Hopus Primeur 2014
(Batch of Hopus Primeur)
Brasserie Lefebvre in Rebecq-Quenast, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Series Out of Production|
Score
6.88
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Meilby (14856) reviewed Hopus Primeur 2014 from Brasserie Lefebvre 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle 330ml @ Geokkjer
Pours hazy golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, alcohol, floral, hint of banana. Taste is medium sweet and light to medium bitter with a long malty, floral and slightly warm finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Hopus Primeur 2014 from Brasserie Lefebvre 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Last year’s version of Lefêbvre’s (now) most renowned beer, with rocky, very thick, very dense and very stable, moussy, yellowish white head, very firmly lacing; and clear ’old gold’ colour with quiet sparkling, misty light orange with deposit. Aroma of Granny Smith apple, freshly baked white bread, unripe pear, the white bottom side of orange peel, cookie dough, rosé champagne, overripe gooseberries, freshly cut grass, cooked and sugared rhubarb, freshly baked apple cake, suggestions of vanilla extract, honey, pine resin-based bath foam, white raspberry, gin, biscuit and a suspiciously heavy amount of candi sugar. Taste kicks off with a combination of sweet, pear- and gooseberry-like fruit sweetness along with a refreshing, green apple- and unripe plum-like sourness; fairly strong carbo, a bit minerally, with a smooth but ’full’ body, revealing bittering hints already in the middle; acetaldehyde is all around. Becomes hoppier and more bittering towards the finish with leafy, earthy, grassy, somewhat peppery, very long and deep ’English’ hop bitterness, persisting bready and honeyish malt sweetness and a fair deal of warming, ’jonge jenever’-like alcohol; bit yeasty, if not doughy, as well. Hoppy alright, but in a more restrained way than I hoped for even though I have to acknowledge the duration of the hop bitterness is clearly above average here; another ’tripel hop’ trying to build a bridge between the hoppier Belgian tripels and the true IPAs. By itself an enjoyable beer, the sweet biscuit smell was a bit over the top for me though, and I just wish Belgian (family) brewers had the guts to come up with ’real’ IPAs or DIPAs. Somewhat overcarbonated as well. Still, enjoyable alright, with that long bitter aftertaste and warming ’jenever’-like glow which typifies so many strong Belgians.
Gyllenbock (17550) reviewed Hopus Primeur 2014 from Brasserie Lefebvre 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Beer Tempel, bought in October 2014. Slightly hazy golden with a large white head. Quite bitter with grass, floral hops, citrus, light malt and some notes of "soap". An ok one, although quite sweet.
MiP (20379) reviewed Hopus Primeur 2014 from Brasserie Lefebvre 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, 8.3%. Flowery hop aroma. Almost clear golden colour. Very big stable white head. The flavour is grapefruity and OK bitter. The bitterness is not as clean as I had hoped. Has some herbal notes. mild hop bite.
martin00sr (12451) reviewed Hopus Primeur 2014 from Brasserie Lefebvre 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Clear yellow, huge white head. Citrus and yeasty aroma with clear malt background. Flavour is similar with strong bitterness and alcohol.
Bamsen78 (8684) reviewed Hopus Primeur 2014 from Brasserie Lefebvre 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle @ Wannsinchen / MiP bliver gammel. Pours slightly hazy light amber with stable white head. Clear aroma of fruit and malt, with notes of flowers. Bitter, hoppy flavour, with notes of citrus and flowers and touches of fruit and malt. Bitter aftertaste. Decent.
yespr (55573) reviewed Hopus Primeur 2014 from Brasserie Lefebvre 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33 cL bottle. Pours cloudy yellow with a huge white head. Aroma is grassy and slight herbal hoppy. Bitter, toasted malty and grapefruity to grassy. Bitter and phenolic, herbal dry finish.
Kyotolefty (15977) reviewed Hopus Primeur 2014 from Brasserie Lefebvre 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Inoue. Bright, light golden color with a big rocky head. Floral, herbal nose, lemon, grass. Sweet flavor, rather sugary actually. Somewhat crisper finish, but the sweetness is irritating, almost under-attenuated.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Bottle shared by KyotoLefty. A soft lightly opaque pour with a big fluffy eggshell white head. The aroma is floral perfumery hops with light malts. The taste is a bit too sweet with a floral/soapy candyish note that reminds me of those purple mini-chicklet taste. It’s ok, I would never have figured it was 8.3%.
Camons (21701) reviewed Hopus Primeur 2014 from Brasserie Lefebvre 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught @ Le Trappist, Caen. Pours golden with a white head. Aroma of malt, light fruity hops, citrus. Flavor is malt, honey, grassy, fruity, citrusly hops. Medium body, lively carbonation. 060814