Babylone
Brussels Beer Project
- From:
- Brussels Beer Project
- Belgium
- Style:
- Belgian IPA
Ranked #95 - ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 83
Ranked #32,996 - Avg:
- 3.63 | pDev: 9.64%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 9
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 09, 2025
- Added:
- Mar 31, 2015
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 17
SCORE
83
Good
83
Good
No description / notes.
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Ratings by Beejay:
Reviewed by Beejay from Virginia
3.72/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.72/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
A: brown in cookie with a soft tan head.
S: light hop aroma, but malty sweetness overriding. Light test character in the end.
T: lemony, with hints of raisin, dark bread, and a touch of a tart note.
M: medium with plenty of carbonation. A soft feel in the finish.
O: overall I don't tend to get this style often, but I dig it..
Mar 17, 2022S: light hop aroma, but malty sweetness overriding. Light test character in the end.
T: lemony, with hints of raisin, dark bread, and a touch of a tart note.
M: medium with plenty of carbonation. A soft feel in the finish.
O: overall I don't tend to get this style often, but I dig it..
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by DraftMonger from Denmark
3.74/5 rDev +3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 2 | overall: 4
3.74/5 rDev +3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 2 | overall: 4
Copenhagen 14/1 2019. 33 cl bottle from Kihoskh. Kind of Classic simple label. Yellow with a red stripe across.
Pours murky amber with big white head. Bubbly. Settles as a 0,5 cm thick layer of foam covering the surface of the beer. Moderate Lacing.
Aroma is lightly malty sweet. Caramel, bread, cardboard. Fruity hops peeking in. Peach, canned pears, and citrus. A little grassy. Light yeasty basement odor.
Medium strong carbonation. Slightly thick, lively and prickly texture.
Flavor is medium sweet followed by a stronger bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter and lingers for a while. Finish is quite dry.
Pretty lively and bitter in a fine, fruity way.
Nov 09, 2025Pours murky amber with big white head. Bubbly. Settles as a 0,5 cm thick layer of foam covering the surface of the beer. Moderate Lacing.
Aroma is lightly malty sweet. Caramel, bread, cardboard. Fruity hops peeking in. Peach, canned pears, and citrus. A little grassy. Light yeasty basement odor.
Medium strong carbonation. Slightly thick, lively and prickly texture.
Flavor is medium sweet followed by a stronger bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter and lingers for a while. Finish is quite dry.
Pretty lively and bitter in a fine, fruity way.
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
4.01/5 rDev +10.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.01/5 rDev +10.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Brussels Beer Project "Babylone"
11.2 fl. oz. brown glass bottle coded "13/02/23 11:37 A" and sampled on 7 May 2023
$23.49 / 4-pk @ Total Wine & More, Claymont, DE
Notes via stream of consciousness: This beer is made with leftover, and thus "recycled", bread. What a great idea! It's poured a hazy chestnut brown body beneath a thumb's width of off white foam. It's obviously bottle-conditioned as there's sediment left at the bottom of the bottle. Oh, I should also note here that this is the original version at 7% ABV; they've now put out a new edition at 5.5% ABV. In the nose it's malty with notes of caramel and light toast. It's not that hoppy but there's some floral and leafy character. The flavor follows. It remains malty but it's not malty as the aroma suggests, perhaps because the hops cut through it and its 55 IBUS balances it. It's got both golden caramel and darker, reddish caramel, and it's grainy, bready, and lightly toasty. The hops remain leafy, a little citrusy, and a touch piney. It finishes dry with some malt quickly passing and then some soft citrus, pine, and leafiness lingering shortly. In the mouth it's medium bodied and dextrinous, and gently crisp-then-smooth. I think this is a great beer, and if there's no way to get that unsold bread to hungry people that's great. I look forward to trying the new version.
Review #8,616
May 07, 202311.2 fl. oz. brown glass bottle coded "13/02/23 11:37 A" and sampled on 7 May 2023
$23.49 / 4-pk @ Total Wine & More, Claymont, DE
Notes via stream of consciousness: This beer is made with leftover, and thus "recycled", bread. What a great idea! It's poured a hazy chestnut brown body beneath a thumb's width of off white foam. It's obviously bottle-conditioned as there's sediment left at the bottom of the bottle. Oh, I should also note here that this is the original version at 7% ABV; they've now put out a new edition at 5.5% ABV. In the nose it's malty with notes of caramel and light toast. It's not that hoppy but there's some floral and leafy character. The flavor follows. It remains malty but it's not malty as the aroma suggests, perhaps because the hops cut through it and its 55 IBUS balances it. It's got both golden caramel and darker, reddish caramel, and it's grainy, bready, and lightly toasty. The hops remain leafy, a little citrusy, and a touch piney. It finishes dry with some malt quickly passing and then some soft citrus, pine, and leafiness lingering shortly. In the mouth it's medium bodied and dextrinous, and gently crisp-then-smooth. I think this is a great beer, and if there's no way to get that unsold bread to hungry people that's great. I look forward to trying the new version.
