6.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Jubilee beer for twenty years Pakhuis, thanks Hans for sharing the bottle. Moussy, coarse, off-white, lightly lacing but not very stable head, hazy peach blonde robe with warmer orangey hue, becoming completely cloudy halfway the bottle and eventually unattractively murky. Aroma of peach, dried orange peel, jute, dried wormwood, sourdough, red apple, cooked carrots, coriander, apricot, dust, bitter honey, old toast. Fruity onset, peach, pineapple and some light banana with a sourish edge, sharply overcarbonated, minerally and numbing the tongue at least initially; light mouthfeel. Cereally maltiness in the middle while the fruity esters continue, some spicy phenols too, bit bready edge especially as more yeast enters the glass; dryish finish, lightly toasted accent, ongoing fruitiness, some soapy coriander, earthy hop bitter touch. Acceptable, thoroughly Belgian with a kind of Wallonian ’ambrée’-like twist, but frankly I expect more from a beer intended to celebrate the twenty years of existence of a brewery, even if it is a brewery which deliberately seeks to appeal to a broader, traditionally Belgian audience.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jan 2017
at 06:25