tderoeck (22711) reviewed SP19 Sour Porter from Brouwbar 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brouwbar SP19 Sour Porter (by Brouwbar):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5
8/III/19 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a - (2019-347)
Clear brown beer, practically no head, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty roasted, little funky, acidic impression, chocolate, coffee. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: pretty sour, fruity, sour cherries, somewhat bitter, dry, roasted. Aftertaste: more acidic, fruity, dry, bit lemony, soft roast. Nice one!
tderoeck (22711) reviewed SI23 Session IPA from Brouwbar 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brouwbar SI23 Session IPA (by Brouwbar):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5
8/III/19 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a - (2019-346)
Clear blond beer, small creamy off-white head, little stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: bit fruity, sweetish impression, peaches, some melons. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: little malty up front, some citrus notes, not really bitter, a bit fruity. Aftertaste: little bitter, malty, some citrus, fruity notes, some grapefruit.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed S11 Saison Sorachi Ace from Brouwbar 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Dull dark blond colour with lasting head. Aroma and flavour are quite sweet and spicy. There's a refreshing zestiness in the finish.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed NI08 New England IPA from Brouwbar 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cloudy blond appearance with lasting head. Aroma and flavour have muted tropical fruits. Plenty of malt body. Good balance.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed SI23 Session IPA from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
The newest Brouwbar beer to date, a reprisal of SA12 but hoppier and therefore dubbed “IPA” (SA12 was sold simply as “session ale”). Draught at Brouwbar. Creamy, dense, tightly paper-lacing, egg-white head, hazy pure and deep golden blonde robe with pale orangey tinge. Aroma of green kiwi, lychee, sweet onions sweating in arachis oil, white bread slices, touch of guava, lime juice, wet hay. Cleanly fruity onset – the cleanness and streamlined profile that typifies Brouwbar, I’m inclined to add – with notes of green banana, lychee and apple, slick and supple body, medium carb, with a ‘white-bready’ and cereally, smooth maltiness and pleasant mineral (soda-like) notes at the sides. Elegantly aromatic hoppiness in the finish, again lychee and guava, yet remaining fairly subtle; so does the bitterness, which lingers a bit in the distance with a faint spiciness, but remains a bit understated for an IPA, so that the finish as a whole remains a bit thin. Still, like all the new versions of earlier recipes, this one too is clearly an improvement compared with the original SA12, showing more expressive aromatic qualities. I could drink this by the gallon.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed SP19 Sour Porter from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Brown porter made sour with lactic acid, one of Brouwbar's newest to date and quite an unusual one especially in a Belgian context. Bottle at Brouwbar. Slow gusher, but nothing dramatic. Mousy, pale beige, bubbly, opening head over a hazy deep bronze-ish brown beer with ruddy hue. Aroma of dried blueberries, toffee, stewed plum, fresh fig, raspberry yoghurt, cooked apple, raisin, Syrah wine, brown bread, cookies, caramel candy and a light hint of orange zest - interesting and inviting, in all, but not truly porter-like, more an oud bruin of sorts, as is to be expected when a dark beer turns out sour. Sweet fig and red apple in the onset, with indeed a lactic acidic edge, if relatively mildly so, reminiscent of redcurrant and sour blackberries; softly prickling carb, smooth-edged mouthfeel. Caramelly malt body, only gently dried by sourness, with a powdery earthy note in the end and a lightly spicy hop bitter presence as well as a soft toasty bitterishness. The sourness remains, but it is no match for the inherently sweet, caramelly and red fruit-like basic flavour profile. Oud bruin-like, as said, but in a somewhat more 'superficial' way, as if the sourness is added on top of a sweet brown beer rather than deeply penetrating it; from what Benjamin told me, he had a lot of doubts whether to sell this to his public or not, but I am glad he did, this is an interesting and refreshing creation.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed DI20 Double IPA from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Brouwbar has been quietly reinventing and improving some of their original recipes lately and this one is intended as the improved version of DI10 – the house DIPA. Tasted at – where else – Brouwbar. Egg-white, thick, stable and creamy, papery-lacing head, equally misty peach blonde robe with warm orangey tinge. Aroma of fresh orange (peeled “à vif”) and mandarins, fresh mango cubes, yellow kiwi, ripe pear, strawberry, wet potato chips, minerals, sweetbread, lychee, alcoholic wodka whiff. Sweet and fruity in a clean way – as usual with Brouwbar – hinting at ripe orange, mango and lychee, minerally and ‘cristalline’ carbonation stinging a bit on the tongue’s surface (perhaps a bit too enthusiastically so for this style), slick and rounded mouthfeel, very supple. Sweetbready, very lightly caramelly malt sweet middle drenched in retronasal ‘hop fruitiness’, again with (blood) orange in the foreground and mango in the background, providing the same soft end bitterness as in the previous version. Due to the malt bill being ‘thinner’ in this version – the idea being to make it a less malty beer and therefore putting more emphasis on hop aromatics – the alcohol is also a bit more ‘naked’ and palpable as a lightly astringent, bittering warmth in the finish, more so than was the case in the first version. Not necessarily better than the original, to my taste, a bit thinner and boozier, but certainly more aromatic – which evens things out I suppose, so same score for both editions for me.
Bierridder (4318) reviewed S11 Saison Sorachi Ace from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
26/01/2018 @home - 33cl bottle from Brouwbar Taproom. Clear orange, not much head. Nose is malts, banana, DMS. Taste is malts, banana, some pepper, dry touch, DMS again. A pity, the DMS spoiled it here for me.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed BR22 Brut IPA from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brouwbar BR22 Brut IPA (by Brouwbar):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
17/I/19 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a - (2019-99)
Little cloudy light yellow beer, big creamy off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of passion fruits, some mango, bit malty, grains, lychee, cheesy, onions. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity touch, soft bitterness, citrus, some grapefruit, little acidic, nice and refreshing. Aftertaste: sweet touch, bit cheesy, sweaty feet, soft bitterness, citrus, kiwi, dank hops, nice!
Iznogud (14627) reviewed SA12 Session Ale from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
On tap at the brewpub. cloudy orange with white head. Some vague hoppiness, light fruit, malty, soft texture, bit watery and bland. Light+ bodied.