Dry Hop 2021 - Cryo Sabro

Can from a local bottle shop. Aroma is fruity hop with citrus, orange, hint of coconut (not nearly enough) and some yeasty notes. Flavour is medium bitter with a definite sweetness. Medium body. Decent stuff, but it doesn't come together that well.

33cl can from Cora in Brussels. F: medium, white, not long lasting. C: shiny pale gold, milky hazy. A: tangerine, grapefruits, pinneaple, mango, coconut. T: medium to full malty base, tropical fruits, grapes, coconut touch, bit white wine, pinneaple, decent bitterness, soft carbonation, good, enjoyed.

Can from the brewery - thanks, mom & dad! Hazy yellow, small, white head. Aroma of tangerine, stale orange juice, lychee, pineapple, ripe peach, honey, dough. Taste has sweet peach, pineapple & tangerine over doughy maltiness, bit zesty with a herbal-spicy edge. Floral hoppy finish, spicy yeast, bittersweet grapefruit & stonefruit, some soapy sourish sides. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation. Decent effort by Lupulus, but why not dare go all the way?

Hazy pale blond colour with quick fading head. Somewhat muted aroma. It's fairly dry for the style. Light citrus, some gentle nutty coconut husk. Not unpleasant.

33 cl. can @ home, bought @ van Rooij, Culemborg.
Hazy yellow with a white head. Hoppy grapefruit and mandarin aroma. Some yeasty esters as well. Sweet taste with a low-bitter finish. Quite thin bodied but overall very tasteful.

hazy vpale yellow colour, moderate sized dense white head; aroma of grapefruit, lemon zest, pineapple, some peach and slight coconut; taste has the same notes as can be felt in the aroma with some earthy notes; good one

Can: Poured a hazy yellow with a white head. Aroma is hoppy, fruity, citrus, coconut. Tasted citrus, juicy, coconut, very flavorful.

It seems Lupulus (the former Trois Fourquets, originally a spin-off of Achouffe) has been very active lately, coming up with new beers both for the larger audiences (easygoing beers appearing on the supermarket shelves) and for the more craft-oriented consumer. This one, from a can (still not an obvious thing in Belgian brewing), belongs to the latter group, along with several other ‘experimental’ beers – note that the term ‘experimental’ is of course very relative here. Shared with Sylvan. Snow white, moussy, opening head on a clear golden blonde beer with ‘old gold’ tinge. Aroma of withering cut flowers and grass, damp straw, apple peel, stewing onion, overripe banana (peel), coriander seed, sweat, even something reminiscent of kale leaves that have had their prime. Sweetish onset, old apple peel and banana, finely tingling fizz, slick and slender body; cereally, white-bready maltiness under a grassy, zesty hop bitterness bringing some of the (apparently ‘cryo’, so frozen) Sabro to the foreground, but certainly not its full potential of exotic fruitiness: rather than the tangerine and coconut accents I associate with fresh Sabro, I get dank withering weeds and stale lime juice, mixed with this very Belgian, but in this case brutally irrelevant soapy coriander seed effect. Spicy hop bitter notes do linger in the finish. Quite hoppy alright and certainly drinkable (not mentioning an unexpected offering from Lupulus), but the Sabro needs more exposure and freshness.

Can from Rond Point, Malmedy. Fruity hoppy nose with hints of citrus. Rather yeasty, medium bitter.