IPA
Van Bulck Beers in Oostende, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij Anders!IPA - Belgian Regular
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Score
6.61
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Gebrouwen met: water, gerstemout*, tarwemout* & tarwevlokken*, hop* (Simcoe, Saphir é Pacific Gems), gist en kruiden*.
* van Biologische oorsprong
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed IPA from Van Bulck Beers 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Organic IPA hopped with Simcoe, Saphir and Pacific Gem, created by a client brewer located in Ostend. Snow white, medium thick, moussey, dot-lacing, slowly breaking head on a misty yellow blonde robe, fully hazy and ochre-ish-tinged with sediment added. Aroma of dried birch tree leaves, margarine, old potato peel, green banana, cold mash, apple blossoms, sweetclover, roasted cauliflower, dust, very vague orange zest. Fruity onset, halfripe banana, pear and a touch of yellow kiwi, sourish underneath a sweeter main flavour with the souring effects of the wheat malt and wheat flakes very apparent early on; softish carb, sweetish white-bready maltiness under continuing fruity esters and something thinly buttery (a trace of bacteria-generated diacetyl perhaps?), generally dry, with an only mild floral hop bitterness, lacking both the New World aromatics and bitterness I was hoping for. Instead, that general wheat sourishness dominates, and the combination of potentially bacteria-generated diacetyl and this ‘extra’ sourish undertone makes me suspect that a bacterial infection is already setting in here. Grassy and green-fruity notes do appear in the end, but clearly this beer does not contain nearly enough hops, either in aroma or in bitterness, to deserve the IPA moniker – not even if ‘Belgian IPA’ is intended. Feels more like a kind of atypical Weissbier (or even witbier), to be frank… Maybe the New World hops used, were old, or too sparsely used, or have already faded, I have no idea, but in spite of what the label advertises, they are in any case dramatically lacking to establish an IPA experience. Odd.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed IPA from Van Bulck Beers 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
9/II/24 - 33cl bottle @ Gado Gado Indonesian restaurant (Gent), BB: 7/XI/24 22:22:33 (2024-82)
Clear blond to gold beer, big solid creamy off-white head, pretty stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: pretty yeasty, ripe banana, sweet impression, some vanilla, pretty malty. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very yeasty start, quite some ripe banana, banana peel, spicy, coriander, bitter touch. Aftertaste: more yeast, hoppy, grassy, bitter finish, a hint of citrus. By no means can you call this an IPA. It’s just a hoppy blonde Belgian ale.
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed IPA from Van Bulck Beers 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle from Primeurs Achiel in Oostende. F: medium, white, good retention. C: pale gold, hazy. A: malty, peach, banana, apples, spicy, yeasty touch. T: medium malty base, banana, red apples peels, spicy, bit herbal, decent bitterness, medium carbonation, bit mineral water, not bad yet hops are quite lost here, enjoyed yet bio so ok.