Gorda
Stroom Brouwers in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
6.81
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Norwegian farmhouse ale spiced with grains of paradise
Label artwork: Jerome David after Claude Vignon
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Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Gorda from Stroom Brouwers 9 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
33cl can, BB 05/06/2025, merci Tim!
Léger voile orange/pale, col épais blanc-cassé.3
Arôme sur un bouquet épicé marqué, surtout par l’apport de ces graines de paradis – le reste garde une base plus centrée sur les malts avec ici des pointes de pâle et léger cara.
Palais met bien en avant le caractère de graines de paradis, le tout est finement poiré avec un retour gingembre délicat sur une base maltée cara pâle avec une petite nuance chocolatée – le tout passe pour une bière festive de Noël tout en gardant ce fini plus farmhouse que de saison. Le gingembre revient sur la fin.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Gorda from Stroom Brouwers 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
26/VII/24 - 33cl can from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ Ardennes Holiday, BB: 5/VI/25 (2024-609)
Clear orange beer, creamy dense off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: malty, caramel, cookie dough, a bit spicy, sweet impression, a hint of chocolate. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, a gentle roast, lots of caramel, malty, a bit sugary, more sweetness, spicy touch, ok. Aftertaste: sweet malts, some ripe banana, yeasty touch.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Gorda from Stroom Brouwers 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Kveik ale (or "Norwegian farmhouse ale" as they call it) flavoured with grains of paradise and, much more exotically, grilled pineapple - an ingredient that may seem as alien and unwanted as pineapple on pizza (as far as I am concerned), but which could work out very well; I recall the deliciousness of a similar creation, Alvinne's Phi Smoked Pineapple, very vividly, even though smoking this much-maligned ingredient is obviously still a very different thing from grilling it. Thanks to Craftmember for delivering me the can straight from the brewery. Thick and frothy, membrane-lacing, egg-white, dense, fluffy head on an initially clear, deep and warm 'old-golden' beer with 'metallic' pale orangey tinge and thin but enthusiastic strings of sparkling rising up from the middle. Aroma of potato peel, soggy old bread, DMS (overcooked broccoli), grains of paradise indeed but in this case coriander powder-like, very little to no pineapple (!), wet toast, damp earth, unripe peach, thyme, dandelions, stale spice bread, leftover dough, withering grass, nectarine peel. Fruity onset in a rather dryish way, some pear and peach, hints at unripe nectarine and oxidized apple, sweetish with a faint sourish streak underneath, pierced with minerally carbonation; slick, slender mouthfeel, feeling thinner than the ABV would suggest. Pleasant maltiness in the middle with noticeable wheat slickness and effects of soggy crackers, lightly toasted white bread and a dash of rusk, flavoured with a slightly astringent and vaguely soapy grains of paradise effect but the grilled pineapple I was promised, remains eerily absent so far. Makes a turn for the bitter in the finish but not dramatically so, instead slowly moving towards a gentle, herbaceous and grassy hop bitter phase, while retronasally that DMS returns, the already limited fruitiness fades away and bittersweetish maltiness remains, with a light minerally aspect to it. Something sweetish lurks in the background after swallowing - sugary almost, as in, I guess, grilled (canned) pineapple, indeed bringing forward a pineapple-like retronasal scent eventually. Light earthy notes linger as well, from the kveik yeast I presume - a hype I have never been overly impressed by, as it seems more useful to craft brewers than to consumers. Feels no fruitier than the average Belgian ale - most of the 'old' Belgian saisons (Dupont, Pipaix, Blaugies) are more fruity and estery than this; other than that, the grains of paradise, albeit a traditional flavouring in many beer styles, do little else than add a somewhat coriander-y note, and the grilled pineapple, though noticeable, remains faint to that extent that I see myself actually grilling a pineapple next week just to know what that really tastes like. On top of all this, the DMS bothered me a bit as well. In all: drinkable enough, but not as special as advertised, feeling more like the umpteenth coriandered Belgian blonde than anything else. Not Stroom's greatest achievement so far, but still enjoyable, all things considered.