Zinnebir
Brasserie de la Senne

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From:
Brasserie de la Senne
 
Belgium
Style:
Belgian Pale Ale
Ranked #18
ABV:
6%
Score:
88
Ranked #15,059
Avg:
3.91 | pDev: 9.97%
Reviews:
115
Ratings:
298
Status:
Active
Rated:
Feb 08, 2024
Added:
Nov 24, 2005
Wants:
  13
Gots:
  38
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Ratings by aszatk01:
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Rated by aszatk01 from Pennsylvania

4/5  rDev +2.3%

Nov 22, 2013
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Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York

4.3/5  rDev +10%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
On tap at The Sovereign in Washington, DC.

This one pours a golden clear yellow color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like lemongrass, grapefruit, tea, and sugar cookie malt.

This is pretty hoppy for a Belgian beer – with a really clean citrusy and tea-like hop character splashing across a simple cookie-like but sturdy malt backbone. It finishes quite dry and bitter, and tastes very refreshing.

This is light bodied, sharp, dry, and quite drinkable.

This is one of the hoppier Belgian pale ales, and it’s pretty delicious.
Feb 08, 2024
 
Rated: 3.5 by Noelito76 from New York

Sep 17, 2023
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Rated by Vlad11 from England

3.77/5  rDev -3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
hints of satsuma, orange, gooseberry, jam, medium plus bitterness. not very malty west coasty feel. nice beer
Sep 10, 2023
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Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio

4.19/5  rDev +7.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Quite foggy amber-orange with a tall khaki foam head.

Verdantly herbal and old world dank, this translates kind of like musty barn wood and drying corn, but not horse blanket. Fresh cereal wort and a tangy, increasingly bitter grassiness come out after the cleanly, softly dry swallow.
Jul 06, 2023
 
Rated: 3.02 by rangerred from Tennessee

Jun 02, 2023
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Rated by LukeGude from Iowa

4.3/5  rDev +10%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
On tap at Monk’s Cafe in Philly. I do love a Belgian blonde.
May 28, 2023
 
Rated: 4.21 by TheRatCage from Connecticut

May 07, 2023
 
Rated: 3.74 by Eman17 from Illinois

May 06, 2023
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Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway

3.64/5  rDev -6.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
July 2014: Rerate, 330 ml bottle, Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 5.8%. Hazy pale golden colour, large white head. Otherwise as first sample.

Original rating: Cask at the GBBF 2008. ABV was said to be 6.0%. Cloudy golden colour, low head. Lovely aroma of yeast, fruits, spices and honey. The flavour is yeasty and spicy / peppery, fairly dry, slightly medicinal in the finish.
Aug 21, 2022
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Rated by pkalix from California

4.17/5  rDev +6.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
i like it! not the traditional hop bitterness we're accostomed to....
Aug 21, 2022
 
Rated: 4.39 by beerrat from Virginia

Jun 05, 2022
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Reviewed by cambabeer from New York

4.07/5  rDev +4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Pale gold hazy body, light gets through but not much else, soapy white head that sticks. Malt sweetness starts the nose, quickly fading to herbal, soap, lavender, grassy. Taste is floral bitterness, mouthful of flower spice and some slight sweetness that just barely gets through. Finishes dry and biter like a mouthful of flowers and coriander.
May 07, 2022
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Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England

3.29/5  rDev -15.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
#1709 - Blind-tasted except for the beer's name, brewery, ABV% and country, zero reviews below read (yet!)...
L- Mid gold, slightly hazy (some major sediment left accreted at bottom of bottle). Pours with 1Cm white head. ps 10mins later, holds up very well.
S- It seems mild, I just get a slightly rich aromatic note.
T- Quite hoppy-dry on the front, some malts bringing partial balance follow. The flavour is quite bright with some complexity giving interest.
F- Massive CO2 in the mouth, really unsually so. Overall quite dry, with contemporary hop notes.
O- It's very contemporary but the bright hops are not entirely hard-core/austere as there is some balancing malty richness too. Overall though it's too hop-centric for me, I prefer subtlety/balance. Should suit a younger generation who favour modern hops-forward beers more.
Review/scoring all done, now the reveal, I get to read the bottle lables to see what I missed! ===> Nope, nothing to add.
330ml bottle BB: 08/12/2021 £2.80 Bought from BeerMerchants, Kent/UK as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London.
Mar 27, 2021
 
Rated: 4.18 by cinho from Wales

Jan 20, 2021
 
Rated: 3.54 by DvdP from Netherlands

Nov 11, 2020
 
Rated: 3.87 by igl from Russian Federation

Feb 20, 2020
 
Rated: 3.23 by stephenlee93 from England

Feb 01, 2020
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Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois

3.79/5  rDev -3.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Had on tap at The Beer Temple.
(Tap avoids StonedTrippin's rant that this beer's obscurity condemns it to not being fresh... or worse, sitting on the shelf well past normal life.) At any rate, I hope to have this on tap again on Monday to confirm this review.

Looks fluffy, but big bubbles... not intense. Zinnebir's moderate yeast also affects the Smells which are grapefruity, but also slightly floral. Tastes are better as there is a nice balance with the bitter, a well-integrated ale. In the mouth, Zinnebir is cleansing and refreshing and crisp and semi-dry. I want to eat this with food.

Along with three others from de la Senne, Zinnebir is among "The 1001 Beers You Must Taste Before You Die" and probably deserves to be on the list since, the reviewer claims, it breaks from the traditional pale and younger, hipper people drink it. I'm glad I found out who I finally am... 66 years later !

7/22/22 Three years later, I again have Zinnebir on tap at The Beer Temple. Its bitter is more prominent and long-lasting and would not be a good accompaniment to food. De la Senne gets good Overall Hugs for continuing the Belgian farmhouse tradition, but the hops here push the envelope a bit too much for me.
Oct 31, 2019
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Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois

4/5  rDev +2.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Had this on draft 10/9/19 @ the Beer Temple.

Notes of lemon, dry grass & hints of wheat; a mild bitterness emerged as this warmed up. A nice, easy to drink Belgian pale.
Oct 28, 2019
Zinnebir from Brasserie de la Senne
Beer rating: 88 out of 100 with 298 ratings