Zwaluw
Siphon Brewing in Michelbeke, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Rye Regular|
Score
6.90
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Our region is an international bird airport with migrations from Africa to the Zwin every year. But one swallow does not a summer make. So, drink two.
‘Zwaluw’ is grassy, fruity and bitter, with rye malt delivering a body to defy its low ABV and a heavy dosing of Amarillo in dry hop to equip it with a stone-fruit and citrus juiciness. Hops: amarillo, hallertau mittelfrüh, yeast: english ale, EBC: 05.
‘Zwaluw’ is grassy, fruity and bitter, with rye malt delivering a body to defy its low ABV and a heavy dosing of Amarillo in dry hop to equip it with a stone-fruit and citrus juiciness. Hops: amarillo, hallertau mittelfrüh, yeast: english ale, EBC: 05.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draught Good, very fine yellowish head, fast gone into lacerings over fully cloudy orange-yellow beer. Intense, terribly inviting fruity-citrussy hops’ nose; lemon/limepeel, bit creamy notes too. Bitter, lupulin, citruspeel (from lime going to grapefruit), kafir lime. Despite low OG, good maltbacking lending just-no sweetness. Seems quite well-bodied, obviously creamy feel and body from the rye, preventing emptiness. Low carbonation. The perfect thirstquencher indeed! I do not like seeing this qualified under speciality grain. The rye is the bodybuilder, but nowhere the dominating tastefactor. This is - as the brewery itself indicates - a session ale; 8/4/7/3/15.
Tried
on 15 Jul 2017
at 14:20
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
25/06/2017 - tasting glass @ Swafff 2017. Hazy yellow, small head. Nose is bitter fruits. Taste is fruits, dry bitter, too thin.
Tried
on 11 Jul 2017
at 05:33
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Hopduvel? Hazy yellow colour, white foam. Nose of tropical fruit, peach, very fruity. Taste is grassy, dry and very bitter. Very nice summer beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2017
at 02:05
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Thank you for sharing Antwerp Untappd Crew! Sampled draft @ Swafff 2017! Hazy murky orange, overly so with some off-white head. Nose is milky grain, yoghurt, very milky with strongly cheesy hop. Milky bodied, thick. Weirdly sweet with milky odd plastic, cheese, oddly sweet, too milky, sweet, Amarillo is all cheese, not a big success for me.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Jun 2017
at 14:08