Nen Echten
De Hoevebrouwers in Zottegem, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Belgian Regular|
Score
6.61
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Bierridder (4318) ticked Nen Echten from De Hoevebrouwers 3 years ago
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Nen Echten from De Hoevebrouwers 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Delhaize. Hazy orange, thin, frothy, white head. Aroma of overripe mandarin, apricot, old apple, honey, clove, soap. Taste has sweet mandarin, apricot & plum over a honey-malty base, bit bready with a soapy note. Floral hoppy finish, spicy bitter, sourish too, a vague mandarin peel hint but sweet apricot lingers as well. Medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. Perfectly drinkable Belgian Ale but erase the 'IPA' label, please. The name is also a tell-tale sign that they didn't mean serious 'craft' business here.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Nen Echten from De Hoevebrouwers 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
7/XI/21 - 33cl bottle @ Akke’s place, BB: VII/2023, Lot 21271 (2021-1254) Thanks to Akke for sharing the bottle!
Pretty clear orange beer, big solid creamy yellowish head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very floral, soapy impression, very yeasty, lots of ripe banana. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: all ripe banana, very yeasty, bit sweet, fruity touch, slightly sour. Aftertaste: very sweet, yeasty, more banana, slightly bitter, fruity touch, sweet, bit sugary, caramel.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Nen Echten from De Hoevebrouwers 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Belgian IPA by Hoevebrouwers in Zottegem, bottle from – I believe – a supermarket in Ghent, but cannot remember which one exactly. Cobweb-lacing, egg-white, thick and dence, hops-enhanced, rocky head on a deep, initially clear ‘old golden’ robe with lively visible sparkling, turning misty and ochre-tinged with sediment. Aroma of old onions and withering leek, old bread crust, armpit sweat, old cheese rind, banana, cloves, minerals, camphor accent, herb cheese beginning to go ‘off’, oxidized apple slices. Fizzy onset, lots of sharp and even numbing overcarbonation, fruity banana sweetishness piercing through along with hints of red apple and green pear; slick cereally pale maltiness, minerally effects from carbonation continuing, slight honeyish sweetishness on top. Ends with a long, leafy and peppery hop bitterness, having turned a bit cheesy too as well as withered leek-like, going along with clove-like phenols, yeasty fruitiness and something metallic in the background. Typical example of a Belgian ale brewer in the traditional vein trying to be up to date by adding a hoppy blonde to his range and labelling it as an IPA because this term sells well. Other than being ‘unintentionally’ Belgian, if you get my drift, this is also a bit flawed, with the large dosage of hops not being in prime condition – though storage on a shop shelf has likely contributed to this effect, so I will not be too harsh on this one. Not an IPA, though, but I was not expecting one either, being familiar with this brewery’s output.