Waltz #2
Stroom Brouwers in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lager - Amber / Vienna Regular|
Score
6.96
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Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Waltz #2 from Stroom Brouwers 9 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
33cl can, merci Tim, BB 27/08/2025.
Ambre plutôt claire/pâle, crémeux blanc-cassé.
Arôme sur une belle base de lager avec cette nouvelle mouture de Lallemand qui réduit drastiquement le temps de lagering à une simple semaine. Je note de belles notes d’agrumes et de tropical.
Palais est excellent avec un apport délicat d’esters plutôt allemands repris par es notes tropicales et léger côté chocolaté, cookie dough, pointe de fruit dont une pomme rouge, le palais est propre, bien crisp et neutre dans l’apport du côté ‘lager’.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Waltz #2 from Stroom Brouwers 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
One of Stroom's more recent beers, an attempt to revive the classic Wiener, as invented by Anton Dreher in 1840; given the accompanying description on their website, Stroom seems to know what this old style is about, so hopes are quite high. Seems to be named after Shostakovich' famous second waltz from his second Jazz Suite - an imitation of the Austrian waltz style rather than being one, which may give a clue as to this beer's intentions... Can from the new Jumbo supermarket in Ghent. Medium thick, initially fizzing, breaking but edge-retaining, off-white, lightly lacing head on a clear warm pale orange blonde robe with deeper tangerine glow and fine strings of sparkling, lightly misty and more amberish-tinged with sediment. Aroma of warm biscuit, a hint of orange zest, bath foam (oddly - almost lavender-like), white hand soap even, baked banana, apricot, wet white paper, green pear, scones, violets. Sweetish onset, a tad fruity with vague notes of red apple, apricot and dried banana, with a very thinly sourish undertone, fizzily carbonated - on the brink of becoming too 'stingy', and adding a lot of distracting minerality; smooth mouthfeel, slenderly biscuity and bread-crusty, faintly sweetish with an equally faint bitterish toasty edge, with that minerality continuing. In the finish, a floral hoppiness is added, providing an aptly mild bitterness supporting the toasty aspect - but everything remains very soft and smooth. Gently drying in the end, with retronasal aspects of violets, blossoming lavender and sweetclover - fortunately not nowhere as soapy as the nose would suggest. Maltiness keeps prevailing, in a slightly caramelly, yet nowhere overly sweet way, in the end feeling quite clean, as a Central European style Lager befits. Some fruity esters very subtly linger orthonasally too - perhaps just a bit more so than would be the case in a 'true' Wiener, but this is of course brewed in a very small brewery (one I have seen myself on several occasions) and it should also be mentioned that Wiener is anything but a common Lager style in its country of origin - due to some weird twist of history, it is more common in Mexico than in Austria - so a frame of reference for this specific style is only very tediously built. Generally speaking, a pleasant and easy drinking, malty Lager, almost at the same level of credibility achieved by local competitor Dok. One I may revisit when I encounter it again in this wonderful city of Ghent. And I guess I will have Shostakovich' second waltz playing in my head for quite a while now.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Waltz #2 from Stroom Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
27/VIII/23 - 33cl can from Stroom Brewers (Gent), shared @ home, BB: 8/V/23 (2023-508)
Clear amber beer, small creamy off-white head, little stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: very malty, grains, caramel, ripe banana, yeasty touch. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty start, pretty bitter, quite some caramel, some ripe banana. Aftertaste: very malty, grains, hay, a bit yeasty, caramel, banana.