The Pom
Brasserie Grain D'Orge
- From:
- Brasserie Grain D'Orge
- Belgium
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.01 | pDev: 22.59%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 27, 2021
- Added:
- Jan 13, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England
2.34/5 rDev -22.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.75
2.34/5 rDev -22.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.75
Blind-tasted except for the beer's name and brewery/country, zero reviews below read (yet!)...
L- Pale gold and as many mini-chunks of sediment as a snow-globe. Pours with a 5mm off-white cap. ps@ +10mins it holds very well, most impressive aspect here.
S- As I poured it I got a blast of fresh apple and I'm struggling to divine beyond that. There is a form of cakey-grain in the background.
T- [This might be interesting!!]. Bright > zesty...> then within the first second > perfumed. Hmmm. There is a clear apple flavour, but not as you'd find in a cider. It seems very perfumey and quite artificial tasting. Like - hmm, you use apples and get the apple-derivative cider, but here they used apples and wanted them to still taste like fresh apples in the end product. I briefly thought 'Well that was a 1st impression hitting my clean palate' but then I'd another sip and got another jolt of perfumed apple, like apple flavoured bubble-gum.
F- Maybe it's a cross between some kind of beer and apple juice, just not very beery?
O- .... in brief, I just gave the 80% full glass to my wife, who has a sweeter tooth and enjoys apple soda. - Well it's a most unorthodox beer. I suggest not trying it unless you are a fan of apple soda. - I'll say entirely honestly that this is one of the most different and surprising blind-tastings I've had in a long while.
Review/scoring all done, now the reveal, I get to read the bottle lables to see what I missed! The lable is a play on the Aussie slang name for Brits, 'Pommies', together with an image of a bowler hat ['British imagery'?], together with a sub-title 'Ceci n'est pas une pomme' [this is not an apple] borrowed from Belgian surrealist artist Magritte. ... So there is word-play and humour going on by the bucket-load. Meanwhile 'this is not a beer I'd buy again', obviously after^!.
330ml bottle £1.90 BB: Oct-2021 Bought from BeersOfEurope/King's Lynn as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London.
ps. Ingredients aren't listed on the bottle OR the brewery website. I was curious whether this contains artificial apple flavouring, but who knows...
Apr 27, 2021L- Pale gold and as many mini-chunks of sediment as a snow-globe. Pours with a 5mm off-white cap. ps@ +10mins it holds very well, most impressive aspect here.
S- As I poured it I got a blast of fresh apple and I'm struggling to divine beyond that. There is a form of cakey-grain in the background.
T- [This might be interesting!!]. Bright > zesty...> then within the first second > perfumed. Hmmm. There is a clear apple flavour, but not as you'd find in a cider. It seems very perfumey and quite artificial tasting. Like - hmm, you use apples and get the apple-derivative cider, but here they used apples and wanted them to still taste like fresh apples in the end product. I briefly thought 'Well that was a 1st impression hitting my clean palate' but then I'd another sip and got another jolt of perfumed apple, like apple flavoured bubble-gum.
F- Maybe it's a cross between some kind of beer and apple juice, just not very beery?
O- .... in brief, I just gave the 80% full glass to my wife, who has a sweeter tooth and enjoys apple soda. - Well it's a most unorthodox beer. I suggest not trying it unless you are a fan of apple soda. - I'll say entirely honestly that this is one of the most different and surprising blind-tastings I've had in a long while.
Review/scoring all done, now the reveal, I get to read the bottle lables to see what I missed! The lable is a play on the Aussie slang name for Brits, 'Pommies', together with an image of a bowler hat ['British imagery'?], together with a sub-title 'Ceci n'est pas une pomme' [this is not an apple] borrowed from Belgian surrealist artist Magritte. ... So there is word-play and humour going on by the bucket-load. Meanwhile 'this is not a beer I'd buy again', obviously after^!.
330ml bottle £1.90 BB: Oct-2021 Bought from BeersOfEurope/King's Lynn as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London.
ps. Ingredients aren't listed on the bottle OR the brewery website. I was curious whether this contains artificial apple flavouring, but who knows...
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