Barking White
Belgian Balance in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: La Source Beer Co.Brewed at/by: Brouwerij Anders!
Non Alcoholic / Low Alcohol - Pale Ale / IPA Regular
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Score
6.38
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We collaborated with brewery La Source in Brussels to brew their first ever non-alcoholic beer !
Hopped with Mosaic, Citra & Calista.
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tderoeck (22679) reviewed Barking White from Belgian Balance 7 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
9/IV/25 - 33cl can from La Source webshop, shared @ car ride to France, BB: 20/VII/26 (2025-328)
Clear pale light yellow beer, big solid creamy white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, grains, a bit metallic, hint of citrus, pretty floral, nice! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice, good bitterness, lots of citrus, a bit grassy, refreshing, grapefruit. Aftertaste: bitter, grassy, more citrus, a little malty, slightly metallic, bitter, citrus notes, pleasant non alcoholic beer. Not getting any wheat though?
Kraddel (15810) reviewed Barking White from Belgian Balance 10 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Pours clear yellowblonde. Small, soapy but stable white head. Scent is wheat, recognizable NA , zesty, lemon. Taste is medium bitter, malty / wheat, slightly bready, bit sweet and sticky (NA typical) but has just enough bitterness / zestyness to put itself above the average NA beer. Decently refreshing. Not at all bad, but like any other NA IPA, the hops are silent, and not at all specifically recognizable. The 'white' part comes out more than the 'IPA' part for me.
Sebletitje (15832) reviewed Barking White from Belgian Balance 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Cannette 33cl achetée chez LaSource et confirmée que la bière a été brassée chez Anders. BB ?
Le business modèle me rappelle un peu celui de Fugu qui ne brasse rien mais cherche à faire des collabs avec des noms des brasseries 'amies' mais qui sont surtout à la mode. Belgian Balance fait cela mais avec une gamme sans alcohol et pour compliquer le tout, les bières sont brassées chez Anders. Une version ici avec LaSource qui trace les lignes des bonnes IPA sur Bruxelles et en Belgique en général.
Couleur pâle, col blanc.
Arôme sur un bouquet fruité. Agrumes, baies rouges/noires, fruits à noyaux et une pointe de pêche.
Palais reste sur une base très NA avec une caractère malté/grains, en peu sur l'empâtage avec un appui des houblons sur un effet infusion. Pointe résineuse, touche d'agrumes et côté un peu de framboise.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Barking White from Belgian Balance 1 year ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 4
Non-alcoholic white IPA from another entrepreneur jumping on the no-alcohol hype, apparently working with some wild yeast - allegedly discovered on prickly pear fruit - which does not produce alcohol and offering its services also to other breweries, in this case La Source. To further complicate things, the actual brewing is done in Beerstorming's equipment by a guy named Pierre Gaillard, living in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, one of the municipalities of Brussels. Can from Stacks. Ultra-fine and filmy, cobweb-lacing, egg-white, medium thick, frothy and stable head on a clear, very pale straw blonde beer with vague greenish tinge - but I stress 'very pale', in fact among the palest I have seen so far... Aroma of unripe banana, green melon, fresh lemonbalm, plaster, wet flour or corn starch, gypsum, freshly cut grass, something dusty (old cotton cloth). Rather neutral onset, low in fruitiness, apart from this green banana-like element (non-sweet though), over some vague sourishness mostly established by carbonation, which nonetheless remains subtle. Smooth and thin, watery body, a bit flour- or starch-like with this 'whiny' graininess and clear wheat soapiness underneath, picking up these plaster- and gypsum-like notes as it moves along, an aspect found in so many non-alcoholic (and some alcoholic) beers. The finish is pretty bitter, in a leafy, peppery, rooty way, but apart from a whiff of dried lime peel, grass and lemonbalm, does not provide a 'wave' of New World hop aromas - too bad, as the hops varieties list seemed promising. Drinkable for a non-alcoholic white IPA I guess, but altogether crude, annoyingly soapy and plaster-like and watery - suffering from the typical illnesses non-alcoholic beers tend to have. I would rather drink something 'naturally' alcohol-free than this if needed.