Brasserie Blacksmith Citra

Citra

 

Brasserie Blacksmith in Waterloo, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪

Brewed at/by: Brasserie Lion
  IPA - Session Regular
Score
6.67
ABV: 4.5% IBU: 42 Ticks: 1
La Citra est une session IPA/bière blonde avec un faible taux d’alcool à 4,5%. Elle est réalisée avec une seule variété de houblon nommée “citra” qui permet de donner des flaveurs de pamplemousses, citrons et autres agrumes. La bière a une bonne amertume qui se trouve au-dessus de la moyenne du marché belge étant donné qu’elle atteint 42 IBU. Les malts qui sont utilisés sont du malt pilsen ainsi que du malt de blé. Le malt pilsen est utilisé dans une gamme de bière blonde et le malt de blé est utilisé pour des bières de type blanche.
 

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6.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
One of two beers made by this 'bierfirma' created by agriculturist and brewer Nicolas Flammang and aspiring engineer Maxence Deboeck in 2019, brewing at Sainte-Lazare in Mons, 60 km southwest of Waterloo. Huge, egg-white, inches thick, plaster-lacing, pillowy head - impossible to pour this beer in a glass without filling it with foam - on a misty pale straw blonde robe with vague khaki tinge and fierce, champenoise sparkling everywhere. Aroma of fresh wormwood leaf, grass, pumice, dry strawbales, minerals (and stinging carbon dioxide initially - not a surprise), lemon blossom hint (the Citra speaking, delicately), freshly cut green apple, pineapple cubes, soap, sawdust, even white paper. Spritzy onset, dryish, some fruity notes of green banana, Granny Smith apple and unripe pear, light sweetish pineapple touch somewhere, lots of mouth-filling fizz of course - yet less painfully stinging than I was expecting, primarily bringing a lot of minerality; supple base, slender pale malt sweetishness yet nowhere actually sweet, instead rather dry and grainy, under ongoing carbon dioxide effects, minerality and restrained 'green' fruitiness, until a confident, grassy and peppery hop bitterness sets in, lasting medium long but nicely 'filling' the finish which would otherwise have been quite empty. The hop bitterness becomes a tad rooty in the end even, but even if a faint glimpse of citrus peel is noticeable, fails to express itself retronasally 'the American way' - in other words: the sheer personality of the Citra remains understated, with only a faint lemon-zestiness pushing through. Feels like a light Belgian bitter blonde or indeed saison and not really like an actual Anglo-Saxon session IPA, in all, but having said that - and ignoring the overcarbonation - I must admit that it quenches the thirst, has no brewing flaws and remains sleek and clean, more so than I have seen in other attempts at ISA in Belgium made here and there in the past years. Not a bad beer in se, but this is a decent blonde or saison and nowhere a true IPA of any kind - and I am pretty sure their other IPA will match the same description. Oh well, it's a beginning, I guess, we all have to learn, don't we...
Tried from Can on 02 Apr 2021 at 22:20