Hopus Primeur
(has 8 batches)
Brasserie Lefebvre in Rebecq-Quenast, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Special|
Score
6.85
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The Hopus Primeur is a special edition of the regular Hopus made with five varieties of hops. For the Primeur hops are used with maximum freshness and moreover a sixth variety is added during the dry hopping, to give the aroma its own hallmark. Every year, since 2013, a different variety has been used, the best kept secret of the brewery.
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6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Beer Tempel, bought in October 2014. Slightly hazy golden with a large white head. Quite bitter with grass, floral hops, citrus, light malt and some notes of "soap". An ok one, although quite sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Oct 2014
at 02:39
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 8.3%. Flowery hop aroma. Almost clear golden colour. Very big stable white head. The flavour is grapefruity and OK bitter. The bitterness is not as clean as I had hoped. Has some herbal notes. mild hop bite.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Oct 2014
at 16:01
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle @ Wannsinchen / MiP bliver gammel. Pours slightly hazy light amber with stable white head. Clear aroma of fruit and malt, with notes of flowers. Bitter, hoppy flavour, with notes of citrus and flowers and touches of fruit and malt. Bitter aftertaste. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Oct 2014
at 15:59
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Inoue. Bright, light golden color with a big rocky head. Floral, herbal nose, lemon, grass. Sweet flavor, rather sugary actually. Somewhat crisper finish, but the sweetness is irritating, almost under-attenuated.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2014
at 15:22
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle shared by KyotoLefty. A soft lightly opaque pour with a big fluffy eggshell white head. The aroma is floral perfumery hops with light malts. The taste is a bit too sweet with a floral/soapy candyish note that reminds me of those purple mini-chicklet taste. It’s ok, I would never have figured it was 8.3%.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2014
at 03:19
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Further building on the success of Hopus, Lefebvre made this variation in 2013 with a sixth, American hop added as well as dry-hopping applied to it. Thick, snow white, creamy head, light blond colour with greenish hue. Refined aroma of ’green’ grassy, citrussy and leafy hops, lemon, grapefruit, tonic water, caramel, mineral water, pepper, apple peel. Fresh citrussy onset, malt sweetness, round fruitiness, more and more shifting to a delicate, refined and complex hop profile, ensuring an exciting and satisfying, dry and spicy finish. Quite delightful really, at least to Lefebvre's standards.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Aug 2014
at 16:47