Middelburgs Stadsbier
Stadsbrouwerij Middelburg in Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.69
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
330ml bottle. Minimally cloudy, orange golden colour with average, fluffy, slowly diminishing, moderately lasting, snow white head. Minimally biscuity, pale and wheaty malty aroma, a yeasty fruity touch, apricot, mirabelle, weak, yeasty spicy overtones. Taste is sweet-ish, minimally biscuity, pale malty, slightly yeasty fruity and minimally dry, mildly bitter hoppy, hints of apricot and mirabelle, whiffs of icing sugar.
Minimally creamy, watery texture, smooth and soft, simultaneously minimally dry palate, medium to fine, dense, mildly prickly carbonation.
Clean, harmonious and balanced, drinkable - very nice.
6 / 6,5 / 7 / 7 / 7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
The 'city beer' of Middelburg from a local brewery which is not Kees - I had no idea of its existence so thanks to 'Middelburgian' Sylvan for introducing me to it and fixing me this bottle! Off-white, frothy, moussy, stable head on a misty peach blonde beer with ochre-golden hue. Aroma dominated by coriander and seeds of paradise indeed, less ginger but in an 'old and dried' form still recognizable, cooked sweet potato, fried apple, soggy brioche bread, dried orange peel, banana, apricot and something tomato sauce-like in the background. Sweet onset with light sourish edge, estery fruitiness of banana, peach and cooked apple, medium carb, soft and 'fluffy' mouthfeel; sweet 'sandwhichy' maltiness, brioche and a hint of cookies, under a whole lot of coriander seed and seeds of paradise - with the ginger again playing second violin (which is a bit strange, as it can be very dominant - I guess the dosage was deliberately kept very low here). Some dried orange peel freshness in the end, along with a mild floral hop bitterness and lingering breadiness and spiciness. Friendly and accessible - if you are used to Belgian blondes, tripels and wits using too much coriander. Technically decent, for sure, but a bit less spicing would probably be a better choice.