Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Draught Huge, dense white head over deep golden beer with a faint mossy sheen. Nice inviting fruity & leafy aromas, hopoils, all aromatic and a hint of arachide. Bitter, fruity, citrus. Again arachide, but I don't expect fatty acids. Dry hopbales, hopoil. Light body, but the hopoil slickness avoids any sign of emptiness; good carbonation. Long lasting flavours. Excellent session IPA, great work, guys!
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Urban Tropics from Spéciale Belge Brewers 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Draught Fluffy, big head over muddy mossy orange beer. Very intense oranges' nose, ever so faintly liqueurish, citrusleaves. Bitterish as orangepeel, again faintly liqueurish - yielding an alcoholic impression. Fruity notes - specifically orange - keep dominating. Ureum, asafoetida, if all in minimal quantities, almonds. There is a certain amount of hopburn. Serious hopoil viscosity, sharpish MF, adequate carbonation. One for those, not afraid of some hopburn. I like it...
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Tourist #20: IPA from Spéciale Belge Brewers 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draught Pale lemon-yellow beer with little head. Very fresh-smelling, ultra-dry, lemony, bit asafoetida. Ultra dry in the mouth as well, lemony as lemonsquash with a dash of white candi sugar. Finish is just dry, with a musk-like character. Not very carbonated, quite refreshing. Medium bodied. Excellent!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draught Fluffy & lacey head, rather stable, over almost clear ochre-orange beer. Faint whiff of solvent, some faint alcohol. Malts, pale and a tad toasted. Again solvent in the taste. Sharpish feel, enhanced by the quite traceable alcohol. Toasted grains, certainly warming up. Bit slick, film rather than oily, gristslickness. Not very carbonated. Something - even when not really damning - is not quite OK. Too aggressive feel, as from the yeast.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught Fluffy, off-white head over hazy orange-golden beer. Very inviting outspoken citrussy nose, bit asafoetida, ureum. Citruspeel, grapefruit, othe grains. Short whiff of arachide. Quite bitter, kernels, citruspeel, and again whiffs of other grains. Bananapeel in the aftertaste. Seems pretty well-bodied, quite slick, (hop)oily: good carbonation. Nice! Strong for a saison, maybe, but all the other boxes are ticked fine.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught Medium, dense & fine, dark cream head over jet-black beer. Roast, some coffee, roasted chocolate, roasted to burnt malts, dark bread crust. Sweet roast, roasted nuts, honey-cured roast meat. Some faraway liquorice, black chocolate, Belgian buns with chocolate and somehow, cilandro in the finish. At least medium bodied, slick, medium to good carbonation, somewhat creamy feel. Surprisingly good top fermenting porter, excelling in a maltsweetness at the opposite of cloying.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught Very fine & dense off-white head over hazy orange-yellow beer, lacey. Ureum, asafoetida, citruspeel, and then resin and pine take over. Citrus, pineresins, ultra dry finish. Straw, Szechuan pepper. Very dry, oily, good carbonation, at least medium bodied. Good! One of Speciale Belges' best, no discussion.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Hay - Z from Spéciale Belge Brewers 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
I Draught /I Huge, very dense head, with textbook lace over hazy orange beer. Citrus, orange, quite a bit of ureum, bit of watercolour paint. Very bitter, orangepeel, dry lupulin powder, grapefruitpeel, rootspices. Medium bodied, very slick, hopoils. Good carbonation. Very good, probably the best ever to come out of Eutropius...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught Very good, ultra-dense white head over lightly veiled metallic golden-orange beer. Fruity, citrussy nose, C-hops' galore. Bit of ureum, citruspeel. Bitter-ish, grapefruit/grapefruitpeel. Finish displays a light smokiness, but the bitter lupulin-hoppy fruitflavours keep going. Quite slick, low carbonation, hopoily. Decent, not spectacular. Definitely in-style.
