Golden Brown Craft IPA
De Meester in Lendelede, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Belgian Regular|
Score
6.60
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mike_77 (15875) reviewed Golden Brown Craft IPA from De Meester 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Brown colour with lasting head and some chunks. Aroma and flavour have a nice mix of sweet malts and rounded, floral, bitter hop,
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Golden Brown Craft IPA from De Meester 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
2 February 2020. At Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke & Jerre! Hazy brown, lasting, frothy, tan head. Aroma of pink grapefruit, red apple, blood orange, pine, dried leaves, herbs. Taste has bitter blood orange, apple peel & grapefruit, a tad nutty & yeasty with cake-like maltiness. Dry, herbal hoppy finish, nutty, piney & earthy, lingering (over)ripe fruit. Medium body, oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Lots of aspects thrown together. As Cream once sang, 'strange brew'...
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Golden Brown Craft IPA from De Meester 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
One of the newer Meester brews, apparently intended as a ‘brown’ (not black) IPA… Thick and foamy, yellowish-ecru, membrane-lacing, dense head on a cloudy brown beer with ruddy-bronze hue. Aroma of overripe pear, banana, soggy brown bread, cloves, tea, orange peel, hint of manure, something iron-like, old biscuit, cooked apple, bitter green herbs. Sweet onset, pear, banana, red apple, fizzy and minerally carbonation, a bit stinging; soft bready and caramelly malt base with a toasty bitterish edge and something vaguely metallic somewhere, in the end firmly bittered by a prominent, bitter dry citrus peel- and bitter plant leaf-like hoppiness, a tad wry even, accompanied by lingering spicy phenols, yeasty breadiness and earthy, even somewhat ‘muddy’ aspects. Weird combination of flavour elements: a dirty yeasty earthiness, fruity and malty sweetness, something faintly metallic and then this rooty, uncompromising hop bitterness… All these elements seem to clash a bit with one another, making for an incoherent, rather strange whole, which is better typified as an attempt at some or other hop-forward Belgian dubbel than as any kind of IPA, the general concept of which is clearly not understood here (though admittedly this is getting harder and harder with all those different variants on the general IPA theme that you get these days, perhaps). Drinkable, but not delivering what it promises and clearly feeling rather ‘uneasy’.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Golden Brown Craft IPA from De Meester 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
11/I/20 - 33cl bottle @ home, BB: 25/X/21 (2020-26) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Pretty cloudy red brown beer, big irregular creamy beige head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: bit dirty, malty, caramel, dried fruits, gains, bit spicy, raisins, metallic. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very malty, some ganana, grains, pretty bitter, dry, bit resinous, sugary, caramel notes. Aftertaste: unpleasant, bit chemical, rubbery, sweet and sugary, caramel, unpleasant, bitter finish, pretty wry.