Klets Extra Hop Limited Edition
Bier & Karakter in Slypskapelle, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Belgian Regular|
Score
6.64
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Golden color. Cloudy. Citrus and grassy notes in the aroma. Well hopped citrus flavor with soft herbal notes. Yeasty hopbitter finish. Decent and tasty.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at home. Pours murky orange, nose is floral, lemon, taste is sweet citrus, chewy toffee, juicy.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
bottle at home ... golden ambe r... thin white lacing ... soft dry yeasty lemon fruit nose ... long oily fruit ... herbal fruit ... light dry fruit ... soft sweet fruit ... lime dry fruit .. herbal fruit
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Deca and drunk at home. Hazy gold brown colour dirty lasting white head. Hoppy aroma. Hoppy in the mouth a bit like something like Hommelbier. decent enough. Good bitterness on the finish. Good hops a bit like Cascades I guess.
Fin (18365) reviewed Klets Extra Hop Limited Edition from Bier & Karakter 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle picked up at Deca Services, Oostvleteren, Belgium consumed at home Sunday 26th March 2017 whilst cooking Moussaka outside. Pours hazy mucky dirty yellow brown, slim white. Really quite a bitter beer, pluncky (new word), dry, fruity, hoppy, good stuff. A6 A3 T7 P3 Ov14 3.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ home. Clear golden color, medium to full sized white head. Smell and taste malts, quite hoppy, floral and blossomy in the beginning but those flavors mellow down into a not unpleasant moderate bitterness. Decent body and carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Extra hoppy version of the regular Klets. Irregular, ’membranously’ lacing, egg-white, moussy head over a hazy light orangey peach beer with salmon-coloured hue, turning ochre and muddy with deposit. Aroma of fresh sorrel, freshly cut grass, cooked pasta, chamomille, banana and even slight bubblegum, dry earth, ginger, overripe peach, white bread, sweet white grape, ’spinach’-like iron, honey, raw turnip, faint lime zest, cooked and sugared rhubarb, even faint vanilla, clove-like phenols and ’jenever’. Fruity, crisp onset, pineapple, banana and lots of ripe, sweetish-and-sourish gooseberry, minerally and spritzy carbonation, supple and smooth but ’filling’ caramelly and bready malt sweet body, a tad grainy here and there, slight iron presence without becoming overly metallic, spicy phenols showing up and joining the ongoing estery fruitiness, leading to a very earthy, drying, softly but thoroughly bitter finish, spicy and floral retronasally, with a glow of ’jenever’-like, warming alcohol in the end which mingles a bit with the hoppiness, while juicy malt sweetness persists till the very end. Very typical Belgian IPA again, mixing (European noble) earthy hop bitterness with a lot of Belgian yeast effects; this combo can go wrong in some cases, but for me it usually works just fine. This is not too distinctive in a sea of new Belgian IPAs, in fact it is nothing else than a slightly hoppier version of their regular which is nothing but another boring, banana-laden, phenolic, estery and yeasty tripel, but in all its modesty and redundancy, I did manage to enjoy it, after all. Not very inspired to say the least, not technically perfect, but nothing terribly wrong here either.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Bottle @ Willems, Grobbendonk. Pours hazy orange with a white head. Perfume, cabbage, raw yeast and leather. Warming alcohol. Unclean - Lots of flaws!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
2015 edition ( limited edition really helps the sale I guess ? ) not sure if yearly / different hops every batch ( like Duvel tripel Hop ? ) this version is brewed with Belgian Cascade and American Citra. The beer itself pours ugly. Withoud disturbing or pouring the yeast, the beer is already cloudy to the maximum, resulting in a hazy, amber/brown, muddy look. Small but stable white head. Smell is hoppy indeed. nice crispy maltaspect left. Taste is bit bitter. The hoppyness is on the border of soapy, but still in the nice tasting zone ! aromatic, with aspects of pine and citrus notes. Nice carbo and MF. I kinda like it. Its less sweet than other hoppy beers in belgium. Bitterness isn’t extreme as well. I see this beer working commercially, being still in the ’safe’ zone but with more balls than the other ’safe’ brands.