Brouwerij The Musketeers Bucketlist Series N°5: Party on A Jamaican Beach

Bucketlist Series N°5: Party on A Jamaican Beach

 

Brouwerij The Musketeers in Sint-Gillis-Waas, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

  IPA - New England / Hazy Regular
Score
6.70
ABV: 5.5% IBU: - Ticks: 16
Party on a Jamaican beach - NEIPA is een blond bier met een wazige tot licht-troebele schijn. De smaak heeft een zoet-fruitig karakter met een mooi rond mondgevoel. Door het dry-hoppen met verschillende hopsoorten heeft het aroma een mix van groen fruit en druif vergelijkbaar met witte wijn tot citrusaccenten van witte pompelmoes en citroen. Op het einde ervaar je een heerlijke afdronk waarvan je lang blijft nagenieten.
 

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7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
A light yellow beer, a head is medium and white. Aroma has fruitness, mango, mandarin, orange. Taste has mandarin, also other fruitness, almost medium bitterness. Medium bodied. Nice beer, fresh.
Tried on 10 Oct 2019 at 14:15


6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as The Musketeers Bucketlist Series N°5: Party On a Jamaican Beach (by Brouwerij The Musketeers):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

15/VIII/19 - on tap @ DOK Brewing Company (Gent), BB: n/a - (2019-1231)
Clear blond beer, small creamy white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: little fruity, some tropical fruits, citrus notes, bit soapy, fruity. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: soft bitterness, little herbal, hoppy, bit resinous, malty touch. Aftertaste: bitter, dry, grassy, hoppy, metallic, meh. Not very impressed with this one.
Tried from Can on 15 Aug 2019 at 22:10

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Huge, very dense & fine, just yellowish head, leaving shards of lace over finely carbonated veiled yellow beer. Exotic fruit, asafoetida, blackcurrant leaf. Bit of diary, chalk, citruspeel, somewhat floral. Bitter-fruity flavour, clean hops, mainly citruspeelflavour. Very faint rainwater, whiff of ureum. Finish is a leafy bitterness, hopoils manifesting. Medium bodied at best, mild carbonation, slick. Pretty accomplished.
Tried on 29 Jul 2019 at 14:10

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
The fifth Bucketlist beer already - this series is still going strong - intended as a New England style IPA, because everybody wants a piece of that cake now (I am wondering when the traditional Belgian family breweries will begin to try and cash in on the hype). Bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck. Tightly and thickly cobweb-lacing, large-bubbled but thick and mousy, snow white head on an only lightly hazy, pale straw blonde beer with somewhat greenish tinge, misty with sediment. Aroma of old lemon peel, withered leek, unripe pear, minerals, flour, raw and unsweet pineapple, green apple, dry baker's yeast, fresh cucumber, lime zest, white bread slices, wet grass, withering cut flowers, pumice, green banana. Fruity onset but from esters much more than from hops, light banana and even very light bubblegum somewhere, green apple, unripe pear and a dash of pineapple, but little to none of the tropical fruit basket I expect a NEIPA to open with; minerally side notes from lively carbonation as well, also atypical for the intended style. The mouthfeel is smooth and soft, but nowhere creamy and powdery as it ought to be; slick white-bready maltiness carries the halfripe banana, unripe pear and green apple esters onwards to a hoppy finish, but not hoppy in the lusciously tropical, juicy way: instead, there is a peppery, earthy, grassy bitterness stretching out over the finish, not too quinine-like or harsh, but still way too bitter for the style. I do get retronasal aspects of (moldy) lemon peel, (overripe) shallot and (withering) green onion, along with floral and weedy impressions. Juiciness in the end comes from the breadiness of the yeast and soft maltiness but not from hops. Well, I guess I saw this coming, after the four previous Bucketlists: this was never going to be a successful NEIPA - in fact, there is absolutely nothing NEIPA about this beer at all. If anything, this has all the features (in looks, nose and taste) of any 21st-century, 'modern' Belgian blonde infused with a dash of the international hop forward tendency in general - 'classic' Belgian IPA I'd almost say. With all the sympathy I have for this brewery, located in my home region, they should look at BOMBrouwerij's Triporteur Haze (to name a brewery operating in about the same level of general quality): that one is not at an international NEIPA level either, but at least it has all the basic features of the style, whereas this beer has literally none of those. Point off for promising a completely different style than what I get in my glass, in spite of it being a pleasant, quenching, technically well-made beer...
Tried from Bottle on 26 Jul 2019 at 01:25