Souaf N° 25
Kormann Bières in Les Eyzies, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France 🇫🇷
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.61
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Souaf N° 25 from Kormann Bières 8 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
The 25th 'official' brew by this brewery in the Dordogne region in southwestern France - one of so many operating there nowadays, almost all known only very locally (I do recall having seen a particularly dense map of the current microbreweries in France, though, so someone made the effort to enumerate them); a kind of honey beer apparently, from a 75 cl bottle generously shared by Francis Vanden Berghe at Baracuna. Medium sized, eggwhite, opening, moussey head on a cloudy straw blonde beer with beige tinge. Aroma of indeed honey (literally and in a more 'blossomy' way), freshly cut red apple, white bread, chamomile, sweetclover, pear, ripe peach. Fruity-estery onset, rupe pear and peach, some light pineapple perhaps, fizzily carbonated with supple, quite lean mouthfeel; cereally and white-bready pale malt core under clearly identifiable honey-flavouring sweetness, again bringing some background blossomy notes but mostly a dull sweet effect hovering over a floral hop bitterish element and phenolic spicy accents (clove). Remains sweet all the way through, but in a natural, non-cloying, flowery kind of way - I wonder how they managed that, actually, though it is by no means the most refined or interesting honey beer I had (come to Belgium - especially Wallonia - for those instead, and I do not even mean Barbãr). Rather dull, but admittedly correct from a technical viewpoint.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Souaf N° 25 from Kormann Bières 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
19/VIII/22 - 75cl bottle @ build-up Gents Bierfestival, BBE: 2023 (2022-1022) Thanks to Cies for sharing the bottle!
Clear yellow blond beer, big irregular white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty yeasty, citrus notes, a bit sourish, infected, a bit dirty, weird. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet and sugary start, malty, a little bitter, spicy, coriander notes. Aftertaste: weird, overripe fruits, rotting banana, sweet and sugary, unpleasant bitterness, meh.