05 IPA
Brasserie de Bertinchamps in Gembloux, Namur, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Belgian Regular|
Score
6.96
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Sebletitje (15832) reviewed 05 IPA from Brasserie de Bertinchamps 3 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Draft Chez Nina, Ixelles.
Couleur blonde, col bien épais crémeux tenace.
Arôme sur une base maltée - pils, carapâle léger avec une petite touche céréales en support - le tout appuyé par un houblonnage modéré noble - oscillant entre floral, léger terreux et de fins effluves plus sur les agrumes.
Palais sur une base assez classique belge - le tout arrive cependant à bien mettre en valeur les houblons - ici, sur pas mal d'agrumes avec une légère note florale en fin de bouche.
arvidspiny (5003) ticked 05 IPA from Brasserie de Bertinchamps 4 months ago
Rubin77 (10150) reviewed 05 IPA from Brasserie de Bertinchamps 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle from FreshMed supermarket Etterbeek, Brussels.
F: big, white, long lasting.
C: pale gold, hazy.
A: citrus, coriander, biscuits, bit herbal.
T: medium malty base, banana, pears, honey, peach, coriander, bit spicy, decent bitterness, medium carbonation, ok for the style, enjoyed. --- Beer merged from original tick of Bertinchamps 05 IPA on 07 Mar 2024 at 19:06 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5. Original review text: 33cl bottle from FreshMed supermarket Etterbeek, Brussels. F: big, white, long lasting. C: pale gold, hazy. A: citrus, coriander, biscuits, bit herbal. T: medium malty base, banana, pears, honey, peach, coriander, bit spicy, decent bitterness, medium carbonation, ok for the style, enjoyed.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed 05 IPA from Brasserie de Bertinchamps 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
The IPA in the generally decent Bertinchamps brand, one of the newcomers it seems, but unfortunately the label does not say much more than "bitter blonde beer with citrus aromas" and fails to even mention the hop varieties used, a common practice in IPAs around the world - once again proving how much Belgium lags behind in the great IPA wave of postmodern craft brewing. Irregularly edged, shred-lacing, off-white, thick and frothy, slowly receding head on a misty warm golden beer with pale apricot tinge. Bit odd aroma of spiced biscuits, Thai yellow chicken curry, coriander powder, black radish, honey, cake dough, overripe gherkins, pumice, cooked seitan, ripe white peaches, fenugreek, overripe shallot, rainwater, sushi rice somewhere, wood bluegrass, moss, iron, old abbey cheese rind. Crisp onset due to spritzy, even stingy carbonation more than inherent crispness in flavour, notes of peach, green pear and unripe apricot, generally dry with only very restrained sweetness; rounded, supple bread-crusty malt body with grainy edges, under a herbal and 'dark-grassy', bit leafy hoppiness, with side effects of rainwater and iron (ferrous spring water) lurking underneath. Coriander seed seems to mix in, providing a dull spiciness and soapiness that really has no business here - but it could be phenolic. The hops provide retronasal aromas of damp tree leaves, old onions, fenugreek, 'diesel' and armpit sweat but little of the bright citrusiness that was promised; they do act out a softly lingering floral bitterness, but softer than is averagely the case in Belgian IPAs, even fading out way too soon for what was intended, leaving behind a meaningless trail of malts and minerals from the carbonation. If a classic (read: West Coast) IPA was intended, then not only hop bitterness is lacking, but also citrusiness and pepperiness in aroma; this is altogether too soft, too herbal and too yeasty, the usual flaws when traditionally Belgian-oriented breweries tackle anything IPA-like, ending up in between a classic Belgian ale and a vague and too generic concept of IPA - the category we happily (and euphemistically!) refer to as 'Belgian IPA'. In that category of usually unintentionally yeasty beers, this is not the worst, but even then it could have done with a bit more powerful hop bitterness. Hoppy Belgian blonde rather than anything 'truly' IPA-like, but drinkable...
Lameth (4946) reviewed 05 IPA from Brasserie de Bertinchamps 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pale, almost clear golden color and a white head. Old-school style IPA. Bitter zesty, grapefruit, orange peel. Bitter zesty finish, bitter-fruity hops.