Hop
Brasserie de l'Abbaye du Val-Dieu in Aubel, Liège, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.83
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Créée pour célébrer les 800 ans de l’Abbaye, la Val-Dieu Hop est une bière légère et vivifiante.
Sa robe claire dissimule un goût délicieusement houblonné, grâce à l’utilisation du dry hopping, avec des touches d’agrumes qui apportent une fraîcheur irrésistible.
Récompensée par une médaille d’or au World Beer Awards, elle incarne la modernité tout en honorant la tradition.
Bière refermentée en bouteille, elle saura ravir les amateurs de saveurs délicates.
Note: Formerly known as Cuvée 800.
Sa robe claire dissimule un goût délicieusement houblonné, grâce à l’utilisation du dry hopping, avec des touches d’agrumes qui apportent une fraîcheur irrésistible.
Récompensée par une médaille d’or au World Beer Awards, elle incarne la modernité tout en honorant la tradition.
Bière refermentée en bouteille, elle saura ravir les amateurs de saveurs délicates.
Note: Formerly known as Cuvée 800.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330 ml bottle into tulip glass, best before 3/8/2018. Pours lightly hazy pale golden/yellow color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big lemon, orange, grapefruit, peach, pear, apple, citrus peel, peppercorn, coriander, clove, cracker, white bread, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Very nice aromas with good complexity and balance of citrus/earthy hops, fruity/spicy yeast, and moderate pale malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big lemon, orange, grapefruit, peach, pear, apple, citrus peel, peppercorn, coriander, clove, cracker, white bread, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Moderate peppery yeast spiciness and herbal, grassy, citrus peel hop bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of lemon, orange, grapefruit, peach, pear, apple, citrus peel, peppercorn, coriander, clove, cracker, white bread, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/earthy hops, fruity/spicy yeast, and moderate pale malt flavors; with a great malt/bitter/spiciness balance, and zero astringent flavors after the finish. Moderate increasing dryness from bitter/spiciness and carbonation. Medium-high carbonation and medium body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp, and grainy/sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 6%. Overall this is a delicious Belgian blonde ale. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/earthy hops, fruity/spicy yeast, and moderate pale malt flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and pretty refreshing to drink with the balanced bitter/spicy/drying finish. Really great balance between yeast/hop flavors; with solid pils malt backing, and no residual sweetness. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Aug 2017
at 20:41
7.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Hazy and very pale. Thin head. Light hoppy nose. Bitter, nice fruity hop, dry finish. Fun, refreshing, hoppy saison type.
Tried
on 02 Jul 2017
at 22:19
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at PIB 2017, pours a hazy blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out biscuity malt, light Belgian yeast and straw. Flavour is along the same lines, with Belgian yeast, cereal notes, straw and crisp biscuity malt. Dry, crisp and expressing a nice Belgian yeast character. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jun 2017
at 12:37
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
At a tasting, thanks, smallish creamy head, coudy very pale orange color, aroma of candy and very light honey with some yeasty hints, candy yeasty nutty flavor, light to medium bitterness, some fruity sourness in the back. Bland and boring.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Jun 2017
at 14:07
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
06/2017 @home - 33cl bottle from a trade with jerre. Clear yellow with big white creamy head. Sweet malty, banana, a bit middle of the road.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2017
at 05:01
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at Tom L’s place. Thanks avrashi. Hazy yellow. Fruitiness, spiciness, light honey note, slightly sweetish, bitterish finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2017
at 04:53
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
0.33l bottle. Hazy pale yellow body with a huge white head. Aroma and taste of bread, lemon zest, orange zest, elderflower and pepper. Fruity, spicy and refreshing beer. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2017
at 15:05
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
(Draught at Delirium Tap Bar, Brussels, 18 May 2017) Pale yellow colour with frothy, white head. Malty, fruity nose with bread, peaches and grass. Malty taste with notes of bread, peaches, grass, soft malt flavours and a gentle grassy bitterness. Medium body, with a certain sweetness. Tasty and well balanced. Quite nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 May 2017
at 14:51
6/10
Tried
from Draft
on 25 May 2017
at 15:32
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
330ml bottle from Vanuxeem. Pours hazy gold, medium white head. Aroma is very light pale malts, bready. Taste is smooth, lightly yeast, a touch herbal, dry citrus. Expected more I must say, but this really is an average Belgian blonde.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2017
at 08:31