Pompel Moose
Brouwerij De Mortselarij in Mortsel, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.68
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Icedwarf (4896) reviewed Pompel Moose from Brouwerij De Mortselarij 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Lichtbruin bier met schuim. Smaak is bitter hoppig en licht fruitig met iets van grapefruit, citrus en wat lijkt op peer.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Pompel Moose from Brouwerij De Mortselarij 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
The summer 'freshener' from this new craft brewery near Antwerp, bottle from the brewery. Thick and frothy, snow white, shred-lacing, uneven-bubbled but stable head on a lightly hazy straw blonde beer with apricot tinge. Quite strong aroma of indeed grapefruit juice but in a softened - or should I say - sugared way, halfripe pear, banana peel, lemongrass, white bread dough, clear soapy wheat, baking soda, lime zest, freshly cut leeks, vague whiffs of fresh camomile, honey, gypsum and baker's yeast. Crisp, refreshing onset (even at the relatively high temperature that I am tasting it at), sweetish and sourish, lively with fruity notes of green banana, pear, peach, pineapple and indeed lots of zesty citrus but again in a non-bitter way and more reminiscent of orange or even orangelo (a Puerto Rican cross between orange and grapefruit); fizzy carbonation, slender but still relatively 'full' mouthfeel. Bready and lightly wheat-soapy maltiness, rounded, soaked in this citrusiness but also nicely florally and citrusy hopped in the end, with a light but important bitterness and 'deeper' spiciness that supports the added grapefruit element. Yeasty-bready and citrusy-floral-hoppy effects, along with sweetish pale maltiness, dominate the finish, but indeed this citrus aspect continues too, without ever overruling the rest. Belgian IPA with an extra flavouring that kind of lifts this one over the growing pool of more 'ordinary' Belgian style IPAs (or explicitly hoppy Belgian ales, if you will); if the intentions with this beer are to be perfected, I think it could benefit from a still cleaner profile in terms of yeastiness, but being Belgian, I have to admit that I do like this bready aspect. Not bad at all - this Mortselarij seems promising enough, just like I was predicting for myself when I considered buying a mixed sixpack of their brews. Oof!
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Pompel Moose from Brouwerij De Mortselarij 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Medium to huge, super-dense, ever-so-slightly yellowish head, stable, over fully hazy ochre to brown beer. Spicy impression upon pouring. Then the Mortselarij classic concrete builds up and not much less is there to be sniffed for a while - though grapefruit is so present that it cannot be ignored. Bit lactic, diary, too, buttermilk... but a bit warmed up it turns to diacetyl... aww. Bitter, bit hoppy, but also a very distinct flavour of other grains - no doubt the oats - that carries a dullish sweeter cookies note, and also conveys a rather creamy MF. Diacetyl is thankfully absent in the taste, even if it its just a tad buttery. Finish has dry grains. Creamy, medium to good carbonation, pretty slick. The diacetyl in the nose is truly a pity; the taste however is pleasing if certainly not as explosive as f.i. the Kitropiki.
77ships (14506) reviewed Pompel Moose from Brouwerij De Mortselarij 5 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
30/04/2020 bottled. 330 ml. bottle. Citrus golden, low haze, uneven soapy white head. Nose is pleasant lemony, citrus, low grainy starch & faint weeds but citrus dominates. Slightly lively carbonation. Rather strange taste, citrus yes but also some strange bitterness like something vaguely chemical, plastic peel, lingering bitter chemical, odd really if only it was bit less chemical and more fruity citrus, it seems like it was not too off but still, too bad but still promising from this new & for me very local brewery.