oh6gdx (51139) reviewed P'tit Granit from Belgo Sapiens Brewers 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Canned@PBF XI (Gusher warning!). Copper colour, mediumsized brown head. Aroma is butter scotch, spices, some wooden and mild toffeeish notes. Flavour is sour wood, toffee, butter and some strange sweetish notes.
Hermod (17967) reviewed Polarius from Belgo Sapiens Brewers 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
50cl can @ PBF XI. gusher warning! Half of the can in the sink. Poured golden color with a thin white head. Some cooked vegetables in the aroma, grassy hops. Flavor has citrus, grass hops, malt. Thin body.
Hermod (17967) reviewed P'tit Granit from Belgo Sapiens Brewers 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
50cl can @ PBF XI. Poured dark brown color with a thick foamy off white head. Coffee, toasted malty aroma, slightly acidic. Cocoa powder, roastedness, hints of ash. Sharp finish.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Hazy golden colour, good two finger frothy off-white head, recedes slowly, good lacing. Aroma wheat, fruity, dough, light coriander, light lemon. Taste combination of light to medium sweet and bitter, and with a sourish touch, wheat, lemon, coriander, ginger, strong herbal presence also retronasal. Aftertaste medium sweet and bitter, again a light sourish undertone, citrusy, herbal and spicy notes, medium body, watery texture, soft carbonation. A complex spicy witbier, nice.
Bibax (5406) ticked Colonel Arch from Belgo Sapiens Brewers 9 years ago
Bibax (5406) ticked P'tit Granit from Belgo Sapiens Brewers 9 years ago
Kermis (23416) reviewed Blanche de Thines from Belgo Sapiens Brewers 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can shared. Very hazy golden with a white head. Aroma of grass, herbs, fruits, light spice and citrus. Flavour is above light sweet and over moderate bitter. Light to medium bodied with light carbonation.
Deanso (15673) reviewed Blanche de Thines from Belgo Sapiens Brewers 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
50cl can courtesy of and shared with Kermis. Medium white head. Cloudy blond pour. Nice and refreshing
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Colonel Arch from Belgo Sapiens Brewers 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Wallonian ’ambrée’ from a 50 cl can - apparently this is the first Belgian brewery to use craft beer cans for ’artisanal’ beers. They do not yet master this well enough, though: like the witbier I had from them last week, this can was under heavy pressure (even ’palpably’) so opening it resulted in violent gushing - sigh... Elaborately cobweb-lacing, off-white, moussy head with decent retention, overlying a deep and warm, slightly hazy orange blonde beer with pinkish hue, perhaps a tad too light and not ’red’ enough to be called true amber. Estery, very fruity aroma of overripe peach, lots of soggy banana, nice lime peel and lemon blossom freshness from the Centennial, powder sugar, almond, pomegranate, passion fruit, freshly baked cake, stewed apple, honey, peanuts, wet leather touch, minerals, hint of ’naturally feeling’ iron. Fruity onset of the expected combination of sweet and sour fruits, both relatively intense, with impressions of pineapple, banana, passion fruit, gooseberry, hint of mandarin peel; strong and spritzy carbonation but not disturbing me in this case. Caramelly and nutty malts in the middle, sweetish with a strong toasted bitter edge, bit metallic as well; esters keep lingering on top of this and carry on till deep into the finish, where they are met with a quite sharp, peppery, grapefruity hop bitterness, sticking to the throat for a relatively long time and at the same time displaying a retronasal fragrance of orange peel, lemon blossom and a whiff of pine. Too bad for the gushing, but otherwise a decent, aromatic Belgian amber with American ambitions; there is an effective hop bitterness providing enough balance against the sweet fruitiness and due to the yeastiness, it has certain saison-like aspects to it as well, but we all know how tricky it is trying to define that. I especially appreciate the fact that they aim to showcase an American hop variety here without much reservation or ’fear’ of how the Belgian consumer might be shocked by this - we need more of this in Belgium, yet in this case the delicate Centennial bouquet clashes a bit with the Belgian yeast esters, so a cleaner yeast strain would perhaps have been better (yet would have made this a lot less ’Belgian’ and much more APA-like at the same time, doubtlessly). In all, and whatever it is: quite enjoyable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
17/01/2016 @ home 50cl can from Malt Attacks, Brussels. Nice artwork on the can. GUSHER. Hazy light blonde with lots of foam which dissapears fast. Nose is wheat, orange peel. Taste is wheat, orange, some lemonade, bitter and dry ending.