Kraddel (15872) reviewed NEIPA from Brewmine TAP Stadsbrouwerij 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours hazed yellow. Small wh head. Scent is very mild. Taste is grapefruit, very mild bitterness. Some maltyness. Not creamy at all. Pretty bland and boring. Mild touch of bitterness. Meh at best
Kraddel (15872) reviewed Low Alcohol IPA from Brewmine TAP Stadsbrouwerij 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a bit hazed blonde. Small white head. Scent is mild, malty, low hops. Taste is sharp, fairly bitter, mild hoppy citrussy aroma, tad green, mild maltyness. Medium thin body, medium carbo. Enjoyable.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Hasalud from Brewmine TAP Stadsbrouwerij 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Hasselt is known as the ‘jenever’ city (with even a ‘Jenevermuseum’), so it should not be surprising that its new city brewery comes up with a beer – conceived as a ‘spéciale belge’ – flavoured with juniper berries, which have been used in jenever for centuries. Longneck bottle bought at the brewery – but also tasted from tap there. Collab with De Rechter, another new microbrewery in Hasselt, and also physically brewed there. Anyway: snow white, cobweb-lacing, irregularly edged, medium thick, quite large-bubbled head, misty orangey peach blonde robe – not as deeply amber as I expect from a ‘spéciale belge’ (traditional Belgian amber ale, an early 20th-century invention). Aroma of cake dough, honeydew, indeed spicy juniper berries, bubblegum, soggy peanuts, hint of strawberry-flavoured candy, powder sugar, banana peel. Fruity, sweet onset, ripe pear, peach and even hints of strawberry and melon, softly carbonated (in fact undercarbonated for this style) with a light bubblegummy aspect; honeyish sweetness over a smooth, soft, cake dough- and brioche bread-like maltiness with very faint peanutty edge but also a wort-like flavour accentuating the sweet and somewhat ‘raw’ aspect. Herbal juniper berry effects show up late but remain mellow, much more so than I am used to from this ingredient when used in beer; some peppery hop bitterness appears even later and lingers for a bit. Clearly too young still, with its worty flavours, unfermented sugars and undercarbonation – I should have waited a bit longer before opening this one. Other than that – and with the tap version in mind as well – this is a very accessible beer, a tad too pale and lacking in nuttiness for true ‘spéciale belge’ perhaps but very easily drinkable, with the juniper berry remaining very restrained; in fact, and I never thought I would say this because I normally hate juniper berries in beer: this one could perhaps benefit from a higher dosage of juniper berry!
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Hasalud from Brewmine TAP Stadsbrouwerij 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
20/I/23 - 33cl bottle @ Wim’s place, BB: n/a (2023-75) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Clear red amber to red brown beer, creamy dense beige head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: sweet impression, lots of caramel, overripe banana, sweet malts, a bit spicy, bubble gum, candle wax. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: malty start, grains, sweet, hay, cow fodder, gentle bitterness. Aftertaste: a little bitter, almost fruity touch, oxidized, a bit of strawberry jam, hay, rather watery, cereals in the finish, some cornflakes, metallic, a bit grassy, hoppy finish.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Pitch Black from Brewmine TAP Stadsbrouwerij 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
One of several beers created by Brewmine TAP, the brand new city brewery in Hasselt, open to guest brewers as well and in dire need of a place rating here (I will deal with that later). From tap at the brewery. Creamy, yellowish pale beige, dense, regular, membrane-lacing head, black robe with bronze glow around the edges - so strictly speaking, not entirely 'pitch black'. Aroma of black chocolate, wet leather, espresso, dried prunes, Cuban cigars, dried blueberries, whisky, toffee, juniper berries, hint liquorice. Clean sweetish onset with faint umami edge, hinting at a mix of dried fig, dried blackberry and black olive, fizzily carbonated but in a tiny-bubbled kind of way, with full, oily body; thick black-chocolatey, toffeeish and cashew-nutty malts with toasty bittering edge, turning into quite prominent coffee-like roasted bitterness further on. Spicy elements of liquorice, black pepper and even juniper berry accompany the finish, which uses peppery hops to accentuate the coffee-like roastiness without losing contact with that nutty sweetness; some red fruit and black chocolate notes linger along. Nicely warming, gin-like alcohol in the finish, not intruding anything else. Basic but well-crafted, sleek and clean, very modern 'impy', adding more roasted bitterness than is usually the case nowadays (I guess we can add the term 'Russian' in that case); very well made for such a young brewery. I predict that we will hear a lot more from them in the coming months and years...