Kompaan 58 Handlanger
Kompaan Bier

 

 

 

My second bier of the day at Gollem aan het Water in Amsterdam on 17SEP19. The 0.33l bottle set me back €5.40. Best before date was 23MAY20.

Had a rich, bright, orange marmalade color, with some haziness. Had a healthy, light tan head, with nice lacing. Aroma had a mix of caramel malts and citrus. Body was medium, and it felt decent on the tongue.

Had some light malty action, caramel and toast present, with some honey-like notes. Then there was some tangerine and apricot, a nice combo of sweet and light bitterness. It was also a bit pithy, with pineapple and grapefruit in the dry finish. Very nice, indeed. Prosit!

4.12/5 rDev +14.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

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Dep golden - amber colour, medium head that seems to lasts forever, irresgular good lace.
Aroma of pine, caramel, resins, tropical fruits.
Medium to full body, creamy orange palatae, good carbonation.
Taste of oranges, peaches, caramel, tropical fruits. Good.

Hazy orange with a full head of foam. Lots of pine in the smell, with notes of malt, honey and caramel. The taste is also quite piney, with the caramel adding some not unpleasant sweetness. The swallowing adds a hint of lemon zest. Mouth feel is medium to full bodied and quite easy to drink, though beers like this make me wonder if the relatively high abv is actually required here.

 

Indeed, pine needles and citrus aromas also come to talk pine needles and citrus upwards but the flavors are not surprising layered loose as a dryhop belonged, but tasty bitterhoppig

 

 

 

 

 

On tap at Dorst Festival. Hazy orange with a fine white head. Grapefruit, blood oranges, pineapple, passion fruit and malt sugar. Medium bodied with low carbonation and a sticky sweet aftertaste.

 

330ml bottle, poured into Kasteel chalice.

A: Fairly pale shade of amber, initial two finger thickhead, faded gradually while leaving a decent amount of lacing, fairly hazy.

S: Initially thearoma wasn’t overly pronounced, some citrus fruits put me in mind of a commercial American Pale Ale, however the grapefruit got more and more prominent.

T: Wheat, lime, citrus, grapefruit and gummibears, good amount of bitterness but didn’t over do things.

M: Crisp, decent amount of carbonation, medium body.

O: Kept everything balanced, was the first beer for a while that really
made me sit up and take notice.