7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

9/IV/25 - 33cl can from La Source webshop, shared @ car ride to France, BB: 20/VII/26 (2025-328)

Clear pale light yellow beer, big solid creamy white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, grains, a bit metallic, hint of citrus, pretty floral, nice! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice, good bitterness, lots of citrus, a bit grassy, refreshing, grapefruit. Aftertaste: bitter, grassy, more citrus, a little malty, slightly metallic, bitter, citrus notes, pleasant non alcoholic beer. Not getting any wheat though?

6.9

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Pours clear yellowblonde. Small, soapy but stable white head. Scent is wheat, recognizable NA , zesty, lemon. Taste is medium bitter, malty / wheat, slightly bready, bit sweet and sticky (NA typical) but has just enough bitterness / zestyness to put itself above the average NA beer. Decently refreshing. Not at all bad, but like any other NA IPA, the hops are silent, and not at all specifically recognizable. The 'white' part comes out more than the 'IPA' part for me.

6.6

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Cannette 33cl achetée chez LaSource et confirmée que la bière a été brassée chez Anders. BB ?
Le business modèle me rappelle un peu celui de Fugu qui ne brasse rien mais cherche à faire des collabs avec des noms des brasseries 'amies' mais qui sont surtout à la mode. Belgian Balance fait cela mais avec une gamme sans alcohol et pour compliquer le tout, les bières sont brassées chez Anders. Une version ici avec LaSource qui trace les lignes des bonnes IPA sur Bruxelles et en Belgique en général.
Couleur pâle, col blanc.
Arôme sur un bouquet fruité. Agrumes, baies rouges/noires, fruits à noyaux et une pointe de pêche.
Palais reste sur une base très NA avec une caractère malté/grains, en peu sur l'empâtage avec un appui des houblons sur un effet infusion. Pointe résineuse, touche d'agrumes et côté un peu de framboise.

4.1

Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 4

Non-alcoholic white IPA from another entrepreneur jumping on the no-alcohol hype, apparently working with some wild yeast - allegedly discovered on prickly pear fruit - which does not produce alcohol and offering its services also to other breweries, in this case La Source. To further complicate things, the actual brewing is done in Beerstorming's equipment by a guy named Pierre Gaillard, living in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, one of the municipalities of Brussels. Can from Stacks. Ultra-fine and filmy, cobweb-lacing, egg-white, medium thick, frothy and stable head on a clear, very pale straw blonde beer with vague greenish tinge - but I stress 'very pale', in fact among the palest I have seen so far... Aroma of unripe banana, green melon, fresh lemonbalm, plaster, wet flour or corn starch, gypsum, freshly cut grass, something dusty (old cotton cloth). Rather neutral onset, low in fruitiness, apart from this green banana-like element (non-sweet though), over some vague sourishness mostly established by carbonation, which nonetheless remains subtle. Smooth and thin, watery body, a bit flour- or starch-like with this 'whiny' graininess and clear wheat soapiness underneath, picking up these plaster- and gypsum-like notes as it moves along, an aspect found in so many non-alcoholic (and some alcoholic) beers. The finish is pretty bitter, in a leafy, peppery, rooty way, but apart from a whiff of dried lime peel, grass and lemonbalm, does not provide a 'wave' of New World hop aromas - too bad, as the hops varieties list seemed promising. Drinkable for a non-alcoholic white IPA I guess, but altogether crude, annoyingly soapy and plaster-like and watery - suffering from the typical illnesses non-alcoholic beers tend to have. I would rather drink something 'naturally' alcohol-free than this if needed.

7

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Pours clear blonde, med large white head. Scent is raw, green hops, fairly intense malts. Taste is medium bitter. Bit candy like fruityness. Damp , natural malts , which i like. Cornflakes come to mind. Medium body, medium low carbo. Slick. Tad too sweet perhaps, ends a bit sticky.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Can from Etre Gourmet at home 28/07/2024 New 🇧🇪 brewery ✅ some light citrus fruity notes of grapefruit, lemon, wheaty malty, medium sweet, grassy and lightly floral hoppy, drying balanced light bitter refreshing finish. Good AF number, and first impression.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

7/VIII/24 - 33cl can from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BBQ with the neighbours, BB: 6/II/24B (2024-707)

Clear blond to light orange beer, small creamy white head, a little stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: lovely, super juicy, fruity, citrus notes, tropical fruits, more juicy, lovely smell. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very juicy, lots of citrus, fruity, pretty bitter, tropical fruits, lovely stuff!

8

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7

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

33cl can, achetée chez Wesley Butcher Shop, Schaerbeek. BB 09/10/2025. Pour la transparence, il faudra repasser. Pas certain que Beerstorming fasse des cannettes (en plus de quasi fermer son commerce) - je suppose que cela est brassé ailleurs comme chez Anders. Belgian Balance n'offre également rien sur son site - donc pas des brasseurs.
Bref.
Couleur dorée, col intense et effervescent tenace blanc.
Arôme est léger sur les malts-céréales rehaussé par un bouquet délicat des houblons - agrumes, pointe tropicale et pointe de pin.
Palais est pas mauvais sans tenir ce caractère d'empâtage souvent noté sur les bières NA. Ici, cela reste délicat avec un bon appui des houblons - bonne fraicheur tirant sur les agrumes - pas vraiment vu l'impact du Sabro pourtant en général bien marqué sur la noix de coco. Amertume légère sur la fin avec ce retour plus marqué de céréales concassés.

7.2

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7

Review based on the BJCP2021 guidelines (style 21A adapted). Can 33 cl - Batch 06/11/2024B (BB: unknown). AROMA: medium-low hop aroma (herbaceous, slight pine), starting to show some oxidation. low malty background with a faint worty character. APPEARANCE: pale yellow color and clear with fine particles in suspension. medium-low white head, creamy, with good retention. TASTE: initial medium-low to low hop flavor (pine, resiny, minty) followed by a medium-low almost neutral and slightly sweet malt background. medium-high bitterness serving as a counterpoint to the sweetness. finishes semi-dry and bitter. MOUTHFEEL: medium to medium-low body with medium carbonation. OVERALL: a not that bad NA IPA with ok hop notes.