KLBS
Brasserie du Caméléon in Gesves, Namur, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brasserie Artisanale MilleVertusIPA Regular
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7.03
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Jybi (2410) reviewed KLBS from Brasserie du Caméléon 1 year ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Citra et Simcoe sont au programme de cette IPA titrant à 5,4 %. Et c'est une copie propre que nous propose la brasserie du caméléon avec amertume enlevée. En verre, nous sommes sur un ambré voilé avec une mousse blanc cassé crémeuse très généreuse (plusieurs cm). Le nez est appréciable sur la mandarine, l'orange amère, le caramel et les céréales. En bouche, le pamplemousse se fait davantage ressentir avec des légères herbes et un peu de poivre. Mais ce qui est réellement appréciable, c'est cette amertume saillante bien mise en valeur pas une structure épurée et un alcool à 5,4 % bien efficace. Corpulence et longueur sont également satisfaisantes pour une IPA sympathique.
beerhunter111 (50413) reviewed KLBS from Brasserie du Caméléon 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle. A clear amber beer with a beige head. Aroma of soft resinous hops and oranges. Taste of resinous bitter hops, strong grainy malt, pine, sharp bitterness.
MiP (20341) reviewed KLBS from Brasserie du Caméléon 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle, 5.4%. Good caramelly malt aroma. Cloudy light amber colour. Very big stable off-white head. The flavour is also quite caramelly. Almost spicy maltiness. Good clean bitterness. Some yeast notes, but the good kind.
blackisle (5658) reviewed KLBS from Brasserie du Caméléon 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle 33cl. @home poured into a shaker. Slightly unclear pale amber colour, tall irregular frothy off-white head, good retention, fair lacing. Aroma sweet malts, caramel, grain, apricot, grapefruit, bread, grassy hops. Smooth taste, medium sweet and bitter, malty, grain, bready, apricot, grapefruit, resinous notes. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation, long dry bittersweet aftertaste, malty and fruity notes, resinous and earthy notes, good!
Rubin77 (10150) reviewed KLBS from Brasserie du Caméléon 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
33cl bottle from Carrefour Market Cours St. Michel in Brussels. F: big, egg-white, good retention. C: amber to coppery, hazy. A: malty, orange, bit tangerine, bit onion effect, bit caramel, tropical fruits touch. T: medium malty base, grapefruits, bit banana, tangerine, bit pine, tropical fruits, caramel, long lasting harmonic bitterness, medium carbonation, good one, enjoyed.
Maakun (16495) reviewed KLBS from Brasserie du Caméléon 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from a random Belgian gas station. Almost clear dark golden with big off white head. Caramel, grapefruit, grassy, dank stone fruits hops. Medium sweet and bitter. Solid body for a 5% beer. Good stuff, classic US IPA.
Tom (2088) ticked KLBS from Brasserie du Caméléon 4 years ago
jefverstraete (7493) reviewed KLBS from Brasserie du Caméléon 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Dark golden colour, white foam. Nose of citrus, some tropical fruit. Dusty, sweet, notes of caramel. Not very refreshing. Typical Belgian IPA.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed KLBS from Brasserie du Caméléon 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
17/VII/20 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared @ home, BB: 1/X/21, bottled: 1/X/19 (2020-652) Thanks to Alengrin for the trade!
Clear orange beer, big dense creamy irregular off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: fruity, floral, roses, sweet impression, oxidized, caramel, bit of a sugary impression. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty hoppy, bit resinous, fruity touch, very bitter, soapy impression, not very convincing… Aftertaste: fruity, hoppy, bit grassy, somewhat resinous, malty, some grapefruit, good stuff.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed KLBS from Brasserie du Caméléon 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
IPA ('American' even - but that doesn't say anything in the world of IPAs, obviously) from a still very young 'bierfirma' in the north of the Namur province in the Ardennes, 'commercially' brewing at Millevertus - and at least being honest about that. Bottle straight from the brewery. Quite thick and frothy, egg-white, intricately tree-like lacing, uneven-bubbled but stable, very mousy head on a misty, warm peach blonde beer with pale orange hue and disparate, minute strings of sparkling rising up through the mist everywhere - quite a pretty beer, in all. Subtly ever-changing aroma of fresh wormwood leaf, bread crust, dried mandarin peel, orange pith, paprika powder, toasted onion (the Simcoe - but rather faintly so), unripe peach, raw barbecue sausage, apple peel, carnations, fried drumsticks, unripe green banana, freshly cut grass, potato juice, white soap. Crisp onset, fruity aspects though nowhere sweet, hinting at green banana, hard pear and unripe apricot, fizzily carbonated but in a 'small-bubbled', nowhere obnoxious way; smooth, slick mouthfeel, a tad resinous. Bread-crusty, cereally maltiness quickly bittered by a very firm, rooty, quinine-, 'witloof'- and grapefruit-like hoppiness, lasting for a very long time with even an astringent effect on the root of the tongue, but alas not quite succeeding in providing the colourful citrusy aromas retronasally. There are retronasal aromatic aspects of grapefruit peel and bitter wormwood leaf, but an 'American IPA' - assuming the original West Coast variant is intended - should have a much more outspoken hop aroma to accompany the bitterness. It seems as if the dry-hopping stage has been skipped here, or did not have a lasting effect. That said: the use of an American yeast strain, indeed working very cleanly here, was a clever move, as many Belgian IPAs - or IPA-influenced Belgian ales, to put it more correctly - keep using Belgian yeast strains which have nothing to do with IPA in general and often produce too many byproducts interfering too much with the aromas of the hops. This one does not have that issue, meaning that Caméléon is on the right track, as far as I am concerned; this KLBS, however, still needs a lot more Citra and Simcoe aroma. Get this right and you will have a fine and, indeed, 'American' IPA here Steven!