Chasing The Sun
Tall Poppy Brewing Company in Kontich, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Brouwerij AlvinneMead - Braggot Regular Out of Production
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6.37
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sjogro (11801) ticked Chasing The Sun from Tall Poppy Brewing Company 4 years ago
Maakun (16597) reviewed Chasing The Sun from Tall Poppy Brewing Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle. Brown, no head. Sweet honey, rye bread, massive oxidized notes, cinnamon, overripe raspberries, sour herbs. Medium sweet and bitter, light sour. Over medium bodied, flat. Not good.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Chasing The Sun from Tall Poppy Brewing Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Alvinne was among the very first breweries in Belgium to start doing collabs like the American craft brewers do – perhaps even the first, and this tradition continues to this day, for example in this fruited ‘still braggot’ they helped create at Tall Poppy near Antwerp. Off-white, thin and loose, open, quickly dissolving head (we’ve been warned: label says “still”) on a hazy, deep bronze beer with lovely copper-red glow. Aroma of brown acacia and chestnut honey and a whole lot of it (unsurprisingly), cranberry juice, cooked artichoke (bizarrely – but not off-putting), bee wax, chestnut liqueur, clove, furniture polish, fresh paint. Sweet onset, evidently thoroughly honeyish, feeling ‘heavy’ like a thick brown chestnut honey but lifted up quickly afterwards by this sourish cranberry edge, aspects of medlar, red apple and pear, soft carb with vinous, bit sticky mouthfeel, even rather syrupy in the end; brown-honeyish and brown-bready middle with an accent of toasted chestnut, offering a bit of soft bitterness. Still the sweetness of honey and the sourish aspect of cranberry prevail; some alcohol warmth is there, but seen the strength of this beer, remains remarkably discreet, though a strong solventy effect proves equally annoying as badly hidden booze. Very intense and quite unique, with the cranberry adding some spiciness and sourishness; outspokenly solventy too, however, and lacking a bit in drinkability even for what is apparently – i.e. according to the label – intended more as a braggot than as a dark saison. Fascinating idea, but something seems to have gone wrong in fermentation...
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Chasing The Sun from Tall Poppy Brewing Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
15/VII/21 - 33cl bottle @ home, BB: VI/2030, bottled: 2/VI/20, lot: 2020/0004 (2021-628) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the bottle!
Clear deep orange to amber beer, practically no head. Aroma: very oxidized, dried fruits, honey, orange peel, caramel malts, complex and nice! MF: soft to no carbon, medium body. Taste: cardboard up front, very oxidized, bitter touch, bit soapy, orange peel, honey, dried fruits. Aftertaste: bit sourish, quite some alcohol, tannins, oxidized, orange peel, some honey, bitter touch, more honey. Not bad, but a bit overoxidized...
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Chasing The Sun from Tall Poppy Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
pours very clear, very dark amber / a lighter shade of dark brown, with an amber glow . no visible carbonation at all. Scent is very weak. perhaps a distant whif of roasted malts ? Taste is sharp, mild aroma's but they blend in surprisingly well. Roastyness isn't quite the word, but the 'darker' flavors of coffee, chocolate, etc are there, in a whiff, together with earthyness. its a very mild tart/bitter finishing beer, but a mild sweetness (by the honey?) hides that well. It's a difficult beer to rate. It's not my favorite pack of flavors, but somehow they truly work. The beer feels watery (or wine, if you will) and is extremely subtile, yet has a clear taste (aroma) profile not found in any other beers so far. Difficult to rate, since this can be treated more like a wine (subtile, no carb, complex, ...) yet it's not like any wine I've had before either. A product of it's own, which i'm not particularly a fan of myself, but can most surely respect. At least it's more innovative than another DDH NEDIPA with citra and mosaic.... Ever so slight sparkle on the tongue, and hiding the alcohol completely. Sure enough, i knew it before tasting, but blindly, i would have never guessed above 5-6 ABV range.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Draught Very high creamy-tan head, very stable and lacey over red-shot dark brown beer. Soapy nose, oxydated dark malts, almonds, amandine. Sour - and sweet, oxydate, almonds, all flavours clashing to a sweet-sour jumble. Makes me think of Cadbury ""chocolate"" bar with "raspberry" filling gone sour. Oily feel, sticky, carbonation is much less than the head suggests. Jo, this is wrong, something is terribly amiss. And leave "saisons" at 8.7% ABV to the Yanks, please.