mike_77 (15875) reviewed P01 Porter from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Muddy brown colour with no head. Aroma and flavour have some grassy notes. Some light raisin sweetness.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed P01 Porter from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours dark brown. Small white head. Smell is sweeter, dusty. Mild chocolate. Taste is full, bit metallic, tad sweet, mild bitter. Leaves. Not a big fan.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed DA14 Drifter's Ale from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brouwbar DA14 Drifter's Ale (by Brouwbar):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5
17/VIII/18 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent) - BB: n/a (2018-997)
Pretty cloudy bright blond to yellow beer, small creamy white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots of rum notes in the nose, some tropical fruits, can sugar, bit of dried fruits, sweet ripe mango and passion fruit. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots and lots of what I would describe as Amaretto, a bit oxidized, fruity touch, pineapple notes, some citrus, marzipan, alcohol burn. Aftertaste: more amaretto, bitter touch, marzipan, fruity notes, some passion fruit, bit grassy, some grapefruit, lots of rum, bit too weird to make it really great for me...
Alengrin (11609) reviewed DA14 Drifter's Ale from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
The newest Brouwbar creation, tasted there from tap during Patersholfeesten. This is basically their house NEIPA with 5% rum added, a house rum made by Drifters, a pub at the other side of the street. Creamy, dense, snow white, tightly lacing, stable head on a hazy peach blonde beer with something ‘milky’ to it. Aroma weirdly blends the tropical fruit effects of the beer with the rum, creating unexpected impressions of pineapple juice, basil, pure white rum indeed, mojito and other rum-based cocktails, peppermint, banana candy, lychee, mango lemonade, passionfruit. Sweet onset, mango, lychee and passionfruit impressions with a very light sourish edge, medium carbonation, a bit minerally; soft doughy and bit soapy malt base, quickly overcome by this tropical fruit lemonade with rum cocktail, low in bitterness but all the more strong in aroma and flavour, mojito-like with a green basil- or peppermint-like spiciness to it. An ill-fated idea executed in a clever way – I normally hate rum, but admittedly it did something special and unexpected with the beer, something I can imagine lots of people can enjoy probably more than me.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed SA12 Session Ale from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
22 July 2018. Gentse Feesten @ Brouwbar! Shared with Anke.
Pours hazy golden with a big, collapsing, frothy, off-white head; little lacing. Fresh aroma of lemon zest, orange peel, pineapple, grass, kiwi even, mango, bready malt. It tastes light fruity sweet, some orange & pineapple, and light to medium hoppy bitter, a bit grassy; yeasty & bready in the back, even light wheaty sour. Dryish, grassy hoppy finish, a bit resinous with lingering bready malt, but rather short. Light body, slick texture, lively carbonation. In terms of experience, needless to say it's somewhat underwhelming. However, how mighty a revolution it would be if beers like these replaced the industrial Pale Lagers as the go-to quenchers...
tderoeck (22711) reviewed S11 Saison Sorachi Ace from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brouwbar S11 Saison Sorachi Ace (by Brouwbar):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5
13/VII/18 - on tap @ Dok Brewing Company (Gent) - BB: n/a (2018-837)
Clear bright orange beer, creamy solid off-)white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: typical saison yeast, herbal and spicy, hint of banana, little fruity, malty, sweet, some caramel. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty herbal, some yeast, bitter touch, hint of citrus, soft bitterness, spicy. Aftertaste: bitter, bit chemical, bit malty, unpleasant bitterness, some banana peel.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed SA12 Session Ale from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brouwbar SA12 Session Ale (by Brouwbar):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5
13/VII/18 - on tap @ Dok Brewing Company (Gent) - BB: n/a (2018-836)
Clear orange beer, creamy off-white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very fruity, tropical fruits, mango, banana, some passion fruits, little malty, caramel, citrus, grapefruit touch. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: lots of citrus, bitter hops, bit grassy, malty, some marzipan. Aftertaste: bitter, slightly metallic, little fruity, bit of dead yeast?
