Arvum
Jessenhofke in Kuringen, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style Regular|
Score
6.01
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"Heerlijk Limburgs". The city beer of Hasselt, launched in 2014 in collaboration with Pieter Coopmans of Herkenrode and brewed (at Anders) with only local Herkenrode barley and starch-rich water from seitan makery Maya from Hasselt.
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5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle shared, gusher. Hazy golden with a white head. Aroma of citrus, yeast, vegetal notes, light caramel and malt. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Light medium bodied with light carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2016
at 11:20
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle shared thanks to kermis and deanso. Gusher. Clear golden with white head. Light sweet malts, dried dusty herbs, light milky, green leaves and light metallic. Under medium sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft fizzy carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2016
at 11:19
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Huge, just yellowish head, lacey, over veiled yellow beer with verdigris sheen. Weyish, milky grain, white candi sugar, garden weeds. Bitterish, herbal/greenery flavour. Some underlying pale malt, but very demure. Bit dry-liqueurish, or as watered-down blended whisky. Very spritzy, nearly overcarbonated; light body, seems very well-attenuated. Not sweet, not bitter, not flat, not explosive... very neutral.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Jan 2016
at 12:29
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 330ml. @ [ PBF X ] Petalax Beer Festival 2015 by oh6gdx, Petalax, Finland. [ As Arvum ].Clear medium orange yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate yeasty, grass - silage, yeast, fruity yeast, light earthy. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20150725]
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Oct 2015
at 17:44
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled@PBF X. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is metallic, some floral notes as well as mild wooden and yeasty notes. Flavour is floral, yeasty, mild wood and some sligh yeasty notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Aug 2015
at 11:59
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle at PBFX. Hazy orange color, small white head. Grassy, fruity aroma. Light-bodied. Peppery, fruity and some watermelon in the flavor. Spicey and bland.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2015
at 12:05
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
33cl bottle @PBF X. Golden color, thick white head. Perfumy, floral aroma, spicy notes. Flavor has perfumy notes, almonds , sweetness. Generic, one in a thousand.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2015
at 11:54
4.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottled at Petalax Beer Festival. Clear golden, mid sized head. Fruity syrup aroma. Sweet with medium body and rounded, sticky mouthfeel. Mustard seeds and cellar. Mid bitter finish. Unappetising.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2015
at 11:19
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4
Commissioned Belgian blonde since 2013, made with four grain species (barley, rye, spelt and wheat) and presented as a semi-organic beer. Creamy, moussy, snow white, quite dense head leaving some irregular lacing but not gushing, over a misty ’old’ golden blonde beer with a suspension of yeast divided throughout the liquid; a more deeply misty, slightly ochre colour appears after adding the deposit. Classic ’Belgian’ aroma of lightly toasted white bread, green apple peel, unripe peach (quite strong actually), quite a lot of soapy wheat increasing as it warms up, tons of freshly cut grass and nettles, hint of banana, green plum, unripe pineapple, touch coriander seed but fortunately not too strong, sourish grains, soft biscuit, chamomille. Fruity onset of unripe peach and apricot, starfruit, redcurrant and again that unripe, raw pineapple accent, fairly strong carbo with minerally ’sourishness’, smooth and slick mouthfeel, spicy yeastiness over a simply pale maltiness, vaguely bready, paired with sourish, lightly spicy and sharpish rye and spelt and the sourish ’soapiness’ of wheat but subduedly so; finish has lingering green apple peel plus lingering sourish grains along with a more ’juicy’ malt breadiness which lends it a little bit of softness - but the overall impression remains a bit astringent, not to say harsh, with a deep, ’bassoon’-like earthy hop bitterishness in the background. The drying coriander spice effect only adds to this astringently dry experience. I don’t think the combination of both rye and spelt did this beer good: the sourish graininess is just too sharp in this one, and the green apple acetaldehyde kept dominating the aroma; the resiny coriander seed effect only makes this worse. Too astringent, too harsh and too estery to be truly enjoyable, in spite of the noble ’European’ hop dosis, which is fair enough in this one and lasts for a long while. I did not enjoy this - Jessenhofke can do better, I remain convinced.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Jul 2015
at 19:15