Haru Sakura Infused
Ferm Beer Brews ( North Antwerp Brewery ) in Brasschaat, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: CraywinckelhofBelgian Style - Tripel Regular
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Score
6.25
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The sweetness of the alcohol empowers the floral character of the Sakura.
The noble hops ensure a nice balance.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2
13/XII/22 - 37.5cl bottle @ Commotie (Gent), BB: n/a (2022-1739)
Little cloudy orange blond beer, solid creamy white head, pretty stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: pretty dirty, unpleasant, sulphur notes, very yeasty. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, lots of overripe banana, sulphur, autolyse, slightly oxidized. Aftertaste: unpleasant bitterness, a bit dirty, way to yeasty, don’t like it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Whipped eggwhite-like, medium head over hazy orange-ochre beer. Sharpish nose, not unlike whisky, solvent, but also something floral. As booze with peach extract. Again sharp, solvent, wet straw, plywood. Dried peaches in spirit, if with faded flavour. Peach/apricot liqueur (no idea how sakura tastes). Medium to good carbonation, bit thinnish MF, as if long barrel aged. Slick, gets more alcoholic warming up. Hmm... some good things, some lesser. --- Beer merged from original tick of Haru on 05 Oct 2020 at 06:39 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5. Original review text: Rusty orange beer with a small off-white head, fast gone. Toasted, maltsyrup, and of course, herbs. I do not know sakura flowers, but it reminds me a bit of the Mexican agave drink. Sweet, toasted, malty and the herb dominating the flavour as well. Pretty slick, oily, medium carbonation. The aftertaste displays an indistinct and indifferent bitterness. First too sweet, oily, and overspiced - as all their beers, it would seem.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Color: Slightly hazy pale golden, frothy white head. Aroma: Floral, flowers and leaves, malty and yeasty. Taste: Sweetish, malty, yeasty as a 'nornal' sweetish Tripel, combined with floral Cherry Blossom (Sakura). Never had Cherry Blossom before but it's a bit like Rose Petals with hints of cherries. Tripel and Sakura are well balanced. Starting at bit more Tripel, finishing a bit more Sakura. So far so good, but it doesn't work out very well for me. It's a bit like drinking a beer-parfume or beer-soap mix in my opinion. (Although I never had that before either). Over moderate to medium sweet, light bitterness. Over medium body, just under average carbonatiion. Maybe this beer works better for Japanese than for Europeans? I throughly respect the brewers, well done, but as said before it's just not my kind of beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Zythos 2022. Pinkish colour. Aroma and flavour have light almond notes. They seem to grow more and more into Tonka. Not for me.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours hazed amber. Small, soapy head. Scent is full, floral, fresh. A whiff of something in the lines of red fruit (strawberry) due to the sakura. Taste is fairly full, recognizable tripel. A floral touch ( intense touch ) very fresh and bright. medium body, medium high carbo. Tad 'sweet' almost, due to the aroma. very interesting, but it pirces itself out of the market i'm afraid.