Kasteel Hoppy
Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck in Emelgem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Belgian Regular|
Score
5.90
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Kasteel Hoppy is a blonde speciality beer that fits perfectly into the wave of IPA beers (Indian Pale Ale). Thanks to the addition of herbs and the mildly malty character, the youngest member of the Kasteel range is not a ‘hop bomb’. Kasteel Hoppy is a full-bodied blonde beer predominated by the aromas of hops. However, the bitter taste does not dominate.
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5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Kasteel Hoppy (by Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.7/5
29/V/13 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker) @ home - BB: IX/2014 (2013-504)
Clear blond beer, very big irregular frothy white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: smells like a pilsener? Some grassy herbal hops, grain, hay, stable. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: pretty metallic, bitter hops, some citrus, grains, very pilsener alike. Aftertaste: bitter, just plain boring pilsener bitterness, pretty metallic as well. Seriously, this is not a bad beer, but it's boring as hell and could be mistaken for any plain Czech pilsener. Calling this "hoppy" proves that something is amiss with the amount of hops you regularly use.
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.7/5
29/V/13 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker) @ home - BB: IX/2014 (2013-504)
Clear blond beer, very big irregular frothy white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: smells like a pilsener? Some grassy herbal hops, grain, hay, stable. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: pretty metallic, bitter hops, some citrus, grains, very pilsener alike. Aftertaste: bitter, just plain boring pilsener bitterness, pretty metallic as well. Seriously, this is not a bad beer, but it's boring as hell and could be mistaken for any plain Czech pilsener. Calling this "hoppy" proves that something is amiss with the amount of hops you regularly use.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2013
at 11:04
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Blond pale colour, thin layer of white foam. Medium carbonation. This beer isn’t as sweet as the other Kasteelbier varieties but this isn’t hoppy at al. A bit medicinal and chemical. Dry, malty and bitter finish.
Tried
on 22 May 2013
at 09:12
2.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 1
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
On tap at Gollem II. Clear golden colour, white head. Aroma of a foul semi-wet dishrag, swamp, cat piss, skunky hops, grain, very unpleasant. Flavour is grainy, skunky, dishrag, bitter grainy finish. Abysmal, as feared.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 May 2013
at 08:32
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sampled from bottle @ Bruin Cafe Oud Brabant, Oirschot. Clear golden color, small to medium sized white head. Smell malts, iron, lightly grassy, lightly hay, slightly hops. Taste malts, lightly hops, lightly hops, iron, hayish, lightly grassy, decent bitterness in the end. Low to medium body, medium carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Apr 2013
at 13:24