Brasserie du Brabant
Microbrewery in Genappe - Baisy-Thy, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Established in 2003
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Imported from my RateBeer account as Du Brabant Origame 4 Session Double IPA (by Brasserie du Brabant):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 18/20, MyTotalScore: 4.3/5
25/IV/15 - 75cl bottle @ ZBF 2015 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2015-465) Thanks to the Belgian ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!
Clear blond beer, creamy white dense head, stable, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: bit cheesy, fruity, passion fruit, pineapple, citrus, grapefruit. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very bitter, fruity, little citrus, grassy, dry, slightly medicinal bitterness. Aftertaste: very fruity, citrus, lots of grapefruit, bitter, very bitter and dry. It is of course the first beer of the day, so probably perceived more bitter because of this. Still one of the revelations of the festival!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From tap. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is mild estery, fruity and slight herbal. Sweet, grassy, estery and mild fruity. Bitter and crisp into a smooth finish.
yespr (55607) reviewed Origame 8 from Brasserie du Brabant 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
From tap. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is phenolic and toasted malty. Spiced and slight herbal. Bitter and dry. Dry and herbal. Bitter and dry finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thanks to Alengrin. 750 ml. bottle sampled @ “Tim needs to get rid of his ticks” Tasting. Enjoyed together with tderoeck, Benzai & Alengrin. 2005 Vintage. Hazy amber, little head. Nose is sweet cardboard, oxidation, vintage honey notes. Taste is thin sugar, oxidation, vintage honey, thin malts, leaves & overripe fruits. Body is heavily thinned out by age. This is just far too old.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sampled from bottle (vintage 2005) @ Tim needs to get rid of his ticks tasting. Hazy light orange color, small off-white head. Aroma is malts, sweetish, overripe fruits. Oxidation? Taste malts, overripe fruits, sweetish initially with the slightest hint of bitter in the finish. Hmm ok beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Du Brabant La Brabançonne Ambrée Spéciale (by Brasserie du Brabant):
Aroma: 4/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.5/5
23/I/15 - 75cl bottle @ "I need to get rid of my Belgian ticks" tasting - BB: n/a, 2005 vintage (2015-88) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Clear amber beer, aery off-white big bubbled head, unstable, dissipates immediately. Aroma: cardboard, bit funky, spicy, dry, caramel, bit sweet. MF: soft carbon, medium to light body. Taste: lots of cardboard, dry, caramel, bitter, hoppy touch. Aftertaste: sweet, caramel, little bitter, malty, weird. Overage, I guess, but probably not great to begin with either.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed La Cuvée Nico from Brasserie du Brabant 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Occasional beer named after the brewer’s son I think, tasted at one of the Leuvense Biertherapeuten’s beer festivals many years ago, before this brewery ceased activities and then, recently, restarted them. From old notes: snow white, stable, creamy head leaving pretty lacing, hazy yellow blonde colour. Sweetish, apple, citrussy, rounded palate with sourish touch, spicy yeastiness and dry spicy and hoppy, long finish. Quite enjoyable, though I liked La Brabançonne Ambrée more, not counting the new generation Brabant beers, of course.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
The Brasserie du Brabant, one of the few breweries in the province of Wallonian Brabant, apparently stopped brewing now, so fortunately I went there some years ago to buy a few bottles of this - the brewer handed me a few labels separately, which I had to attach to the bottles myself after getting home... Cream white, dense, sticky, stable head, deep reddish amber colour, hazy, warm. Lots of nutty and caramelly malts, red berries, unripe pear, peach, floral hops, cognac, old cheese, bark, honey and a jute- and barnyard-like hint reminiscent of Orval or some saisons. Restrained fruitiness, crisp with strong carbonation, vague candi-ish sweetness, strong walnut-like maltiness, lightly oily mouthfeel, peppery hops in the finish. Perhaps not the most refined ale, but very honest and appetizing nonetheless - yet hardly a foreshadowing of the new adventures this brewery would embark upon years later...
oh6gdx (50921) reviewed Gueuze de Nivelles from Brasserie du Brabant 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled@Belgobaren, Stockholm (old backlog from about 2010). Hazy goldeny orange colour, with a small creamy white head. Aroma is mild tart wooden notes, some slight sweet malts as well as earth and some frutyness. Flavour is quite tart wooden and fruity notes along with mild yeast/spices and some slight caramel as well. Quite mouthdrying.
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Gueuze de Nivelles from Brasserie du Brabant 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Hazy yellow-orange; fine & dense off-white head, receding leaving good lace. Brett-nose, lemony, citrus, even some leather & saddle-soap, rainwater. I let it sniff blind to another taster, and we agreed on "quite gueuze-like". Taste is more dry-phenolic than the typical Brett/lactic sourness one might expect. Quite spicey, citrussy, unripe plums, and a bit of cardboard. Has a rather quick finish, leaving only a vague acidity behing, and a bit of dry-out effect. Not very full-bodied, with not enough acids to fill in the gap. Quite dry indeed. Very good try at (re) mixing the top fermenting ale with spontaneous refermentation. The nose is quasi-authentic. I like this, as I do most du Brabant works.
Brewery Stats
| Score | 6.80 |
| Beers | 59 |
| Ticks | 608 |
Top Reviewers (Not including batches)
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tderoeck | 45 |
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Kraddel | 41 |
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77ships | 35 |
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Alengrin | 29 |
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yespr | 22 |
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beerhunter111 | 21 |
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Sebletitje | 20 |
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Sloefmans | 17 |
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mike_77 | 17 |
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Bierridder | 15 |