Vapeur En Folie
Brasserie à Vapeur

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From:
Brasserie à Vapeur
 
Belgium
Style:
Belgian Pale Strong Ale
Ranked #165
ABV:
8%
Score:
83
Ranked #23,493
Avg:
3.67 | pDev: 14.17%
Reviews:
61
Ratings:
87
Status:
Active
Rated:
Nov 10, 2023
Added:
Aug 04, 2002
Wants:
  1
Gots:
  5
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Rated by eluvah from New York

3.87/5  rDev +5.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Purchased at the brewery. Pours a hazy gold. Has a hint of citrus on the nose and flavor. Has a dry sour finish.
Nov 10, 2023
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Reviewed by edthehead from Maryland

3.13/5  rDev -14.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Golden semi-clear appearance with a robust foamy biscuit white head. Malt, spice, grass, biscuit, sourdough, yeast. Moderate body, moderate carbonation.
Jul 24, 2022
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Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England

3.83/5  rDev +4.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Blind-tasted except for the beer's name and brewery/country, zero reviews below read (yet!)...
L- Mid gold, slightly hazy, pours with a dense white whipped cream (really!) looking head
S- Deep and complex.
T- Piquant and dry, then via almost deep rustic powerful cider. Into a nice aromatic heavily beery finish.
F- It's just pretty heavy duty but done very classily
O- Nice. Happy to try, Would happily drink it again. Goes down well, like a solid tripel-esque beer should do.
Review/scoring all done, now the reveal, I get to read the bottle lables to see what I missed! --> Contains citrus and cumin.... well I never.
330ml bottle BB: 03/22 Euro2.60 Bought from BeerMania/Belgium as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London.
May 31, 2021
 
Rated: 3.75 by paulish from New York

Jul 08, 2020
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Reviewed by FLima from Brazil

3.61/5  rDev -1.6%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Amber color with no head.
Slightly sour aroma with predominant notes of apple juice, white grapes and sugar.
Flavor with notes of white grapes, green apples, oak, lots of strawberries, Cointreau liquor, cumin, white pepper, chalk yeast, grapefruit and honey. Dry aftertaste with a lingering white grapes sourness.
Light body with virtually no carbonation. Alcohol of 8% is well disguised.
Interesting beer that felt like a desert white wine with further attenuation. Very yeasty and fruity. Hard to tell what style it fits.
Oct 10, 2019
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Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado

4.19/5  rDev +14.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
good golly, for all the heady new school beer on the circuit right now, its the old dusty moldy rusty forgotten belgian beers that truly get me excited to be drinking beer. in some ways, its always been this way, but i recognize it more in the moment now rather than retrospectively, and drinking a beer like this is an occasion for me, a dude who drinks beer basically daily and has exposure to a lot of the good stuff, this is really where its at for me, and for beer in general, like it or not. i cant believe how clear this is, its old and crusty, even some mold under the cap, but this looks like a pilsener in the glass, heady and golden and clear, only towards the bottom of the glass does it have a little sediment, but what a pretty and delicate looking beer. aroma has some staleness to it, which is to be expected, but it also has bright fresh fruit, white wine and pear, underripe cherry, pencil shavings, and laffy taffy in the yellow wrapper. the flavor is full fledged ripe pear, minerals, unoaked chardonnay, and a weird sweetness like nectarine and apricot preserves, jelly of some kind, almost medicinal, yeasty in a cool way, vintage, nobody makes beer like this. great carbonation, no chance its as strong as the label says it is, somehow understated in its robustness and uniqueness, like white gummy bears, fan or not. epic glass of beer, and if you are a fan of the old school, this cannot be ignored. the best 11 bucks ive spent this year...
Nov 11, 2017
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Reviewed by Ciocanelu from Romania

3.5/5  rDev -4.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Hazy golden color with off-white head. Aroma has yeast notes and light pickle juice. Taste is slightly tart/astringent, some yeasty rustic notes with meadow flowers and hay, light grassy bitterness on the finish. Light to medium body with medium carbonation. Overall it's a decent belgian ale but nothing special.
Oct 22, 2017
 
Rated: 3.82 by dcmchew from Romania

Sep 04, 2017
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Reviewed by brewandbbq from New Hampshire

3.93/5  rDev +7.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
750ml bottle cellared on it's side from 1994.

The cork pulled complete and wet and the beer poured with barely a trace of carbonation. Orangy copper with some loose white bubbles on the surface. Soured apples with orange undertones on the nose. A hint of wet pennies. Light bodied and flatish. Tart apple skins and a hint of Grand Marnier on the palate. Wine-like and fruity with minerally undertones. Finishes with lingering tart apples and a tannic dryness.

Tasty and surprisingly fruity. Way past prime though.
Apr 21, 2016
 
Rated: 4.07 by unclekeith from Alaska

Jun 14, 2015
 
Rated: 3.15 by DucksFan16 from Tennessee

Jun 14, 2015
 
Rated: 3.71 by shelby415 from Oregon

Apr 18, 2015
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Reviewed by Bitterbill from Wyoming

4.21/5  rDev +14.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
F 14/2/16 on the cap. Best before date.

It pours a hazy straw gold with a large then small head of foam that leaves some good lacing behind. Btw, I see a bunch of floaties in a quite cloudy beer that's left in the bottle. Appearance will change.

This smells like a spiced up, but not too much, Saison. Peppery, citrusy, a few pitted fruitiness, still. It smells mostly like a Saison with the usual hints of hay..

The taste comes through as I pretty much expected. Though, maybe, a bit fruitier than I expected considering the nose told me this was more Saison than anything else.

Light pitted fruit, light peppery notes, a bit of tang that I'd liken to orange or maybe even lemon peel though I lean towards the former.

I pour more in my glass. The cloudiness I anticipated didn't come to fruition. Yet. There's still a few ounces in the bottle. I'm now getting some coriander, and more citrus. This is neither bitter nor sweet; I'd call it an earthy spicy. If that makes any sense.

Last dregs poured in. Cloudy? Yes. Floaties? Where'd they go?? Can't seem them.

The evolution of this beer from first sip to what's close to the last is not mind bending or mind blowing but jus...t enough to make me take notice. At US$9.69 for the 750ml bottle, I reckon and call it a bargain. Cheers!
Apr 12, 2015
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Reviewed by pat61 from Minnesota

4.34/5  rDev +18.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Vapeur en Folie pours a clean hazy gold with a 1” finely bubbled white foam cap that slowly collapses. Spice and light fruit aromas, faint smoke, and citrus rise from the glass. Waves of fruit and spice flavors roll over the tongue with peach predominating with support from lemon and orange and light biscuit flavors. The beer is on the light side of medium bodied with a very soft creamy texture and above average carbonation. Very refreshing and easy to drink.
Feb 01, 2015
 
Rated: 4 by DerekMorgan from Massachusetts

Nov 20, 2014
 
Rated: 3.55 by mattfancett from England

Sep 03, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by ImperialStout from California

Aug 07, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by GRG1313 from California

Jul 04, 2014
 
Rated: 4.5 by psoriasaurus from Thailand

May 08, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by afsdan from Colorado

Apr 06, 2014
Vapeur En Folie from Brasserie à Vapeur
Beer rating: 83 out of 100 with 87 ratings