#MyAss
De Zwarte Bron in Sint-Pauwels, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Belgian Regular|
Score
6.86
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beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed #MyAss from De Zwarte Bron 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle. A clear golden beer with a white head. Aroma of mid sweet pale malt, some stone fruits. Taste of mild juicy hops, stone fruits, citrus, pale malt. Moderate to long bitter finish.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed #MyAss from De Zwarte Bron 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Zwarte Bron’s second commercially available beer, this time brewed in the microbrewery in Sint-Pauwels (north of Sint-Niklaas) itself; there is still a link to the past, when the brewer made up one half of the Weerspannige Brouwers, namely that this is apparently an improved version of the Speed IPA made by the Weerspannige back in 2016. Hopped with Cascade (and Cascade only) and fermented with a clean Anglo-Saxon yeast strain, this beer is deliberately intended as a basic American style IPA and not the kind of ‘Belgian compromise’ IPAs you see so often in this country nowadays. Egg-white, mousy, medium thick, slowly opening but well-retaining head on a hazy apricot blonde beer with deeper ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of ripe mandarin and orange juice, orange cake, papaja, pink peppercorns, olive oil, lime zest, dry white bread, mango jam, sweating abbey cheese and a faint dash of dankness (diesel). Fruity onset in a clean way, orange-zesty with side notes of ripe peach and melon, softish carb still adding something minerally, smooth and supple body (actually feeling a bit lighter than its ABV would suggest); slender biscuity maltiness with a bready core, aromatized by indeed fresh, bright but gentle and ‘noble’ old Cascade, pure orange juice and orange flesh mixed with some papaja- and lychee-like background accents but not becoming overly tropical. The hops provide a nicely finishing, but altogether fairly gentle bitterness as well. Easily drinkable, to the point, better balanced and more bright than the Speed IPA by Weerspannige back at the time, an ‘international’ IPA indeed – nodding to both the West Coast origins of modern American IPA and the current haze craze, but leaning closer to the first than to the second. Recommended, but make sure to get it fresh.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed #MyAss from De Zwarte Bron 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
14/II/21 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent), shared @ home, BB: 23/X/22 (2021-128)
Clear orange blond beer, big solid creamy white head, stable, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, sweet grains, little fruity, some banana, a little floral. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter start, grassy, bit floral, quite chemical, very dry. Aftertaste: very bitter, dry, floral, slightly soapy, floral, little fruity, yeast, character, bit spicy, good bitter Belgian Blond, but not an IPA at all.