Hasalud
Brewmine TAP Stadsbrouwerij in Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Brouwerij de HopHemel / De RechterBrewed at/by: De Rechter
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular Out of Production
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Score
6.65
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A Spéciale Belge infused with juniper berries. Brewed for de Warmste Week!
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Hasalud from Brewmine TAP Stadsbrouwerij 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Hasselt is known as the ‘jenever’ city (with even a ‘Jenevermuseum’), so it should not be surprising that its new city brewery comes up with a beer – conceived as a ‘spéciale belge’ – flavoured with juniper berries, which have been used in jenever for centuries. Longneck bottle bought at the brewery – but also tasted from tap there. Collab with De Rechter, another new microbrewery in Hasselt, and also physically brewed there. Anyway: snow white, cobweb-lacing, irregularly edged, medium thick, quite large-bubbled head, misty orangey peach blonde robe – not as deeply amber as I expect from a ‘spéciale belge’ (traditional Belgian amber ale, an early 20th-century invention). Aroma of cake dough, honeydew, indeed spicy juniper berries, bubblegum, soggy peanuts, hint of strawberry-flavoured candy, powder sugar, banana peel. Fruity, sweet onset, ripe pear, peach and even hints of strawberry and melon, softly carbonated (in fact undercarbonated for this style) with a light bubblegummy aspect; honeyish sweetness over a smooth, soft, cake dough- and brioche bread-like maltiness with very faint peanutty edge but also a wort-like flavour accentuating the sweet and somewhat ‘raw’ aspect. Herbal juniper berry effects show up late but remain mellow, much more so than I am used to from this ingredient when used in beer; some peppery hop bitterness appears even later and lingers for a bit. Clearly too young still, with its worty flavours, unfermented sugars and undercarbonation – I should have waited a bit longer before opening this one. Other than that – and with the tap version in mind as well – this is a very accessible beer, a tad too pale and lacking in nuttiness for true ‘spéciale belge’ perhaps but very easily drinkable, with the juniper berry remaining very restrained; in fact, and I never thought I would say this because I normally hate juniper berries in beer: this one could perhaps benefit from a higher dosage of juniper berry!
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Hasalud from Brewmine TAP Stadsbrouwerij 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
20/I/23 - 33cl bottle @ Wim’s place, BB: n/a (2023-75) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Clear red amber to red brown beer, creamy dense beige head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: sweet impression, lots of caramel, overripe banana, sweet malts, a bit spicy, bubble gum, candle wax. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: malty start, grains, sweet, hay, cow fodder, gentle bitterness. Aftertaste: a little bitter, almost fruity touch, oxidized, a bit of strawberry jam, hay, rather watery, cereals in the finish, some cornflakes, metallic, a bit grassy, hoppy finish.