BS#0037 - Chili
Beerstorming in Saint-Gilles / Sint-Gillis, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.48
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Iznogud (14627) reviewed BS#0037 - Chili from Beerstorming 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at Beerstorming, with Travlr, Miro, Hoon and kraddel. Pours orange, small white head. Spicy, malty, grainy, light chilli. Balanced. Medium bodied.
Travlr (30173) reviewed BS#0037 - Chili from Beerstorming 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draft at the source. Cloudy deep golden color. Aroma of raw bread dough. Taste is lemony bread.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed BS#0037 - Chili from Beerstorming 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
One of the innumerable spiced ’laboratory beers’ by this unusual brewing project in Brussels, an unfiltered amber lager spiced with pasilla (dried chilaca) chili, coriander and marjoram and apparently deemed fit enough to make it into distribution outside the brewery, as I bought this bottle at Deconinck. IBU says 25 on the bottle, but 30 on the website. Strong pressure on the bottle but no gusher. Initially very frothy, off-white, regularly shaped head, stabilizing to a medium thick, very moussy rim and stable islands of flat foam in the middle, crowning a clear, warm orange blonde beer, hinting at amber, with some minute dots of yeast here and there; turns a deeper, pure and hazy amber with sediment. Aroma of a lot of soapy coriander seed, butterscotch candy, caramel even, raw carrot, damp cloth, soggy chicken corn (as in some industrial lager), freshly baked cookies, paprika-flavored potato chips (I assume this vague spicy touch represents the pasilla chilis), dried red berries, warm toast, faint iron but hardly any recognisable marjoram. Spritzy, ’clean’ onset, overcarbonated even for a lager, minerally and numbing, souring an otherwise vaguely sweetish onset devoid of esters - this is indeed clearly a lager. Supple, smooth body thanks to a nutty and caramelly, very lightly toasted malt backbone, sweetish in a cereally, ’dim’ way but acquiring some more interesting toastedness in the end, yet refraining from mouth-filling bitterness and instead showing a certain metallic quality; eventually the spices show up, in the form of soapy coriander more than anything else, while the marjoram remains very limited, if not unnoticeable (except perhaps a vague retronasal herbal accent). The chilis shine in the very end, as a slightly heating, tingling and very pleasant spiciness during and after swallowing; hop bitterness is restrained as usual - and as expected from a beer carrying only 25 IBU. Juicy, nutty malt sweetishness lingers along with the chili warmth. I visited this brewery last summer and I must admit that the whole idea behind it is fascinating and very different from anything else in Belgium, to say the least; yet I found the different beers I was able to taste back then all lacking a bit in body, especially in the finish, seen the low doses of hops these guys apparently apply. I assume the aim is to put their impressive spice rack to full use - a recurring theme in their range, it seems, as this one too contains no less than three different spices. Coriander and chili are there, but the marjoram drowns a bit into the whole even in the ’bareness’ of a lager; I’m not sure if this is a bad thing, though, because all things considered, this beer has to be seen in its specific context, being ’spiced amber lager’ with all the features one would expect from this combination of words - and honestly, I cannot think of any other beer that fits that description, Belgian or not. Have a point for originality, but I am still waiting for the first big, full-bodied and properly hopped brew from them which rises above this new ’Brussels hype’ with all those new brewing initiatives there, fascinating as they may be. Not sure if this brewery can do it, but with this amount of enthusiasm, originality and - more than anything else - extreme prolificacy, it would be unfair to stop believing.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed BS#0037 - Chili from Beerstorming 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as Beerstorming BS#0037 - Chili (by Beerstorming):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5
8/I/17 - 33cl bottle Desevaux version, from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte) @ home - BB: 25/XII/17 (2017-32)
Clear orange beer, big creamy yellowish head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very malty, some banana, little herbal, grains, bit dusty. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: malty start, some caramel, bit sweet, grains, fruity touch. Aftertaste: yeasty, sweet, banana, soft bitterness, coriander?
fombe89 (10864) reviewed BS#0037 - Chili from Beerstorming 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Botella @Beerstorming , Bruselas 05/12/16 Color ámbar, sabor dulce, malta, notas espaciadas.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed BS#0037 - Chili from Beerstorming 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pours rather unclear amber. Good White head. Smell is bit bitter. Taste is malty. Very very mild peppers. Very balanced. Not too extreme though
rhoihessegold (9407) reviewed BS#0037 - Chili from Beerstorming 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
04-11-16 // on tap at La Porte Noir, Brussels. Murky orange brown beer with a small withe head. I didnt taste any chili in the beer. Only some light spices in the end. Taste was sort of rye malty smoothness. But they confirmed that only pilsner, wheat and cararuby was used. Interesting beer.
77ships (14506) reviewed BS#0037 - Chili from Beerstorming 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
330 ml. bottle split by two at Beerstorming as BS #0037. Second winner of their contest & second large batch beer brewed elsewhere. Dark red amber brown, creamy tanned head. Nose is sweet malts, sugar, raw bread dough, more sweetness. Rather fizzy beer, sugary malts upfront, sugar, yeast, sweet overripe fruit, finish carries some low kitchen spices – the marjoram I assume. Decent but expected a bit more.
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed BS#0037 - Chili from Beerstorming 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Draft at Beerstorming. Cuivrée, col fin blanc-cassé. Arôme est centré sur un malté pâle laissant de fines effluves de caramel, le côté piment est fortement réduit. Après avoir déguster nombres de bières usant de ces piments, cette version reste plus que légère au niveau de la restitution du pasilla, chose est certaine ce type de piment est facilement présent au nez et en bouche, ici il semble manquer à l’appel. Retrouve de fines effluves houblonnées plutôt noble en rétro. Marjolaine est imperceptible. Palais présente des similitudes avec un effet de réchauffement venant du piment qui manque à l’’appel. Au final, on se retrouve avec une base pils et léger cara se ressentent tout comme ce côté lager mais où le piment est très en recul. Dommage, j’attendais bcp cette bière vu mon appréciation pour les bières usant de piments. AU final, mon score reflète plus cette déception que la bière en elle même qui est bien exécutée.