Rubbens IPA
Stokerij - Brouwerij Rubbens in Wichelen, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Belgian Regular|
Score
6.15
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Kleur: Troebel blond
Aroma: Fruitig hoparoma met toetsen van citrus, lychee en kokosnoot.
Smaak: Volmondig bier met een gebalanceerde bittere smaak.
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Benzai (24515) reviewed Rubbens IPA from Stokerij - Brouwerij Rubbens 3 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6
Bottle at home shared with Laura. Clear blonde colir, full sized rough white head. Smell and taste malts, bitterness, hop bitters, light metallic notes. Decent body, firm carbonation. Okay.
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3.5 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 3
Wenig hopfiger, oxidiert herber Beginn. Muffig, der Hopfen bleibt schwach, pappig, kaum Nachgeschmack. 8/5/6/5/7/5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Slightly hazy golden yellow beer with a white head. Aroma of melons, yeast, yellow stone fruits. Taste of yellow stone fruits, apricot, melons, some dank, mild bitterness.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Rubbens IPA from Stokerij - Brouwerij Rubbens 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
One of the newer additions to this range, which seems more ambitious than I first thought. Steinie bottle from the Delhaize supermarket in Zele, which is where the Rubbens distillery, now also housing a brewery, originated. Cobweb-lacing, egg-white, thick, moussy head, misty peach-tinged golden blonde robe. Aroma of freshly grated lemon zest, fresh lemongrass, orange peel, dry cake, hay, something soapy, apricot jam, clove, pineapple juice. Sweet onset with notes of apricot, pineapple and mild banana, prickly carbonation with rounded, ‘full’ mouthfeel; dry cake- and cereal-like pale malts with a lemon-soapy element evolving into very citrusy, lime- and lemongrass-like aromatic hoppiness, which oddly shows limited complexity and feels a bit ‘artificial’ and perfumed. Still it brings drying, long bitterness too, in which clove- and grass-like accents play around. Belgian style IPA but on the cleaner side of that ‘basket case category’, essentially straightforward and simple, oddly a bit besides the point when it comes to true Anglo-Saxon IPA, but making this up with a solid basic structure (like the other Rubbens ales) and an admittedly elegant and pleasant perfumey zestiness in the nose. Better than expected – maybe I am now even willing to try that fruit beer which most recently joined this range.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Typical Belgian IPA. Bitter, dry and citrussy, a bit herbal. Ok but not the best IPA.