Nonkel Hop
Gistgeest in Deurne, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Belgian Regular|
Score
7.05
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Kraddel (15810) reviewed Nonkel Hop from Gistgeest 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle thnx to the brewers! Pours rather unclear, amber, médium small white head. Smell is strong, hoppy, in a nice and balanced way, but not as 'refined' as bigger brands ( non industrial, but I mean more experienced craft brewers) offer. Nothing wrong though, just perhaps a bit rough and honest, which makes it all the more 'craft' to me. Taste is strong bitter, perhaps à tad to strong for my personal liking. The aroma compound has not been forgotten though. Citrussy, yet not as boring as a Citra single hop ( cause this simply isn't), providing it some nice complexity as far as hops go. Maltbase seems reasonable simplex which is not bad for an IPA, but perhaps a bit more, slightly aromatic malt might counter the strong bitterness nicely. Lastly, the fermentation profile. It's surpringly clean. New craft brewers finally get to step away from Ester bombs, which will be a huge benefit for all IPA's in Belgium, I recon. The body is agreeable, carbonation to the higher side. Well yeah, it's still Belgium. It's a good beer. That shows some roughness still. Mostly, it's simply out of balance due to the high bitterness to me. But give these guys some time, and good, interesting things will happen I'm sure!
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Nonkel Hop from Gistgeest 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
One of the beers served by Gistgeest at their first public performance, at Modeste Bierfestival in Antwerp. Snow white, medium thick, moussy but opening head over a hazy peach blonde beer with orangey hue. Aroma of orange flesh, grapefruit peel, mango, pineapple, bread pulp, prickly pear, ripe apricot. Sweetish, very fruity onset, yellow kiwi, ripe pineapple, mandarin, fizzy carbonation, supple bready malt body with residual honeyish sweetness to it, aromatic and fragrant hoppy finish, mango and orange but with Belgian (or in this case: "Brett Brux Trois", which confusingly is not a Brettanomyces strain) yeast effect too, banana, bread, earthy finish with mildly spicy, elegant hop bitterness. Decent "Belgian style IPA", promising for this new Antwerp nanobrewery.