About
The Chromatique brewery is a craft beer factory on the Opal Coast in Saint-Léonard. The brewery is based in a 300m2 workshop with a taproom and a direct sales store.
7/10
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Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
1/III/25 - 75cl bottle @ Belgian Beer Geek Gathering (2025 Winter/Spring edition), BB: XI/2029, lot 214-1 (2025-205) Thanks to minutemat for sharing the bottle!
Clear beige to light orange beer, big creamy irregular white to off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly, a bit adhesive. Aroma: funky, weird, a bit oxidized, pretty fruity, more oxidation notes, herbal touch, and pretty floral as well. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very earthy, malty, a bit sweet, alcohol, more alcohol, very herbal bitterness. Aftertaste: alcohol, sweet touch, more of that herbal bitterness.
Clear beige to light orange beer, big creamy irregular white to off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly, a bit adhesive. Aroma: funky, weird, a bit oxidized, pretty fruity, more oxidation notes, herbal touch, and pretty floral as well. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very earthy, malty, a bit sweet, alcohol, more alcohol, very herbal bitterness. Aftertaste: alcohol, sweet touch, more of that herbal bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2025
at 21:30
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught @ Brasserie Chromatique. Misty golden yellow pour, small white head. Quite a fruity IPA.. good citrussy feel, grapefruit.. not especially full bodied and NE smooth, but still quite a decent fruity IPA.
Tried
from Draft
at
Brasserie Chromatique
on 22 Feb 2025
at 14:36
5.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Draught @ Brasserie Chromatique. Pours an opaque light pink, small white head. Not much on the nose, perhaps a very distant hint towards red berries. Very light-bodied, airy, very gentle raspberry kiss with soft blackcurrants, a touch watery.. really quite a weak effort.
Tried
from Draft
at
Brasserie Chromatique
on 22 Feb 2025
at 14:33
6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
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Overall 6.5
Draught @ Brasserie Chromatique. Pours a misty yellow, no read head to speak of. Aroma is lemony, melony, floral. Crisp palate with pleasant sharp melon, some lemon notes, crisp sour, drying close. Ok.
Tried
from Draft
at
Brasserie Chromatique
on 22 Feb 2025
at 14:28
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught @ Brasserie Chromatique. Pours a slightly unclear golden yellow, small white head. Aroma of sweet hop, juicy exotic hints. Gentle sabro to taste, sweet exotic juice with a mild honey suggestion on the finish.. lacks the smooth full body we're accustomed to. Ok.
Tried
from Draft
at
Brasserie Chromatique
on 22 Feb 2025
at 13:44
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
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330ml bottle from Brasserie Chromatique. Pours a clear gold, thin white bubbles atop. Crisp floral hop, some mild canteloupe shades, medium to light bodied, moderately sweet. Nice simplistic hoppy pale with a good fruity hop presence.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Brasserie Chromatique
on 22 Feb 2025
at 13:35
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
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Overall 6
Bière dénichée à prix imbattable chez Noz et dégustée à la maison. À l'ouverture, mauvaise surprise ! Une explosion de mousse qui jaillit, rendant le service un peu chaotique. La robe est quelconque, sans éclat particulier. Le nez est décevant, sans la promesse habituelle d'agrumes qu'on attend d'une West Coast IPA. En bouche, c'est pareil, les agrumes manquent à l'appel, mais l'amertume est bien gérée, apportant un certain équilibre. Une légère note de malt apparaît, un peu désagréable, mais heureusement à peine perceptible. Au final, c'est une bière correcte, sans grande surprise, bien sans plus.
Tried
on 12 Jan 2025
at 09:48
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
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Overall 8
440ml can from Noz, Hazebrouck. Pours a cloudy gold, thin bubbles atop. Aroma of fruity apricot, continuing to taste, light carbonation, gentle dry sour touch, complemented by a gentle rosemary and vanilla presence. Well-presented apricot gose.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Jan 2025
at 10:38
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
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440ml can from a tourist information centre near Wissant. Pours a murky unclear dull golden amber, small white head that recedes. Dull citrussy pine nose. Billed as a West Coast IPA, but it's west coast lite unfortunately.. lacks the malty sweet punch, lacks the resinous bitter bite. There are mild allusions to both but falls a little flat. My search for a good west coast IPA in France continues.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Nov 2024
at 09:01
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft @ Bon Vent, Calais. Pours hazed dark with a thin off-white head atop. Lovely oatmeal stout.. chocolatey leaning with vanillery accents. Didn't detect any cinnamon unfortunately, perhaps if I read the board properly I would've picked up on it more. Nice settled balanced stout with a slightly creamy body all the same.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Nov 2024
at 10:57