tderoeck (22711) reviewed TDH RYE IPA from Brabance 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
21/VIII/21 - 33cl can @ Gents Bierfestival (Gent), BB: 5/VIII/22 (2021-942)
Clear orange beer, big creamy white head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of diacetyl, yoghurt, very buttery, some tropical fruits. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very soapy, diacetyl, unpleasant bitterness, buttery. Aftertaste: malty, buttery, diacetyl, very soapy kind of bitterness.
Bierridder (4318) reviewed Brüsseloise from Brabance 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
17/03/2019 @home -33cl bottle from Malt Attacks shared with tderoeck Clear blonde, fading white head. Nose is malts, lemon, lots of spice; Taste is grainy, fruits, lemon, spices, bitter touch, tad too much spice.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Brüsseloise from Brabance 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brabance / German Kraft Brüsseloise (by Brabance):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5
17/III/19 - 33cl bottle @ the Beerknight's castle, BB: IX/2020 - (2019-388) Thanks to Bierridder_S for sharing the bottle!
Clear orange beer, small creamy off-white head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: sweet malts, some caramel, banana, coriander, spicy, peppery. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: spicy, coriander, hoppy, bit grassy, slightly fruity, pretty bitter. Aftertaste: spicy, coriander, more pepper, hoppy, dry finish, more of a saison than an witbier, I'd say.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Blond from Brabance 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
The other beer from this new Brussels commissioner, apparently flavoured with "passion berries", which I believe is a tropical species of edible nightshade. Never saw that turn up in a beer so far so this is at least conceptually more interesting than their witbier. Thick, yellowish white, membraneous lacing, moussy head over cloudy peach blonde beer with ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of ripe apricots, cream, dough, ripe melon or pepino (the passion berries, I think), banana, soggy white bread and something very vaguely 'greenish' (as in green tomato or something - no doubt it's the passion berries again). Sweetish fruity onset, banana, melon, starfruit, peach, light sourish edge, fizzy and quite sharpish carbonation, slick bready and bit peanutty malt body, fruitiness lingering in a softly sweetish way - those passion berries seem to add more subtle and lightly exotic fruitiness than actual outspoken fruit flavour or acidity - ending with a mild herbal hop bitterishness, bready yeastiness and a lingering fruitiness. Much better than their other beer or at least much more original, with the passion berries adding subtle complexity rather than in-your-face fruitiness. Likeable enough.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Brüsseloise from Brabance 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Witbier from this new commissioner in Brussels, tasted from a bottle at Just Beer. Ignoring what is probably the brewer's own and obviously biased rating below, this one had a thick, creamy, eggshell-white, regularly shaped, dense and very stable head over a misty, warm 'old gold' robe with light apricot hue. Aroma of green banana, white bread dough, clear coriander seed, unripe pear, light DMS (overcooked cauliflower), spoiled potato soup, apricot, breakfast cereals, light orange peel touch. Restrainedly sweetish onset with a light sourish edge, bubblegummy but - for a Belgian ale - acceptable banana ester, hard pear, apple, very sharp and painfully numbing carbonation distracting from the flavour, very minerally; slick cereally, white-bready, wheaty body, sweetish with clear coriander spiciness but much less citrus peel fraîcheur, light honeyish sweetness lingering, bit soapy; light grassy hop bitter touch, retronasal DMS returning as well as a weird 'soupy' flavour. The overcarbonation keeps stinging from beginning to end, masking both the right and the flawed flavours. Uninspired idea not executed at its best, I'm afraid.