vinivini (12734) reviewed Bock Rammer from Stadshaven Brouwerij 11 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Misted deep brown with a moderate ivory-coloured head. Toast, caramel, dark bread, esters, dried fruits, some hop. Not sweet. A decent one.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Piranha Tripel from Stadshaven Brouwerij 11 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Tripel flavoured with three very exotic ingredients (certainly for this style): kumquat, mango and chili peppers. Can from the Albert Heijn supermarket in Lokeren. Busily cobweb-lacing, greyish off-white, large-bubbled, medium thick, breaking but edge-retaining head on a crystal clear, warm 'old golden' robe with peachy-orangey glow. Aroma of candyfloss, bubblegum, mango 'jenever' rather than true mango, Pisang Ambon banana liqueur, granulated sugar, marmalade which I suppose is the kumquat but again in a rather 'industrial' and extract-like way, industrial apple cake, indeed a whiff of chili flakes, leftover dough, honey, melon, iron, slight hint of heated cereals (toast but in a non-natural, 'stressed' way). Sweet, 'dead' onset, very clean and streamlined, low in esters with primarily that added mango extract dominating along with very strong isoamylacetate (banana) and a hint of, perhaps, strawberry (again, industrially speaking); rounded, slick body, sharpishly carbonated, with the bubblegumminess of the isoamylacetate continuing unabatedly, over a hot-malt middle without much complexity - instead behaving like the umpteenth mass-produced cereally and candi syrup-enhanced Belgian tripel from some very 'commercial' macro brewery. The mango effect - feeling fake from the start - begins to fade as the banana ester holds strong; it has been roughly thirty years since I last ate a kumquat, but I can tell you that its flavours are not believably present here, instead it only adds a generic citrus pith bitterness which could have been achieved by anything similar as well. This bitterness is further reinforced by dull, leafy, 'clean' hops (hop oil) and I guess I can feel a touch of chili heat in the very end, but it remains relatively mild (at least to a capsaicin-accustomed palate like mine). What bothers me more in the last stage, are a metallic note and - much more prominent - a hot and peppery, crude, cheap wodka-like booziness. The sweetness of the banana ester and the mango extract linger, as does this mild chili heat. I never like these Stadshaven beers, aiming at the masses with their industrial concoctions trying to be cool, and this is no exception: admittedly it posits an interesting argument in that Belgian tripel is in dire need of innovation, but the basic beer is so bland, sweet, metallic, simplistic, short-cut and industrial that the execution of this idea, quite clearly with extracts rather than natural ingredients to add insult to injury, has resulted in something rather harsh, superficial and gimmicky without any serious base. This tastes like godforsaken supermarket tripels 'à la' Grimbergen Tripel or - nowadays - Tripel Karmeliet, but with a few industrial flavourings thrown in, and that is essentially what this is. Far from great - but imagine an artisanal Belgian or Dutch brewer, who has already developed a solid tripel 'the right way', throwing in actual mango, kumquat and chili pepper... Plagiarism, Stadshaven would say, but nobody in the craft beer world would care if the result turned out to be exactly the level of innovation the worn-out tripel style seems to need today.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
7/III/25 - 33cl can from Beerinabox (webshop, NL), shared @ Gentse Biervereniging adventskalender-tasting, BB: 16/I/26 (2025-232)
Clear gold blond beer, practically no head. Aroma: lots and lots of passion fruits, sugary candy impression. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: a bit sourish up front, pretty sweet and malty, a bit yeasty, very fruity, passion fruit flavoured candy, bitter touch. Aftertaste: hoppy, bitter, dry, a bit malty, more passion fruits, oranges, orange peel.
HopBurn (381) reviewed Ocean Rebels from Stadshaven Brouwerij 11 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
dark amber, whiteish head
A - grassy,
F - caramel malt, slight spice
fair bitterness
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