Rex
Brouwerij Anders! in Halen, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
7.00
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Brassin exclusif pour le maître fromager Van Tricht - Anvers.
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Alengrin (11561) reviewed Rex from Brouwerij Anders! 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Beer made at Anders for the renowned cheese “affineur” Van Tricht, a Belgian ale hopped with Cascade, bottled in 75 cl with cork and intended as an accompaniment for cheese plates (note: see tderoeck's absolutely correct remark below that there is no beer that could possibly match with all cheeses, so this cheese affineur should at least have gone through the trouble of specifying which cheese this beer is intended for!). Egg-white, thick but relatively large-bubbled, irregularly shaped and slowly thinning head over a warm ‘metallic’ old gold robe with a pale orangey tinge, lightly hazy at first with strong, almost champagne-ish fizz, misty with sediment. Aroma of apple peel, young abbey cheese, banana, clear but not too obtrusive DMS (overcooked Brussels sprouts), dried apricots, straw, white bread slices, dried orange peel, pumice, butter, minerals, subtle clove-like phenols. Fruity onset, apple, banana and peach notes, sweetish but not overly so, lots of minerally side activity and lively carbonation yet nowhere harsh and in that sense pleasant enough, like champagne. Smooth pale malt sweetish, lightly bready and cereally body with a sweetish layer of honeyish residual sugar on top but very thinly so, as well as a dull sourishness underneath; the finish brings a dried orange peel aspect but not the luscious fresh citrus effects I was hoping for when I read that Cascade, the archetypical New World hop variety, has been used here. Some cheesy notes are noticeable – ‘old’ hops I assume, but in this particular case perhaps to be considered a happy coincidence… Lingering, earthy and mildly spicy hop bitterness pairs with equally long, bready yeastiness and maltiness. Not a bad beer per se (only the DMS bothered me a bit), typical Anders quality standard I reckon, but do not promise me a Cascade-hopped IPA if it just going to be yet another cliché Belgian blonde, because the Cascade here is faint and thin, to the extent that I would probably not have suspected the presence of a New World hop in this beer if I hadn’t known. Van Tricht is a cheese specialist and not a beer specialist – perhaps they need to involve old Ben Vinken again to come up with some more Belgian cliché beers to match with their cheeses…
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Rex from Brouwerij Anders! 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Huge, light-yellowish dense head over (cold)hazed yellow-orange beer. Quite aromatic hops' nose, lemony, but not particularily (exotic) fruity. Warming up, nose gets more malty, bit other grains, bit peppery-spicy aromas. Bitterish, with a light fruitsugars undercurrent, nothing I can specify. Maybe mainly orange-like. Dry finish. Warming up, bitter almonds. Well-carbonated, very slick to oily, medium bodied. Not bad, nothing special. IPA is a doubtful moniker, here. 6/4/7/3/14
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Rex from Brouwerij Anders! 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as Rex (by Brouwerij Anders!):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5
26/VIII/14 - 75cl bottle from a trade @ home - BB: 10/I/?? (smudged ink) (2014-953) Thanks to 77ships for the trade!
Note: this concept is BS. You give me 10 different cheeses, I'll give you 10 completely utterly different beers that match one given cheese. There is no beer that goes well with every cheese, just like there is no cheese that would pair well with every beer. Just sayin".
Clear bright yellow beer, huge creamy white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: grassy, bit soapy, sourish. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sourish start, lots of citrus, very fruity, soft bitterness, some peaches. Aftertaste: yeasty, fruity, bit sweet, malty, sugary, soft bitterness, little spicy.
77ships (14509) reviewed Rex from Brouwerij Anders! 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
75 cl. bottle sampled @ Barley Legal Tasting Room. Hazy with big white head. Flowery, soft, esters, white pepper, nice soft fruity hops. Taste is BE yeast, light sweet, sugar, bread, pepper, floral, mellow hops, light bitter, flowers, lightly fruity. Bit yeasty body. Very pleasant & lovely, I liked it quite a bit.
Kraddel (15810) reviewed Rex from Brouwerij Anders! 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Thnx to ships Pours unclear blonde good white foam Hoppy , yeasty , some grains . Taste is bitter , rather sharp . Grains . Bit sweet . Nice enough . Nothing to seek out .