Tonight's beer: Brouwerij Van Steenberge Piraat Triple-Hop
Lots of grassy-floral bitterness to open; pale-fruity sweetness emerges quickly—pears and apples and white grapes. Pale bread with grace-notes of caramel lurks in the background. Hints of bright spice (coriander, ginger, cloves). Transitions swiftly to quite dry.
Medium-bodied, maybe a little lighter, with lots of carbonation. Just a little soft stickiness, mostly cleansing and cleansing, dry and refreshing. Very little (roughly no) alcohol presence.
A Belgian IPA that's actually brewed in Belgium—that's something we son't get around here too often; it's interesting to observe the differences between a Belgian beer and an American interpretation of a Belgian beer (especially when it's in the neighborhood of an IPA, which there is a distinctly American take on). This is a quite bitter beer, but it's still nicely balanced; of course, it's intense and complex as hell (at 10.5% ABV it had better be ...) too, and alarmingly drinkable. Also unsurprisingly, considering it's an actual Belgian beer, it practically begs to be served with food; I'm thinking Thai ...
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| Brasserie Van Steenberge Piraat Triple-Hop |
Lots of grassy-floral bitterness to open; pale-fruity sweetness emerges quickly—pears and apples and white grapes. Pale bread with grace-notes of caramel lurks in the background. Hints of bright spice (coriander, ginger, cloves). Transitions swiftly to quite dry.
Medium-bodied, maybe a little lighter, with lots of carbonation. Just a little soft stickiness, mostly cleansing and cleansing, dry and refreshing. Very little (roughly no) alcohol presence.
A Belgian IPA that's actually brewed in Belgium—that's something we son't get around here too often; it's interesting to observe the differences between a Belgian beer and an American interpretation of a Belgian beer (especially when it's in the neighborhood of an IPA, which there is a distinctly American take on). This is a quite bitter beer, but it's still nicely balanced; of course, it's intense and complex as hell (at 10.5% ABV it had better be ...) too, and alarmingly drinkable. Also unsurprisingly, considering it's an actual Belgian beer, it practically begs to be served with food; I'm thinking Thai ...
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