Bucketlist Series N°13: Take A Polar Bear Plunge
Brouwerij The Musketeers in Sint-Gillis-Waas, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Brut Series|
Score
6.68
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Het “Brut”-karakter ontstaat door een specifieke gist (geen Champagnegist) die alle suikers omzet. Daardoor krijgt het bier een zeer droog mondgevoel, gecombineerd met een bittere afdronk.
De lichte estervorming dankzij de gist zorgt samen met de dryhopping voor een fruitigheid waarin je toetsen van limoen, lychee, meloen en citrus herkent. Dit bier zal je smaakpapillen op alle vlakken prikkelen!
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Huge, irregular and lacey white head over veiled yellow-golden beer, lively carbonated. Sweetish, gassy, vanilla-amandine smell (bit strange for a 'brut'). Alas also old malts, old peoples' houses full of antimakassars. And then again, some fresh green waterweed. Nose pulls in all directions. Toasted, oxydized malts (and hops? NB: well within BBd!). Weeds, stale cookies, dried-out nettle cheese. On top of all that, the finish sports this toasted, almost pharmaceutical flavour. Slick, very carbonated, faint burning MF. Oh well. Even favourite breweries sometimes are beside of the mark. And I hate a nose that sits perpendicular on the taste. From Dranken Goegebuer, Knesselare
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
33cl bottle from Prik&Tik Kampenhout, Belgium.
F: big, white, extremely long lasting.
C: deep gold, hazy.
A: citrus, bit herbal, orange, spicy, grapes.
T: full malty base, pears, green banana, grapes, orange, bit bready, herbal, dry on the palate, medium carbonation, good one, enjoyed.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
En copa teku, color amarillo ligeramente anaranjado, espuma blanca, abundante , cremosa y duradera. En nariz me recuerda bastante a una belgian blond, notas de levadura, malta, cereal, paja, bizcocho, especias...hay presencia de lúpulo, pero nada que me recuerde a una IPA, y si, como ya he dicho, a una blonde o incluso una strong pale (lo cual reconozco que me encanta). En boca un poquito más de lo mismo percibido por el olfato, el primer trago se siente de entrada amargo y especiado (pimienta, un ligero punto de clavo) y se diluye en notas ligeramente más dulces, donde afloran tonos de malta, cereal, algo de repostería, recuerdo de frutas de hueso, todo ello con la nota amarga y especiada bien mantenida de fondo. Buena presencia tanto de lúpulo como de levadura, el origen Belga de esta cerveza resulta imposible de camuflar. Buena cerveza, interesante y divertida.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Helder goudkleurig bier met schuim. Smaak ik licht bvitter hoppig met iets van citrus en bloemen. Heeft een heel zachte afdronk voor een IPA.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Kerstbier Festival. Clear golden beer with a white head. Aroma of mid sweet herbal and grainy pale malt. Taste of grainy pale malt, straw, mild floral and herbal hops.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Clear yellow colour with lasting head. Aroma and flavour are quite yeasty. More of a hoppy Blond than an IPA but luckily not sweet.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
19 May 2023. At The Musketeers restaurant. Cheers to Anke, Silke, Nima, Elke & Gregory!
A: clear golden, stable, foamy, white head.
A: lychee, pineapple, melon, perfume, lime, bread crust.
T: sweet melon, lychee, dry biscuit, yeast.
F: floral hops, tropical fruit, yeast, perfumey citrus.
P: medium body, slick texture, average carbonation.
Refreshing and effectively crisp.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Hazy blond colour, white foam. Nose of citrus, some light tropical fruity notes, estery, bitter finish.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Another one in this ongoing Bucket List beer series by Musketeers, now operating in a state-of-the-art brewery in Sint-Gillis-Waas, near the village where I was raised. Thick and foamy, egg-white, quite large- but even-bubbled, cobweb-lacing, stable head on a crystal clear, pale straw blonde beer with visible sparkling, misty and deeper ochre-tinged with sediment. Quite delicate aroma of fresh yellow grapefruit zest, lime peel (lively), ground ivy (oddly), raw cucumber, halfripe banana, lemon verbena, drying white bread, matcha tea, cooked fennel, green pear, root parsley, peppermint leaf, parsnip. Dryish onset but less so than usual for a brut IPA, green banana, green pear and unripe melon notes, minerally carbonation, supple and slick, bit oily, generally dry mouthfeel; grainy pale maltiness, remaining very low in sweetness if any, soon bittered by a strong, long, rooty, herbal, spicy hoppiness, with associations of tonic water, peppermint leaf and ground ivy springing to mind - even a whiff of citrus (grapefruit zest again), but lacking in the tropical fruitiness I tend to expect from the genre. The bitterness is, however, long-stretched and very pronounced, amplifying the already dry character of this beer and more or less justifying the 'brut' moniker, even if this dryness eventually becomes rather wry and tiresome. Less aromatic than your typical brut IPA, rather astringent with still some vague 'Belgian' notes (banana), but certainly very dry and more or less fitting the prescriptions of this young and already dwindling style, albeit in an atypical way. Less 'accessible' than most other Musketeers beers I had since they erected their proper brewery, but not necessarily better - I would say more daring and carefully glancing back at these guys' past. Better than expected, based on the previous dozen of beers I had from them, even if brut IPA will never be my preferred style (even within the IPA realm).