PA53 Pale Ale
Brouwbar in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.97
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed PA53 Pale Ale from Brouwbar 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
30 May 2021. At Brouwbar; cheers to Anke & Ama Deke! Clear orange, stable, frothy, white head. Aroma of mandarin peel, unripe peach, lime, grapefruit juice, biscuit, vague kiwi. Taste has sweetish mandarin & peach, sour kiwi & citrus zest with tangible biscuity maltiness. Floral hoppy finish, crisp & zesty with subtle stonefruit bitterness. Medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. Textbook APA in a sense; not Brouwbar's best but still above-average in the beerscape of course.
Tom (2085) ticked PA53 Pale Ale from Brouwbar 5 years ago
Alengrin (11609) reviewed PA53 Pale Ale from Brouwbar 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Newest Brouwbar beer to date, a lightly hoppy modern pale ale (which almost by definition equals APA these days in craft beer context), enjoyed outdoors at Brouwbar. Snow white, lacing, mousy, stable head on a cloudy peach blonde beer with vague ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of orange juice, mandarin peel, white bread crust, some mango, granadilla touch, freshly cut cucumber, minerals. Cleanly fruity onset, hinting at dried peach and a dash of apple with notes of mango and granadilla but all very subtle, fizzy carb, slick and slightly oily body; minerally aspects linger alongside a cereally, very lightly biscuity middle, towards a softly citrusy finish with a hoppiness that lasts for a while, but which produces insufficient bitterness, leaving the finish a tad ‘empty’ and thin. Minerally effects do provide a very quenching character, but I think Brouwbar’s typical ‘house style restraint’ has been taken a bit too far here; there is, however, not a shadow of a doubt that this PA53 has been very well made and its sheer lightness was completely intentional. Brouwbar elegance taken to the extreme, I’d say.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed PA53 Pale Ale from Brouwbar 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
6/IX/20 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a (2020-871)
Cloudy orange beer, small dense creamy yellowish head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: tropical fruits, mango, grains, malty, more tropical fruits. MF: ok carbon, light body. Taste: nice hops, bit resinous, dank hops, tropical fruits, bit watery. Aftertaste: hoppy, bit grassy, citrus, soft bitterness, fades away quickly, more tropical fruits, banana peel, soft bitterness, bit malty.