Hoptimist
Brouwerij Palm in Steenhuffel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.67
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jefverstraete (7493) reviewed Hoptimist from Brouwerij Palm 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Brewed @ Val Dieu. Hazy blond colour, white foam. Very herbal bitterness, also malty sweet with dry bitter grassy finish. Unusual but not bad.
Hamirubi (36) reviewed Hoptimist from Brouwerij Palm 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
33cl bottle at home (21 V 2020), as Hoptimist. An almost hazy-cloudy orange to amber coloured brew with a firm white collar on top, rather frothy and thick at first. A beautiful sight. Lots of earth, huge doses of dust. These flavours are backed with malt and hay features, maybe some bread and faint apricot hints too. One could find some grass and stone fruit flavours in there as well. The hops that are present in the beer's name, are not a straigthforward trump card of the nose. The mouthfeel however, does not have this feature too. No keen fruity or herbs-like hop sensations, whatsoever. This is rather a dull amber with overly sweet tongue. Anyone who wanted to find a renewed Hopselect brew, should step away from this beer. The first sip has a sweet onset with honey and lingering corn and malt flavours. The carbonation is quite allright, but the finish is short with sugar, galore! Think of bubblegum and - again - honey residu, masking the bitter ending (which is in here somewhere, no doubt about that). In the back, there are some banana and leaves, but all this is hidden. The texture is somewhat creamy, not in a pleasant way. I'm afraid this Hoptimist is not really an enthusiastic brew; contrary to its name.
Bart23 (984) ticked Hoptimist from Brouwerij Palm 6 years ago
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Hoptimist from Brouwerij Palm 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
New Palm beer created under Bavaria’s ownership, bottle from the Delhaize supermarket in Zwijnaarde near Ghent (whereas it was originally only sold in Delhaizes in Brussels and Wallonia apparently). Opens with a slight hiss and some ‘smoke’ coming from the bottle neck – a lovely sound and sight… Very thick and somewhat creamy, egg-white, tightly cobweb-lacing, slowly dissipating head over a warm ‘old gold’ coloured beer with a pale apricot tinge, lightly hazy with very active sparkling. Aroma of strong banana and bubblegum isoamylacetate, white bread, fried apples, ‘oliebollen’, cloves, powder sugar, grass, margarine and a very pronounced dosage of iron, which is easily confirmed by the ‘hand test’. Sweet onset, lots of banana, pear and peach, bubblegummy with spritzy, lightly souring carbonation adding some minerally notes, slick cereally and white-bready malt sweetish body with thin metallic edges and a subtle layer of honeyish, residual sugariness on top; the iron shavings effect returns retronasally while a faint, grassy and floral hop touch develops, adding only late and mild bitterness. The bubblegum and malt sweet effects linger beyond that weak hoppiness – which of course immediately raises the question where the name ‘Hoptimist’ comes from, as this is essentially a cliché and sweet Belgian blonde for the masses, an overly simple beer that has absolutely nothing to do with the global hop-forward movement both Palm and its owner Bavaria are very obviously completely oblivious to. I almost feel sorry for Palm, the proud Brabantian family brewery that was once a trustful source of decent, albeit it never truly exciting beer… No wonder they ended up in Bavaria’s clutches.
Rubin77 (10150) reviewed Hoptimist from Brouwerij Palm 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
F: big, egg-white, long lasting. C: deep gold, hazy. A: watery malty, bit bready, honey, metallic touch, bit fruity. T: malty, light orange, metallic, spicy, hint of fruity, bit bready, medium body and carbonation, decent bitterness, not directly bad yet quite simple with “cheap like feel” partially enjoyed, 33cl bottle from Delhaize Chazal @ Schaerbeek in Brussels.
Sebletitje (15832) reviewed Hoptimist from Brouwerij Palm 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bouteille 33cl, BB 02/2020; Dorée, col blanc épais. Arôme marqué par un bouquet malté cara pils, léger pâle, le tout sur un nez restant dans les grandes lignées belges, houblonné modéré apportant une fine pointe de fruité. Palais reste marqué par un houblonné noble tirant sur léger citronné et une note de menthe pour un effet frais en fin de bouche. Le tout se poursuit sur un caractère très belge au niveau d'un malté pils et cara. Une sorte de Cornet revisitée en plus léger et sans le 'oak'. Lez site dédié apporte tout sauf une explication concrète de la bière - il faudra donc rester optimiste pour savoir ce qui se cache derrière cette bière, sauf le coup marketing .... meh rien de neuf. Au final, même avec un peu d'optimisme, j'ai eu mal à trouver ici une bière qui relance ce côté tjs identique de bière belge de masse.