Brouwbar BR22 Brut IPA

BR22 Brut IPA

 

Brouwbar in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

IPA - Brut Regular
Score
7.45
ABV: 6.6% IBU: - Ticks: 4
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7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Take-away bottle from Brouwbar. Pours hazy golden with a stable, foamy, white head. Aroma of fresh mandarin, carambola, pineapple, ripe white grape, yellow grapefruit peel, lychee. Taste has sweetish mandarin & pineapple, some carambola also giving off a sourish effect, next to bitter stonefruit, grapefruit & grapes. Floral hoppy finish, not too dry, nice bready maltiness enhancing a sweet, tropical fruity aspect. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. More 'juicy' than expected but I can't complain about that.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Jul 2020 at 13:33


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

Imported from my RateBeer account as Brouwbar BR22 Brut IPA (by Brouwbar):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5

17/I/19 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a - (2019-99)
Little cloudy light yellow beer, big creamy off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of passion fruits, some mango, bit malty, grains, lychee, cheesy, onions. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity touch, soft bitterness, citrus, some grapefruit, little acidic, nice and refreshing. Aftertaste: sweet touch, bit cheesy, sweaty feet, soft bitterness, citrus, kiwi, dank hops, nice!

Tried from Draft on 17 Jan 2019 at 21:07


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

03/01/2018 - tasting glass @Brouwbar Taproom. Cloudy golden, medium white head; nice carbonation. Nose is fresh hops, fruits, bit floral. Taste is fresh hops, sparkling, bit fruits, bit spice, dry. AFter a few OK and a few nice beers, this one is geat for me. If the brewers launch this as a replacement of cava and they manage to convince you in practice that's geat too. Really nice! Glad my kids liked their lemonade (best ever) and Ice tea either so I think we will visit again.

Tried from Draft on 09 Jan 2019 at 08:07


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Next to the new and improved black IPA, Brouwbar also created this - to my knowledge - second only brut IPA in Belgium, the first one being made by Totem a few months ago; this shows that this Ghent brewpub is well aware of international craft beer tendencies, and has the ideal platform to try out their own interpretations of them. Draught at Brouwbar, of course. Snow white, medium thick, bit irregular, frothy, membrane-lacing, very stable head over a misty straw blonde beer with warmer peachy tinge. Aroma of ripe papaja, granadilla, starfruit, ripe peach, fried sweet onions, withered leek, marijuana, sweet white wine, yellow raspberries. Clean onset with notes of apricot, pineapple and orange, sweetish with a dim sourish undertone, medium carbonated; cereally, rounded, bit honeyish malt sweetishness, not as dry as expected from a brut IPA, but the finish offers a lot of colourful, expressive New World hop aroma including impressions of mandarin peel, orange zest, sweet onion and some papaja, softly but effectively bittering and very refreshing. Lovely beer, at about the same level of quality as their renewed NEIPA for me, though I suspect an actual brut IPA should be drier than this - though that did not spoil the fun for me at all, as it still remains to be seen what will come out of this brut IPA concept anyway. Have an extra point for helping to introduce a brand new substyle to the Belgian audience too.

Tried on 07 Jan 2019 at 19:54