Plato's Cave (Batch #4) Ultimate Ed. (B.A. Cognac GC)
Brasserie du Brabant in Genappe - Baisy-Thy, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.14
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
@ BXLfest 2017. Orange trouble, col fin blanc. Arôme met de suite l'accent sur la signature - niveau levure de la bière Brabant, rétro léger de Cognac avec une petite touche d’étable en rétro. Retrouve un houblonné plaisant mais dont la vedette est un peu volée par la levure et malts. Palais est assez sec, comme bcp de bières de cette brasserie, l'effet Cognac est marqué sans pour cela être surfait, retrouve un houblonné fin herbacé et légèrement fruité sur les agrumes. Impression de houblonnage à cru pour un fini qui se veut encore très sec.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Warm amber golden colour, white head. Aroma of malts, cognac, hot booze, rather fruity hops, light funk. Sweet malty flavour, light bitter, barrel notes, cognac. Bit bitter finish, hops, cognac.
(from draught @ BXL Beer Fest, Brussels. Thanks for sharing today's beers, rb crew!)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
7 3 7 3 14 Draft at BXL Beer Fest, Brussels ’17. Very hazy dark dull orange with a ring off white head. Aroma of oak barrel, cognac, grapes, brett funk, light green weedy notes, light fruits and alcohol. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Above medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Barrel aged DIPA, a concept I originally met with a certain skepticism but which has turned out to produce a number of fantastic beers. Sampled at ZBF, thanks 77ships for sharing! Egg-white, moussy but quickly receding head over a hazy golden blonde beer with warm amberish tinge. Strong and alluring bouquet of calvados (rather than actual cognac), pink grapefruit flesh, marmelade, camomile, green bitter herbs, bread crust, rum-marinated oranges, green peppercorns, wet wood. Fruity onset, starfruit, pear and orange, softish carbo, smooth and even somewhat vinous mouthfeel, soft bready malt sweetish backbone, long and complex aromatic finish with both the grapefruity, fragrant hops and the wet wood establishing delicious drought, further adorned with a subtly applied cognac flavour in the tail. Brabant impressed me with Plato’s Chariot last year but I was somewhat less enthusiastic about the first batch of Plato’s Cave - yet it seems the second and third batch have gradually improved and this barrel aged version must be the pinnacle of this evolution: this is a beautiful brew filled to the brim with character and flavour, a delight in the range of e.g. Dochter van de Korenaar’s Renaissance series and the like. Hopefully more variations will follow.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
F: thin, off-white, not long lasting. C: deep gold, hazy. A: beside cognac also fruity tones, mango, strawberry, caramel, oak. T: malty, liquorish, cognac, woody, tangerine, tropical fruits, peach, full body, medium carbonation, very nice, one of the best from festival, thanks to tderoeck and kraddel for sharing beers today! Sampled from tap @ ZBF 2017 Leuven.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
From tap. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is cognac, toasted malty. Lingering toasted malty and dense cognac flavour. Toasted malty and cognac finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Sampled at Zythos 2017. Thnx for sharing ☺ Pours hazy, unclear dark blonde. Small white head. Smell intense, hoppy, typical bdb. Some hidden barrel aspects. Taste is sharp, grainy, hoppy. Alcohol, almost like cleaning alcohol rather than boozy. Notes of oak. Just very aggressive boozyness. So far the least good bdb beer to me, yet other rathers such as eugene seem to think differently, so it might just be me...