Obscure Novice
Galea Craft Beers in Brasschaat, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: CraywinckelhofPorter Regular
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Score
6.78
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Label created by Hofterbier aka Spraekwater
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Fmungenast (3177) ticked Obscure Novice from Galea Craft Beers 2 years ago
BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Obscure Novice from Galea Craft Beers 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
10th Annual International Beer Swap, De Bierboom, Brugge on 9th June 2023. Shared bottle, dark brown with a red hue, beige head. Nutella like aroma and taste, couldn't get passed that thought to be honest.
DerPhilynck (3851) ticked Obscure Novice from Galea Craft Beers 3 years ago
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Obscure Novice from Galea Craft Beers 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
13/I/22 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: 23/XII/23 (2022-64)
Pretty clear reddish brown beer, big creamy beige head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: lovely, very intense, lots of hazelnuts indeed, dark chocolate as well, a bit malty, cocoa powder, lovely! MF: very lively carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish, weird, very nutty, roasted, and toasted hazelnuts, slightly sweet, cocoa powder. Aftertaste: a wry bitterness, good roast, sourish, red berries, some tannins, hazelnuts, green coffee, some caramel, malty, bitter, nice one!
Idiosynkrasie (17851) reviewed Obscure Novice from Galea Craft Beers 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
330ml bottle. Almost opaque, darkest brwon colour with ruby shimmer and average to huge, frothy to creamy, osteoporosing, minimally lacing, beige to tan head. Sweet-ish, nutty, dark malty aroma, notes of hazelnut, nougat, some caramel and chocolate, whiffs of plum. Taste is sweet, nutty, dark malty, notes of hazelnut, nougat, fruity interludes with a touch of plum. Minimally creamy, watery texture, minimally cloying palate, medium to coarse, prickly carbonation. Relatively monotonous, a touch too sweet and artificial for my liking - OK.
Bierridder (4318) ticked Obscure Novice from Galea Craft Beers 4 years ago
EvNa (6056) reviewed Obscure Novice from Galea Craft Beers 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Color: Almost black, very large frothy light brown head. Aroma: Roasted malt, some chocolate and coffee, hazelnut paste. Taste: Roasted malt, hazelnut, hazelnut paste, notes of fig, chocolate hints, light hints of nutmeg. Creamy mouthfeel. Over medium body, average carbonation. Long lasting finish. Moderate sweet and bitter.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Obscure Novice from Galea Craft Beers 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Geers. Hazy dark brown to black, huge frothy, beige head. Aroma of hazelnut (powder), Nutella spread, toast, tobacco, macadamia, chocolate powder, flavoured mocha. Taste has sweetish fig & pear in a malty profile of hazelnut powder, chocolate & toast with sourish blackberry, perhaps even cherry underneath; ending herbal hoppy, toasty, hazelnutty still with a touch of cream and light alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Odd Porter to say the least, oddly sourish and certainly too thin and fizzy on the tongue. Still pleasant.
Bart23 (982) ticked Obscure Novice from Galea Craft Beers 4 years ago
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Obscure Novice from Galea Craft Beers 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
One of a still growing assortment of stouts and porters by this Antwerp craft brewer, bottle shared with Steve. Thick and foamy, cobweb-lacing, irregularly edged, pale greyish beige head on a very dark chocolate brown beer, approaching black, with misty mahogany edges. Aroma of indeed hazelnut and a lot of it, Nutella even, dry tree leaves, tea bags, hard caramel, dusty old cocoa nibs, dried blackberries, medlar, dry earth, fig, nutmeg, vague accents of cola and nougat. Sweetish onset with sourish undertone, fresh fig and blackberry aspects, fizzy carb (a bit too much so for a porter, perhaps), supple body; almondy, toffeeish malt profile with very clear added ‘hazelnuttiness’, hazelnut grounds and again a background whiff of Nutella, but also phenolic spiciness of clove and nutmeg – for me personally interfering a bit too much with the intended hazelnut effect, especially when an earthy hoppiness and bready yeasty effects join in. That sourish note, probably linked to the yeast as well, keeps lingering too, but it too fails to match well with that sweet hazelnuttiness. Too sourish and earthy, with not enough emphasis on clean, chocolatey malt ‘rotundity’: this is more a hazelnut-flavoured artisanal Belgian dubbel than a true porter, though enjoyable as such, with enough hazelnut in it not to disappoint those who seek it. Not the best Galea so far, however, at least not for me.