Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Thnx to the brewers ! pours bit darker amber, clear, small white head. Smell is mildly toasted. Taste is bit bitter, crisp, bit roasty. Subtile bitterness. Mild grassy notes. Aftertaste is lasting rather long, and quite bitter.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Black Label : Pale Ale from Brouwerij Brochus 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Thnx to the brewers ! Pours clear blonde, small white head. Taste is mildly bitter, bit grassy (from the hops ) A bit too yeasty for the style, but not bad as a drinkin’ beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Thnx to the brewers ! Pours clear amber, small white head. Smell is full, rich malty ( ambermalts ) Very mild grassy hops. Taste is rather bitter, very crisp ambermalts. Bit grainy. Very full taste. Malty. I like this !
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Tap at the brewhouse. Pours dark amber to brown. Creamy, very stable white head. Smell is mildly malty. Some minor roasty features. Taste is mildly bitter, creamy maltyness. Very mellow bitterness, and some aroma from the malts. Alcohol doesn’t show at all.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Thnx to the brewers. Happy birthday to me ! Pours Dark, clear brown to black, with a red glow. Small white head. Smell is roasty, mild chocolate, Hidden coffee. Taste is suprisingly bitter, some coffee. Dry roastyness, Nice, but I prefer their blonde ales so far. Mild smokey undertone
tderoeck (22711) reviewed White label : Red Ale from Brouwerij Brochus 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brochus White label : Red Ale (by Brouwerij Brochus):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5
10/VI/17 - 75cl bottle from Cru supermarket (Ghent) @ my parents' place - BB: 28/II/20, brewed: 31/I/17, bottled: 28/II/17 (2017-801)
Clear reddish brown beer, small irregular off-white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very malty, some caramel, green banana, little fruity. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: malty start, bit sweet, caramel, grains, little fruity, soft bitterness, some banana. Aftertaste: strange bitterness, malty, more green banana. Ok, but not getting very excited about this.
77ships (14506) reviewed White label : Red Ale from Brouwerij Brochus 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thank you! Glass from 750 ml. bottle @ Beerlovers Bar. Packaging looks great, much as was the case with their Edelsaison, in the end it is an unexciting Belgian, packaged & despite their frequent talk of limited, there are close to 3000 bottles out there of each of these beers. Nothing really justifies the hilariously high price-point (18 euro - retail is close to 10 euro), seems like all hype building to me. Plenty of other Belgian beers around with this level of quality, production size etc. at a far lower price. Bottle #1731/2974. Bottled 28.02.2017. Plenty of other info on ingredient, the packaging is great. Bright red amber, off-white to tanned head, solid. Taste is slick BE sugar, caramel, hay, very sweet malt, raw BE sweet, slick,... Taste is sweet faintly metallic, big slab of light plastic, clean industrial caramel, sugar, BE, herbal rye, big fizzy, sweet malt, sugar, caramel, more sugar. Body is slick caramel, low bread, fizzy. Rather meh for me. Good costumer feedback ’though. This brewery has plenty of good going on, the beers are too tame for me in the end I suppose.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed White label : Edelsaison from Brouwerij Brochus 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle bought at Beerlover’s Bar in Antwerp during (and after) RBBWG, shared with the Ratebeer crew. Very thick and frothy, tighly lacing, creamy, off-white head, hazy, warm peach blonde colour with orangey tinge. Aroma suffers quite heavily from DMS (overcooked, even spoiled overcooked green cabbage), in a second bottle I tasted even more so than in the first - to the extent that for me, being highly sensitive to DMS, it rendered the entire beer barely drinkable, covering more flattering impressions of peach, old cheese, hay, dried field flowers, pineapple, banana, bread crust, old cookies, grass. Fruity, estery onset, banana ester but not overdone, peach, pineapple, spritzy carbonation with minerally effects, cereally and lightly bready malt middle with ongoing esters and some light phenols, ’deep’ sourish aspect (sourdough), earthy finish with bready yeastiness, lightly spicy and herbal hops, retronasal DMS and lingering esters. Not bad as such - yet not a true saison, and the extreme DMS overload (more so than I remember ever having encountered in any other beer) ruined this for me, I'm afraid...
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Another Black label, kindly shared by the brewers ! Thnx guys ! Black label -beer of the Brochus Brewery in Antwerp, meaning the batch is Rediculously small ( max 25 bottles, yet fully oficial, never a ’homebrew’ but produced in a 25 liter tank ) . One should start with seeing the bigger picture here - being the packaging and idea. Black label beers are 75 cl beers, wrapped in black paper. They have a necklabel which contains information over the style, the specific beer, the Brewery, and even the used malts and hops ( in percentages ) . The necklabel is attached with home-made wax, completing the look of a very, very nice presentation beer, that is so far typically served in the better restaurants ( star-restaurants ). This must be partly due to the great packaging, complete and efficient, as well as elegant and clean. Very nice ! The pour of the beer looks very nice as well. Unclear darker amber, with a medium white head. Smell is rich, natural maltyness? Very full ! intense, exactly like the smell when you actually brew a beer ( so fresh, so crisp ! ) Taste is starting rather bitter ( still mild) untill the maltyness takes over. Towards the end, there’s only maltyness, but a damn good one. A perfect blend of natural tastes, re-ensuring us that Brochus is a Brewery to watch ! It’s not the perfect sample beer, by far, but it is a perfect drinkin’ beer ! As they beautifully explain themselves in the booklet ’’The perfect beer for bar-Philosophers who don’t want to fall off of their barstool ’’ Congratz, brochus. Thats a 3/3 !
77ships (14506) reviewed White label : Edelsaison from Brouwerij Brochus 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thank you ?Alengrin? 750 ml. bottle sampled @ RBBWG VI (2017). Hazy orange golden, creamy white head. Nose is BE yeast, sugar, white pepper, banana, faint vegetables. Taste is fizzy soap, banana, sugar, thin soap, white bread, sugar,... Too fizzy soapy,... Basic esters, white pepper, faint vegetable in the finish. I am sorry I don’t really get what others saw in this one. A very pricey generic BE blond for me to be honest. Maybe I should have taken more time with it.