Jopen Koyt

Koyt

 

Jopen in Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱

  Traditional Beer - Koyt / Kuit Regular
Score
6.89
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 18 Ticks: 201
Jopen Koyt is brewed according to the Haarlem Brouwerskeur from 1407 (city recipe). This beer is brewed with gruit, a medieval spice blend with ritual-picked gale. According to a myth, gale can be hallucinating, to avoid this, gale must be picked by naked witches at full moon. You bought the ingredient gruit from the gruit gentleman (later corrupted to the Gruijter = grocer). Picked gale is decisive in the herbal mixture of Jopen Koyt.

This reddish-brown beer has a strong spicy (menthol) aroma and a mildly sweet taste. The dark malt provides caramel tones. The spicy aspect appears again in the aftertaste.
 

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7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
330ml bottle watching Series 4 of The Man in the High Castle, thanks MonsterMagnet for this! Pours a hazed deep brown with reddish hue, off white head. Rich herbal aroma, continuing to taste. Interesting herbal concoction, sweet dark toffee and liquorice hints, dark malt, dried dark fruits. Presents an old-style ale character feel pretty well. Not a go-to beer style for me, but this is pleasantly warming on a cold Autumn evening.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Nov 2019 at 14:23

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle, 0.33l. Aroma of caramel, cereals, dandelion syrup, alcohol, flowers and herbs. Pours cloudy amber brown color with thick creamy tan-like head, some residue floating and sparkling appearance. Taste starts with sweet toasted malt and dried fruity, following is grassy, herbal and slightly medicinal, mouthfeel is mild spicy, while finish is mild bitter. Medium to full body, thick texture and average carbonation in palate. Sweet gruit...
Tried from Bottle on 04 Oct 2019 at 20:48

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
0,33 l bottle. Pours hazy reddish brown with medium, quite quickly dissipating light tan head. Nose is yeast, sweet, hard herbal candy, but also malty, toffee, and a bit earthy, light alcohol. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter. Finish is long, herbal with much more expressed bitterness. Alcohol is quite well hidden, but it warms the stomach in a nice way.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Sep 2019 at 11:51

6/10
Tried from Draft on 15 Sep 2019 at 15:17

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Tap, café De Geus, Enschede. Cherry flavor. Herbal with some bitterness, due to herbs, not to hops. Sweet and full bodied, just a bit creamy. Some red berries-like sourness.
Tried from Draft on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:07

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle from summer eurosanta, a missing style for me, many thanks! Yeasty, herbal nose. Tastes sweetish, honey, herbs, yeasty, warming alcohol. Tasty.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Aug 2019 at 17:23

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Thin off white head stayed on a reddish brown still body. Dry herbal aroma. Medium bodied, soft on the palate with a creamy back. Herbal, medicinal, aniseed, bitter tastes.
Tried on 06 Aug 2019 at 13:17

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle.Ruby brown colour with small head.Aroma of herbs and spices hint of caramel and malt,nice warming mouthfeels and hint of bread and dark roasted hops.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Jul 2019 at 08:15

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Really cool beer, great malt body with a very flowery bitterness. Not overtly different, but really unique. hop cult dresden
Tried on 31 May 2019 at 17:39

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
330ml bottle. Amber brown colour with reddish tinge, beige foamy head leaving lots of lacing and aroma of malt, spiced, herby. Taste is sweet malt, caramel, molasses, floral, herbal, spiced, with earthy bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, lingering sweet malty spiced finish. Quite drinkable.
Tried from Bottle on 03 May 2019 at 18:59