Tipsor
Brouwerij Varenbroek in Reet, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style Regular|
Score
6.56
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Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Tipsor from Brouwerij Varenbroek 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Very good, dense & fine, just off-white head over veiled copper-orange beer. Pale, but also mainly coloured malts, more than faint notes of greenery, herbs, and a metallic whiff. Again quite a bit metallic, and very toasted flavour. bit of human sweat and again greenery, (caramelized) vegetables. High attenuation seems to indicate candi sugar. Bit peppery, very light sourish hint. Gristslick; well-carbonated, spritzy; light to medium body. Again a remake of a legendary beer of old, this time the beer from Beirens in Wommelgem. I like it, even if we'll never know if it's truly its reflection. Thanks to Stef!
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Tipsor from Brouwerij Varenbroek 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3
Blonde "from Wommelgem", so the label claims; bottle from Wijnegemse Drankenhal. Strong gusher, with foam (and beer) streaming out of the neck upon opening, causing me to lose about 1/5. Medium thick, egg-white, moussy head is left, quickly dissipating over the surface of an immediately misty, pale orange-hued peach blonde beer. Aroma of green cabbage, cooked Brussels sprouts (DMS) as well, spoiling chicory soup, sourdough, apple peel, clove-ish phenols, soggy white bread, raw shallot, cooked carrots, cold camomile tea having been heated over and over again, withering lettuce, old potato mash, unripe peach, banana peel, pumpkin soup, some overripe tomato and very old salty abbey cheese even, hints of dry powder sugar, wet tree leaves, dry and very old cigarettes and rotting pineapple. Estery onset, banana peel and peach, sourish green apple, some unripe peach, restrained in sweetness with a sourishness insipidly reinforced by sharp and numbing overcarbonation; soggy white bread- and lightly damp peanut-tinged, but also somewhat soapy malt body with superficial but ongoing infectious-like sourishness on top. Ends very earthy and quite 'dirty', with notes of bready yeastiness, crude spicy phenols and soggy bread-like maltiness, only very mildly bittered by a dash of earthy, floral hops, providing insufficient bitterness to add another level at the end - or to lend the finish any body whatsoever. Ends fairly watery and messy - and with this much of infection effects going on, down the drain as well. This is an utter mess of a beer: teeming with off-flavours (most notably DMS), infected, gushing, simply earthy and dirty in taste. Feels like some Belgian loner concocted their first creation in their kitchen - this should not have hit the market in this form, it seems as if everything that could possibly go wrong, has effectively gone wrong. An uncontrollable, amateuristic, boring and superficial mess of a beer - it's a good thing the original brewer of the brand, the late mister Beirens, does not have to endure this ridiculously amateuristic attempt at generic, bland Belgian blonde. This is wrong on so many levels... Rest in peace, mister Beirens, and forgive the harsh words I am going to utter now: shame on you, Varenbroek. You guys have done (a bit) better than this!
Kraddel (15872) reviewed Tipsor from Brouwerij Varenbroek 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pours clear, darker blonde. Good to big white head. Smell is bit sweet, yeasty. taste is very mildly bitter, yeasty, sweet. another one of those extremely common tasting beers. And - you guessed it - overcarbonated. Yeasty finish, some overripe fruits. Still a semi-fresh beer.