Brasserie 3F / Forge Askoy

Askoy

 

Brasserie 3F / Forge in Frameries, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪

  IPA Regular
Score
6.94
ABV: 6.5% IBU: - Ticks: 11
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6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

F: big, frothy, average retention. C: dark, gold. A: lemon, orange, tangerine, tropical fruits, mango, pineapple, biscuit. T: malt, orange, fresh tangerine, tropical fruits, peach, hint of mint, medium body, good carbonation, good balanced and refreshing IPA for a reasonable price, BB: 30/09/2016 and would have a better rate if fresh, 0,33l bottle from Delhaize in Antwerpen.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Nov 2016 at 10:15


8

Tried on 20 Feb 2016 at 20:57


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Sampled from bottle @ Tim needs to get rid of his ticks tasting. Slightly unclear orange golden color, medium to full sized rough white to off-white head. Smell and taste malts, lightly hops, lightly floral, quite floral with a hint of blossom. Soft bitter finish, light mouthfeel, a bit fizzy carbonation. Not bad at all, quite nice!

Tried from Bottle on 23 Jan 2015 at 19:08


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Askoy (by Brasserie La Forge):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 4/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 7/20, MyTotalScore: 2.3/5

23/I/15 - 33cl bottle from Delhaize @ "I need to get rid of my Belgian ticks" tasting - BB: n/a (2015-95)

Clear deep orange beer, big creamy off-white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: chemical, weird, pain, bit sweet. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very chemical, rubbery, lots of band-aid, off. Aftertaste: bit sweet, chemical, yeasty, bit off, banana, little bitter.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Jan 2015 at 13:11


6

Tried on 03 Jan 2015 at 22:08


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

At de kelk, thnx dad! Pours clear blonde, ok white head. Smell is hoppy, in touch with the malts, Taste is bitter, grainy, hoparoma, citrussy. . Nice!

Tried on 23 Dec 2014 at 06:42


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7.3
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Piana sztywna, mocna, trwała, dość długo pozostaje w szkle. Jest w kolorze złamanej bieli.
Zapach tego piwa przynosi owoce passiflory i jest na tyle intensywny, że tylko minimalnie można wyczuć karmel.
Smak, to ponownie owoce passiflory, cytrusy, głównie pomarańcza, w czasie degustacji wybija się mocna goryczka. Odnoszę wrażenie że goryczka jest jakby "sucha", taka grejpfrutowa. Bardzo fajnie współgrają ze sobą owoce i goryczka.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Dec 2014 at 10:35


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Medium to good, just yellowish head over veiled orange-amber beer. Very fruity, grapey nose, overwhelming C-hops; hopoils and -resins. Mandarine/tangerine and -peel. Again wry-ish, resiny hopoils, citrus, citruspeel, markedly mandarine and mandarinepeelflavours, as well as some bitterish muscatgrapes. Not overly bitter, but fragrant with a bitter bite, underneath fruity sugars lurking. Spritzy carbonation, refreshing and yet quit dry, even a shadow of astringency. Stable head gives some creaminess too. 1) This is truly a good one 2) It is made in Belgium, so the caption Bière Belge Spéciale cannot be faulted. 3) But whatever one might call it, this IS an IPA pure USA!

Tried from Can on 10 Nov 2014 at 11:45


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Every hobby (or even professional) brewer in Belgium is or should be familiar with Brouwland, the largest shop in the country to sell brewing materials; this beer apparently is the winner of a hobby brewing contest they organized. Bought it at a Delhaize supermarket today and apparently it was so new that it hadn’t even been price tagged properly so the cashier had to call for someone to go and check the price. Pours a cloudy orange blonde with darkish bits of dead yeast at the bottom of the glass, under a creamy, off-white, sticky, not very thick yet stable head. Aroma is citrus and citrus again; powerfully dry-hopped like a West Coast IPA, which it is clearly based upon, hints of grapefruit and lime peel, tonic water, bitter honey, dried apricot, vanilla, hemp, white bread, chicken soup, sundried tomatoes, apple peel, lavender, gin. Taste of apple and ripe peach at first, sharp and minerally carbonation, sweetish but not sugary, smooth, immediately refreshing on a bready and caramelly malt backbone, yeasty, somewhat powdery mouthfeel, with a refreshing sourish, lemony touch and a long, drying finish of sticky, very citrussy, aromatic green hops (obvious dry-hopping), bitter and lingering for a long time, along with some remaining caramelly maltiness and some yeastiness, very thirst-quenching. What a great discovery: I remember when I just started becoming interested in beer, IPA was something exotic and totally unavailable on the Belgian market; nowadays IPA-style beers are for sale in supermarkets. I must admit I’m a bit of a hophead and I cannot but applaud the fact that hops are currently experiencing their heydays in Belgian beer culture. If Ratebeer, like Beeradvocate, would acknowledge something like ’Belgian IPA’, this would surely be one of them - and a good one at that. In fresh condition, that is: a half year old sample had already lost a considerable amount of its aroma, body and flavour, even more so than expected from the style.

Tried from Can on 07 Nov 2014 at 15:54


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

33 cl. bottle procured from Delhaize. Consumed @ home. BBF 310/09/2016 (another BBF that seems far too long for me). Poured into my Mikkeller Teku glass. Pours hazy dark orange with a big egg-white head, consisting of large bubbles. Nose is freshly baked baked and lovely mellow USA C-hops, lots of fruity citrus. Taste is doughy upfront with a touch too big yeast presence, tad yeast cake with a smidgeon of fish guts yeast feel to it, C-hops feel rather mineral here with a dash of mineral lemonade and light Borjomi (more mineral qualities, I know but that is what I am picking up on), finish is cake-like yeast, faint almost mould touch to it, murky C-hops. Body is a tad yeasty but not too heavy. Beer like this are a nice evolution I feel in the Belgian landscape but I feel like a lot of these beers including this one haven’t been fine-tuned yet, you can feel where they were going with this but they didn’t quite get there. Only a handful breweries can pull them off. I wonder if beers like this are a result of trying to appeal to mainstream Belgian sensibilities or the breweries not being there quite yet in either appreciation or craftsmanship. I do feel like trying to please the mainstream & too old fashioned thinking might have a lot to do with that going by some comments I have read made by some Belgian brewers.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Nov 2014 at 11:19