Wildebeest
Rolling Hills Brouwcompagnie (Formerly Known As Petre Devos) in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij 't VerzetIPA - New England / Hazy Regular
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Score
6.84
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Wildebeest gone soft is een ode aan alle wilderiken met een groot hart voor de kleine dingen in het leven. De uitzonderlijke Zuid-Afrikaanse hop maakt van deze New England IPA de vlotste instaworthy wereldreis die je dit jaar toch niet ging maken.
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Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Troebel donkergeel bier met mooie schuimkraag. Smaak is licht bitter hoppig en fruitig met wat ananas, sinaasappel en wat mango. Een heel fijn bier.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle, shared with Laura, while cycling with our racebikes and looking for a place to pauze for a bit and have a quick meal or snack, we stumbled upon a cardboard sign that pointed towards someone's garden basically. We stopped and asked whether they also had a little food and they did actually have great pancakes with strawberries, ice and whipped cream and behold: a beer I hadn't rated yet. -- Unclear orange voor, huge foamy off-white head that lasts for a long time. Aroma is malts, moderately hoppy. Flavor is malts, stronger hops, typical Belgian style IPA imo, not one of those intens tropical fruity ones. Not bad.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
NEDIPA of sorts by Petre Devos in Oudenaarde, now known as Rolling Hills, referring to the landscape of the 'Vlaamse Ardennen' region where the brewery is located. I have been missing this one for months - it is sold in an organic shop not too far away from where I live but supplies are always short there - and finally got a bottle from Geers, best before November next year. Thick and frothy, egg-white, cobweb-lacing, dense and closed, firm head on an initially crystal clear (and therefore definitely not NEIPA-looking), deep and warm 'old golden' robe with pale 'metallic' orange tinge and visible sparkling, turning misty and deeper orangey with sediment. Aroma of dried old orange peel, apricot, mango chutney, soggy rusk, dried rosemary, southernwood, bread crust, vague raspberry note, fried sweet potato, lemon thyme, hints of pineapple, pond water, diesel and parsnip. Crisp, fruity, fizzy onset, stingy carbonation swirling around sweetish and sourish aspects of unripe pear, apple peel, apricot and vague ripe gooseberry, continuing over a slick, smooth-edged, bit oily body with bread-crusty, cereally and rusk-like core, highly flavoured by aromatic hoppiness adding retronasal effects of dried lemon peel, orange zest, faint marijuana and toasted onion, adding a gentle but nonetheless long-lasting, peppery, somewhat leafy bitterness, allowing only the scrawny 'juiciness' of green pear to pass through. This may be intended as a NEIPA, it very obviously misses the point completely and ends up another hopped-up Belgian - so 'Belgian IPA' would be the most accurate characterization I could give here. This has nothing, and nothing at all, to do with real NEIPA and even if NEIPA is not my personal 'préféré' in terms of beer styles, I will never accept something like this be called that way (and I will not mention the fact that, apart from, perhaps, one of the brewers' personal fascinations, I personally fail to see any link with South Africa, let alone its wildlife). That aside, I have to admit that this is ultimately a well-brewed, fault-free, tasty and 'full' beer, so I will be lenient in rating. Not bad, in all, but see this as another highly profiled Belgian IPA (if you are familiar with this dubious concept) and let go completely of the NEIPA association falsely made by the brewery...
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
3 July 2020. At Bar Beenhouwer, Ghent. Cheers, Anke, Pieter, Meeki & Ama Deke! Hazy yellow with a stable, small, frothy, white head. Aroma of yellow apple, yellow grapefruit, turnip, peas, pineapple, stale lime, vague butter. Taste has sweetish pineapple, apple & pear, bready maltiness with a zesty sour touch. Dry, floral hoppy finish, mostly spicy with yeast, apple & grapefruit peel. Medium body, oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Yeasty, bitter Belgian Ale (not even really hoppy); so IPA? NEIPA??
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Dense, lightly yellowish head over copper-amber clear beer, lively carbonated. Caramel, toasted malts, parsley, white candi sugar, bit garden herbs. Hops? Even more toasted in the flavour, lightly roasted nuts, autumn leaves. Very faint acidity; restsweetness is restrained, but the bitterness is r(t)oasted, and not hoppy. The only hint at hops is this leafy, dry flavour, gradually increasing a bit. Oats are revealed by the smooth, silky feel despite the lively carbonation. Medium bodied. br
1)This is what Belgian brewers call an IPA: something cruelly lacking in hops - for the name, not for the taste: tastewise this is a (quite good) Vienna brewed with top fermentation. br
2) The South African connection with the ANC flag is explained by the indiscernible hops. br
3) Apart from Petre Devos, at least 4 other brewers called a beer "wildebeest". Despite sixty years of nature documentaries, I fail to see any connection whatsoever between these ungainly antelopes and cerevisial products. br
4) But I'm a difficult person
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
24/III/20 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent), shared @ home, BB: n/a, bottled: 28/I/20 (2020-277)
Clear deep orange to amber beer, big creamy solid off-white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: tropical fruits, sweet and ripe mango, bit malty, white grapes. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, malty, caramel, sugary, ripe tropical fruits, mango, citrus, some tangerines, mandarins, little grassy, nice bitterness. Aftertaste: more citrus, grapefruit, orange peel, sweet touch, nice bitterness, malty, mango, papaya, good stuff, love it! Nice bitter NEIPA, better than lots of those sweet incarnations.