Brasserie Lefebvre Hopus Primeur 2019

Hopus Primeur 2019
(Batch of Hopus Primeur)

 

Brasserie Lefebvre in Rebecq-Quenast, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Belgian Style - Strong Ale Special Out of Production
Score
7.02
ABV: 8.3% IBU: 40 Ticks: 150
After many tests, the choice fell on a hop variety from the United States, just like last year. Those hops are used during the dry hopping phase, after fermentation. Also known as dry hopping, this technique allows the hop aromas to be obtained by cold infusion, with the advantage of faithfully reproducing the profile.
 

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6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Kisjes Slijterijen, Meppel. Floral and fruity hop aroma with freshly mowed grass, citrus, Belgian yeast, and light pale malt. Bit dry-ish with a pleasant hoppy bitterness, medium body. Solid, another welcome hoppy Hopus variety.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2025 at 11:56


6

Vroeger was Hopus wel tot met het shotglaasje voor de gist. Deze Hopus Primeur valt tegen. Heeft wel een licht, aangenaam cannabis smaakje.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Oct 2019 at 21:42


7

Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

Tried from Bottle on 19 Sep 2019 at 19:19


8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7

Quel nez ! Quel nez ! Non, je ne vous fais pas un remake d'Astérix et Cléopâtre. Mais les arômes présents au nez de cette Hopus primeur me laissaient espérer une très grande dégustation. Herbes fraîches, fruits (citron vert, poire, pomme), fleurs (jasmin, pointe de rose) avec un léger voile forment un superbe cocktail des plus agréables. Côté visuel, rien à redire non plus avec un blond doré limpide agrémenté d'une mousse blanche et crémeuse généreuse. A la dégustation, j'aurais aimé pouvoir retrouver cette fraîcheur et légèreté houblonnée présente au nez. C'est d'ailleurs ce que l'on a tendance à vouloir retrouver dans une primeur (même si l'on peut se questionner sur la raison d'être d'une telle appellation). Malheureusement, un double déséquilibre vient perturber tout cela. Le premier, est un alcool qui ressort de trop, complètement en dissonance avec la légèreté recherchée. Celui-ci à 8,3 % aurait très certainement mérité à être abaissé à 7,5%. Le deuxième déséquilibre est une douceur qui ne met pas assez l'amertume en avant. Dommage, car les aromes présents au nez sont bien là. La corpulence et la longueur sont également très bonnes. Je suis donc tout de même frustré, cette Hopus aurait pu être un petit bijou. Ce n'est pas tout d'avoir un beau diamant, il faut savoir le tailler également.

Tried on 10 Aug 2019 at 14:49


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

This year's Hopus Primeur with an American hop with fruity notes of grapefruit and gooseberry as well as floral notes of jasmin - but sadly, the label again fails to mention which American hop is responsible for this wonderful fragrance... Anyway, swingtop bottle as usual, bought at Fontana in Sint-Niklaas. Very thick and frothy, egg-white, papery lacing, foamy, stable head on a lightly hazy, warm 'old gold' coloured beer with apricot tinge and lots of visible sparkling enthusiastically rising upwards from the bottom of the glass. Aroma of hand soap, ripe pineapple, freshly cut red apple, white bread, touch of jasmin blossom indeed, starfruit, banana peel, ripe pear, moist white pepper, mashed potato, unripe cucumber, camomile, crushed gooseberries somewhere, stewed turnip, young 'jenever'. Fruity onset, estery but not too 'wildly' so, green apple, halfripe banana, pear and raw pineapple aspects with a vague touch of lychee at the sides, lively and very minerally carbonation but not harshly numbing; soft, lean body, smooth white-bready and bit doughy malt body, quickly drenched in a mildly aromatic hoppiness reminiscent of indeed jasmin flowers as well as starfruit, pear and lychee, but not really grapefruit nor gooseberries. Some lingering residual 'white candi syrup' sweetness interferes too much with the hops, while a soft grassy bitterness develops and a 'jenever'-ish alcohol glow rounds things off. Remains altogether sweetish - even in the finish when hop bitterness should long have taken over - and a bit perfumey, soft and rounded, while I remember some of the previous editions being a bit bolder and earthier; whatever 'American hop' went in here, it was never going to be enough to please the experienced palate, was it? Not bad for a 'commercial' Belgian ale aimed at Lefêbvre's 'non-geeky' audience, admittedly, but not the best of the Primeurs I had so far - and the Primeurs as a whole are probably the most interesting product line this brewery has to offer.

Tried from Can on 10 Aug 2019 at 01:57


9

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jun 2019 at 15:30


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Imported from my RateBeer account as Lefebvre Hopus Primeur 2019 (by Brasserie Lefebvre):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.1/5

2/V/19 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: 20/V/20 - (2019-661)

Clear blond yellow beer, big fluffy white head, falls down quickly. Aroma: lots of CO2, ripe banana, yeast, sweetish impression. MF: very lively carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish, herbal touch, some grains, quite some banana, pretty bitter. Aftertaste: bit sourish, some banana, fruity, bitter touch, bit grassy, citrus notes, some grapefruit.

Tried from Bottle on 02 May 2019 at 22:00