WH97 Wild Hop Pale Ale
Brouwbar in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.75
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tderoeck (22711) reviewed WH97 Wild Hop Pale Ale from Brouwbar 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
26/IV/23 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a (2023-341)
Clear gold orange beer, big creamy solid off-white head, little stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of bubble gum, overripe banana, sweet impression, a bit funky, some white grapes. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of bitterness, bubble gum, grassy, hoppy, a bit rubbery, more bitter. Aftertaste: very bitter, a bit grassy, slightly sourish touch, not very good, rather unpleasant.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed WH97 Wild Hop Pale Ale from Brouwbar 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Brouwbar’s second take at brewing a modern pale ale with wild, botanical hops (something another Ghent microbrewery, Stroom, has also done last year) – and one of the last original Brouwbar beers, as they have recently announced that the enterprise will be taken over by ‘big brother’ Dok Brewing Company starting in June. Get there while it is still operated by the founders – though I admittedly trust Dok enough to make sure that this place remains an interesting stop for beer aficionados even after that. Off-white, medium thick, moussy, stable head over a misty straw blonde beer with golden glow. Aroma of freshly baked cookies, sweetclover, linden tea, grass, green melon, chamomile, white dead-nettle and red clover flowers, subtle touches of mandarin peel, bread crust, honey and minerals. Cleanly fruity onset, restrainedly sweetish with notes of unripe apricot, apple peel and green melon, with lots of minerally, even a bit stingy carbonation; smooth, slender body, cereally maltiness with a lovely dry cookie-like edge to it, finishing dryish and quenching, unsurprisingly (seen the low alpha acid levels) soft and mellow in bitterness though still a tad peppery, but more importantly, adding retronasal field flower-like, grassy and vaguely spring blossom-ish aromas. More colourful than the first one (WH37, in 2019) but in a soft, delicate, pastel colour pallet, matching the fragility of the early spring sun wonderfully well. This is Brouwbar elegance in its purest, most delicate and tender form.