Holy Moly
Misery Beer Co. in Harzé, Liège, Belgium 🇧🇪
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
7.45
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Reubs (35480) reviewed Holy Moly from Misery Beer Co. 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can sourced from Etre Gourmet and drunk at home - pours a hazy orange with a white head. New 🇧🇪 brewery ✅ medium sweet fruity juicy aroma and taste, lots of tropical and citrus fruit, solid hoppy close, it’s actually 1 month past BBE but I wouldn’t of know as still fresh and vibrant fruity, great first impression.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Holy Moly from Misery Beer Co. 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Hazy murky blond colour, white foam. Very fruity, sweet papaya, mango, some citrus. Sweet and fruity with bitter finish. Well balanced. Great!
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Holy Moly from Misery Beer Co. 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
APA and one of the first beers from this Misery brewery in Wallonia, one to watch out for from a more 'international' point of view: no tripels, 'ambrées' or 'brunes' here, but American style craft beer all the way. Anglo-Saxon style can of 44 cl, definitely not traditionally Walloon in looks - containing a very American beer style, the old APA. Thick and frothy, egg-white, busily and intricately cobweb-lacing, stable, dense head on an 'opaquely' hazy peach blonde beer with ochre-ish tinge. Bright and fruity, but also slightly dank aroma of freshly squeezed sweet orange juice, mandarin, dough, mouldy limes, lemon zest, ripe mango, hint of diesel, marijuana, soap, papaja smoothie, starfruit, honey touch, 'deeper' and very volatile but interesting notes of freshly cut ripe cucumber, dry clay and vanilla. Refreshing, fruity onset, mango purée mixed with orange juice, yellow kiwi and starfruit but also hints of peach and banana, relatively softly carbonated (but well enough for an APA) with minerally side notes, supple and bit oily, very slick mouthfeel; doughy maltiness, with these minerally side 'stings' remaining in the middle, sweetish and a bit 'bare' for a very brief moment - exploding in colours a fraction of a second later when the hops set in, filling the mouth cavity with aromas of mango, orange zest, mandarin and Cape gooseberry, as well as providing a peppery end bitterness, which remains relatively soft but still lasts for quite a while, with a bit of a powdery feel in the end (yet avoiding a true 'hop burn'). The soft, doughy malt 'soil' remains very present as well, though, even with a soapy edge to it. In all: lovely hazy hop juiciness the contemporary way - this beer could just as well have been labelled NEIPA, but I do feel that they tried to curb the hoppiness a bit here in order to arrive at an APA feeling; still this is hoppy enough to deserve the 'IPA' moniker in the hazy, juice sense of the word. But who cares, really: the bottom line is that there has been a bit of a 'buzz' surrounding the appearance of this brewery in craft beer circles and even if this brew - and another one I had from them - still leaves room for improvement if compared with the great international names, they have already reached a high level of quality, considering how decidedly non-Belgian this kind of beers are. If anyone had told me that this was brewed in, say, London, Oslo, Amsterdam or New York, I would have easily believed them. Postmodern, 'urban', hipster style brewing in Liège: this excites me more than the umpteenth local tripel in Flanders, I have to say; so even if on an international level, Misery still has a long way to go to become truly stellar, at least on a regional level they stand out - completely.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Holy Moly from Misery Beer Co. 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
19/X/20 - 44cl can @ ElManana’s place, BB: 10/XII/20 (2020-983) Thanks to ElManana for sharing the can!
Pretty cloudy orange beer, small creamy irregular white head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very dank, tropical fruits, onions, some diesel. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: very fruity, very good bitterness, very dank, onions, lots of citrus, juicy, fruity, lovely. Aftertaste: more citrus, very dank, lots of grapefruit, soft acidity, tropical fruit, passion fruits, pineapple, mango.
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Holy Moly from Misery Beer Co. 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
44cl can, BB 12/2020. Merci Vincent, achetée en direct à la brasserie.
Paille pas de col blanc - qcq bulles à la surface le tout semble très plat.
Arôme est sur un style marqué américain côté ouest - note agrumes, pin et résineux. Petite note de malté en rétro. Les houblons sont clairement sur le devant.
Palais est malté, cara pâle - houblonné sur les agrumes avec un effet américain - résineux et pin. Le tout est assez faiblard en effervescence de bouche ce qui rajoute à l'effet huileux en bouche. Note tropicale avec un rappel de mangue voire de fruit de la passion.
Pas mauvaise, mais gros manque au visuel - sur la fin plein de morceaux de levure qui tombent de la cannette et pas du tout aidée par une effervescence à la ramasse.
DerPhilynck (3851) ticked Holy Moly from Misery Beer Co. 5 years ago