Suzan (MI50)
Brouwbar in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Milkshake Regular|
Score
7.19
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed Suzan (MI50) from Brouwbar 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
23 July 2020. At Brouwbar, Ghent; shared with the lovely Anke! Pours hazy ochre-orange with a quickly dissipating, foamy, white head. Aroma of pure fresh mango & mango pulp, papaya, peach, mandarin flesh, pineapple slice, tangelo. Taste has sweet fresh mango & mandarin, hint of pineapple somewhere, quite juicy but kept in check by a bready maltiness & a zesty sour touch. Bitterness building into the dry, floral hoppy finish, more mango pulp, peach & some grapefruit, but mango remains dominant of course. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Almost indiscernible from actual fruit juice indeed but the lactose remains quiet and the hops provide enough balance. Oh so nice!
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Suzan (MI50) from Brouwbar 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Mango IPA with a pinch of lactose and hopped with Callista and Mosaic hops, from tap at Brouwbar. Irregularly edged, egg-white, shred-lacing, opening and eventually all but dissolving head on an equally cloudy 'yolk-yellow' blonde beer with warmer orangey tinge. Aroma of unripe mandarin, mango indeed but in a 'natural' and not too overpowering way, baby fruit purée, freshly whipped cream, honey, guava, pomelo, minerals. Very juicy onset, sweetish with a sourish edge and clear mango flavour - yet again, not overdone and remaining restrained and balanced; fizzy carb, creamy, smooth, lean body. Bread-pulpy malt core covered in halfripe mango fruitiness; the lactose adds creaminess, but not overly so, and remains quite subdued in sweetness. Light grassy and citrusy hop bitterness in the finish, but at that stage too, this natural fruitiness remains the key element, followed by some 'hop burn'. Well, Brouwbar did it again: take a craft beer (sub)style which is still very underexposed in Belgium, and moulding it to their own house style, in keeping it elegant, restrained and balanced - the lactose adds a pleasant creamy note but no 'milkshake sugariness', and the fruit feels like actual, natural fruit juice rather than overly sweet tropical fruit lemonade. A light 'beery' core is maintained more than I have gotten used to from milkshake IPAs, but the whole does feel like a homemade, 'farm fresh' fruit juice - which I guess is kind of the intention in this type of beers... Very well done and very welcoming and refreshing on a hot summer evening!
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Suzan (MI50) from Brouwbar 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
7/VIII/20 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a (2020-733)
Pretty bloudy bright gold yellow beer, small creamy off-white head, very stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: pretty fruity, very dank, tropical fruits, some onions. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very juicy and fruity, citrus notes, mango, papaya, slightly sourish touch, very gentle bitterness. Aftertaste: very fruity, lots and lots of mango, juicy, Looza Ace (tropical flavoured juice), very gentle bitterness, more juicy, mango sorbet, lots and lots of real mango, very decent.