SA43 Sour Ale
Brouwbar in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
7.06
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tderoeck (22711) reviewed SA43 Sour Ale from Brouwbar 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
12/VI/20 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a (2020-497)
Clear orange blond beer, small creamy white head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: fruity, some orange peel, citrus, sourish impressions. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty acidic, oranges, nice sour notes, little bitter, very refreshing. Aftertaste: lemony, lots and lots of citrus, clean acidity.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed SA43 Sour Ale from Brouwbar 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
1 March 2020. At Brouwbar, Ghent; shared with Anke. Pours hazy yellow with a stable, small, foamy, white head. Aroma of yoghurt, wheat, gooseberry, straw, unripe yellow & green apple, lemon. Taste has sour gooseberry, lemon & apple pairing with yoghurty malts, funky notes & slightly bitter straw; sweetish bready & fruit accents in the back. Dryish, tart, lactic finish, a bit lemony, still bready too with only a hint of straw giving off bitterness; expected low hoppiness all in all. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Quenching Sour which could definitely be a stepping stone for a lot of people towards more 'challenging' sour & funky brews. 11 June 2020. Lots of kiwi, green apple, lactic acid. Sour fruit profile, wheaty & a bit funky.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed SA43 Sour Ale from Brouwbar 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Blonde ale by the Brouwbar turned (accidentally, it seems) into a sour, put on tap one week after their second anniversary party. Egg-white, frothy and stable, firm head crowning a misty yellow-straw golden blonde beer. Aroma of freshly cut cucumber, piccalilli, lime juice, raw rhubarb, unripe green gooseberries, chalk, white bread, freshly cut sorrel leaves, butter, green apple. Crisp onset, fruity and ‘green’, sour in an accessible, not too puckering way, hinting at crushed green gooseberries, green apple peel, cucumber and raw rhubarb, with fizzy – yet not too harshly stinging – carbonation. Slick and smooth, lean, white-bready maltiness with a wheaty edge, soaked in this drying, quite easygoing, slender but edgy lactic tartness, ending with a chalky aspect as well as a light floral hop touch of budding flowers and freshly cut grass, though very faintly so and hardly providing any bitterness at all – as befits a typical sour beer regardless of style. ‘Green’, crisp, very refreshing beer, very Berliner Weisse-like without actually being intended as one; a typical example of a ‘happy accident’ I reckon, as nothing in this beer – if indeed judged as a blonde sour – points at ‘dirty’, unwanted or by any means unpleasant infection. What is more, the typically clean, accessible, streamlined house style of Brouwbar is apparent in this one as well. I think it was a good idea to put this on tap and sell it as a sour ale, though I do wonder how stable it is and how it will evolve further in the coming weeks.