IPA
Mareklop in Lokeren, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij De PoesIPA Regular Out of Production
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Score
6.23
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tderoeck (22946) reviewed IPA from Mareklop 7 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Mareklop IPA (by Mareklop):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 2.6/5
8/IX/18 - 33cl bottle from the brewery, shared @ home, BB: n/a (no markings on the side of the label to mark a date) - (2018-1222)
Clear orange to amber beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: sweet malts, some caramel, bit chemical, paint thinner, green apples. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty, grains, very bitter, bit chemical, unpleasant bitterness, dry, caramel. Aftertaste: dusty, bitter, bit resinous, dried fruits, malty finish. Don't the chemical character in this beer...
Kraddel (15872) reviewed IPA from Mareklop 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours very dark amber ( PALE ???? ) with a good, dense, very creamy and very stable white head, with much lacing. Smell is hoppy, bit 'green' . Amarillo shows most. mild phenolic features. Taste is sharp, bitter, intense, somewhat green malty, very malty indeed, bit caramel. Mild esthers (more to the acetyldehyde side, but not over the top, no mistake here, as long as it's seen as a Belgian IPA ) and phenols ( peppery notes towards the back ). Overall, very malt-forward IPA with a very decent bitterness, and a thick, creamy, Amarillo forward hoparoma. Body is medium-thick, carbo is medium-low. Aftertaste is surprisingly short and weak though, preventing this beer to be top notch.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed IPA from Mareklop 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
The newest Mareklop on the market (though I heard a new one is coming up), an IPA hopped with Citra, Cascade, Amarillo and Willamette, bottle from Gedeelde Vreugde in Sint-Niklaas. Quite irregular, also irregularly cobweb-lacing, off-white, medium thick, moussy head over a misty amberish-tinged orange blonde beer, a tad darker than average for an internationally intended IPA. Aroma of moldy old orange flesh, rain- or even green pond water, overripe mango, croissants, fermenting apricots, banana, green grapes, damp earth, cooked turnip, strawberry wine, spoiled potato mash and spoiled leek soup, withering anise plants, herb cheese, horseradish, egg yolk, pumpkin flesh, cloves. Fruity-estery onset, sweetish with expressive sourishness surrounding it, banana, pear, kiwi and peach hints, early announcements of hop bitterness, soft carbo, supple and lean body. Bready malt 'rotundity' in the middle, bit cereally as well, but softened by bready yeastiness - which really has no business in a true IPA. Esters and increasing spicy phenols in the finish, hovering above a decent but - frankly - somewhat insufficient hop bitterness, bit dank, withering garden herbs, old citrus fruit and a vague dash of overripe mango thrown in, providing an earthy, rather dull bitterness below, while that old Belgian yeastiness prevails with too many esters and too many phenols. Lingering breadiness too. Seen as a Belgian IPA, this is an acceptable beer, if you interpret "Belgian IPA" as "attempt to cash in on the international hop-forward movement and ending up with a yeasty blonde or tripel with mild international influences". I expected more from this, clearly these guys have no clue that refermenting an IPA with Belgian yeast strains can only lead to clashing flavours; on top of that, I suspect I stumbled upon a bottle that is a bit past its prime. I guess a beer like this should be enjoyed farm fresh from tap, but even then it will never be a true international-style IPA in spite of the four expensive - and, to most Belgian brewers, 'exotic' - hops that have been thrown in. Guys, listen: it is not because you mastered the blonde and / or tripel style indigenous to Belgium and add a lot of fancy hops, that you automatically end up with an IPA... Not an unpleasant beer at all, don't get me wrong, just another addition to the unintentional "Belgian IPA" range, in the league of Plukker's All Inclusive IPA series, Van Eecke's Hommelbier Nieuwe Oogst, Den Triest IPA and so on, and so forth. Within that very specific context, this functions fine, without topping any of them. I have enough experience with Belgian beers to be weary when the commercially interesting abbreviation "IPA" is mentioned on a Belgian label, but people from abroad may be unaware of this, so in this case: expect a Belgian blonde coloured with American hops, but still being a - yeasty - Belgian blonde.
Benzai (24654) reviewed IPA from Mareklop 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle @ home. Clear rusty orange to amber color, medium sized off-white to beige head that lasts for a short while. Aroma is malts, caramel, hops. Taste malts, quite heavy on the caramel and caramel malts, mainly bitter hops come through and a long lasting caramel / bitter finish. Medium body and carbonation. Ok beer.