Schol23
Stroom Brouwers in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Autumn|
Score
6.55
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Every year we celebrate our neighborhood hop harvest with a fresh hop beer. This year includes wheat from our friends at IJzerkotmolen. It's a pale blonde ale with a blend of fresh hops from the neighborhood.
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Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Schol23 from Stroom Brouwers 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl can, BB 14/10/2024.
Dorée, col épais crémeux blanc.
Arôme sur un houblonné plutôt floral – fleur de jasmin avec une note diacetyle de la levure américaine – effet aussi un peu sur les esters.
Palais est malté pâle/pils pour une bière naviguant entre style belge et américain. Sec sur les céréales, je peine à vraiment retrouver le côté ‘fresh hops’, et je note plutôt fermentée des houblons. Fini léger sur le caramel.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Schol23 from Stroom Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
5/XI/23 - 33cl can from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: 14/X/23 (2023-896)
Clear blond yellow beer, small creamy crackling off-white head, dissipates quickly, a bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: very yeasty, lots of bubble gum and (over)ripe banana, a little malty, some cookie dough, a hint of vanilla, sweet impression, some honey. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty start, gentle bitterness, a little sourish, some apples and pears, a bit yeasty. Aftertaste: a bit sourish, malty, some caramel, a little grassy, watery touch. Not really a hop-forward beer. Definitely not their best.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Schol23 from Stroom Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
The second rendition of 'Schol', a beer brewed with fresh green hop cones from hops grown in the neighbouring Macharius quarter in Ghent, this time also containing wheat produced by IJzerkotmolen, an actual old windmill commercially exploited in Zwalm, south of Ghent. It illustrates how much Stroom supports short chain economy and local ingredients. Only released two weeks ago, I stumbled on this can while browsing the local beers sold in the shop in the cellar of the Lakenhalle, adjacent to the Ghent belfry, a lovely place in the historic heart of the old city of which I am a proud inhabitant myself. Audibly fizzing, egg-white, very moussy, regular, lightly lacing, slowly thinning and dissipating head over a misty pale ochre-ish-tinged yellow blonde beer with some minute, disparate bubbles distributed evenly. Aroma of freshly baked cookies, roux right before the milk is added to create béchamel, breakfast cereals, dry biscuits, sweetclover, diacetyl (buttermilk), vague clay, hints of honey, chamomile, vanilla somewhere and meadowsweet (subtle floral touches from the aforementioned hops). Sweetish, bit juicy onset, fruity aspects of apple slices, unripe apricot, pear and a very faint background touch of pineapple (ester), soft in carbonation, minerally hints through a slick, bit thinnish, bit doughy and cereally, cookie-ish maltiness with residual honeyish sweetishness on top (very thinly so) and an undertone of diacetyl (buttermilk, including its sourishness), the latter doubtlessly due to the fact that I am having this very young. The hops too remain subtle and light, with delicate floral notes and only basic bitterishness; I understand that these are apparently wild (botanical) hops instead of a specific variety, which explains the low rate of alpha acids and therefore lack of bitterness, which could have given this beer more character. The diacetyl, now still very obvious, will probably fade after a while so maybe I will have to drink this again later, but the hops will of course not increase in bitterness (on the contrary) so I wonder what will be left of this very delicate, thin, tenuous beer by then; in this form, too young clearly, but very easily drinkable and unassuming, truly an easygoing neighbourhood beer with little to no ambitions outside of its own Heirnis and Macharius quarters.