Kanaal One (Gigant)

Client Brewer in De Panne, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

Established in 2021

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Duinkerkekeiweg 1, De Panne, 8660, Belgium
Description
First of all, Belgian beers have an edge on everyone else, just by being historically rooted in a centuries-old tradition of quality ingredients and a passion for brewing a balanced bouquet of flavours.

Belgium isn’t the biggest place on the map, but if it’s premium beers you’re looking for, this is definitely the best place to be. Great taste from a small country.

Gigant taps into these powerful traditions to take beer into the new now, with an innovative approach to surprising ingredients, creating a sophisticated, cosmopolitan palate.

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6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle at home, golden orange beer, small head. Aroma is peach, yeast, fruit, hops, citrus. Taste is the same, bitter, sweet, malt, hops, fruity, yeast, not too bad.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Dec 2022 at 21:15

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Pours slightly hazed blonde. Medium sized, stable white head. Scent is fun, fresh and crisp for a tripel, malty, fairly mild yet present banana esters. mild 'green' hoppyness. Taste is medium to medium high bitterness. Touch of red fruit pops up, gentle maltyness. Apparently made with saison yeast, which explains the fairly sharp and dry body, but where does the banana come from than, and where are the phenols? Quite fun of a drink, as stated here before did - classic with a twist. What many brewers set out to do, but is rarely achieved. Very well made. Balanced, interesting enough, yet classic enough as well.
Tried on 01 Dec 2022 at 10:37

5.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 5.5 Flavor 4.5 Texture 7 Overall 6
Pours a hazy, darker blonde (still, fairly light for an amber ale) . Medium small white head. Scent is over-the-top orange to me (and zesty, loads of that white 'in between skin' ) grapefruit like. OP'ing all beer-basic elements. Don't really get anything woody here. Taste is fairly bitter, malty base far more recognizable here - but oranges still take up most of the taste. Sweet, but enough bitterness to prevent it from being cloying. Medium body, medium to medium high carbo. OK, decent, but surely to much oranges, and a bit to swet for me. The base seems surprisingly boring, as this is the third beer I had by them, but a let-down after the 2 previous ones. Still, kudo's for trying at least something different than IPA / Blonde / tripel / dubbel within the first 4 beers.
Tried on 30 Nov 2022 at 15:39

7.1/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Pours fairly hazy yellowblonde. Medium sized, stable white head. Scent is malty, citrussy and sharp. lemongrass and zesty. Taste is sharp, tart , malty, lactic acid, but balanced and enough to make it interesting, yet not unpleasant. citrussy hoparoma goes along fairly well. Not an amazing beer, but it does kinda work.
Tried on 29 Nov 2022 at 15:52

7.4/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Pours a fairly unclear blonde. Medium large to large white head. Scent is hoppy, with some passion fruit and citrus taking the top spots. Kveik provides the spicyness underneath. Minor maltyness (white bread). Taste is sharp, intense bitterness (far more intense than expected) , sharp mouthfeel, malty base. Unexpectedly WC like, and still quite balanced. Medium carbo. Kveik doesn't overpower by it's spicyness. No real pine character, but all and all, way different than expected and reminding of a westcoast, if anything. Pleasant surprise !
Tried on 28 Nov 2022 at 15:46

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6.5 Texture 5 Overall 6.5
Fluffy, white head, fast gone ove big- & lively bubbled, clear golden beer. Sour aroma with lemon, sour milk, lemonbalm, green herbs, green eggplant, Thai herbs. Herbal, orangepeel, curaçoa, again these oriental herbs. Faint, weak citrushints. Light body, medium to good carbonation, some oily traces in the texture. OK, not special. Drinks away nicely, of course. I Thanks to Stef! /I
Tried from Bottle on 08 Oct 2022 at 09:01

