Spades
Stroom Brouwers in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Amber / Red Ale - Irish Regular|
Score
6.89
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed Spades from Stroom Brouwers 11 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can from Hopduvel.
A: clear red, small, off-white head.
A: red apple, hard caramel, rusk, burnt biscuit.
T: sweetish red apple, some red grape, rusk, caramel, biscuit.
F: herbal hops, red fruits, bitter orange peel & rusk.
P: medium body, slick texture, average carbonation.
Pretty cool brew.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Spades from Stroom Brouwers 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Irish red (the modern craft beer style invented in France in the seventies) as interpreted by Stroom in Ghent; can at café De Kleine Kunst, located at the end of the same street as where the brewery is. Egg-white, medium thick, moussey, stable head on a clear amber-glowing orange blonde beer – red enough for the intended style, I would say – turning hazy with sediment. Aroma of dry caramel, cashew nuts, rusk, dried orange peel, unsalted peanuts, dried apricot, hints of toast, parsley, black tea and vague background farmland. Clean, rounded onset, subdued in fruitiness and sweetness with faint hints at dried apricot and apple peel, quite fizzily carbonated with smooth mouthfeel; dry-caramelly, peanutty, biscuity and toasty malt body, dryish and softly bittered by herbal hops in the end, remaining mild but pleasant and well in balance with the maltiness. Seems a tad yeastier, breadier and earthier than your typical Irish red but given that the whole style is an ‘industrial’ invention, this can be said of most ‘artisanal’ small-scale interpretations I guess; the net result is not that far removed from a ‘spéciale belge’ or even an English pale ale, but certainly enjoyable.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Spades from Stroom Brouwers 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
11/IV/24 - 33cl can from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ Barjac (FR), BB: 28/II/25 (2024-228)
Clear amber to orange beer, creamy off-white head, pretty stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet impression, strawberry jam, malty, grains, some caramel. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty start, grains, slightly sweet, a bit sourish, good bitterness, some strawberry jam, pretty dry. Aftertaste: bitter, grains, some caramel, hoppy, more strawberry jam, nice!