Review #8,616
Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England
3.83/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.83/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
#1707 - Blind-tasted except for the beer's name and brewery/country, zero reviews below read (yet!)…
L- Pale chestnut brown. Pours with a 5mm pale tan head. Forms fine lacing all the way down the sides....
S- Ok so it's a hipster beer, citrus forward. I hope it has more than an austere 'citrus salad' to offer after the previous downer of one of that style I just endured. [Brasserie de la Senne, Taras Boulba].
T- It has some citrus notes but they're quite subtle vs my previous^. It also has some malts that bring some balance, unlike^. The flavour is hoppy-bright but the underpinning of malts makes the taste seem er 'much broader', rather than 1-dimensional.
F- The malt also makes this feel more rewarding than^. That also makes it more seasonally versatile, ie it's a cold March day but this has enough rich/reward on the palate to keep it happy.
O- In my previous review^ I likened Taras Boulba to an entrant in a sour-candy challenge, fun when you're 13YO progressively less so as you age. THIS beer is entirely different. It is certainly contemporary in style, but it's not a competition, it has decent balance. That makes it palatable, enjoyable, yum-yum, hehe... BTW I've just noticed that this beer's lable features a bold black text and dayglo pink and yellow design; the very same colours as the album sleeve of 'Never mind the bollocks here's the Sex Pistols' 44 years ago.
Review/scoring all done, now the reveal, I get to read the bottle lables to see what I missed! ==> Bottle=conditioned (sediment @ bottle). Brewed with bread.... ok, well I wouldn't have guessed that.
330ml bottle BB: 02/03/2022 £3.90 Bought from BelgianBeerCompany, Stoke/UK as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London.
Mar 26, 2021L- Pale chestnut brown. Pours with a 5mm pale tan head. Forms fine lacing all the way down the sides....
S- Ok so it's a hipster beer, citrus forward. I hope it has more than an austere 'citrus salad' to offer after the previous downer of one of that style I just endured. [Brasserie de la Senne, Taras Boulba].
T- It has some citrus notes but they're quite subtle vs my previous^. It also has some malts that bring some balance, unlike^. The flavour is hoppy-bright but the underpinning of malts makes the taste seem er 'much broader', rather than 1-dimensional.
F- The malt also makes this feel more rewarding than^. That also makes it more seasonally versatile, ie it's a cold March day but this has enough rich/reward on the palate to keep it happy.
O- In my previous review^ I likened Taras Boulba to an entrant in a sour-candy challenge, fun when you're 13YO progressively less so as you age. THIS beer is entirely different. It is certainly contemporary in style, but it's not a competition, it has decent balance. That makes it palatable, enjoyable, yum-yum, hehe... BTW I've just noticed that this beer's lable features a bold black text and dayglo pink and yellow design; the very same colours as the album sleeve of 'Never mind the bollocks here's the Sex Pistols' 44 years ago.
Review/scoring all done, now the reveal, I get to read the bottle lables to see what I missed! ==> Bottle=conditioned (sediment @ bottle). Brewed with bread.... ok, well I wouldn't have guessed that.
330ml bottle BB: 02/03/2022 £3.90 Bought from BelgianBeerCompany, Stoke/UK as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London.
Reviewed by Bierschenker from Belgium
3.59/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.59/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
My local Delhaize supermarket has a few of these Brussels Beer Project beers on offer. Time to try them all.
I like the feel and design of these beers. They are young creative and wity. And I'm only talking about the labels and cans.
There is a slight reference to the beer or it's ingredients in every name.
Served in my trusty "Seef" tumbler
Serves with a big beige head. Beer itself is hazy red-brown.
Smell gives wet bread, metal, olives and soap.
Flavour is full-bodied, creamy and refreshing. Freshly baked bread, lemon/sour grapes, pepper, clove, anis
Aftertaste becomes dry, thick snd delicate. Bitters take the upperhand. Lingers on for a fair bit.
Going by the description for an Belgian IPA, this is an excellent style example.
May 12, 2020I like the feel and design of these beers. They are young creative and wity. And I'm only talking about the labels and cans.
There is a slight reference to the beer or it's ingredients in every name.
Served in my trusty "Seef" tumbler
Serves with a big beige head. Beer itself is hazy red-brown.
Smell gives wet bread, metal, olives and soap.
Flavour is full-bodied, creamy and refreshing. Freshly baked bread, lemon/sour grapes, pepper, clove, anis
Aftertaste becomes dry, thick snd delicate. Bitters take the upperhand. Lingers on for a fair bit.
Going by the description for an Belgian IPA, this is an excellent style example.
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