SA51 Sour Ale
Brouwbar in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
7.11
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed SA51 Sour Ale from Brouwbar 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
22 August 2020. At Brouwbar, Ghent. Cheers to Anke, mom & dad's belated Father's Day! Porus clear dark golden with a big, stable, foamy, white head. Aroma of pomelo, unripe tangerine, starfruit, gooseberry, sourdough, cream, straw. Taste has sour pomelo, mandarin & gooseberry with sweetish apple juice underneath, kept together by a sourdough-like, yeasty, bready maltiness, ending tart, balancing sour yellow fruit & a soft grassy hoppy bitterness, a tad spicy even. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation. Brouwbar's best Sour up until now I think.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed SA51 Sour Ale from Brouwbar 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
After the collab with the Mederie executed at sour ale specialist Alvinne (Sour for the Soul), Brouwbar modestly presents this own homemade kettle sour – so a comparison with the collab, soured in oak barrels, would by definition be unfair, as the production process is of course inherently different. Medium thick, half open, snow white, mousy head on a misty apricot blonde beer with warm peachy tinge, but clearly paler than Sour for the Soul. Aroma of white grape, overripe plum, gooseberry jam, medlar, nectarine, dough, sour cream, stale lime juice, cucumber, minerals. Crisp sour onset, lemony with notes of unripe pineapple and mandarin yet still harbouring a sweetish, peachy core; very fizzy carbonation, very minerally, over a smooth, supple, lean body. Clean-bready malt backbone continuously dried and soured by these impressions of sour grape, gooseberry, pineapple and cucumber paired with a citric, sour mandarin-like effect but remaining low in bitterness. Utterly quenching and colourful – a beautiful kettle sour in its deceptive simplicity and elegance. Brouwbar’s own SA51 remains altogether very different from the abovementioned collab, but in its respective style, it is clearly of a high quality level – even better than I was expecting, to be frank. Will happily drink this one again next time I’m at Brouwbar.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed SA51 Sour Ale from Brouwbar 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
6/IX/20 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a (2020-872)
Clear orange beer, small aery white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: funky, some sulphur, bit lemony, malty, fruity touch. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit funky, pretty sour, some tropical fruits, apples, little bitter, fruity, some orange peel. Aftertaste: green apples, hoppy touch, citrus, fruity, orange peel, yeasty, bit chemical, malty, grains, weird, funky. Not bad, but not the best sour ale.