Alengrin (11609) reviewed SA12 Session Ale from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 6.5
The newest Brouwbar creation, a light summery session ale inspired by session IPA, but intentionally not ascribed to that hip category due to its restraint in hoppiness – and therefore not falling into any fixed category, but since session IPA did provide the inspiration and by lack of a better characterisation, I regarded it as one in entering this. From tap at Brouwbar (obviously…). Thick and regularly shaped, cobweb-lacing, egg-white, stable head on a misty orange-tinged peach blonde beer. Aroma of ripe red apples, lemon zest, lime juice even, bread crumbs, pineapple, green banana, mandarin peel, unripe melon, earthy potato juice, wet clay. Lively, fruity onset, crisp with sharp carbonation adding ‘fullness’ and minerally aspects; notes of green banana, apple and a touch of melon with a citric edge. Rounded, slick cereally and lightly bready malt base, light-footed and a tad grainy, quenching finish with elegant, subtle aromatic qualities yet, as expected and intended, very low hop bitterness, with minerally and apple-ish notes lingering. Nice, clean, accessible and elegant like all of the Brouwbar tap beers, indeed very light and quenching and in that sense doing its job the way it was intended; I do, however, miss hop bitterness here to lend the finish some more body and flavour, as now it ends a little bit watery. If you intend on spending a summery afternoon at this brewpub, though, you will not have any problem chugging down a theoretically unlimited amount of this little summer beer…
Alengrin (11609) reviewed S11 Saison Sorachi Ace from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
New variation on Brouwbar's saison, an experiment with Sorachi Ace. Tasted from a bottle one week before its official release, thanks Benjamin! Thick, egg-white, densely moussy head, lightly hazy peach blonde beer with ruddy orangey tinge and lively strings of fizz. Aroma of dried mandarin peel, bread crust, moldy oranges, quite strong DMS (overcooked cauliflower) alas, melon, straw, dried dill (the Sorachi Ace peeping through), peach, ripe pear, raw potato, pink grapefruit. Fruity onset, estery in a clean way, peach and pear notes, sweetish with a thin sourish undertone, fizzy carbo, supple mouthfeel. Lightly bready maltiness with a subtle peanutty edge like the regular Brouwbar Saison, aromatic dried orange peel and vaguely dill-like notes in the finish thanks to the Sorachi Ace, spicy phenolic and floral notes as well, ending juicy, sweetish with mild bitterness and orange peel brightness - yet retronasally, the DMS kicks in quite strongly, unfortunately. Clean, decent, easygoing, quenching beer, interesting to compare with the regular saison (go there and do it while you have the chance), but sadly ruined by strong DMS, something I am very sensitive to - and the first time I encounter such an off-flavour in a Brouwbar beer. But this was from a bottle, it came out on tap a week later and who knows, the tap version might be different and free from this DMS so my rating here is provisional - will certainly go back to taste this one from tap.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed DI10 Double IPA from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Brouwbar’s take at the classic DIPA style, launched a mere two weeks ago, tasted from tap at the brewpub yesterday. Tightly membranous-lacing, bit irregular, dense and creamy, egg-white head on a hazy, deep amberish orange peach blonde beer with fine strings of sparkling at the sides. Aroma of fresh blood orange, mango juice, lychee wine, caramel candy, ripe strawberry, gin, lime zest, orange blossoms, sweet paprika, tamarillo, white bread dough, light toast. Sweet onset, tropical tamarillo, mango and mangistan notes with a dash of banana, fizzy carbonation with minerally side effects, full, pleasantly rounded, slick body. Caramelly, ‘cleanly’ bready, bit honeyish malt sweet core with a light nutty touch, supporting an elegantly aromatic ‘hop fruitiness’ reminiscent of mango, tangerine and lychee with a refreshing, thinly lime-like sourish touch and followed by warming, gin-like alcohol. Sweetness lingers, while the hop bitterness, all things considered as this is, in the end, intended to belong to one of the hoppiest beer styles in the world, remains fairly soft and gentle so that sweetness remains the main factor. Pleasant, elegant and very modern, dedicedly non-Belgian beer like most of this sympathetic brewery’s other creations, deliberately intended to remain accessible to a larger audience and for that reason not going into overdrive in hop bitterness – but a big, old school wave of piney, resiny hop bitterness is actually what I was hoping for… Like their regular IPA and black IPA, this one needs more hop bitterness to become truly great, but from a technical viewpoint, this is again very clean, smooth, elegant and flawless like their other beers.