Opera Fantastico
Brasserie Surréaliste in Brussel / Bruxelles / Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
6.97
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West Coast IPA. De précieuses petites bulles virevoltent et valsent sous les chants grandioses. Dans la danse des ombres, le bleu flamboyant entre en scène. Se rappeler l'ivresse de ce moment. Et refaire jaillir l'amour à cet instant.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Perfectly fine IPA. Approaches the WC style but doesn’t quite nail it. Some pleasant candied citrus, sun-kissed malts, mellow bitterness, piney accents, pale bread. Highly drinkable gear on the whole. Belgian-brewed IPAs have come a long way over the years.
Tried
from Can
from
Bierwinkel De Hopduvel
on 05 Jan 2026
at 22:41
7/10
Tried
on 18 Jan 2025
at 18:02
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 30 May 2024
at 10:53
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(Draught at Moeder Lambic Original, Brussels, 20 Oct 2023) Pale amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Fruity, hoppy nose with notes of grapefruit, orange peel, pine needles, crisp-bread and a touch of resin. Fruity, hoppy taste with orange peel, grapefruit, resin, pine needles, crisp-bread and a generous citric/piney bitterness. Medium body, quite dry. Generous hop presence, with a solid, dry bitterness. Very nice.
Tried
on 25 Feb 2024
at 15:35
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Can at home from Malt Attacks, Brussels, 1st January 24. Pours a clear golden ale. Aroma is citrus, pine. Taste is bitter, caramel and pine, roasted malts, burnt sugar, some candied orange peel. Decent and different
Tried
from Can
on 01 Jan 2024
at 19:20
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
8 April 2023. At Brasserie Surréaliste. Shared with the lovely Anke!
A: clear golden, small, white head.
A: cheese, sweaty feet, onion, dank pineapple, mango.
T: sweet pineapple, melon, dank onion & cheese.
F: piney hops, dank fruit, spices, bitter grapefruit.
P: medium body, oily texture, average carbonation.
Decent but lacks some structure for all that dankness.
A: clear golden, small, white head.
A: cheese, sweaty feet, onion, dank pineapple, mango.
T: sweet pineapple, melon, dank onion & cheese.
F: piney hops, dank fruit, spices, bitter grapefruit.
P: medium body, oily texture, average carbonation.
Decent but lacks some structure for all that dankness.
Tried
on 05 Jun 2023
at 12:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Draft @ Surréaliste partagée avec Tim, Klaas, Simon & Erwin, merci!
Pâle dorée, col blanc crémeux.
Arôme sur un nez plutôt classique - west coeat de bonne facture qui rappelle les prémices de ce style - ici, un bouquet généreux en malts avec un rétro-nasal houblonné dont pas mal de résineux avec une petite note de douceur tropical/coco en retrait. Cependant, la base maltée reste plus présente.
Palais est sur un malté plaisant avec des pointes de carael le tout ponctué par un houblonné classique US côté ouest californien d'antan. Léger sur le résineux, sève de sapin.
Pâle dorée, col blanc crémeux.
Arôme sur un nez plutôt classique - west coeat de bonne facture qui rappelle les prémices de ce style - ici, un bouquet généreux en malts avec un rétro-nasal houblonné dont pas mal de résineux avec une petite note de douceur tropical/coco en retrait. Cependant, la base maltée reste plus présente.
Palais est sur un malté plaisant avec des pointes de carael le tout ponctué par un houblonné classique US côté ouest californien d'antan. Léger sur le résineux, sève de sapin.
Tried
from Draft
at
Brasserie Surréaliste - Taproom
on 24 Mar 2023
at 09:28
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Quite huge, dense, bit yellowish head over still, darker-golden clear beer. Fresh hops with fruity and blossomy fragrance; passion fruit, rosepetals, citrus, starfruit, lunaria. Mild bitterness, rather sweet-fruity, but also other grains, malty. Nowhere bitter enough for being called West Coast IPA - which it does on the label. Medium bodied, feels better carbonated than it looks; quite (oily)slick. Nicd nose, but the main flavour comes over as 'been there, done that' - let alone WCIPA.
Tried
from Can
at
Café Pardaf
on 08 Mar 2023
at 08:35
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 10 Feb 2023
at 21:36
7/10
Tried
on 04 Feb 2023
at 20:57