Rubin77 (10243) reviewed Sansho from Chroma Craft Beer - (prev. Brewksel) 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
33cl bottle from Cora in Brussels. F: big, egg-white, long lasting after slow manageable gusher. C: amber, hazy. A: malty, vaguely fruity, old cookies, pear, bit spicy, bit oxidized. T: malty, light fruity, soapy, green peppery, bit bready, citrus touch, high carbonation, not disaster for new brewery but need to improve for sure.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6.5
Towering fluffy white head over well-carbonated, muddy verdigris-copper beer. Perfumed, but with oxydated grains; other grains, old cookies and a tad phenolic. Again, very lightly phenolic, light bitterish, bit vegetable bitterness, endives. Light body, bit fiery backthroat. Well-carbonated. Oh, well, nose is a bit deficient, but the flavour manages to set things right. Thanks to Stef! I
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6.5
Short-lived yellow head over muddy dirty orange beer. Diary, pineapple, other fruitmash, babyfood, flavoured oil. Bitter for a short-ish tim, fruitsweetness. Finish is a bit empty. Light, bit slick. Not bad, nothing special. Thanks to Stef!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
The first beer of what is apparently a new microbrewery (and actually a brewery) this time in Brussels, longneck bottle bought online. Thick and foamy, snow white, large-bubbled, stable head on an immediately cloudy, slightly ochre-hued apricot blonde beer. Aroma of hand soap and bath foam (!), dough, unripe pear, coriander seed, plaster, raw pumpkin flesh, parsnip stew, baking soda, parsley or dry green peppercorns (representing the added Sichuan pepper). Fruity onset, unripe and green pear and apple, touch apricot, fizzy carbonation; old bread- and dough-like, cereally malts with very soapy effect in the middle. Spicy notes of coriander seed and green peppercorns (the Sichuan pepper, clearly) in the finish with a very slight citric touch, bitterish hoppiness but much more mildly so than expected, ensued by a lot of that soapiness mingled with bready yeastiness. Very soapy and hardly delivering any of the hoppy citrusiness I was hoping for; needs cleaning up in terms of yeastiness as well. Frankly underwhelming and even on the bland side in spite of the Sichuan pepper, this Brewskel project sure has a lot of work afoot if they want to play in the same quality league as some of the city’s other brewing projects, including recently very impressing La Source, to name one example.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
14/III/20 - 33cl bottle @ lockdown tasting (home), BB: 8/X/21 (2020-264) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Pretty cloudy orange to blond beer, big creamy to aery irregular off-white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very very soapy, bit floral, lots of coriander, little fruity. MF: very lively carbon, medium to light body. Taste: very soapy, fruity touch, little bitter, very spicy, lots of coriander. Aftertaste: unpleasant bitterness, not a big fan of this one.
