Yellow Mellow
Humboldt en Gauss in Mariakerke, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Session Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.12
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Hops: Ariana, Mandarina Bavaria, Hüll Melon, Saaz (8 g/L)
Yeast: ESB
At 4.7% ABV, we’ve called it a session beer, but really it’s just a hoppy, lightly bitter, easy-drinking ale with notes of citrus and berry.
Many craft beers, and certainly most IPAs, rely heavily on hops from the United States, Australia and New Zealand. These new-world hops are loved because they bring exciting flavors like grapefruit, peach and mango to the beers they’re used in. We love these hops too, but we wanted to make a properly European IPA. We found several new hop varietals coming from German breeding programs that bring along many of the same exotic flavors, just a little less in your face, for something that tastes a little bit more restrained, more Belgian. We’ve created what we feel is a refreshing, drinkable modern European ale.
This was our first beer in cans - something we’ve been wanting to do for a long time. Despite their bad reputation from the old days, modern cans are eco-friendly, easy to handle and keep in the flavor for longer.
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Tom (2085) ticked Yellow Mellow from Humboldt en Gauss 5 years ago
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Yellow Mellow from Humboldt en Gauss 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Geers. Pours hazy ochre with a big, lasting, frothy, white head. Aroma is very zesty: mandarin, lemon, lime, yellow grapefruit; apple peel, yeast, faint banana, bread dough. Taste has sweet ripe mandarin, apple & melon, quickly becoming bitter thanks to grapefruit & fruit peel accents, all the while yeasty, bready, with a zesty sour touch. Dry, floral hoppy finish, spicy-yeasty still but grapefruit & mandarin peel have the final say. Medium body, oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Extremely drinkable Ale by H&G again, so fresh!
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Yellow Mellow from Humboldt en Gauss 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
4/II/20 - 33cl can from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: 4/X/20 (2020-120)
Pretty cloudy orange beer, big creamy dense off-white to yellowish head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: nice and fruity, bit malty, oranges, orange peel, bit oxidized. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter start, fruity notes, sweet caramel malts, hoppy, bit resinous, dry, some peaches, melons. Aftertaste: fruity, bitter, bit herbal, orange peel, bit sweet, malty, some grains, caramel touch, bit floral, pretty bitter finish, some citrus.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Yellow Mellow from Humboldt en Gauss 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Ever since the New World hop varieties gained international success thanks to their vivid, bright and fruity aromas, European (especially German) hop farmers have been trying to develop hops with similar profiles, to the extent that Humboldt & Gauss today has a whole spectrum of European hops at their disposal that mimick the American originals - enabling them to make this fully 'European session IPA', hopped with three of Germany's new hop varieties (Hüll Melon, Ariana and Mandarina Bavaria) combined with old noble Saaz. Can of three months old. Thick and frothy, egg-white, very mousy and stable, intricately cobweb-lacing head, misty to even cloudy, peach-hued deep orange blonde robe. Bright and indeed 'New World-like' aroma of fresh mandarin, blood orange, ripe melon, watermelon even, Cape gooseberry, fresh lychees, dry biscuit, rusk, freshly cut grass, fresh camomile flowers, vague soap. Lively onset, sweetish with hints of green mango, watermelon (!) and peach, soft carbonation but still with lovely minerally notes, very soft and supple body; streamlined, mildly biscuity and cereally malt sweetish body brightened by highly aromatic, citric hops, again mandarin, orange peel and melon with a dash of strawberry somewhere, adding a zesty, grapefruity and eventually peppery bitterness that fills the finish, alongside lingering rounded maltiness, lingering but not too disturbing soapiness and powdery bready yeastiness, yet without any interfering yeast flavours (so the choice for an English ESB yeast clearly has been a clever one). Typical soft, aromatic and modern Humboldt & Gauss house style, with both malts and hops coming out beautifully; very refreshing, though close to 5% ABV may be just a tad too high to fully qualify as a typical 'session' IPA. Very elegant, expressive little beer - one of those satisfying low alcohol IPAs I could drink by the gallon on a sunny day. Keep up the good work guys!