Hop & Liefde
(has 1 batch)
Brouwerij De Molen in Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.00
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Hop & Liefde (Hop & Love) is formally known as Pale Ale Citra and one of our biggest selling light ales. Very refreshing and it makes you want more after the first. Very floral, lots of citrus, light grassy and light bodied. Flavor indication: Citrus, grassy, floral, bitter The name Pale Ale Citra is still used for the export to Sweden.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Clear to hazy medium amber colour, good frothy white head, good retention and lacing. Very fruity aroma, orange, grapefruit, lemon, lemon grass, pine notes. Crisp taste, medium sweet and bitter, light sour notes, citrus, hops. Smooth mouthfeel, light to medium body, oily to watery texture, soft carbonation, crisp bittersweet finish. Very refreshing, well-balanced en quaffable, very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2015
at 18:19
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cloudy golden, The head as usual by De Molen not that intensive but well lacing. Nose of tropical fruit, citrus fruit, blossom, resin. Medium body. Oily. The flavour is extremely dry with citric fruitiness & resiny hoppiness. Herbal hoppy finish.
Tried
on 24 Jul 2015
at 15:00
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
The follow-up to De Molen Citra, bottle from Albert Heijn, filled to the brim. Medium thick, stable, pale egg-white, dense head over a warm orange blonde, lightly hazy beer, cloudy and peachy with deposit. Lively and delicate American hops aroma, very Citra indeed, hints of lemon blossom, lime zest, limoncello, lemonbalm, pink grapefruit flesh, spruce tips, fragrant acacia flowers, candied orange, gari, biscuit, lychee; a stronger presence of thick, dried citrus peel crispness comes in with deposit. Crisp, vivid onset, exotic fruitiness, papaja, lychee, kumquat, lots of citrus freshness, delicate and refined, light but mouth-filling biscuity and lightly toasted maltiness, all very elegant and ’feminin’, with medium carbo, bit minerally; finish reprises the aromatic, ethereal hop fragrance of lemon blossom and lime peel, nicely bittering but not too harsh and therefore in perfect balance with the light and elegant malt body, some juiciness of which pierces through the hop bitterness, fruity and extremely quenching. A delicate, surprisingly elegant example of an APA, De Molen never disappoints.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jul 2015
at 07:38
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
0.33 bottle from Hoppiness, Koper, Slovenia. Golden with medium creamy off white head. Very strong citra aroma, tropical all the way. Some acidity, citrus, sweet, then light hoppy finish. Light body, very drinkable. A beer for everyone, in a good way.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2015
at 15:36
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Small, if stable, yellowish head over finely carbonated hazy orange beer. Aromatic, even perfumey nose, with citric hops, lemonbalm, lemon- or limepeel. Bitterish to bitter, but especially quite fruity flavour. Citrus and exotic fruit, bitter melon. Creamy head, spritzy beer with a faint, hopoily stickyness. Very drinkable, nice & inviting nose.
Tried
on 12 Jul 2015
at 07:36