Murphy
Humboldt en Gauss in Mariakerke, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Belgian Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.31
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed Murphy from Humboldt en Gauss 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle from Dranken Geers, Oostakker. Pours hazy dark golden with a lasting, thin, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of grapefruit, pomelo, apple peel, mango, lime, mandarin, peach. Taste has sweet mandarin, peach & lychee wrapped in a yeasty, bready-doughy malty profile, going over sourish lime & bitter touches of grapefruit peel, spices & a faint dank accent. Dryish, earthy hoppy finish, still very fruity, tropical & slightly spicy. Medium body, oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Very elegant & refreshing, clever beer, perhaps one of the best Belgian beers I've had recently.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Murphy from Humboldt en Gauss 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle @ home. Orange colour, white foam. Nose of tropical fruit, grapefruit. Taste is fruity, sweet malts, light bitter finish.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Murphy from Humboldt en Gauss 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
The latest Humboldt & Gauss, now brewed at De Feniks (since the loss of their own brewing space), launched several weeks ago; brewed with oat flakes and hopped with Ariana, Mandarina Bavaria, Hallertau Blanc and El Dorado. Inches thick, very dense, meringue-like, egg-white, fluffy, thickly shred-lacing head on a lightly hazy, deep and warm 'metallic' golden robe with orangey 'old gold' hue, fine bubbles rising up everywhere - this beer looks damn good and acquires a slightly 'bronzed' gold and attractively equal mistiness with the sediment poured in. Aroma of fresh lime peel, orange candy, wet biscuit, mandarin, green mango, watermelon, bath foam, moist white pepper, dough, raw celery, black radish peel, ginger and a vague whiff of damp earth but this latter aspect only shows up after the addition of the sediment. Cleanly, yet exuberantly fruity onset, lots of sweet peach, ripe mandarin and some papaja, but the sweetness remains elegant, refreshing, fruit juice-like and of the non-sticky kind; medium carbonation, tingling everywhere but in a very soft way. Slick, smooth-edged biscuity malt sweetness, very elegant again, cracker-like aspect, bittered gently but confidently by a long, peppery, citrus peel-like hop bitterness which releases a rainbow of mango, kumquat, lychee, melon and guava retronasally; a soft, powdery 'pepperiness' keeps the sweetness in place, whereas a light yeasty breadiness provides further softness. Very light metallic aspect too somewhere, but remaining utterly faint and of a 'natural', non-obnoxious kind and absorbed by that bright green hoppiness and bready aspects. This is a deliciously elegant, 'happy', brightly and colourfully shining IPA, a kind of 'archetypical' international style IPA typifying the sweet-and-fruity NEIPA influence without actually being a true NEIPA; maybe best described as an East Coast IPA with yeasty-bready Belgian aspects, but in any case a hybrid IPA not completely fitting any of the substyles. Whatever the intention, this is again a beautiful and remarkably modern, streamlined Humboldt en Gauss beer - keep up the good work, guys!
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Murphy from Humboldt en Gauss 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Humboldt en Gauss Murphy (by Humboldt en Gauss):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
10/V/19 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent), shared @ home, BB: IV/2021 - (2019-694)
Damn backlog, could've been first! :p
Pretty clear orange beer, big aery irregular off-white head, little stable, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: pretty darn fruity, lots of peaches, tropical fruits, some passion fruits and pineapple, carbon dioxide, bit grassy and herbal, malty touch. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit malty start, pretty bitter, citrus notes, some marzipan, little oxidized, fruity, grapefruit, nice! Aftertaste: gentle bitterness, little sweet, caramel malts, bit grassy, citrus, grapefruit, good one!