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
Gekocht in de Spar te Middelkerke op 25-07-2022. En thuis op 1-10-2022 mijn smaakpapillen ermee verrast.
Gigant Beachy Tripel Shore Thing wordt gebrouwen voor de bierfirma ‘Kanaal One Brewery’ uit Adinkerke. Miranda Provoost baatte al 25 jaar een tabakswinkel uit toen ze door klanten gevraagd werd om ook bier te verkopen. In 2019 kwam ze op het idee om ook een eigen bier te verkopen. Samen met medewerker Kurt Outtier die een cursus tot microbrouwer had gevolgd lieten ze direct 4 verschillende bieren brouwen. Ondertussen is het team aangevuld met 2 extra medewerkers en zijn er na enkele medailles ook internationale ambities. Tevens wordt er nagedacht over een eigen brouwerij.
GIGANT BEACHY TRIPEL SHORE THING is een helder goud-blond bier dat een normale hoeveelheid wit schuim produceert in een gelijkmatige fijne laag met enkele grotere bellen tussen. Het blijft sterk aan de glaswand kleven en is normaal stabiel. Je ziet nog een klein gistdepot op de bodem van het flesje en veel fijne CO2 belletjes.
HET AROMA:
Licht zoetig, honing, gistig, banaan, een beetje citrus, mandarijn, mout en wat kruidnagel.
DE SMAAK:
Licht zoet, wat bitterig, wat honing, gistig, moutig en wat kruidnagel.
HET MONDGEVOEL:
Medium body, een licht romige textuur en een medium prikkelend koolzuurgas.
DE NASMAAK:
Licht zoetig, het weinige bittere vloeit lang uit, wat gist.
HET TOTAALGEVOEL:
Een harmonieus bier.
HET VERDICT:
Een ietwat klassieke tripel toch, van de toegevoegde zeekralen en zeewier heb ik evenwel zeer weinig gemerkt, om niet te zeggen niets.
Je kan genieten van mijn prachtige plaatjes en meer info krijgen op:
http://www.beersfrombelgium.eu/nl/Gigant_Beachy_Tripel_Shore_Thing-b-4541.html
Tried from Bottle from Spar Middelkerke on 06 Oct 2022 at 17:50

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
330ml. bottle. @Grote Markt, Veurne (Belgium). 06/09/2022 [#5.380 Global - #216 Belgium - #1 Kanaal One (My Belgian brewery #90)] Pours golden to orange with a big and lasting white head. Aroma: belgian yeast, coriander and pale malts. Taste: very yeasty amd spiced. Lively carbonation. Long spicy mouthfeel. Next one please!
Tried from Bottle on 28 Sep 2022 at 07:52

7.5/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 8
Sour IPA from a new contract brewer in Adinkerke near De Panne, located in the southwestern most part of Belgium at the seaside. Can at Kantien. Snow white, moussy, cobweb-lacing, slowly breaking but generally very stable head, cloudy lemony-yellow blonde robe. Aroma of moldy lemons, bread crust, unripe mandarin, stale sweat, withering lemonbalm, freshly cut cucumber, lemongrass. Crisp, fizzy onset, minerally carbonation but acceptable for an IPA at session strength as far as I am concerned, clean unripe banana and green apple fruitiness, sweetish but only subduedly so; supple, white-bready pale maltiness, feeling relatively ‘full’ for its ABV and gently soured by a soft lime-like lactic acid edge, shortly before an equally gentle but confident hop bitterness sets in, connecting the dots by marrying its own citrusiness with the lime-like effect of the kettle souring – an example of perfect balancing. The whole ends zesty, bright, dryish and utterly refreshing on a searing hot summer evening, in short, the perfect beer for a heatwave like we are going through now... Very decent for a newcomer, no doubt Brew Society’s expertise plays a part in that, but in any case I am looking forward to trying more Gigant beers if this is their normal quality standard.
Tried on 11 Aug 2022 at 12:54

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Rusty dark orange colour. Really has the profile of orange flavoured herb liqueur. Technically good but not my taste.
Tried on 27 May 2022 at 14:16