Sloefmans (15389) reviewed 4 Times In A Rye from Galea Craft Beers 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Fast receding cream-beige head over reddish black-brown beer. Caramel, molasses @ pouring; chalk, sweet roast. Bread with cassonade sugar. Liquorice, intense at onset, in the end followed by some roast and some less specific sweetness. Cardboard, syrupy breadspread. Warming up a bit, finally a very modeste acidity lends some cautious depth. Bit sticky, yet only medium bodied at best; soft carbonation and creaminess, indeed referring to the rye. BLACK: yes, it is, NEW ENGLAND, since that means opaque, OK. But this is as much IPA as Pepsi would be IPA. Such a shame, as judicious choice of hops can make black IPA wonderful. Txs to Stef!
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Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Holy Fruity (Yellow) from Galea Craft Beers 1 year ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
33cl can, BB 25/06/2025.
Dorée, lcaire, col très épais massif et tenace blanc, ce dernier tend à rmeonter rapidement à chaque versée.
Arôme sur un bouquet plus sur le gingembre. Le houblonné vient en retrait et vraiment après une bonne 15aine de minutes. Effet léger sur la lavande voire le pétale de rose.
Palais reste quant à lui plus sur le fruité dont une grosse partie de l'ananas. Houblonné léger en retrait mais sans plus - gingembre ets plus modeste et vient apporter tout d emême sa point épicée.
Même avec seuelment 4% d'ananas ce dernier parvient à rester très voire trop présent. Un peu collant aux lèvres ce qui est un peu bizarre pour une bière vendue comme une 'sour'. En retrait je note quand même la bonne présence de céréales et effet de drêche.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
33cl bottle from Struise Beershop Woesten e-shop.
F: medium, tanned, average retention.
C: dark, opaque.
A: rich dark malts, chocolate, coffee, vanilla, dark fruits, plums, caramel.
T: full malty base, rich chocolate, caramel, vanilla, dark dried fruits, cocoa, bit boozy, decent bitterness, low carbonation, good for the style, enjoyed for sure.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Intensiver, kakaoartig malziger Beginn. Dunkles Brot, erhöhte Karbonisierung, alkoholische Nuancen, die aber wenig stören. Süßlich schokoladiger Mittelteil und Abgang, holzig, etwas Vanille. Cremiger Abgang. 11/12/13/12//12
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
A black beer with a beige lacing. Aroma of heavy sweet strong dark malt, chocolate, vanilla, lactose, marshmallow. Taste of sweet strong dark malt, vanilla pudding, chocolate, subtle peated malt, creamy mouthfeel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at home shared with Laura. Opaque black color, no head. Aroma is malts, sweetness, light chocolate. Flavor is lightly malts, again more sweet chocolate, lightly though, decently boozy, bourbon, light boozy bitterness in the finish. Not too bad tbh. I don't like the aroma but the flavor isn't actually that bad.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Jaguar Warrior from Galea Craft Beers 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
American style barleywine from Antwerp, brewed with six New World hop varieties and clocking in at 14% ABV, unusually potent even for a barleywine. Can shared with Goedele. Off-white, medium thick, tiny-bubbled, moussey head, lacing in dots and opening to dissolving over a clear, warm and deep orange blonde robe with amberish tinge. Aroma of dried orange peel and triple sec (Cointreau), Blue Curaçao, biscuit, marmalade, anise or caraway seed (oddly), rosewater, white pepper, vanilla, ‘diesel’, persimmon, brown rum, violet-based perfume. Clean, ‘candied’ sweet onset, candied orange, golden raisins and marmalade, very light touch of green olive, soft carb with very slick biscuity malt core, surrounded by almondy and slightly toasted bread crust-bitter edges but essentially sweet, softly carbonated; herbal and citric hoppiness, the latter combining with the high alcohol content in this triple sec-like effect (Cointreau). The hops provide a very long, rooty, orange pith-like bitterness too, reinforced by this liqueurish and rum-like booziness. Recognisably U.S. style as a barleywine but with this odd orange peel liqueur-like effect to it as well as even more perfumey (caraway) accents which will probably not be anyone’s cup of tea; along with the boastful alcohol content, which does nevertheless behave relatively decently, this is an interesting and notably daring brew, but whether the flavours and booziness are to your liking or not, there is no denying that it is a technically very well made, original and confident brew. One is enough, though…