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Picobrouwerij Alvinne
- From:
- Picobrouwerij Alvinne
- Belgium
- Style:
- English Porter
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.63 | pDev: 3.58%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 10, 2019
- Added:
- Aug 19, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Collaboration with Rosny Beer
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by MAB from Canada (AB)
3.5/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Day 18 of the 2018 advent calendar.
This didn't deliver what I expected. It was bitter and dark but the yeast combination with these malts didn't work, somehow.
A bit thin, as well.
Dec 19, 2018This didn't deliver what I expected. It was bitter and dark but the yeast combination with these malts didn't work, somehow.
A bit thin, as well.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.47/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.47/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
330ml bottle (@5.6% ABV) - day 18 of the 2018 Craft Beer Advent Calendar, and a collaboration with Rosny Beer, who hail from the deep southwest of France. After yesterday's experience, I am opening this one very, very carefully.
This beer pours a clear (I think), very dark amber-highlighted brown colour, with a teeming tower (no spillage) of puffy, creamy, and somewhat fizzy tan head, which leaves a bit of splattered snow rime lace around the glass as it slowly bleeds out of sight.
It smells of acrid artisanal coffee, gritty and grainy cereal malt, an earthy and mildly sour yeastiness, and some ethereal cocoa powder. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, bitter cuppa Joe, some indistinct sourness, faint oily bar-top nuts, and a well-understated earthy, musty, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly benign in its milquetoast frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of general acridity making a scratch in the surface sheen here. It finishes trending dry, the cold coffee and fading malt landing as such.
Overall - there just seems to be too much going on with this offering, that not a lot of it meshes into a coherent whole. It is indeed bitter, but lacks substance. I dunno, I guess this just isn't my kind of thing.
Dec 18, 2018This beer pours a clear (I think), very dark amber-highlighted brown colour, with a teeming tower (no spillage) of puffy, creamy, and somewhat fizzy tan head, which leaves a bit of splattered snow rime lace around the glass as it slowly bleeds out of sight.
It smells of acrid artisanal coffee, gritty and grainy cereal malt, an earthy and mildly sour yeastiness, and some ethereal cocoa powder. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, bitter cuppa Joe, some indistinct sourness, faint oily bar-top nuts, and a well-understated earthy, musty, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly benign in its milquetoast frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of general acridity making a scratch in the surface sheen here. It finishes trending dry, the cold coffee and fading malt landing as such.
Overall - there just seems to be too much going on with this offering, that not a lot of it meshes into a coherent whole. It is indeed bitter, but lacks substance. I dunno, I guess this just isn't my kind of thing.
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