58 Handlanger
(has 4 batches)
Kompaan in Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.00
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Hops, hops, hops. The Kompaan 58 Handlanger has skipped the process of a normal IPA and has hopped over to adulthood. Backwards engineering! Lots of hops: Simcoe, Amarillo and El Dorado and three kinds of malts. A full flavored double IPA of 8.2%, but beware!
This beer is strong, but doesn’t taste as quite as dangerous--just like a night on the town with your “handlangers” (accomplices). Citrusy notes in smell and taste in combination with a tropical fruit palate and a bittersweet aftertaste.
This beer is strong, but doesn’t taste as quite as dangerous--just like a night on the town with your “handlangers” (accomplices). Citrusy notes in smell and taste in combination with a tropical fruit palate and a bittersweet aftertaste.
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6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
On tap @ De Wildeman. This is a a somewhat darker beer than I had imagined. Really deep dark almost copperish on color, cloudy and it has a nice medium sized islandy and bubbly off-white head. A tad milder and sweet on the nose. No real American IPA bomb that hits the nose. Caramelized with lots of fruity peaches, gentle, balanced but nice. Yeah, it's definitely not an American IPA. Lots of buttery caramel in the taste. A tad harsh, lots of wet leafs, yeast and it just doesn't give me any real pleasure drinking it. A nice day and situation gives this a bit better score than I really feel it deserves. 07.03.2014
Tried
from Draft
on 20 May 2014
at 01:51
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
27th April 2014
Hazy gold beer, small pale cream coloured head. Palate is dry and crispy. Smooth malt, grainy sweet. Piney orange marmalade hops, turning a little minty. Light.dry finish. Piney bitter linger. Bit heavy on the grain but fine.
Hazy gold beer, small pale cream coloured head. Palate is dry and crispy. Smooth malt, grainy sweet. Piney orange marmalade hops, turning a little minty. Light.dry finish. Piney bitter linger. Bit heavy on the grain but fine.
Tried
on 29 Apr 2014
at 01:19
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
In de Wildeman, Amsterdam tap: Pours a murky light brown with a tan head. Aroma is mostly malty, but with some earthy hoppiness. Taste is sort of medicinal and perhaps a tad soapy. There is certainly a bitter finish. Lingering hoppy aftertaste. This wasn’t bad, but the hop character didn’t quite cut it. Alcohol was fairly well-covered though. I can’t say that this wasn’t fresh either because I got this off the tap.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Mar 2014
at 07:49
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled @ DDDH, small sample. Hazy amber color, short off-white head. Aroma of some citrussy hop, some spicy yeast. Bit bitter in taste, bit sweet. Not a clean beer, like more of the Kompaan brews. I dont dislike some yeast esters, but keep away from putting wrong style tags on your marketing please.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2014
at 08:57
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle @ De Drie Dorstige Herten. Hazy orange - dark copper-ish colour, off-white head. Nose is yeasty, light hoppy and citric. Flavour is light hoppy, malty citric, Belgian yeast I suppose. Medium bodied. Alcohol only slightly noticable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2014
at 11:44
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 330ml. @ home.Unclear medium red - orange amber color with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, flowers, grass, dark hops, light pine. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, fruity, hoppy, citrus, dark fruit, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20131208]
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Feb 2014
at 10:08
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle @ ABC Beers while waiting for the real beer tasting to start. Clear light amber color, medium sized beige head. Aroma is quite floral. Taste malts, hops, floral, decently bitter. Medium body and carbonation. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2013
at 10:05