Green Hopping 2018
De Meester in Lendelede, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.05
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tnkw01 (4059) reviewed Green Hopping 2018 from De Meester 10 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
2011 version-Bottle. Orange-amber color. Nice head and lacey. I was really suprised about how hoppy it tasted. Aroma was a citrus hoppy one slight malt . 2012 version-bottle. Brown in color. Taste kind of like a mild IPA.
Weihenweizen (7385) reviewed Green Hopping 2018 from De Meester 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Refrigerated 12 oz squat bottle poured into a glass. Hazy dark amber with medium beige head. Aroma is copper malt, medium body, lower carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is caramel malt.
Idiosynkrasie (17851) reviewed Green Hopping 2018 from De Meester 2 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
355ml bottle. Cloudy, dark amber-ish, brown colour with small to average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, beige head. Sweet-ish, fruity hoppy aroma, hints of boiled fruit, canned fruit, peach, minimally nutty, malty background. Taste is minimally sugary, sweet-ish, fruity hoppy and slightly toasty, minimally nutty, caramel malty, notes of (canned) yellow stone fruit, peach, some apricot, a touch of mandarine. Watery texture, rather indifferent palate, medium, mildly prickly carbonation. Fairly fruity, quite sweet, a bit monotonous - OK.
nimbleprop (16712) reviewed Green Hopping 2018 from De Meester 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
12oz pours a cherry amber, white head. Nose had dried fruit, spice, malt, cherry. Flavor is of malt, spice, cheap dried malts and weird dried hops. Dry and bitter finish. Weird. 6 3 6 3 11
iphonephan (11575) reviewed Green Hopping 2018 from De Meester 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
From a bottle well after Christmas. Pours a clear tan with a tan head. Aromas of caramel apples and spices. Flavors are sweet caramel.
solidfunk (21946) reviewed Green Hopping 2018 from De Meester 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Better than I thought it would be but that's just because I thought it would have Christmas spices. Amber pour with ok head. Some lime. Bottle.
STEFAN (632) reviewed Green Hopping 2018 from De Meester 4 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle courtesy of Bacchus66. Thanks. Pours a dark copper color with a big foamy off white head that has good retention. The aroma is mild and indistinct with roasted grains and some dust. The taste is caramel malts, pecans and toffee. There is bit of mild piney bitter in this as well which offsets the sweet caramel. The palate is just a tad thinner than I would prefer. Finished somewhat short and sticky. Overall: nice brew. Paired well with some pepper jack cheese.
explosivedog (14050) reviewed Green Hopping 2018 from De Meester 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
On tap at Dive 106. Pours brown. Spice, clove, pepper, biscuit. Medium body. Meh.
bier4der (3351) ticked Green Hopping 2018 from De Meester 5 years ago
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Green Hopping 2018 from De Meester 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
One of very few beers in Belgium that are apparently ‘green-hopped’, with four different hop varieties; bottled in a nice 37.5 cl ‘geuze’ bottle with paper wrap. Regular, dense and creamy (hops-enhanced), yellowish beige, thick, paper-lacing head on an initially clear, deep and ‘darkish’ copper-tinged amber beer, misty with a brownish tinge after adding the sediment. Aroma of orange peel, peaches, sugared bread, peanuts, some rusty iron, bitterroot or raw ‘witlof’, old chewing gum, honey, red apple, gin. Cleanish fruity onset, red apple and apricot sweetness with honeyish residual sugariness on top, softish carb, sweet and bit resinous, very caramelly malt body with peanutty edges but also something thinly metallic, remaining sweet with an orange juice-like aspect retronasally but in a ‘stale’ kind of way, while the hops establish a late, bitterrooty, leafy bitterness, blending with that pronounced caramelly malt sweetness, warmed by an afterglow of somewhat whisky-like, but altogether – considering ABV – relatively soft alcohol. Unusual for a Belgian beer, this Meester creation has more in common with old and classic English style ESB or something along those lines, albeit with considerably more alcohol and residual sugars; not too estery or phenolic, so in all very malt-forward and clean, with the hops adding depth in an earthy, deeply ‘grounded’ kind of way, but little aroma - the orange peel aspect apparently comes from actual orange peel added to the mash; the coriander meanwhile remains altogether subtle and does not become soapy or obnoxious anywhere. Sadly a bit metallic which began to bother me a little bit in the end, otherwise an interesting, quite idiosyncratic brew and among the better Meesters I had so far.