9100 For Hooverphonic
Boelens in Belsele, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Special|
Score
6.59
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed 9100 For Hooverphonic from Boelens 4 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Beer dedicated to the participation of Hooverphonic, a successful rock band from Sint-Niklaas (where the brewery is located), in the Eurovision song contest of last year. Most likely Tripel Klok but differently hopped, difficult to tell without a side by side tasting. Violent gusher, in any case, and not seeing that coming from Boelens these days (contrary to a decade or two ago), I was not prepared and had to spend ten minutes cleaning my table and floor first. Egg-white, medium sized, moussy, quite dense, regularly shaped, relatively stable head on a hazed apricot blonde beer with pale orangey tinge and tiny dots of dead yeast throughout. Aroma of dusty old coriander seed, dried orange peel, raw parsnip, oxidized green apple slices, soggy bread crust, freshly cut grass, 'oude jenever', cold leftover potato mash, green pear, ferrous spring water, old crackers, wormwood, minerals, dust, faint rubbery note. Fruity onset, sweetish with a sourish undertone, green pear, apple slices, slight banana, very lively carbonation with lots of minerality to it; supple, slick body, cracker- and cereal-like malts with a bread-crusty edge, spiced with coriander seed 'powder' adding a spicy and dusty note, but then shifting attention to the hops, providing retronasal whiffs of grass and field flowers but also a touch of dried orange peel, while effectuating a late but long-stretching, pleasantly floral and spicy bitterness as well. The hop bitterness is not the only player in the finish, though, as those apple- and pear-like fruity notes, coriander and a thin slice of residual honeyish sweetness also remain; some gently warming, calvados-like alcohol tries to bind these factors together, but barely succeeds. Presenting itself as a tripel with a dash of New World hops (not the first time Boelens does that, by the way), indeed this Hooverphonic beer shows a bit more brightness and juiciness than the average Boelens tripel; that said, the coriander spicing and 'Belgian' yeast spiciness still stand in the way of these hops and as usual when traditional Belgian breweries touch upon New World hops, they are not allowed to shine as brightly as they should. Shame of the hops and a missed opportunity - and I remain unconvinced that the Hooverphonic band members will appreciate this amount of gushing each time they open a bottle of 'their' beer (not that I care - never really liked that band anyway, even though they are obviously talented in their genre). Typical boring and rather unbalanced Boelens tripel - the fact that Hooverphonic ranked much lower in the final results of the abovementioned contest than many bookmakers and other uninteresting people predicted, probably conveys the utter mediocrity of this redundant beer better than I ever could in my writing.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed 9100 For Hooverphonic from Boelens 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
10/X/21 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ verjaardagsfeestje Anniek, BB: 16/III/23 (2021-1151)
Clear blond orange beer, big solid creamy off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: sweet, almonds, amaretto, banana, bit funky, yeast, floral, bit sugary impression… MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit medicinal, very yeasty, spicy touch, bit sugary, alcohol. Aftertaste: little bitter, almonds, bit oxidized, herbal hops, yeasty finish.