Bier N°2 Sunny
Angelus in Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: 't GaverhopkeBelgian Style Regular
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Score
6.34
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5.8/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 5
33cl bottle from Hopduvel, Gent. A slight gush on opening the bottle, then a slow pour reveals a billowing white and an unappealing opaque light brown body; yeasty aroma; smooth and grainy in the mouth with a grapefruity citrus taste; and a pleasant citrus finish. Not too bad if you keep your eyes closed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2016
at 13:21
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Angelus Bier N°2 Sunny (by Angelus):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5
15/IX/15 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) - BB: IX/2016 (2015-1192)
Slow gusher!
Little cloudy orange to amber beer, huge frothy off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly, bit adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, sweet, some pineapple, bit chemical, band-aid. MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: chemical, pretty bitter, rubbery, some fruity notes in the background, with citrus and some grapefruit, funky. Aftertaste: bit sweet, overripe fruits, pretty bitter, malty touch, oxidized, orange peel, chemical bitterness, unpleasant.
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5
15/IX/15 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) - BB: IX/2016 (2015-1192)
Slow gusher!
Little cloudy orange to amber beer, huge frothy off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly, bit adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, sweet, some pineapple, bit chemical, band-aid. MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: chemical, pretty bitter, rubbery, some fruity notes in the background, with citrus and some grapefruit, funky. Aftertaste: bit sweet, overripe fruits, pretty bitter, malty touch, oxidized, orange peel, chemical bitterness, unpleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Sep 2015
at 14:13
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle @ weekly tasting shared with Dutchdrebus. Clear rusty orange color, average sized quickly diminishing off-white head. Smell and taste malts, actually more hoppy than I had expected, a little sweetish and a hint of fruits. Moderately bitter, firm carbonation, decent body. Not bad in the end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2015
at 16:13
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
330 ml. bottle sampled. Purchased @ De Hopduvel. The second beer from this new commission brewery. Brewed at ‘t Gaverhopke which is never a good thing in my opinion since that brewery struggles heavily with infection issues. Virtually all their offers are guaranteed to gush & taste unpleasant. I have tried their first beer prior to this one, the bottle started gushing in the store simply because I placed it in my cart. I am a bit worrisome here. To be honest, I wouldn’t have probably purchased this one if I had noticed that it had been brewed at ‘t Gaverhopke. The label is just black on white text, meh… It has been by De Molen in a far more iconic fashion. BBF 09/2017. Surprisingly the beer was only a small gusher. Unsurprisingly given the fact that this one was a gusher, the first pour resulted in just a big glass of foam. The foam consists out of huge white bubbles, quickly collapsing. Revealing a very hazy golden beer. Nose is a touch heavy on the yeast, thick creamy yeast dominates with some esters, faintly boozy peach esters & oddly a touch aromatic fruity hops. The yeast presence is a bit too heavy & somewhat plaster-like for the beer to come across fully. Taste is bitter but for a good chunk not in a very pleasant way, lingering bitter mainland EU-hop hops, it comes across lightly chemical, yeast-heavy with some fusels, ester-heavy, orange peel, some honey, pepper, fizzy, overly-Belgian, caramel, yeast,… Oily & caramel quality. Body is a bit low on carbonation to hold it entirely together. The bitterness lingers a bit but the sweetness becomes more prominent as you drink more of it. Whilst the nose was overly yeast for my preference,… The taste surprisingly agreeable, I definitely expected worse but it is messy and it isn’t a very successful typical common dominator Belgian Ale with an extra dose of hops. Still it has some nice qualities, I have definitely had far worse beers brewed at this brewery. Overall it is messy & not very successful but manageable for sure and that is already something. Plus it is vastly preferable to Angelus Bier N°1 Triple.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Aug 2015
at 13:40
4.8/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle from De Hopduvel. Apparently the second beer from Angelus, which I assume is a new client brewer operating at Gaverhopke. Huge gushing upon opening the bottle. Frothy, yellowish white, initially thick head but loose in structure and therefore collapsing after a while. I was looking forward to a ’sunny’ beer on this beautiful spring day, but what I get is a muddy ochre blonde, completely milky, murky and soupy: the yeast and proteins are everywhere instead of sticking to the bottom of the bottle where they belong, in combination with the gushing a clear indication that (re)fermentation has gone awfully wrong here. Aroma is fortunately more or less decent: yeasty of course, lots of baker’s yeast, but with friendly suggestions of gingerbread, orange peel, brown bread, cake, banana, coriander seed, canned apricot, sharpishly sweet artisanal honey, sour cream, floral hops (chamomille), wet leather, spicy phenols (cloves, aniseed), earth, rotting autumn leaves. Taste is a lot less sweet than expected; it begins with some fairly acidic yeasty (and likely bacterial) ’fruitiness’ of unripe peaches, sour berries and green apple, strong and fizzy carbonation (a bit much to my taste), dry, grainy and somewhat ’harsh’ middle phase, earthy and peppery hop bitterness setting in quickly and becoming unexpectedly strong in the end, bittering the mouth in a somewhat harsh, insufficiently aromatic way, in which the drying coriander does not help; yeastiness also clearly lingers. Clearly a nod to the newish ’hop forward’ movement in Belgium, but if the whole batch is like this, I do not think it was a good idea to throw it onto the market. This looks, smells and tastes like a flawed hobby brew made in some amateur’s kitchen with a beginners’ brewing kit; it is a bit infected, has a very unattractive ’yeast soup’ appearance (even looking like some weird dairy product in the end) and the flavour is clearly out of balance. I hope it will get better from a technical point of view, because this does not invite me at all to try their first - or any other ones to follow.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2015
at 08:54