Brother Ian's Belgian 6
5 Paddles Brewing Company
- From:
- 5 Paddles Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Dubbel
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.8 | pDev: 11.84%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 29, 2017
- Added:
- Apr 05, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Phyl21ca from Canada (QC)
3.5/5 rDev -7.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -7.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Bottle: Poured a caramel color ale with a nice dark brown foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of caramelized malt with light dry grain and candi sugar is interesting. Taste is a mix of caramelized sugar with some candi sugar, light dry grain notes and some light dry fruits ester. Body is quite full with good carbonation. Enjoyable Belgian ale with good amount of complexity but missing some attenuation.
Dec 30, 2015
Reviewed by biegaman from Canada (ON)
3.8/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.8/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Brother Ian doesn't wear the cloak nor is he all that quiet or restrained; loud, cherrywood highlights abound with little modesty, absolute transparency, and little to no foamy hood shrouding them. Still, there is a certain peacefulness found in staring into its warm luminescence...
This aroma should be inspiring to bakers and confectioners - it smells of nutty, award-winning wholegrain bread and timeless, honeyed Greek desserts like kataifi, loukoumades and, the most famous, baklava. There are also hints of dried fruits, birch syrup and dark, hard toffee.
For those who haven't had the pleasure of eating loukoumades (basically a bite sized Greek doughnut), imagine dough that's been deep-fried until golden and crispy, soaked in honey and garnished with chopped walnuts and cinnamon. Add a little brown sugar and this is the tastiness Brother Ian offers.
And like that pastry this too has a sweet, doughy, yeasty flavour yet distinctive air-y fluffiness that you'd swear came straight out of a warm oven. The 7% alcohol just melts into the backdrop, with plum and praline notes shoveled over top to hide any remnants of it, making it eminently drinkable.
...which, in a way, adds by taking away; this has nowhere the richness or complexity of time-honoured Trappist or Abbey offerings. Then again Rochefort 6 and St. Bernardus 6 are shadowed by their bigger, stronger brothers so this mildness may be innate to the recipe and intentional.
What's undeniable, however, is that this Whitby, Ontario beer was not brewed in Belgium by an actual Belgian. Like so many North American offerings its registers too thin, with candi sugar being equally (if not more so) evident as malt and the phenols/esters not so elegant. That being said, it's an honorable effort and good offering that's certainly worthy of the modest donation 5 Paddles asks for it.
Jun 27, 2015This aroma should be inspiring to bakers and confectioners - it smells of nutty, award-winning wholegrain bread and timeless, honeyed Greek desserts like kataifi, loukoumades and, the most famous, baklava. There are also hints of dried fruits, birch syrup and dark, hard toffee.
For those who haven't had the pleasure of eating loukoumades (basically a bite sized Greek doughnut), imagine dough that's been deep-fried until golden and crispy, soaked in honey and garnished with chopped walnuts and cinnamon. Add a little brown sugar and this is the tastiness Brother Ian offers.
And like that pastry this too has a sweet, doughy, yeasty flavour yet distinctive air-y fluffiness that you'd swear came straight out of a warm oven. The 7% alcohol just melts into the backdrop, with plum and praline notes shoveled over top to hide any remnants of it, making it eminently drinkable.
...which, in a way, adds by taking away; this has nowhere the richness or complexity of time-honoured Trappist or Abbey offerings. Then again Rochefort 6 and St. Bernardus 6 are shadowed by their bigger, stronger brothers so this mildness may be innate to the recipe and intentional.
What's undeniable, however, is that this Whitby, Ontario beer was not brewed in Belgium by an actual Belgian. Like so many North American offerings its registers too thin, with candi sugar being equally (if not more so) evident as malt and the phenols/esters not so elegant. That being said, it's an honorable effort and good offering that's certainly worthy of the modest donation 5 Paddles asks for it.
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