SNI67 New England Session IPA
Brouwbar in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
7.15
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed SNI67 New England Session IPA from Brouwbar 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy session IPA, one of Brouwbar’s most recent to date, and arguably one of their most ‘summery’ beers to date as well. Hopped with four different varieties, namely Citra, Mosaic, Galaxy and Sabro. Eggshell-white, medium thick, moussy, membrane-lacing head, hazy yellow-golden blonde robe with pale apricot tinge. Aroma of lime zest, green banana, some light passionfruit, unripe mango, minerals, gypsum, white bread dough, slight stewed onion or even armpit sweat dankness – but only very faintly so. Clean onset, unripe banana and unripe melon with a touch of green apple, less tropically sweet and sultry than is usually the case in this genre, quite lively carbonated for the NEIPA idiom as well, with a persistent minerally undertone; supple, feather-light body, very light white breadiness aromatized by zesty and ‘green-fruity’ hoppiness, again unripe mango and lime zest with a distant echo of lychee, providing a soft white-peppery end bitterness too – but very soft indeed, as it ought to be in a NEIPA. Light-footed, even thinnish, but highly quenching session IPA, very clean as befits the Brouwbar house style; could perhaps do with a tad more (aromatic, not bitter) hoppiness to fill the gaps as now it is clearly the Citra and to a lesser extent the Mosaic that dominate while Sabro and Galaxy, both delicious when applied generously, remain very vague. That said, this little summer beer does have its own personality, distinct even from other Brouwbar SIPAs and NEIPAs from the past, and went down so easily that other guests at the same table could not get enough of it – an important part of this type of beer, I would say. Recommendable on warm late summer days – hopefully we will get a lot more of those in the weeks to come.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed SNI67 New England Session IPA from Brouwbar 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
18/IX/21 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a (2021-1103)
Cloudy pale blond to light yellow beer, small creamy off-white head, stable, bit adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: nice, lots of tropical fruits, very juicy, lots of citrus notes, very nice! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of tropical fruits, citrus, pretty bitter, little watery, juicy, sweet touch. Aftertaste: lovely, lots of citrus, very fruity, citrus, juicy, nice!