Spring Tipple
't Gaverhopke in Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: White Pony MicrobirrificioBelgian Style - Tripel Regular
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Score
6.23
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Jybi (2410) reviewed Spring Tipple from 't Gaverhopke 3 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4.5
Cette triple n'est assurément pas une réussite. C'est à se demander si elle est réellement belge. J'ai tout de même eu de la chance, je n'ai pas eu de problème de gushing à l'ouverture comme cela a déjà été le cas à priori. Le visuel est sur un ambré voilé avec une mousse blanc cassée d'un demi centimètre. Le nez est sur une alliance étrange de miel, banane, pomme de terre, coriandre, pêche, fraise, caramel et tomate. En bouche on retrouve les mêmes arômes, peu enthousiasmants avec un côté vin cuit qui n'arrange rien. Structurellement, nous ne sommes pas mieux servis avec un sucre trop poussé et un alcool qui est agressif. L'intensité aromatique est tout de même honorable, tout comme la longueur et la corpulence...mais à quoi bon?....
yespr (55607) reviewed Spring Tipple from 't Gaverhopke 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33 cl bottle. Pours cloudy orange, white head. Aroma is yeasty and slight herbal. Toasted. Slight sweet. Mild herbal. Bitter and slight fruity finish.
minutemat (16133) reviewed Spring Tipple from 't Gaverhopke 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
330ml bottle from Vanuxeem. Pours a hazy gold, large white head. Aroma is sweet, overripe fruit. Taste is overly sweet, fruity, caramel, candy sugar, more caramel, marmalade. Somewhat unbalanced, sticky sweet, just about managed to finish this.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Spring Tipple from 't Gaverhopke 8 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
I knew it: a White Pony beer from a steini bottle coming from Gaverhopke would mean gushing and a lot of it - based on empirical evidence - so I tried to open this over the sink as carefully and slowly as I could, but after lifting the crown cap gradually over a time span of about five minutes, each time losing beer and having to listen to that ominous, mean hissing sound, I just couldn’t bother anymore and pulled it open in one swift movement - knowing that about 1/3 of the remainder of the content would go down the sink, which is exactly what happened. The rest of the beer carries a very regularly shaped, egg-white, densely moussy head remaining closed for a long time and leaving behind a thick, creamy layer of ’membranous’ lacing, atop an immediately clouded, deeply peach blonde beer with ochre hue and dots of darker dead yeast floating near the bottom, eventually (with sediment) turning into an orange-tinged muddy ochre. Aroma of banana bubblegum, canned peach, ’chicken soup’-like oxidation (i.e. oxidation in its least flattering form), sweet (over)cooked carrots, honey, overripe peach, cloves, melon ’jenever’, stewed red cabbage (though no DMS), sweet cherry tomatoes, old bread, rusty iron (probably just that oxidation again), pineapple jam, melting powder sugar, hints of dried orange peel, liquorish (strangely), rainwater and grass. Estery onset, lots of sweet peach, pineapple and banana, some vague and ’dull’ sourishness underneath, medium carbo (less harsh than expected based on the gushing, I have to admit, but still very minerally); ’full’ and supple, lean body, a tad soapy. Phenols retronasally, clove-like and a tad liquorish-like even, over a bready, caramelly malt sweet body with a lot of residual sugars even for this style, lending it a honeyish effect; the ’rusty’ and ’chicken soup’-like oxidation add a very explicit and unpleasant metallic feel, and distort the retronasal aromas to a large extent, making the finish less pleasant than the onset. Earthiness in the finish as well due to dead yeast, as well as some warming ’jenever’-ish alcohol, a dash of curaçao and a very late, ’dim’ and earthy hop bitter touch, but none of these aspects are any match against the ongoing honey- and canned peach-like, eventually even cloying sweetness, which dominates this beer from beginning to end. Technically an abomination of course - this extreme amount of gushing is an insult to the consumer - but conceptually ill-fated as well, sweet tripels are one thing (though not necessarily my thing) but then at least balance the sweetness with a somewhat more generous amount of hoppiness - or even coriander seed for all I care. I will not be nagging about White Pony’s Gaverhopke past again, this is clearly an older bottle from that dreadful era (Roberto does no longer brew at Gaverhopke anymore - I guess this one is at least two or even three years old), so on a technical level this more or less meets my low expectations, but even ignoring the technical flaws, the gushing and the very unpleasant oxidation, this was probably way too sweet and straightforward to begin with. I guess the idea of a ’traditional’ Belgian spring beer - which barely exists outside of a few standalone cases like Boskeun, Grimbergen Optimo Bruno or Contreras’ Especial Mars - has gone terribly wrong here. A loathsome beer, as expected.
Rubin77 (10150) reviewed Spring Tipple from 't Gaverhopke 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
F: big, off-white, good retention. C: orange gold, hazy. A: malt, fruity, sweet peach, overripe fruits, yeasty, candy sugar. T: thank for Gusher alert! I was prepared so no beer was spilled, malt, strange sweet fruitiness, light orange, candy sugar, yeast, quite sweet but there is something like fresh notes so not bad overall, medium full body, higher carbonation, 0,33l bottle from Spar supermarket in Oostende.
Icedwarf (4850) reviewed Spring Tipple from 't Gaverhopke 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Troebel donkergeel bier met veel schuim. Smaak is licht zoet en licht bitter met iets van vanille en abrikoos.
Martin Lindström (24441) ticked Spring Tipple from 't Gaverhopke 10 years ago
Stuu (34926) reviewed Spring Tipple from 't Gaverhopke 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at ash’s. Pours hazy yellow orange, nose is caramel, sugary, taste is dry, caramel, sweet, fruity.
McCash (15986) reviewed Spring Tipple from 't Gaverhopke 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle thanks to jeevan. Appearance - deep orange and cloudy. Nice head. Nose - sourdough. Good orange and pineapple. Taste - big tangy oranges and a yeasty backdrop. Palate - medium bodied with a big tangy texture and a long dry tangy finish. Overall - not bad at all.
allmyvinyl (20966) reviewed Spring Tipple from 't Gaverhopke 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at Ashton McCobb’s. Gusher! Pours hazy gold with a thin white head. Aromas of bread, light orange, yeast. Taste is sourdough, sweet finish.
Last wee tasting of the summer