Ink Series - Bellerose IPA

Bottle shared thanks to Elo. Hazy light golden with white head. Soap, coriander, sweet malts, bread crust, sugary, fake citrus aroma, paper, orange peel, cardboard. Lots of funny spices and paper. Medium sweet and bitter. Medium bitter. Not an IPA?

Tout comme leur IPA n'est pas IPA, cette Black IPA n'en est pas une. La torréfaction du malt est très peu poussée avec aucun arôme de café ou de chocolat. Côté amertume, tout comme leur IPA, celle-ci est moyennement poussée, herbacée et sur les agrumes. L'ensemble, sans être désagréable et plutôt bien équilibré manque d'intérêt mais plaira surement au grand public et il faut donc voir ici une bière avant tout commerciale... Le visuel est d'ailleurs sympathique avec un brun limpide surmonté d'une belle mousse beige, crémeuse et abondante (3 cm). Le nez est sur les céréales et le caramel accompagnés d'herbes, de légères épices et d'une pointe d'agrumes. Nous retrouvons ces mêmes arômes dès l'attaque, sur un bon équilibre sans avoir l'expression d'une Black IPA. La deuxième bouche est même légèrement plus douce. Le final marqué tout de même un petit élancement sur l'amertume, accompagné d'arômes de girofle. L'alcool à 7,5 % est quant à lui honnête. Tout cela manque de personnalité.

Sample@Ølfestival København 2018 (Day 3) - fuzzy orange coloured pour with a white head. Citrus fruity hoppy and sweet malty, tangerine and lemon, medium body, piney hoppy bitter finish.

F: huge, egg-white, creamy, long lasting. C: gold, hazy, a lot of yeasty debris floated in. A: malty, orange, dusty, caramel, spicy, peach, floral, yeasty. T: malty backbone, herbal, fruity, bit juniper, orange peels, yeasty, very dry on the palate, medium body and carbonation, not bad, enjoyed, 33cl bottle from Cora Woluwe-Saint-Lambert in Brussels. --- Beer merged from original tick of Bellerose Black IPA Ink Series on 16 May 2019 at 15:30 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7. Original review text: 33cl bottle from E.Leclerc Argences supermarket near Caen in France. F: big, white tan, good retention. C: dark brown, bit hazy. A: weird herbal malty, some caramel, passion fruits, floral touch. T: dark malty base, pine, mint, passion fruits, orange, medium body and carbonation, without flaws technical yet hard to rate this, partially enjoyed.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Bellerose Black IPA Ink Series (by Brasserie des Sources (formerly: de St. Amand)):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

19/XI/18 - 33cl bottle @ Horeca Expo Gent, BB: 31/V/20 - (2018-1714)
Clear red brown beer, big creamy beige head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: malty, grains, hay, bit funky. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet, hoppy touch, soft roast, bitter, funky, caramel, sweet. Aftertaste: malty, caramel, overripe banana, unpleasant bitterness, soft roast.

33cl bottle purchased at Super U@Douvres. Issy, November 2018.

Pours dark brown, topped with a larger foamy head, beige colour. Nice tropical fruit aroma with some gentle roasty notes. Solid bitterness, quite some roasty character and soem yeastiness and herball taste. Shorter aftertaste, medium body. Too yeasty for my liking.

Nearly clear orange, fluffy white head. Malty aroma, some grapefruit and pine. Flavour has smooth, sweet malt, fruity, slightly floral hops. --- Beer merged from original tick of Bellerose Black IPA Ink Series on 11 Sep 2018 at 15:00 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6. Original review text: Cloudy dark brown, offwhite froth. Malty aroma, very light fruity hops, vague pine. Fruity, malty flavour. Sweet. Herbal spice. Finishes with a slightly metallic, alcoholic whiff.

Bottle. Sprucetips, citrus, candy, catpiss. Not bad. Not good either. I have no patience left for this sort of candy IPA.

Bottle at a tasting at Beermalade. Loads of caramel, light cocoa/coffee. For some reason I get assertive lavender in flavour. The hops are muddled, both in terms of bitterness and character. I do not get much. Orange gelatine candy if anything. Not bad, but extra weird. And unbalanced.