Bucketlist Series N°7 : Kiss my Neighbours Wife
Brouwerij The Musketeers in Sint-Gillis-Waas, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Blik gedeeld met Roelzie en Keukeman. Het is een troebel oranje geel bier met een wit laagje schuim. Het heeft een fruitige, wrange hoppige geur. De smaak is fris zuur en hoppig.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
33cl can. A slightly hazy dark golden beer with a big off-white head. Aroma of tart orange fruits, citrus and zest. Taste of tart tropical fruits, oranges, grapefruit, zest.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle (unfortunately as Kiss my Neighbour yet the same beer as Kiss my Neighbour's Wife) from Bierwinkel De Hopduvel in Gent. F: medium, egg-white, average retention. C: gold, hazy. A: orange, tangerine, tropical fruits, mango, bit red apples peels. T: medium malty base, juicy tropical fruits, orange, mango, bit lemon, bit puckering even, herbal touch, decent harmonic bitterness, bit onion, medium carbonation, quite nice balanced, enjoyed.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Pede. Hazy yellow colour, creamy white foam. Nose of oranges, lemon, papaya, mango. Taste is very fruity, tart, lemony with juicy tropical fruit. Medium bitter finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
A golden beer, a head is quite small and blond. Aroma has sweet frutiness, mandarin, mongo. Taste has citrusfruits, some bitterness and lactose. Medium bodied. Lots of fruits, but the balance could be better.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Almost clear golden appearance with lasting thin head. Aroma has unripe nectarine and mango. Flavour has mango and sharp lime. Surprisingly sour. The bitterness is more akin to citrus pith than hop. Strange and interesting.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottled as a 'Juicy IPA' but specifically 'sold' as a fruity sour by the sales rep. So i'm going to go for Sour IPA on this one. Pours fairly unclear blonde. Medium sized white head. Scent is mildly tart (lactic acid has no scent, but it does remind of lactic acid ) . lemony, mild (very distant) aromatic hops (tropical). Taste is tart (lactic acid) simple in it's sours, but well balanced (not to sour, remaining a tad sweet) . Hoparoma is a bit bigger here, perhaps not what we - the geeks - hope for, but that makes the beer all the more capable of pleasing bigger crowds. Just like other Troubadour beers, this is a nice mix between unique, an own facade, and commercial possibilities. Even though I don't particularly enjoy sour IPA's, this one seems to be one of the better (because of the balance) ones I've had so far.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ van Rooij, Culemborg. Hazy amber with a quickly disappearing white head. Hoppy tropical fruit aroma with a sour touch. Sweet taste with a strong sour taste. Not a hazy IPA by any standard but it's a nice hoppy sour beer.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
The seventh one already in this ongoing Bucketlist series by Musketeers, a fruited milkshake IPA apparently, or at least intended as such... Can be labelled as Kiss my Neighbour or Kiss my Neighbour's Wife (but same beer) - fortunately in my case, I have the last. Off-white, very loosely knit, bubbly head, quickly reduced to as good as nothing, hazy apricot blonde robe with deep-golden edges. Aroma of freshly cut pineapple, mango chutney, passionfruit, withering cucumber, sourdough, freshly cut red apple slices, soggy breakfast cereals, withering lemon thyme or stale lime juice, 'dank' overripe sweet onion, vague smoky phenols in the background (melting rubber), egg yolk and indeed a very faint whiff of milk powder. Very fruity, crisp onset, lots of pineapple and less mango mingled with passionfruit, side hints of red apple, green banana and overripe gooseberry, lively carbonation in spite of the lack of head retention, accentuating the sourishness; altogether dominated by fruit juice sweetness and sourness, the latter even effectuating a lime-like edge. Slender white-bready core continuously soaked in this fruit juiciness, just not quite 'sultry' enough to be really tropical but still very refreshing; herbal notes in the end (lemonbalm, lime zest) but I do not get a lot of creamy, sweet lactose - in fact, this promised element remains all but absent. Ends refreshingly citric and green mango-like, with the fruit sourness gaining more confidence and power, but whatever hops were used, are a bit lost and hardly provide any bitterness or spiciness; still some vague spicy notes linger about, along with this eventually rather astringent, but always refreshing fruitiness. Troubadour Magma Tropical from the same 'house' gave a false impression of being a juicy IPA, but this one does nearly the same: this is indeed a blonde soured by tropical fruit juice, a task it performs very convincingly, but the 'IPA' element remains a bit understated, apart from a dank retronasal aspect of withering kitchen herbs and sweet onions. If I did not know any better, I would have classified this as a fruited blonde sour; the 'milkshake' factor, however, is all but absent, apart from a very, very faint milk powder scent. This is not at all what I expect from a fruited milkshake IPA, but these guys just need to taste a lot more of that category of beers and then they will - gradually - get there, if this is indeed the intention (but then, by that time they will be into their twentieth-odd Bucketlist beer and nobody will ever remember that they once took a pass at it, I guess... Point off for not delivering the creaminess and sweetness of a true milkshake IPA, but have an additional point in compensation, for actually delivering a lot of credible near-tropical fruitiness here.