Bottle at home. Slightly hazy golden with fast disappearing white head. Apricots, cake, ’vlaai’, gingerbread, lemon, yeast, dough. Medium sweet with light bitter finish. Medium bodied with nice creamy feel which holds the taste well into the finish.

Donker geel bier met schuim. Smaak is hoppig en licht zuurfruitig met sporen van abrikoos, erg goed lentebier wat afwijkt van de gebruikelijke lentebieren. Smaak blijft lang hangen. Etiket is blijkbaar gewijzigd.

Bottled (from biernavigatie). Slightly hazy golden colour small white head. Aroma is fruity, some spices, mild grains and some wheat. Flavour is fruity, floral, some mild herbal and malty notes as well. Gets a bit more harsh once it gets warmer, so try it somewhat fridgecold...

On keg at Jopenkerk Haarlem - Hazy golden colour with average, frothy, minimally lacing, white head. Grainy and slightly yeasty aroma, some corn. Taste is initially minimally sweet pale malty, later dry oats, in the finish bitter hoppy, underlying hints of alcohol which is hidden quite well for a 7%.

Another of the classic Jopen beers, tasted in Van Steenberge’s version. Snow white, delicate, unstable head, warm amber colour, clear. Aroma of honeyish and caramelly malts, honey, fresh orange, coriander, aniseed, apricot, young cheese and grass. Smooth caramel taste, delicately sugary, as from vanilla sugar, not sticky in any way, peachy, some light coriander and refreshing ’citrusness’, toasted and nutty malt middle, fresh grassy hops in the finish but ending perhaps a bit phenolic too. Clearly a move away from the blonde ’lentebok’ beers made by larger Dutch breweries. I recently tasted this beer as a 10 year old vintage too: obviously this beer is not intended to be cellared for such a long time, but the bottle I found proved interesting, looking darker than the young version, copper in fact, with dead yeast divided throughout the liquid (not an inviting look, by the way); aroma was expectedly oxidized and ’portorized’, with a soy sauce, sherry and molasses kind of quality to it, sweeter than the young one; taste also reflected more sweetness, honeyish almost, brown sugar and marmelade, with sherry-like oxidation but still very bearable; toasted bitterishness was still there, but the grassy hop bitterness had all but disappeared, but instead I got a dubbel-like aged beer which almost made feel I was in the Kulminator... Mouthfeel was evidently thinned out by age, but in spite of that, I still got a fairly stable, loose ’old beer head’. Interesting, but still recommended young, like most beers by far.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Jopen Lentebier (by Jopen):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5

29/VI/14 - 33cl bottle @ Marjan & Jason's place - BB: 29/I/15 (2014-676) Thanks to Jason for the beer!

Clear blond to orange beer, lots of chunks floating around under a small aery off-white head. Aroma: very fruity, some peaches, bit of exotic fruits, sweet malts, some citrus. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: citrus, bit sourish, some almonds, malty, alcohol, pretty bitter, bit floral. Aftertaste: honey, caramel malts, nice bitterness, oxidized, almonds, some alcohol.

Nice mix between a blond beer, witbier and a belles bock. It’s grainy, mildly hoppy and fresh.

300ml bottle. Filmy golden colour with average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Grainy and slightly yeasty aroma, some husk. Taste is initially minimally sweet pale malty, later dry husky, in the finish bitter hoppy, underlying hints of alcohol.

On tap @ Cafe Olivier, Utrecht. Golden with a white head. Floral aroma. Light bitterness and a round mouthfeel. Nice beer for the spring indeed.