geers, Oostakker, Nr Gent, Belgie, consumed at Isobels, Eardisley, Herefordshire Saturday 24th December 2016 shared with Loz and Baz. Copper in colour with a large foamy white/off-white head. Some alcohol type aroma on the nose along with caramel and some pine resin. In the mouth the aforementioned aromas show here, along with a hint of the tropics, a bit of banana and overripe mangoes, it’s fruity alright but also a little hot from the alcohol, it’s pretty good though. A6 A4 T7 P3 Ov14 3.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Huge yellow, rather big-bubbled head, with lace over faintly veiled light-copper beer. Sweetish, caramel, and hops in the background at first, later more dry, bit of paint, unripe fruit, dry hopbales. Very bitter, resiny hops’ flavour, not fruity at all. Bananapeel, unripe banana. Also toasted, fiery, alcohol. Gets more and more bitter and wry in time, nearly pharmaceutical. Astringent, hopoil-dominated; good carbonation. What hops? Too crude, agressive flavours, misses fruitiness (compared to the WestCoast IIPA’s). Too much indifferent bitterness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle split at CBC Islo, thanks to Kenny Kenny .... O, 07/07/16. Hazed orange with a moderately appointed off white cap that soon collapses to nyadda. Nose is tangy tropical fruit esters, light spice, fruit loaf, candied fruit peel. Taste comprises lighter shades of Tropicana, bubblegum, peach, orange peel, soft bread, light spice. Medium + bodied, moderate to low carbonation, semi drying close. Mediocre, a touch flat and uncarbed, drinks below the ABV but doesn’t deliver DIPA (or TIPA) goodness for me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle shared at Craft Beer Co. Islington - London. Many thanks to Ken for this beast. Pours unclear orange-gold with a frothy, white head. The nose holds rindy and ripening citrus fruits, some minerality. Medium sweet flavour, boozy, with floral hops, dried orange rind. Medium to full bodied with fine carbonation. Lightly warming to finish, with bitter rind, light pine, ripe and dried orange. So so overall. Pretty heavy handed.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle from Geers. Hazy amber colour, white creamy foam. Sweet nose of tropical fruits, pine, flowers. Sweet start, heavy bitter hoppy finish. Bit alcoholic and boozy, but balanced.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
7th July 2016
Big Bottle share at Craft Islington. Hazy gold beer, good fluffy pale cream colour head. Palate is airy and pretty dry. Decent fine carbonation. Light malts, mildly sweet. Little sweet floralness. Hop spice, mild pine and then tinned tropical fruits. Dry spicy finish. Tropical linger. Decent but too dry.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle shared at the CBC big bottle share. 7/7/2016. Many thanks to Kenny for this one. A hazed yellow orange coloured pour with a lasting loose white head. Aroma is hot alcohol, grainy, solvent, spicy peppercorn, orange rind, grapefruit. Flavour is composed of of light grains, bitter grapefruit, spritzy, pithy grapefruit. Palate is frothy, grainy. Highish carbonation. Too bitter. Spicy
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle at Craft Islington, thanks to Kenny. It pours hazy orange - amber with a small white head. The aroma is fresh, juicy, tinned fruits, orangeade, tango, Irn Bru, sherbet, candy and some alcohol. The taste is bitter, punchy, earthy, wood, spice, dark fruit, tinned melon, candied citrus peel and alcohol heat. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Quite hot. I rather like the aroma, but the taste doesn’t deliver.