Alengrin (11609) reviewed Freddy Export from Brombeer Compagnie 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
'Export' beer (more about that further on) for Allez Freddy, a society of cycling lovers in the Zwalm area south of Ghent; brewed commercially by this new Brombeercompagnie (a company that helps breweries getting started) at Stokhove. Brombeercompagnie is the same company that took over Van Eyck Tripel, a spiced tripel made at De Graal that has received a makeover on the occasion of the Van Eyck year. Snow white, medium thick, mousy and stable head on a hazy straw blonde beer with pale ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of orange zest, white bread, lemon candy, Cantaloupe melon, honey, dried camomile, red apple peel, strawberry, flour. Sweetish aroma - less so than expected based on the aroma - with fruity notes of peach, melon and ripe pear, medium carbonated with supple, white-bready pale malt body, a tad flour-like in the end but generally feeling a bit thinnish; this melon-like aspect returns retronasally along with a whiff of sweet citrus and sweet meadow flowers. Ends a bit minerally with a wheaty sourish touch, but remains low in bitterness. Not unpleasant as a floral and fruity Belgian blonde, but at least for me the word 'export' created expectations of a pale lager in the Dortmunder style, or - if interpreted the old Belgian way - a generic pale lager, though admittedly these were usually only called 'export' when bottled in 33 cl volumes. Unexpected beer in more than one way, but I think it would benefit from a more confident hop bitterness.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Freddy Export from Brombeer Compagnie 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
10/VII/20 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte) (?), shared @ Zombicide night (home), BB: 6/VIII/20 (2020-610)
Clear orange blond beer, small irregular white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: pretty malty, bit fruity, hint of banana, sweet touch. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sweet, very malty, fruity touch, some banana, little metallic, yeast. Aftertaste: soft bitterness, fruity, banaan peel, malts, some caramel, not bad.