IPA

LePlan - Vermeersch in Malle, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪

Brewed at/by: 't Hofbrouwerijke
IPA - Belgian Regular

Score

6.67

ABV: 6.8%

IBU: 41

Ticks: 5

A top-fermented beer that is refermented in the bottle with the hops Cryo, Centennial, Magnum, Mosaic, Simcoe, Talus. A traditional gold-colored IPA, nice and bitter, and hoppy. Lots of fruit in the taste, especially grapefruit, with a medium body, hoppy and fruity with a good malt backbone, subtle bitter aftertaste.

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tderoeck (22946) reviewed IPA from LePlan - Vermeersch 9 months ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

25/VI/25 - 33cl bottle from Hopduvel (Gent) I think, not sure though, shared @ post last choir rehearsal of the year drink, BB: 21/III/25 (2025-582)

Little cloudy orange to amber beer, small creamy off-white head, a little stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: very oxidized, malty, grains, caramel, floral touch, a bit yeasty, soapy impression. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter, caramel malts, grains, hoppy, sweet, more hops, a bit chemical, oxidized. Aftertaste: yeasty, oxidized, caramel, sweet, sugary, bleh, too old and oxidized, don’t like it.

Tried from Bottle from Bierwinkel De Hopduvel on 25 Jun 2025 at 20:30

6.9

TomHendriksen (8276) reviewed IPA from LePlan - Vermeersch 11 months ago

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Fles gedeeld met Koenzie. Het is een troebel amberkleurig bier met een medium beige schuim. Het heeft een aroma van thee en hop. De smaak is fruitig, droog en hoppig.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Apr 2025 at 23:07

wyzzywyz22 (5998) ticked IPA from LePlan - Vermeersch 2 years ago

Tried on 04 Feb 2024 at 17:28

7.1

Maakun (16718) reviewed IPA from LePlan - Vermeersch 2 years ago

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Slight hazy golden with big white head. Sweet malts, light bread crust, some grassy hops and a bit of citrus zest. Not as yeasty as I thought. Medium sweet and bitter, quite some carbonation. Not bad.

Tried from Bottle from J.P. Alsem on 22 Nov 2023 at 17:47

6.8

Alengrin (11675) reviewed IPA from LePlan - Vermeersch 2 years ago

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Together with a blonde and a tripel, one of the first beers launched by Dirk Vermeersch, a former race car driver later turned winemaker in France, now shifting his attention to commissioning beer (but still administratively operating from France apparently). Apparently not the same as his "New IPA", which is slightly less strong, has a golden-coloured label and is brewed at Eutropius (BCB). This 'regular' IPA, with red label, is physically realised by Hofbrouwerijke. From a 75 cl bottle shared with Craftmember, mentioning the number 7 on its front label rather than the 6 shown here but I assume it is the same beer (?). Snow white, moussy, shred-lacing head on a misty ochre-tinged 'old golden' beer. Aroma of green apple, moist white bread, grass, 'witloof', raw potato, unripe pear, clove, straw, dried field flowers, very old lemon zest, banana peel, young dandelion leaf. Sweetish, restrainedly fruity onset, some light banana, green apple and unripe pear, a bit sugary on top (oddly) with medium carbonation and full, soft, almost 'fluffy' mouthfeel; bready pale malt sweetish core, cereally, under the growing presence of grassy and floral hops but also somewhat spicy yeastiness and earthiness. The hops provide a medium long bitterness with vague reminiscences of dried old citrus peel and lemonbalm, but this bitterness, despite its length, remains much too soft for an IPA. Ordinary Belgian blonde with only limited 'true' IPA features, in all. I think this Mr. Vermeersch better sticks to wine.

Tried on 27 Sep 2023 at 14:21