The Incoming Of Betty B
Bossuwé Brewing in Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lager Regular|
Score
5.61
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Malts: Rice, pils, wheat. Hops: Sorachi Ace.
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Alengrin (11561) reviewed The Incoming Of Betty B from Bossuwé Brewing 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Superstrong version of Bossuwé’s B., intended as a Japanese rice lager and fermented with sake yeast – compare with VBDCK’s Kerel Kaishaku, made to the exact same concept, so it will hard not to think of that one when drinking this one. Thanks tderoeck for sharing, apparently a bottle of a few years old as this beer is no longer produced at the time of sampling. Snow white, medium thick, slowly breaking and opening head on a near-clear apricot-golden blonde beer, more misty with sediment added. The aroma is an uninviting mishmash of indeed (cheap) sake, fermenting pear juice, honey, methylated spirits, young ‘jenever’, canned corn gone sour, fresh glue, rice pudding, dust, rubber. Very sweet, white-sugary and honeyish onset, some glazed pear and apricot, slight meaty aspect (proteins?); sticky, slick body, not betraying its impressive ABV. Cereally pale maltiness, way too thin to carry this load of alcohol, making the whole thing end like some Euro strong pale lager: sticky sweet and burning boozy, with glueish and methanol-like aspects to it. This is physically undrinkable to me, way too sweet, simple, harshly boozy and unbalanced; if Kerel’s Kaishaku (not my cup of tea either) is Dr. Jekyll, then this is Mr. Hyde. Good riddance that it is not brewed anymore.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed The Incoming Of Betty B from Bossuwé Brewing 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 0.5
18/VIII/22 - 33cl bottle from De Caigny (Essen), shared @ Alengrin’s place, BB: 13/XI/21 15:07 (2022-1013)
Clear orange beer, big creamy off-white head, stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: ugh, oh boy this smells very bad! Very dirty, yeasty, rubber, chemical, some banana, sugary impression, more dirty, don’t like it at all, very offensive. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very sugary and sweet, dirty as well, unpleasant, yeast, lots of alcohol burn, rather chemical, autolyse, very rubbery, burned plastic, very bad. Aftertaste: sugary, dirty, overripe banana, oxidized, cardboard, some caramel, a hint of vanilla, pretty darn dirty, sugary, lots of alcohol, corn syrup, really bad, it’s been a long time since I’ve had such a bad beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
2 February 2020. At Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke & Pieter! Clear pale golden, thin, frothy, white head. Aroma of white grapes, pineapple, lime, clove, wet pepper, ripe apple, grain, alcohol. Taste has sweet grape, apple & apricot, apparent residual white sugar, balanced by bitter spices, vague wet wood & alcohol. Dryish, grainy, earthy hoppy finish, lingering grapes & strong sake/white rum-like alcohol (owing to that sugary profile). Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Regular Betty B. on steroids, well-made in my humble opinion.