Belgica IPA
Brouwerij Strubbe in Ichtegem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA Regular|
Score
6.72
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diabel (1874) reviewed Belgica IPA from Brouwerij Strubbe 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Clear amber body. Lightly hoppy nose. Off-white frothy head. Moderately bitter flavour. Quite OK, nog thrilling.
77ships (14506) reviewed Belgica IPA from Brouwerij Strubbe 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4
750 ml. bottle - tasting glass @ Meug Afterwork 2017. Totally 100 % clear golden, little white head. Nose is unpleasant green apple esters, cauliflower & unpleasant BE esters, cooked vegetables. Taste is sparkling poor green apple esters, cooked vegetables, green, BE esters, industrial, vegetables. Body is rubbish sparkling BE esters. I have no idea what this brewery means with the term Belgian IPA in the description. IPA is all wrong here, this is all Belgica in the worst way with unpleasant green vegetables BE esters. Very poor take on the IPA style, very poor beer in general.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Belgica IPA from Brouwerij Strubbe 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
From a 75 cl bottle with cork and muselet; lots of pressure, but no gusher. Very thick, frothy, ’papery’ lacing, hops-enhanced, egg-white head over an initially clear, amberish orange blonde beer, becoming misty and more deeply orangey with deposit. Very earthy, saison-like aroma of dried nettles and other garden weeds, field flowers, moist hay, peach, gooseberry, red apple peel, pineapple, damp forest floor, soggy white bread, hints of lemon zest, clove-like phenols, cooked potato, wormwood, bitter honey, gin, raw carrot, black pepper, jute, old spinach leaves. Crisp, refreshing onset, estery with some subdued sweetness (peach, pineapple) but stronger sourishness (gooseberry, soapy starfruit) and medium to sharpish, bit minerally carbo; soft and ’fluffy’ breadiness in the middle while estery fruitiness plays along and some vague clove-like phenol spiciness shows up only to increase towards the end but not in a obtrusive manner; finishes earthy and bitter, lots of earthy, floral, slightly herbal and peppery hop bitterishness, drying and residing on the root of the tongue for quite a while, combining well with the ongoing ’Belgian’ yeast fruitiness and spiciness as well as the bready malt sweetishness. Alcohol is apparent in a late ’jenever’-like flavor, but otherwise does not interfere; earthiness and bitterness remain key here. A bit ’wild’ perhaps but in that sense a perfect example - again - of a (sub)style I’d like to be recognized here as ’Belgian IPA’: fruity, earthy, rooty and yeasty, but with a - for Belgian ales - above average ’hop kick’. The hoppiness could have been more pronounced here, but in all, this fits in well with the likes of De Ranke Hop Harvest, All Inclusive IPA (Plukker) or even Hommelbier Fresh Harvest. I first read about this in a newspaper a couple of years ago when it was still intended exclusively for the American market (so no, I did not associate it with that new "Belgica" movie like many other people may - to the commercial advantage of the brewery) and regretted things like this did not appear on the home market, but apparently this commercial shortcoming has been partially remedied now. This beer is indeed representative for ’Belgian IPA’, which is altogether very different from ’American style IPA’ and in many instances lies closer to saison, so I can still see many people being disappointed by it when having wrong expectations, but for me its deeply earthy qualities and its combination of phenolic and estery Belgian yeastiness with earthy, spicy hop bitterness work just fine, though I would not have minded an even stronger hop character. In all: one of the more interesting Strubbe brews, but you will be much more pleasantly rewarded if you expect ’real Belgian saison’ than ’IPA’.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Belgica IPA from Brouwerij Strubbe 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle thnx to st247 Pours fuzzy blonde / brown , good white head Scent has a bit freshness . Good carbo Grains , bit bitter , fresh , full , bit sweet . Some hop , specific complex taste .
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed Belgica IPA from Brouwerij Strubbe 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught at the Belgian Beer Weekend in Osaka. Slightly yeasty amber malt nose, a bit earthy but mostly boring. Light caramel malt flavor, big bitterness in the finish. Nothing at all like an IPA, and as a bitter Belgian amber it is decent enough but still rather uninteresting.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Belgica IPA from Brouwerij Strubbe 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
750 c&c from the Arden BevMo in Sacramento, CA as "IPA". Pours copper with a slight foamy, but ring lacing, head. Aroma is somewhat "fruits de bois". Floral and lightly berry. Med body. Flavor is a touch of Flandres rouge over some floral bitter with mild roast malt. Seems to have a bit of red berry. It turns almost oakily astringent. IPA? More likely Belgian Strong Ale. Whatever, it’s a pretty tasty beer. The Belgians make so many. Sigh.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Belgica IPA from Brouwerij Strubbe 13 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as Strubbe Belgica IPA (by Brouwerij Strubbe):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5
27/II/2012 - 75cl bottle @ Klaas' place - BB: 11/X/13 (2012-162) Thanks to Klaas for sharing the bottle!
Clear red orange beer, creamy big yellowish head, pretty stable, adhesive. Aroma: tangerines, orange peel, bit floral, some dairy, general sweetness. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity start, peaches, mandarins, grapefruit, bitter hops, quite some citrus. Aftertaste: citrus, lemon, little bitterness. I wouldn't call this an IPA. Not even a Belgian IPA. But who am I?
bb (18428) reviewed Belgica IPA from Brouwerij Strubbe 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Amber beer with an off-white head. Yeast and light pine aroma with light citrus. Yeast and malt flavor with light citrus and light pine. Medium bodied. Decent bitterness. Yeast and malt lingers with light pine and light grapefruit.