L'Apogee
Fulltime Hops in Neupré, Liège, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.73
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed L'Apogee from Fulltime Hops 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Old-fashioned ’whisky beer’, i.e. with whisky malt, from a new beer company still brewing at Bastogne. Loose, slightly lacing, off-white head, quickly dissolving but leaving a steady rim; colour a murky coppery bronze from the first pour, usually not a good sign. Funny aroma of candi sugar, banana, ’wet dog’, stewed pear, candied figs, medlar, cloves, earth and dirt but not much peat; a faint whisky-like touch can be noticed, but in a way so subtle that it could just as well be my imagination. Most disturbingly though, the smell of H2S (rotten egg and sewer water) is piercing through it all, reminding me of the original Gaverhopke beers I bought from the previous brewer there (Eric Ameye). The taste is not as bad as the flawed aroma suggests: sweet alright, unfermented sugars abounding, banana esters, raisins, caramel, sweet-sourish hint of passion fruit; fairly strong carbonation, caramelly and bready malt backbone, yeasty with retronasal phenolic effect of cloves but also that faint, suggestive hint of whisky again; finish remains mostly sweet with the candi sugar lingering, some herbal hops (though not accomplishing noteworthy bitterness) are there as well. Alcohol remains fairly well hidden but is still noticeable. Starchy yeastiness, a weak hop bitterishness, lingering caramelly malts and a hint of the initial candi sugar sweetness remain after the last sip. Whisky malts are there, but in a subtle manner; I don’t get anything truly ’peaty’ in spite of what the label claims. Suffers from infection leading to H2S, which is about the most off-putting odour one can encounter in any beer. Taste is better than aroma, but clearly this is unfinished and unrefined. Needs more work but surely has potential, like many of those new Wallonian ales.
Benzai (24515) reviewed L'Apogee from Fulltime Hops 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ home shared with Dutchdrebus. Unclear red color, medium sized off-white head that lasts for a decent while. Aroma is mainly sweetish. Totally not what I expected. Taste malts, sweetish, the slightest hint of whisky perhaps, but I don’t think I would have written it down in a blind tasting. I could write a long essay but summarising it I think will do the trick: not a bad beer, but whisky and "malts tourbe"? No, don’t get anything even remotely like that.
Drebus (8639) reviewed L'Apogee from Fulltime Hops 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ benzai. Hazy red copper colour with a medium sized off-white head that doesn’t last long. Smells sweetish, slightly hazelnut, a hint of whisky. Tastes slightly whisky but quite subtle, slightly oak, sweet, malts, slightly bourbon.. Better than expected tbh. Medium body, soft carbo.