Hip Hop Purple Haze
Microbrouwerij De Keukenbrouwers in Hove, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA Regular|
Score
6.16
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Zachtjes met het flesje draaien bij het inschenken voor het volle effect! Bitter bij de start daarna een heerlijk pallet van pompelmoes en citrus.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
(sample, bottle) Hazy golden color. Minimal white head. Sweet, musty, candy. Meh.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bottle. Totally ugly green color. Hibiscus dominating the aroma. The flavor is better. Citrus next to the hibiscus. Mint. Total failure, but at least it is drinkable.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
One of the Keukenbrouwers’ IPAs, tweaked by the addition of hibiscus. Steini bottle from Pyl-Blommaert near Beveren, curious to find out what this is. Quite strongly under pressure, but no gusher. Very thick, pillowy, bath foam-like, tightly ’membranous’ lacing, egg-white, coarse head over an immediately misty, ochre-ish peach blonde beer with yeast floating around everywhere; adding the sediment unsurprisingly leads to a mud pool look, very murky and ochre-ish, like some kind of swamp only a very brave man would dare to wade through. Aroma is a very Belgian but admittedly rather unusual and fascinating mixture of ripe peach, roses, catnip, sweetish hibiscus indeed piercing through the whole, brown soap, green apple, banana, soggy old bread, old dried ginger, wry pear peel, raw potato, earth, parsnip, some chewing gum, hints of white pepper, stale lemon juice and old oranges. Estery, fruity onset, banana amidst peach, ripe yellow plum and sourish rhubarb and green pear notes, quite sharply carbonated, too much so in fact, (to style) inappropriately harshening an otherwise soft, fluffy and even somewhat soapy mouthfeel. This soapiness increases towards the finish, bridging a bready malt sweetish underground with cereally sides, and clearly comes from that hibiscus flower thing, bringing its typical sweetish-perfumey-floral flavour along, piercing through a mildly citrusy, rooty, spicy and earthy hop bitterness (made a lot earthier by the yeast suspension) that sticks to the back of the tongue in a tenacious, resiny, tonic water-like way; so does that hibiscus flavour, albeit a lot less obviously so. The yeast sediment, a very present factor especially in the end, sharply enlarges not only that rooty, harsh hop bitterness, but also the hibiscus element and, obviously, the bready, eventually starchy and very ’dirty’ yeastiness. Considering previous experiences with bottles from this brewery - which, by the way, seems to perform incomparably better from tap - I did not have high hopes for this ’flowered West Coast IPA’, and my suspicion proved right: this is a dirty, muddy, murky mess of a beer, a ’Belgian style IPA’ at best but even in that segment not the best one around, with a huge overdosis of yeastiness even a Belgian IPA - if you consider this the yeastiest of IPA substyles - is not flattered by. Needs a whole lot of cleaning up - it’s not because you pump a whole lot of hop bitterness in what is essentially a Belgian blonde, that you automatically get an IPA, and even if it were cleaned up, I’m still not sure if I would appreciate this hibiscus thing running through the whole like a sweet, perfumey soapiness, from nose to finish. I can still drink this, hence the 2+ score, but otherwise this is not my beer, yet I do believe that this bottle may have suffered a bit from being on this local shop’s shelves for too long and this beer is probably a whole lot better on draught like most of Keukenbrouwers’ beers.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle @ home. Unclear, very hazy dusty red-orange color, full sized white head that diminishes fairly quickly. Aroma is floral, flowers, a bit perfumy and plant-like. Taste wheat, orangepeel, flowers, plant-like, annoying orangepeel citrus-something. Decent to medium body, light but fizzy carbonation. Pretty crappy.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Hazy orange with thin head. Aroma has some fruity peach and orange zest. Sweetish malts. Floral.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as De Keukenbrouwers Hip Hop Purple Haze (by Microbrouwerij De Keukenbrouwers):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5
23/IV/17 - 33cl bottle @ post-ZBF train ride - BB: n/a (2017-550) Thanks to Dylan for the sample!
Cloudy pinkish beige beer, creamy big off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. aroma: pretty dank, fruity, little funky, cheesy, citrus, pineapple, sweet, some mango, papay, lychee. MF: ok cabon, medium body. Taste: very bitter, hoppy, citrus, quite fruity, bit yeasty, metallic touch. Aftertaste: bitter, yeast, fruity, some tropical fruits, hoppy bitter finish, malty sweetness, some caramel. Well, it's actually pretty decent!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pours unclear,hazy amber. Small white head. Smell is mild hoppy, bit sweet by the hibiscus. Taste is mildly bitter, sharp, green and bitter hoppyness, yet not nearly as aromatic as I had hoped. Ok intensity and mf, decent bitterness.