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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle from Delices et Caprices. Aroma is grassy hoppiness. Taste is good, light hoppiness, little sweetness, tripel like elements but some how a little saisony too. Initital green hoppiness and little malty sweetness at the end. Nice

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

The fourth edition in this series by this hop farm and brewer, this time with two hop varieties (half Goldings and half WGV) and therefore the ’single’ in the front label has been overprinted with the word ’double’. Strange nobody has entered this yet, but then production was limited to 1914 bottles. From a 75 cl bottle with crown cork. Irregularly lacing, yellowish white, moussy, dense, frothy and stable head over an initially clear, deep amberish orange coloured beer with quiet fizz. Thoroughly Belgian but pleasant aroma of freshly toasted bread, dried grass, pineapple, dried bitter herbs, jute, banana, wormwood, burnt sugar, old hazelnuts, roasted peanuts, bitter grape peel, earth, dried tea leaves, field flowers, raw carrot, horseradish, white pepper, soap, dried red berries, old cloves. Juicy, fruity onset, sweetish and sourish both well in balance, with hints of banana, peach and redcurrant, softish carbo, bittering effects noticeable from the start; spicy clove-like phenols appear early on as well. Supple, smooth and slick malty middle, a tad caramelly, nutty and dryish with grainy and toasted bitterish edges, leading to an earthy finish of mild but effective, very ’English’ noble hop bitterness, herbal, peppery and leafy, drying the throat with a near tonic water-like bitterness and releasing dry floral aromas retronasally mingling with the relatively high amount of spicy phenols; juicy nutty maltiness and lightly bready yeast effects go down with it. Like the others in this yearly series (not sure if they did one in 2016 yet), this is a very Belgian amber ale indeed, but with a twist of ’English style bitter’ to it due to the starring role of the English noble hops - resulting in an overall effect that is probably halfway between (artisanal and unfiltered) ’spéciale belge’ and classic, old school English pale ale, two obsolete styles closely which are historically and technically closely connected to each other. Pleasant enough and in all, a modest yet clever way for Joris Cambie to demonstrate the qualities of the hops he cultivates.

6.8

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

75 cl bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is estery and phenolic, slight herbal. Smooth fruity and slight herbal. Crisp hoppy and light fruity. Dry and phenolic. Toasted finish.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Sampled at BAB 2016. Thnx for sharing, everyone ! Pours rather unclear amber, small white head, unintense , bit bitter scent. Taste is sharp, grainy, sweet hops, not very bitter though. Nice, mild fruity back.

6.5

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

750 ml. bottle sampled @ Bierfestival Brugge 2016.Thank you for sharing people! Hazy dark amber with an off-white head. Nose is massive moldy yeast, sugar, low floral qualities, heavy yeasty, very faint green hop. Dull fizzy & boozy plaster body and taste,… Lots of plaster yeast, dough, white sugar, hay & more yeast, industrial almost. I partially defended the 2014 iteration but this is just fizzy yeasty excess in faulty Belgian fashion. Only some faint hop covered in moldy yeast in the smell which is lost in the taste.

6.8

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

Fast klare orange goldene Farbe, geringe weiße Schaumkrone. Geruch leicht röstmalzig, kaum hopfig, Karamell. Geschmack sehr hopfig, bitter, grasig, Karamell.

6.8

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

750ml bottle, picked up at Delices & Caprices, Brussels, and shared at home with the missus. Cloudy, deep orange. Thin, dense, sticky, off white head. Looks great. Nose has spicy, ginger biscuit malts. Fresh, green hop, as you’d expect. It’s a bit honeyed and buttery though, and I can’t help thinking, "why goldings?". Taste is soft sweet. Light, floral bitterness. Nice, soft, massaging palate. Finishes soft bitter, and overall too sweet for me.

6

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

Hazy, amber colored, medium off white frothy head, OK lasting. Aroma is of caramalt, yeast, some herbal grassy hoppiness. Taste is medium- sweet caramel malt, yeasty, dirty wet hops, herbal grassy hops aroma but very light, low+ bitterness, dryish. Medium- bodied, soft carbonation. Not the hoppy explosion you’d expect...

6.6

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

Imported from my RateBeer account as De Plukker (Single) Double Green Hop 2015 (by De Plukker):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

24/XI/15 - 75cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte) @ home - BB: n/a (2015-1647)

Clear dark orange beer, big off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: pretty rubbery, floral, bit off, fruity. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: some citrus, grassy, bitter hops, some grapefruit, sourish. Aftertaste: quite some banana, very bitter, grassy, bit metallic.

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