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 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottle. Gusher, golden pour, big white head. Aroma of grassy hop, grain and dry yeast. Taste is bitter, with gras, dry yeast, grain and a little mandarine. Way too much co2, very annoying. I like the normal one better.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2015
at 16:08
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Orange-golden in color and with a dense, off-white head leaving lacings. Citrusy aroma, oranges mostly, with some oxidized malts and a touch of caramel. There’s quite a lot of bitterness in the flavor, with some alcohol, grass and hops. Oxidation notes, pale malts and some white sugar. Full body, soft carbonation, rather dry. Long, bitter and grassy finish. Not really sure about this one. Some of it good, but mostly it’s rather bland. 150522
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2015
at 15:16
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 330ml @ Geokkjer
Pours hazy golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, alcohol, floral, hint of banana. Taste is medium sweet and light to medium bitter with a long malty, floral and slightly warm finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours hazy golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, alcohol, floral, hint of banana. Taste is medium sweet and light to medium bitter with a long malty, floral and slightly warm finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2015
at 15:14
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottled@Tuulensuu, Tampere (old backlog). Golden colour with a creamy white head, that leaves some lace. Aroma is floral, some herbal notes along with sweet malts, mild alcohol as well as some yeasty notes. Flavour is sweet malts, toffee, some herbs, mild yeast, spices as well as some slight alcohol sweetness. Feels a bit thin, but otherwise it’s quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 May 2015
at 10:21
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bouteille 33cl, BB 19.05.2016, et on se demande toujours pq autant de temps pour une bière mettant en avant un houblon frais. Dorée-paille, col blanc. Arôme au bouquet fruité, rétro de grains, malt pâle et carapils, pointe de fleuri et fruité avec qcq effluves d’agrumes. Palais met de suite l’alcool en avant avec un houblon modéré légèrement tropical mais restant centre sur un cote noble, fini est sec et herbacé. Si c’est ça la révolution houblonnée belge ...
Tried
on 17 May 2015
at 05:39
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
On tap at Craft&Draft. 2015 version, if there is any difference between the versions at all... Hazy golden colour, white head. Aroma of a typical Belgian Strong Blond ale, grass, apples, alcohol, malts, light spicy hops, yeast, citrus. Flavour is malty, citrus, light grassy, light spicy, fruity, alcohol, bitter finish. Medium bodied. I like these kind of beers, so I’d say nice stuff.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 May 2015
at 06:10
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap @ Craft & Draft, tick. Slight hazy golden color, big rocky white head. Aroma of grassy and flowery hop, bit citrus, spicy yeast, bit peppery. Slight dry in taste, hint of alcohol, spicy. Quite tasty.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 May 2015
at 02:02
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Last year’s version of Lefêbvre’s (now) most renowned beer, with rocky, very thick, very dense and very stable, moussy, yellowish white head, very firmly lacing; and clear ’old gold’ colour with quiet sparkling, misty light orange with deposit. Aroma of Granny Smith apple, freshly baked white bread, unripe pear, the white bottom side of orange peel, cookie dough, rosé champagne, overripe gooseberries, freshly cut grass, cooked and sugared rhubarb, freshly baked apple cake, suggestions of vanilla extract, honey, pine resin-based bath foam, white raspberry, gin, biscuit and a suspiciously heavy amount of candi sugar. Taste kicks off with a combination of sweet, pear- and gooseberry-like fruit sweetness along with a refreshing, green apple- and unripe plum-like sourness; fairly strong carbo, a bit minerally, with a smooth but ’full’ body, revealing bittering hints already in the middle; acetaldehyde is all around. Becomes hoppier and more bittering towards the finish with leafy, earthy, grassy, somewhat peppery, very long and deep ’English’ hop bitterness, persisting bready and honeyish malt sweetness and a fair deal of warming, ’jonge jenever’-like alcohol; bit yeasty, if not doughy, as well. Hoppy alright, but in a more restrained way than I hoped for even though I have to acknowledge the duration of the hop bitterness is clearly above average here; another ’tripel hop’ trying to build a bridge between the hoppier Belgian tripels and the true IPAs. By itself an enjoyable beer, the sweet biscuit smell was a bit over the top for me though, and I just wish Belgian (family) brewers had the guts to come up with ’real’ IPAs or DIPAs. Somewhat overcarbonated as well. Still, enjoyable alright, with that long bitter aftertaste and warming ’jenever’-like glow which typifies so many strong Belgians.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Apr 2015
at 19:35
Tried
at
Fakbar Letteren
on 29 Apr 2015
at 20:32