Iznogud (14627) reviewed DI10 Double IPA from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
On tap at the brewpub. cloudy dark orange with medium white head. Caramel, malty, some ripe, fruit, orange, sweet, bit sour. Moderate bitterness in finish. Medium bodied.
Iznogud (14627) reviewed BI07 Black IPA from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at the brewpub. Black with beige head. Moderate hoppiness, some fruit, pine, light roastiness, moderate bitterness in finish. Medium bodied.
Iznogud (14627) reviewed NI08 New England IPA from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at the brewpub. Unclear hazy golden, white head. Tropical fruit, mango, passion fruit, bit juicy, smooth. Low bitterness. Soft texture. Medium bodied.
Iznogud (14627) reviewed HH05 Hoppige Hefeweizen from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at the brewpub. Hazy orange with small white head. Some hops in aroma, slightly sourish, yeasty, fruity. Light to medium bodied.
Bierridder (4318) reviewed BR22 Brut IPA from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
03/01/2018 - tasting glass @Brouwbar Taproom. Cloudy golden, medium white head; nice carbonation. Nose is fresh hops, fruits, bit floral. Taste is fresh hops, sparkling, bit fruits, bit spice, dry. AFter a few OK and a few nice beers, this one is geat for me. If the brewers launch this as a replacement of cava and they manage to convince you in practice that's geat too. Really nice! Glad my kids liked their lemonade (best ever) and Ice tea either so I think we will visit again.
Bierridder (4318) reviewed NI18 New England IPA from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
03/01/2018 - tasting glass @Brouwbar Taproom. Hazy dark yellow, nice creamy white head; Nose has some malt, fruits, gentle bitterness, bit yeast. Taste is fruits, bit yeast, malt base. Not my prefered style so I'm not an expert here but this seemed a nice example of it for me.
Bierridder (4318) reviewed S04 Saison from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
03/01/2018 - tasting glass @Brouwbar taproom. Hazy yellow, medium white head. Nose is malts, yeast, ripe fruits, bit citrus. Taste is bready, ripe fruits, yeast. OK as a beer but I miss a bit the dry spicy touch I like in a saison.
Bierridder (4318) reviewed HH05 Hoppige Hefeweizen from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
03/01/2018 - tasting glass @Brouwbar taproom. Clear orange, small white head; Nose is bit grains, fruits, yeast. Taste is has light sour accents, fruits, bit bitterness, bit yeast. Can be more outspoken for me but nice beer anyway.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed BR22 Brut IPA from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Next to the new and improved black IPA, Brouwbar also created this - to my knowledge - second only brut IPA in Belgium, the first one being made by Totem a few months ago; this shows that this Ghent brewpub is well aware of international craft beer tendencies, and has the ideal platform to try out their own interpretations of them. Draught at Brouwbar, of course. Snow white, medium thick, bit irregular, frothy, membrane-lacing, very stable head over a misty straw blonde beer with warmer peachy tinge. Aroma of ripe papaja, granadilla, starfruit, ripe peach, fried sweet onions, withered leek, marijuana, sweet white wine, yellow raspberries. Clean onset with notes of apricot, pineapple and orange, sweetish with a dim sourish undertone, medium carbonated; cereally, rounded, bit honeyish malt sweetishness, not as dry as expected from a brut IPA, but the finish offers a lot of colourful, expressive New World hop aroma including impressions of mandarin peel, orange zest, sweet onion and some papaja, softly but effectively bittering and very refreshing. Lovely beer, at about the same level of quality as their renewed NEIPA for me, though I suspect an actual brut IPA should be drier than this - though that did not spoil the fun for me at all, as it still remains to be seen what will come out of this brut IPA concept anyway. Have an extra point for helping to introduce a brand new substyle to the Belgian audience too.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed BI21 Black IPA from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Brouwbar in old Ghent is still very busy developing new beers - or, every now and then, improving their recipes, as is the case here: this is basically an elaboration on their BI07, but with different hops, more extensive dry-hopping and rye added to the mash. Tasted from tap at Brouwbar itself, obviously. Creamy, medium thick, pale yellowish beige, cobweb-lacing, stable head, black robe with thin, hazy mahogany edge. Aroma of pine resin, hard caramel candy, dry forest floor, nutmeg, dried grapefruit peel, toasted walnuts, unsugared black chocolate, fried oyster mushrooms, black olive. Clean onset - as usual with Brouwbar's beers - with a subdued, old raisin- and chestnut-tinged sweetishness, light black olive- and dried porcini-like umami accent, medium carbonated; slick and oily mouthfeel, very nut shell-like and hard caramelly maltiness with light spicy rye note and strong toasty bitterness blending with a leafy, black peppercorn-, lightly pine- and dried grapefruit peel-like hoppiness, leathery and long-stretched, yet still a bit on the soft and restrained side for the intended style (as is the case with BI07) so that the toasty maltiness remains the main flavour in the end. Drier, spicier and more bitter than the original, which I already liked as an accessible, clean, smooth 'introductory' BIPA, this is indeed an improvement of the first version and one I will certainly revisit next time I'm at Brouwbar. Well done Benjamin!