Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
27th March 2015
Swan Song at Bruce’s. Thanks to Paul. Hazy gold beer, small cream colour head. Light palate, dry and crisp. Gueuzy wet wood. Brett. Bitter orange. Semi dry finish. Mild bitter linger. Very approachable.
Scopey (25115) reviewed 4B Oude Gueuze - 2014 Lambic Series from BIIR 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared at Bruce’s. It pours hazy gold with a small,bubbly white head. The nose is dank, funky, musty, damp leaf, tangerine, nectarine, mild sweetness, vanilla, manure and almond cake. The taste is tart, damp wood, apricot, funky peach, nectarine, vinous, crisp, gooseberry, straw and light acidity with a dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Well rounded and quaffable. Rather nice.
77ships (14506) reviewed Hoppy Monk from BIIR 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
330 ml. bottle shared with Kraddel @ Rampkrot. Blackish dark brown, mocha sparse bubbles. Nose is earthly, quite a bit of roasted, mocha, umami, sweet soy malts, earthly hops, no real contrast, it is a bit of a muddled affair. Taste is earthly roast, leaves, mushroom, umami, sweet umami, not very outspoken, lots of cacao & bitter roast,.. Lacks contrast & character but still drinks okay. Lower carbonation, cacao powder body.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Hoppy Monk from BIIR 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pours unclear , rather dark , chocolaty brown . Smell is bit sweet, but rather complex . Earthy, and forest leaves. Taste is full on burnt , coal , bitter , leaves ( also burnt ) , waaw .. very intense taste ... not sure if I like it though ...
Tinus (5080) reviewed Barcelona White IPA from BIIR 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Hazy pale white golden colour, white head. Aroma of wheat, light hops, malts, coriander seeds. Malty flavour, hops, light bitter, orange peel, coriander. Finish wheat and yeast notes. Above average witbier.
(from draught @ ZBF 2014, Leuven)
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Equinox Triple IPA from BIIR 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle from De Hopduvel, Gent. Hazy golden blond colour, creamy white foam. Medium carbonation. Sweet fruity start with notes of passion fruit and pineapple. Very bitter hoppy finish. Pine and resin. Very good!
Puttetjes (2252) ticked Equinox Triple IPA from BIIR 10 years ago
Maakun (16597) reviewed Equinox Triple IPA from BIIR 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at Delirium Amsterdam. Nice reddish brown with medium sized off white head. Very piny hops, peach, berries, strawberry jam. Roasted grains and some chocolate. Very sweet with strong bitter finish. Medium to full bodied with sticky feel. Massive beer, quite nice.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Barcelona White IPA from BIIR 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
’Tarwedubbel’ inspired by IPA, in fact a hybrid between the two, is claimed on the label. Hazy golden blonde under a moussy, lacing, fairly stable, egg-white head. Aroma is very ’Belgian’ (fruity esters), which in itself is far from a bad thing, but admittedly I had expected (a lot) more C-hops; I get impressions of mango, orange, lime juice and perhaps milk gone sour, some canned tomato, bell pepper, banana, tulips, mandarin liqueur, red apple peel, raspberries, raw rhubarb (acetaldehyde), freshly cut grass and, unfortunately, a faint touch of sewer water which - luckily - fades away completely after a while. Estery taste, a bit soapy, banana cream, apple, sour white grapes, candied orange, vanilla, medium and minerally carbo, smooth mouthfeel, sweetish with clear wheaty and yoghurty sourishness, bready malt backbone underneath, phenolic spiciness retronasally, drying finish more from persisting carbonation than anything else, yeasty and combining sweetness from the fruity esters with wheaty sourishness, with an emphasis on the first; hop bitterishness is there, but remains very limited and ’basic’ and not IPA-like in the least; in fact, the initial sweetness, though not cloying at all and remaining restrained, is the last impression. A lingering estery and soapy sweetishness dominates the finish. I had a few American ’white IPAs’: this is nowhere close to it. This is another Belgian ale, not the worst in its kind at all, but nowhere near the (if any) standard I’d expect from something which calls itself a ’white IPA’. This is not a hybrid between witbier and IPA: this is a witbier with slightly above average ABV and slightly above average hop dosage, something which has been in existence for a few decades and should be labelled ’tarwedubbel’, nothing more, nothing less. Bit disappointed, actually.