Hiëronymus West Coast Ipa
Brouwerij de HopHemel in Zepperen, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
6.84
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
West Coast style IPA by this extremely prolific Limburgian craft brewery, can from Drinks4U in Deinze, consumed three days before its expiration date. Slow gusher; foamy, very thick and rocky (hops-enhanced), pale greyish off-white, cobweb-lacing, firm head over a cloudy 'dirty' burnt orange robe with darkish ochre tinge. Aroma of orange peel, pomelo, lychee, wet bricks and gravel, toasted onion, pear, roasted shallots, white pepper, fried root parsley, old bread crust, great yellow gentian roots, some wet cardboard. Dryish yet yeasty onset, notes of persimmon, green olive-like umami, roasted pumpkin and fried carrot, spritzy carb, bready middle with a bread crust-like maltiness reinforced by bready yeastiness (which should not be present in this kind of beer) and bittered by a long, rooty, peppery, wormwoody, tonic water-like hoppiness with retronasal notes of dried grapefruit peel and dried southernwood; pronounced bready yeastiness persists, carrying the bitterness even further but also lending the finish a somewhat 'dirty' aspect. Boldly bitter old school IPA but more a Belgian IPA than a true West Coast IPA - perhaps because it should have been consumed younger than I did; still a very tasty beer, though, HopHemel rarely disappoints.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bouteille 33cl, BB 10/11/2025, Lot# 23-P209, merci Tderoeck, partagée avec Carles à Gualta.
Léger sur l’ambre, col épais crémeux tenace blanc-cassé.
Arôme sur un caractère houblonné américain classique ; herbacé, finement résineux.
Palais sur une base maltée sympa – pils, pâle et reprenant un côté belge repris en retrait par des houblons US – agrumes et pointe de résine. Assez sympa.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
14/XI/23 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: n/a (2023-1043)
GUSHER ALERT!
Clear orange beer, big irregular aery off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: fruity up front, ripe peaches, citrus, mango, a bit piny, caramel malts, some barnyard. MF: very lively carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter start, a bit grassy, fruity touch, metallic, very resinous, a bit chemical. Aftertaste: very bitter, pretty soapy, a bit resinous, a little fruity, some citrus, very bitter finish. Rather disappointing compared to the Alexandra and Rufinus IPA’s which I had before.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Almost clear deep golden beer with a white head. Aroma of resinous bitter hops and stone fruits. Taste of citrusy bitter hops, stone fruits, apricot, long bitter finish.