Dry Hop 2016 - Saaz ( Finest Harvest Edition )
Brasserie Lupulus in Gouvy, Luxembourg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.81
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Special edition of the regular blonde Lupulus with an extra Saaz hop dosis. Apparently only sold in magnum bottles (1.5 l) which I guess is a way of forcing people to share it and thereby necessarily reaching a wider audience - but obviously not very handy for tickers... Builds up a thick, dense, frothy, snow white, foamy and tightly lacing head; hazy straw blonde colour with peachy hue. Aroma is a bit lightstruck at first (mercaptans - ’skunked’, in other words, this bottle must have stood in daylight too long) but after this has faded, more pleasant impressions appear: bread dough, unripe pear, radish, green tea, flowers, straw, fried potatoes, raw broccoli, cloves, white pepper, apple peel, cucumber. Fruity onset with hints of apple, green plums and gooseberry, restrainedly sweet peach hint and well-balanced like the regular version, medium carbonation, smooth but ’full’ bready and grainy malt sweetish middle, spicy phenolic notes here and there, ending more bready due to yeast as the bottle progresses, adorned with a floral, grassy and herbal Saaz hop character, noble and sufficiently bittering. Some warming, gin-like alcohol in the end as well. Very classically Belgian strong blonde, basically a tripel with certain saison-like characteristics due to the heavier hop dosage - a certain similarity with Dupont’s Bon Voeux sprung to mind. Not a bad effort, but I really don’t see how this cannot be bottled in smaller volumes!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
1.5 liter (Magnum) Bottle. Pours unclear yellow, big white head. Smell is full, bit spiced, a lot like the regular Lupulus. Taste is definately more bitter though. less spiced than the Original, more grassy notes. Prefer the regular one over this...