Fire Your Johnson
De Zwarte Bron in Sint-Pauwels, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
6.81
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beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Fire Your Johnson from De Zwarte Bron 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
33cl bottle. A clear deep golden beer with a off-white head. Aroma of intense hoppy tropical fruits, grapefruit, apricot. Taste of strong bitter hops, grapefruit, resins, pine. Long bitter finish.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Fire Your Johnson from De Zwarte Bron 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Hopduvel. Hazy dark amber, small, foamy, off-white head; some lacing. Aroma of plum, pear, biscuit, cake, peanut, tea leaves, grapefruit peel, olive oil, orange peel. Taste has sweet pear, apple & melon in a biscuit-malty body, a bit nutty; spicy middle with grapefruit peel, herbs, spicy yeast. Piney, resinous hoppy finish, dank fruit (ripe grapefruit, citrus peel) lingering, touch of warming spicy gin-like alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation. Good stuff, indeed very original a brew to Belgian standards.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Fire Your Johnson from De Zwarte Bron 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
De Zwarte Bron brewery, having risen from the ashes of the Weerspannige Brouwers, has a number of old recipes to look back on, including a West Coast style DIPA named Fire Your Johnson, which I personally considered the best of Weerspannige's brews - and I had literally all of those. I was therefore looking forward to the return of this beer, even with slightly altered recipe, as executed by the same brewer, but in his own Zwarte Bron brewery. Sampled at Gents Bierfestival. Egg-white, frothy, breaking but generally well-retaining head on a misty orange-glowing peach blonde beer. Aroma of half dry biscuit, fried red onion, orange peel, kumquat, freshly cut fennel, unripe mango, green melon, white pepper, herb cheese hint faraway. Fruity onset in a rather clean way, notes of unripe mango and melon again, green banana, sweetish but not overly so, with fizzy and minerally carbonation and full, slightly oily mouthfeel; dry rusk- and old cracker-like, bit peanutty maltiness, supporting a long citrus pith- and wormwood-like, peppery hop bitterness with aspects of moldy orange peel, frying onion and olive oil retronasally - but refreshingly so, in combination with that ongoing 'crystalline' carbonation. Confidently bittered, clean and powerful: indeed reminiscent of the original Weerspannige version, but perhaps a tad less bright and aromatic. Whatever the case, there are not too many West Coast style DIPAs made in Belgium, so this one absolutely deserves its place in the contemporary craft brewing landscape of this country - I have had enough of that whole 'haze craze' for quite a while anyway.
Benzai (24515) reviewed Fire Your Johnson from De Zwarte Bron 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
Bottle at home. Darker golden to amber color, huge sized off-white head. Aroma and flavor are malts, soft roast totally unexpected, bitter, hoppy bitter. But that's about it. Don't get much more. Mwah.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Fire Your Johnson from De Zwarte Bron 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Small if rather stable cream head over fully muddy amber-ocher beer. Old cookies, oxydation, raisin-cookiebar, grapes. Muscatgrapes, old hops, baked crust, and an indifferent, bitter overlying flavour. Maybe bitter almonds. Medium bodied, not very carbonated, and very (hopoil)slick. Ho-hum. Old hops and ?