Hopschepper
Hopscheppers in Herentals, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: De GraalBelgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular
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Score
6.92
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Deanso (15673) reviewed Hopschepper from Hopscheppers 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle courtesy of and shared with Kermis. Thick creamy white head. Cloudy amber pour. Light bitterness. Ok.
Dedollewaitor (22132) reviewed Hopschepper from Hopscheppers 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Bottle @ Willems Grobbendonk. Pours hazy amber with a creamy head and lacings. Sweet caramel, yeast, hops and mildly phenolic. Toffee and butterscotch AS it warms. Quite some flaws.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Hopschepper from Hopscheppers 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Hobby brew commercialized through De Graal by this young contract brewer, with initially frothy and thick but quickly thinning, regular, off-white head and warm orange amber colour with a diffuse haze of yeast suspended in it, turning fully but evenly cloudy with deposit added. Pleasantly surprising, IPA-like aroma of fresh orange, mango, lemon, grapefruit peel, overripe peach, toasted bread, acacia honey, wormwood, strawberry, hay and chamomille. Sweetish but ’clean’ fruity onset, lots of mandarin, some mango and peach, soft sourish lemony accent, fairly soft carbo, very smooth and supple body with pleasant toasted and lightly caramelly and nutty malts, some spicy yeast and a long, dry, floral and citrussy hop bitter finish with a deep earthy touch of classic noble hops to it as well, juicy and spicy, very enjoyable. What a nice surprise: a true aromatically citrussy hops profile (albeit it more ’subdued’ than in most really American examples) and a fairly clean yeast profile could easily make me think this is an Anglo-Saxon IPA if I’d have to taste this blind. If there were such a thing as a ’Belgian IPA’, I would not even be sure if this can be classified as one: it lacks their earthiness and ’esteriness’ - this is a somewhat ’subdued’ but nevertheless quite genuine IPA, as there are countless in Europe as well nowadays. Their other beer is apparently an imperial stout, which means that these guys have started off by adopting two of the most acclaimed beer styles of the international, American-driven craft beer revolution, rather than opting for again another blonde, dubbel or tripel, like so many new Belgian brewers tend to do. This is a welcome surprise, not just conceptually but technically as well; this prompts me to go on the lookout for their stout, and keep track of anything new happening with these guys in the future. Maybe they’ll come up with a black IPA or a smoked porter or some other ’Americanized’ craft beer style which has not yet penetrated the Belgian beer consumer’s awareness... Kudos!
Saintmatty (11304) reviewed Hopschepper from Hopscheppers 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
330ml Bottle - Amber with a haze and a foamy head. Peach, mango, floral hops and a hint of ginger in the aroma. Fruity, hoppy, tangy and slightly sweet taste with notes of grapefruit, peach, apricot and mango. Very tasty.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Hopschepper from Hopscheppers 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Huge, very dense & fine cream-coloured head, stable; veiled reddish orange-amber beer. Perfumey, exotic fruit & rosewater hops - but only fleetingly. Then more typical EU hops with herbs/weeds aromas. Very hopbitter, dry straw, strong cold tea, nettle cheese. Long lasting dry malt-like aftertaste. Quite slick, hop-oily, medium bodied, rather well-carbonated. Remarkable - normally I would dislike a beer with these characteristics, but here I certainly don’t! The balance is just right, and whatever might seem in excess, happens to please in fact. OK!
MarcoDL (7854) reviewed Hopschepper from Hopscheppers 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Golden color, big white head. Grassy aroma of hops and yeast. Taste is dry and grassy, with typical Belgian aromatic hops and fruity yeast. Decent beer, a bit forgetabble.
SVD (7137) reviewed Hopschepper from Hopscheppers 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at home, orange beer with a small head, aroma is hoppy, taste is hoppy, bitter, some fruit, ok beer
Koelschtrinker (42542) reviewed Hopschepper from Hopscheppers 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Mittelstark hopfiger Antrunk, zu starke Karbonisierung. Trocken, etwas fruchtig, ansonsten rund. 11/11/10/10//10
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Hopschepper from Hopscheppers 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Trübes dunkelorange/gelbes Bier mit ordentlicher Schaumkrone. Geruch sehr fruchtig, tropische Früchte, Grapefruit. Geschmack sehr bitter hopfig, grasig, Grapefruit.
daniele (14510) reviewed Hopschepper from Hopscheppers 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
light amber citrus grapefruit good maltyness and good bitterness ambrata schiuma media buoni sentori luppolatu americani buona beva discreto amaro