NZ38 New Zealand IPA
Brouwbar in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA Regular|
Score
7.24
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nathanvc (7053) reviewed NZ38 New Zealand IPA from Brouwbar 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
15 December 2019. At Brouwbar, Ghent. Shared with Anke! Pours clear golden with an unstable, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of fresh mandarin, kiwi, yellow grapefruit, peach, papaya, faint spring onion. Taste has sweet peach, papaya, pairing well with sourish lime & kiwi, bready-biscuity malts leading the way to bitter grapefruit peel & pine; floral & earthy hops in the finish, more kiwi, yellow (tropical) fruit & even a hint of spices. Medium body, oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Packed with taste, this one, and indeed evoking some kind of New Zealand treatment.
tderoeck (22946) reviewed NZ38 New Zealand IPA from Brouwbar 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
13/XII/19 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a - (2019-2137)
Clear blond beer, small creamy white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, white grapes, some grapefruit, bit cheesy, some sweaty feet. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: nice and fruity start, good bitterness, some kiwi, hoppy, bit grassy, citrus notes. Aftertaste: earthy, bitter, some tropical fruits, pineapple, grapefruit, dry finish, some berries, decent!
Alengrin (11675) reviewed NZ38 New Zealand IPA from Brouwbar 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
The latest Brouwbar beer to date – but two others are already in the making – using Motueka and Nelson Sauvin hops so referred to as a “New Zealand IPA”; not the first beer identifying itself as “New Zealand style” (APA or IPA) because of this reason, so even if ‘NZPA’ or something alike ('Aotearoa pale ale' also being in use) is not always recognized as an independent beer style and more of a commercial concept invented by the new wave of New Zealand craft breweries, the sheer announcement of “New Zealand” in this context does evoke a specifically exotic beer profile. Egg-white, creamy, mousy, medium thick, paper-like lacing head, misty apricot blonde robe. Aroma of purple gooseberries, yellow Zespri kiwi (could be autosuggestion), ripe melon, touch passionfruit, sweet white grape accent, pear, orange, background hints of overripe shallot and raw zucchini. Cleanly fruity, sweetish onset with very lively, even sharp and initially somewhat numbing carbonation, melon and pear hints, supple and slick cereally malt profile with a pleasant biscuity accent to it, quickly aromatized by the hops, providing retronasal impressions of yellow fruit, a tad tropical even – passionfruit, guava, yellow kiwi, perhaps a dash of pineapple. Bit powdery, mildly spicy bitterness, kept soft as usual in Brouwbar’s IPAs, while that lovely expressive fruitiness of the New Zealand hop varieties lingers around. In its soft bitterness, I would personally advertise this as an APA rather than an IPA, but as a whole, this is a modern, delicate and very elegantly aromatic pale ale I would happily revisit next time I’m at Brouwbar (one of my favourite spots in Ghent, I might add).