Torpah 90
Brasserie {C} in Liège, Liège, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.59
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Torpah is a range of 3 single hop beers, each made from a unique and singly type of hop, hence the name. That’s why it’s a single hop.
The 3 hop varieties selected come from 3 different continents and bring a large variety of flavors directly linked to the characteristics of the land of those countries:
United States (Chinook)
New-Zealand (Wai-ti)
France (Aramis).
The declinations of Torpah, 30 – 60 – 90, refer directly to the IBU (bitterness index) present in each of those beers. This induces you to taste them all to see the progressive intensity of the bitterness and the work that has been achieved around each hop.
The 3 hop varieties selected come from 3 different continents and bring a large variety of flavors directly linked to the characteristics of the land of those countries:
United States (Chinook)
New-Zealand (Wai-ti)
France (Aramis).
The declinations of Torpah, 30 – 60 – 90, refer directly to the IBU (bitterness index) present in each of those beers. This induces you to taste them all to see the progressive intensity of the bitterness and the work that has been achieved around each hop.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sampled @ Zythos Bierfestival 2015 Leicht trübe goldene Farbe, geringe weiße Schaumkrone. Geruch leicht grasig hopfig, malzig süß. Geschmack sehr hopfig, grasig, würzig.
Tried
on 26 Apr 2015
at 08:03
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Hell herb würziger Antrunk, intensiv bitter. Rund, getreidig bitter, gelungen. 11/12/9/10//10
Tried
on 26 Apr 2015
at 05:00
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
Imported from my RateBeer account as {C} Torpah 90 (by Brasserie {C}):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 8/20, MyTotalScore: 2.5/5
25/IV/15 - on tap @ ZBF 2015 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2015-513) Thanks to the Belgian ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!
Clear pale orange beer, creamy irregular white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: little fruity, yeast, some melons, hint of exotic fruits. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very spicy, cloves, very bitter. The hops add absolutely no flavour, just extra bitterness. This is useless.
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 8/20, MyTotalScore: 2.5/5
25/IV/15 - on tap @ ZBF 2015 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2015-513) Thanks to the Belgian ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!
Clear pale orange beer, creamy irregular white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: little fruity, yeast, some melons, hint of exotic fruits. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very spicy, cloves, very bitter. The hops add absolutely no flavour, just extra bitterness. This is useless.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Apr 2015
at 14:01
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From tap. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is grassy and slight citrusy. Slight herbal. Grassy, citrusy and crisp hoppy into amsooth fruity finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Apr 2015
at 11:33
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Sampled draft @ Delirium Hoppy Loft. Side-by-side 30/60/90. Thx! Murky looking amber, solid white head. Taste is an interesting mix of sweet & lightly bitter that I quite enjoyed but that people who are into hoppy beers probably won’t. Smell is lemon, herbs, sugar, lightly fruity hops soaked in brown sugar sweetness. Taste is bitter bark, light pine & herbal leading into faintly syrupy brown sugar & light cake sweetness. Faintly sticky body. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jan 2015
at 04:10
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dégustation des 3 verres au Hoppy Loft, Bruxelles. Couleur dorée tirant sur un léger ambré-orangé, col blanc. Arôme offre un bouquet prenant houblonné avec un résiduel fleuri-pin typique du Chinook. Malheureusement ces effluves sont à mettre en avaleur avec une base maltée Pils qui ici aussi l’emporte de trop sur le malt. C’est tout de même là le but d’une bière single hop de mettre ne avant le caractère du houblon? Palais arrive enfin à mettre le houblon en avant, Chinook ressort bien avec des notes de pin, et une pointe d’épice. Cependant le caractère belge venant surtout de la levure, qui doit être la même base que la Curtius, tant à prendre le dessus sur le houblon. Cela n’est pas aidé par un malté tout autant encombrant. On retombe vite dans une zone de confort belge où on s’aventure trop lentement à vouloir mettre en avant le caractère unique de ces houblons. Malheureusement d’autres pays ne sont pas autant craintifs et devancent de loin ce qui se fait ici. Ces trois bières confirment cela. Tout comme ses deux consœurs, cette version déçoit. Le côté 96IBU la sauve un peu du même marasme et on est trompé par le charme 30-60-90 qui augure pour moi un rappel à la série Dogfish Head qui sont de vraies IPAs.
Tried
on 12 Dec 2014
at 15:45