Punchy Flowers
Brasserie des Légendes in Irchonwelz, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Brouwerij De RankeBelgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Special
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Score
7.28
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Icedwarf (4850) reviewed Punchy Flowers from Brasserie des Légendes 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Licht troebel lichtbruin bier met mooie schuimkraag. Smaak is kruidig en licht bitter hoppig met iets van gras, wat sereh (citroengras) en wat grapefruit. Heel goed.
lore (7817) reviewed Punchy Flowers from Brasserie des Légendes 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
hazy orange colour, large, creamy, slightly yellowish-ecru-ish white head; aroma of lemon peel, lemongrass, fruits like pear, earthy-barnyard and yeasty notes; taste has the same notes with definite hoppy bitterness; good one
Maakun (16495) reviewed Punchy Flowers from Brasserie des Légendes 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared. Bit hazy dark golden to light amber. Grassy hops, caramel, not really flowery but has some dusty spices, dried fruits. Medium sweet and bitter. Over medium bodied. Nice.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Punchy Flowers from Brasserie des Légendes 4 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
7/XI/21 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ Akke’s place, BB: V/2024,L101 (2021-1255)
Little cloudy orange beer, big solid creamy yellow head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: marijuana up front, very yeasty, ripe banana, bit floral, hoppy. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice bitterness, bit malty, fruity touch, grassy bitterness. Aftertaste: very bitter, bit floral, sweet touch, malty, grains, dry, spicy, some coriander.
Vignale (8348) reviewed Punchy Flowers from Brasserie des Légendes 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Flaska från Etre. Disig mörkt gyllenfärgad vätska med högt vitt stabilt krämigt skum. Doft av örter, gräs, aprikos, jäst. Mjuk och len och smatidigt mycket torr. Tänker på Rankes Hop harwest men med mjukare lite maltigare kropp. Klassisk Ranke-stil. Jordiga jästtoner, gärs och örter, lätt fruktig, lång besk eftersmak och mycket mycket gott.
beerhunter111 (50413) reviewed Punchy Flowers from Brasserie des Légendes 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
33cl bottle. A minimal hazy amber beer with a white head. Aroma of citrus, caramel, spices, yeast, herbs. Taste of mild caramelized wheat malt, herbal malt, yeast, some citra.
Thom Zalm (2440) ticked Punchy Flowers from Brasserie des Légendes 4 years ago
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Punchy Flowers from Brasserie des Légendes 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Légendes, basically the new name of Géants after they acquired the much more memorable Ellezelloise (creator of the legendary Hercule and the popular Quintine series), collaborating with Belgian craft pioneer De Ranke - I must admit I probably would not have bought this if the latter name was not attached to it. Thick and rocky, spectacularly cobweb-lacing (as in an Indiana Jones movie style cave laced with cobwebs), yellowish egg-white, even-bubbled and dense, stable head on an initially lightly misty, ochre-hued 'old gold' beer with vaguely brownish tinge, turning hazy and more deeply amber-tinged with sediment. Aroma of unripe peach, raw green beans, 'untoasted' peanuts, bread crust, mugwort, wet toast, freshly cut grass, dry earth, old clove, rusk, uncooked white cabbage leaf, nutmeg, hint of bonfire smokiness, even a whiff of paraffin or indeed freshly blown out candle somehow. Dryish, crisp onset, a vague undertone of unsugared chewing gum perhaps but mostly dried apricot and unripe peach, medium carbonation, supple to slightly oily mouthfeel; full-ish but rounded, bread-crusty maltiness with clear toasty core, more bitter than sweet, peanutty and rusk-like with this toasted bitterness pairing well with a long, 'noble', earthy and floral hop bitterness that fills the finish, adding aspects of bitter wormwood and even quinine, though the bitterness of the toasty malts also passes through smoothly. Clove- and very lightly nutmeg-like phenols touch this basic bitterness here and there; the toasty malts are given equal attention as the De Ranke hop character, and indeed things like Guldenberg or Hop Harvest briefly spring to mind. This beer is said to combine Légendes' maltiness with De Ranke's hoppiness and halfway through the bottle, I see no reason to doubt this statement, meaningless as it may be; still I do recognize De Ranke's house style, fortunately, in being dry, confidently hopped and earthy in the most noble way possible. There is no doubt in my mind that De Ranke's contribution saved the day here - even more so, this feels much more like a De Ranke beer than a Légendes beer. Walloon style, saison-ish ambrée with the hops amps up full volume, this is the kind of old school Belgian ales, firmly rooted in the previous century, that I can still deeply appreciate after so many hip pastry stouts, exotically fruited kettle sours and lactose-ridden 'fruit smoothie' NEIPAs. Quite "punchy" indeed in a twentieth-century kind of way - we need more of this in Belgium even today.
Dedollewaitor (22075) reviewed Punchy Flowers from Brasserie des Légendes 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
33cl Bottle from EtreGourmet. Pours hazy deep Golden with a large creamy Thick White head. Grass, flowers, peach, pomelo and honey dew. Rustic yeasty accents. Grassy dry bitter De Ranke finish. Fan boy feel.