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Bronckhorster Brewing Company in Rha, Gelderland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.22
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5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle on the train during the Isle of Wight Jolly. Pours hazy copper-gold with a huge, off-white head. The nose holds rich, bready malts, marmalade, caramel. Medium to big sweet flavor with bitter earth and grain, gooey pine, orange rind. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Warming finish, sticky, with notes of alcohol, high bitterness, more grains. Too bitter. Not great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Nov 2014
at 00:25
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle on the IOW Jolly Day outward train tasting, thanks to Leighton Hoverfan, 24/08/14. Hazed orange amber with a big old off white covering that retains well. Nose is bitter orange marmalade, light plastic, earthy hop, pine, hint of soap. Taste comprises bitter tropicals, light pine, orange pith, spice. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with hop bitterness. So so DIPA, drinkable but a touch too much plastic/soap to it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2014
at 13:58
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home, 7th September 14. God hoppy aroma, pours quite dark, the flavour is well balanced, fairly sweet, in line with the style, the hops come through, and it is easy to drink especially for the ABV. OK, would like more bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2014
at 13:14
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle shared by Leighton during the IoW Jolly. It pours murky amber with a thick off-white head. The nose is juicy, earthy, soap, citrus peel, doughy, muffin and brioche. The taste is very bitter, raw, earthy, dirt, astringency, orange, soap, leaf and oily hops with a dry finish. Medium and high carbonation and very foamy mouth-feel. The foaminess almost chokes you... Soapy and foamy. No good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Aug 2014
at 08:48
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Sampled @ Gents Bierfestival 2014. 330 ml. bottle. Huge off-white head, hazy amber beer. Creamy orange, pine nose,… Tastes of strong caramel, cookie, molaases, toffee with a balance of pine, flowers, resin, grapefruit, toffee, touch honey, nice sweet / bitter balance. Creamy thick malty body. Pretty nice DIPA, another fine beer from the ever improving NL beer scene.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2014
at 05:59
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Towering, very dense yellow head, with lace over fully hazy amber beer. Pine, cypress, rainwater, and dry hops. Resiny, quite bitter, bitter herbs (rather than -hops), liquorice minus the sweetness; The malt is present underneath, but builds more body than flavour. Quite carbonated, very slick and at least medium bodied. Remarkable. This is more a continental interpretation of IPA than many’s the so-called ’Belgian IPA’...
Tried
on 16 Aug 2014
at 23:57