Alengrin (11609) reviewed Souaf N° 25 from Kormann Bières 8 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
The 25th 'official' brew by this brewery in the Dordogne region in southwestern France - one of so many operating there nowadays, almost all known only very locally (I do recall having seen a particularly dense map of the current microbreweries in France, though, so someone made the effort to enumerate them); a kind of honey beer apparently, from a 75 cl bottle generously shared by Francis Vanden Berghe at Baracuna. Medium sized, eggwhite, opening, moussey head on a cloudy straw blonde beer with beige tinge. Aroma of indeed honey (literally and in a more 'blossomy' way), freshly cut red apple, white bread, chamomile, sweetclover, pear, ripe peach. Fruity-estery onset, rupe pear and peach, some light pineapple perhaps, fizzily carbonated with supple, quite lean mouthfeel; cereally and white-bready pale malt core under clearly identifiable honey-flavouring sweetness, again bringing some background blossomy notes but mostly a dull sweet effect hovering over a floral hop bitterish element and phenolic spicy accents (clove). Remains sweet all the way through, but in a natural, non-cloying, flowery kind of way - I wonder how they managed that, actually, though it is by no means the most refined or interesting honey beer I had (come to Belgium - especially Wallonia - for those instead, and I do not even mean Barbãr). Rather dull, but admittedly correct from a technical viewpoint.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Bire N° 21 from Kormann Bières 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
The ‘basic’ blonde by this young and still very small microbrewery (4 hl per month) in southern France; thanks Craftmember for sharing. Large-bubbled, membrane-lacing, somewhat loose and open but edge-retaining head on a lightly hazed straw blonde beer with deeper ‘old golden’ tinge and visible sparkling. Aroma of ripe banana, sweet bread, breakfast cereals, fried apple slices, some pineapple, clove, honey, drying grass, halfripe peach, chamomile. Estery onset (more than the used US05 yeast strain typically produces) with banana, ripe pear and pineapple notes, fizzy and minerally carbonation, smooth body; grainy pale malt sweetish core, a tad bready but thinly so, some phenolic (clove) aspects and a mildly drying, grassy and florally hop bitterish finish, ending quite leafy and medium in length. Quite basic Belgian-ish blonde ale, no frills or high ambitions here; seems to be fermented a tad too warm, but drinkable enough as a go-to beer when chilled and consumed on a hot French summer day I guess – yet utterly boring when tasted at home on a gloomy Belgian autumn evening.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Souaf N° 25 from Kormann Bières 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
19/VIII/22 - 75cl bottle @ build-up Gents Bierfestival, BBE: 2023 (2022-1022) Thanks to Cies for sharing the bottle!
Clear yellow blond beer, big irregular white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty yeasty, citrus notes, a bit sourish, infected, a bit dirty, weird. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet and sugary start, malty, a little bitter, spicy, coriander notes. Aftertaste: weird, overripe fruits, rotting banana, sweet and sugary, unpleasant bitterness, meh.