PA61 Pale Ale
Brouwbar in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.86
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nathanvc (5907) reviewed PA61 Pale Ale from Brouwbar 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
30 June 2021. At Brouwbar. Shared with Anke! Clear amber, stable, foamy, tan head; some lacing. Aroma of herbal cheese, hard mango, biscuit, thyme, grape, peanut, golden raisin, bread crust. Taste has sweetish pear, apple, vague mango (diluted in a way, almost) over a biscuity malty base with herbal & light spicy accents, bit nutty too. Herbal & slightly piney hoppy finish, hard stonefruit & biscuit lingering. Medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. Extremely clean, tight; indeed interesting to think about it as a traditional Pale Ale.
tderoeck (20759) reviewed PA61 Pale Ale from Brouwbar 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
18/VI/21 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a (2021-503)
Clear orange beer, big creamy yellowish head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: bit fruity, malty, grains, some caramel, tropical fruits. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty start, good bitterness, some citrus, quite some banana, caramel touch. Aftertaste: tropical fruits, more banana, malty, grains, gentle bitterness, some tropical fruits, grassy notes.
Alengrin (10989) reviewed PA61 Pale Ale from Brouwbar 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
New Brouwbar pale ale, launched last week and enjoyed at their pub from tap. Medium thick, small-bubbled, membrane-like lacing, of-white head, hazy deep amberish peach blonde robe (darker than average for an APA but looking a lot like the old EPA). Aroma of bread crust, lightly toasted peanuts, hint of fresh wormwood leaf, minerals, dry teabags, rainwater, old dried grapefruit peel. Very clean onset – almost neutral, in fact, though a faint hint of dried fruitiness is there; very fizzy carbonation and very minerally undertone, like NI62 (I actually asked the brewer if he had tinkered with his brewing water – which is not the case). This minerality feels so strong here that it almost becomes metallic, albeit in a completely ‘natural’ and by no means off-putting way; supple, slender peanutty and dry bread-crusty, rusk-tinged maltiness, with that toasty bitterish edge supported by tea-ish, long-lasting, very herbal hoppiness (a bag of old herbes de Provençe), but still this hoppiness manages to restrain itself in bitterness at least for an APA. And now that I am coming to conclusions anyway: this beer, much more than earlier APAs from Brouwbar, feels not like an APA, but like an old school EPA or English pale ale, a style that has become completely obsolete these days, a style no young craft beer hipster ever thinks about (let alone asks for), but a style previous generations used to drink by the gallon in Belgium – and a style which has also thoroughly inspired, or even spawned, the old Belgian amber ale or ‘spéciale belge’, another classic beer style nobody ever talks about anymore. Note to self: ask Benjamin next time if that was the intention…