Dirty Talk
Brouwerij The Musketeers in Sint-Gillis-Waas, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Belgian Regular|
Score
6.60
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with a chef like Nick Bril,
you get Dirty Talk.
Be warned.
Dirty Talk may turn your days into nights.
And your nights into misty memories.
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mike_77 (15875) reviewed Dirty Talk from Brouwerij The Musketeers 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Golden colour with a light haze and thin lacy head. The yeast is fairly dominant in this one. Sweeter elements of banana and a little dusty cardboard are not completely masked by the hoppy notes of syrupy tropical fruit and bitter orange pith. Not bad but not as good as their core range.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Hazy blond colour white foam. Lively carbonation. Citrussy, bitter, notes of exotic fruit. Belgian style IPA.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Dirty Talk from Brouwerij The Musketeers 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
“Misty” IPA (apparently the name deliberately wants to avoid the term “hazy” which is normally used in contemporary IPA – for whatever reason), created for The Jane, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Antwerp; comes from a bottle wrapped in paper, much like Rodenbach and Liefmans used to do decades ago and probably to give it more cachet. Snow white, moussy, papery lacing, stable head on an indeed misty pale orange-hued peach blonde beer, more deeply cloudy with sediment. Aroma of ripe banana, bubblegum, withering grass, old potato mash, baking soda, old orange peel, radish, clove, wet cotton cloth, puddle water, turnip juice. Fruity onset, lots of banana ester mingled with apricot and ripe pear notes, sweet but not too sweet, softishly carbonated with fluffy mouthfeel. Bready maltiness ensues, leading to a grassy and moderately zesty finish where mandarin peel and orange aspects play alongside a sourish lime juice note – probably the lemongrass that was apparently used here. Phenolic clove-like and estery banana-like impressions, however, maintain the upper hand in the end, even with something soapy; this is a Belgian blonde with a twist or a Belgian style “IPA” at best - which is usually simply a hopped-up blonde or tripel rather than anything truly IPA-like. I am disappointed in this beer, it is a kind of experiment with Belgian blonde gone awry and lacks in freshness and aromatics, which – combined with the Belgian yeast features – make a somewhat messy and unbalanced impression. Too bad, Musketeers made great Troubadour Magma editions in the past, why not turn back to those if you want to make a beer for a Michelin-starred restaurant? I think the restaurant business still has a long way to go when it comes to acknowledging the gastronomic potential of beer; sure, small steps have been made and there are some pioneers here and there doing it right, but the vast majority of fine restaurant holders still seems to be oblivious to the global craft beer movement – either that, or they are not willing to dive into it too much because of their customers… In any case, this Dirty Talk is a bit of a missed opportunity, in my opinion, Musketeers should have made a much more accomplished IPA for the occasion - and, unless they forgot about their own history, should be up to the task.