Bottle from tderoeck @ RBBWG 2017. Hazy blond colour, white foam. Citrussy, grassy bitter hoppiness. Belgian yeast. Not bad.

1.5L bottle share at RBBWG 2017, thanks for sharing. Dorée, col épais blanc. Arôme au nez malté, pils cara pâle, nez belge au niveau levure avec un effet houblonné en rétro tirant sur léger fruits et notes vertes - presque de citron vert. Palais est malté encore avec un effet très belge, amertume houblonnée avec un côté presque de Cascade voire autre houblons de la côte ouest et fine note herbacée sur la fin. Petite note épicée en fin de bouche.

Thank you tderoeck! 1500 ml. bottle sampled @ RBBWG VI (2017). Hazy golden, creamy white head. Nose is green grass, bitter white pepper hops, bitter weeds, very lively. Fizzy bodied with big BE yeast, soapy, green grass, pepper, soap, esters, BE blond. Doesn’t excite me much. For a lively BE blond brew its okay.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Lupulus Yellow Sub Hops 2017 (by Lupulus):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5

25/II/17 -1.5L magnum bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ RBBWG (Beerlovers Bar, Antwerpen) - BBE: 2020, lot: VII/16 (2017-224)

Clear orange beer, big creamy off-white head, very stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: very fruity, some grapefruit, citrus, bit sweet, oranges. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: citrus, hoppy, bitter, quite some grapefruit, bit sourish, grassy, nice! Aftertaste: bitter, some orange peel, bit yeasty, grassy, some alcohol, spicy touch. Decent beer. Too bad they didn't change the yeast, for the hops would've come out much better, probably brighter and fruitier.

1.5L pours out golden topped with a white head. Nose is light belg yeast notes spice notes and some grassy hops. Taste is more of the nice light belg yeast notes bread and spice.

Thnx to ben ! Pours unclear yellow. Good white head. Smell is intense, typical lupulus spices. Taste is intense, typical lupulus, but a bit more bitter and grassy. Very nice ! Way better than the previous (saaz) edition

Huge, dense, light yellow head, very stable over fully hazy yellow beer, finely carbonated. Dry, herbal, light-citrussy hops, dry hopbales, lupulin galore. Quite bitter, bone dry flavour. Dry hops to the fore, leafy. Finish is bitter, peppery-spicy, relevated by the CO². Quite carbonated feel, gristslick beer, medium bodied, seems well attenuated. Ah, elle est bonne, Pierre!

Magnum bottle of 1.5 l shared with Craftmember. Apparently Trois Fourquets has recently returned to their old habit of occasionally making special editions of Lupulus on magnum bottles, this one for the start of 2017 and hopped with "Yellow Sub Hops", which is a German, trademarked mélange of three hop varieties, the intention of which is to imitate the effect of Amarillo, I assume to make this effect more easily (and less expensively) available; hence the name, as the word ’amarillo’ means yellow and ’sub’ is short for substitution. Opens with a loud bang - which is rather startling from such a big bottle - but fortunately no gushing. Very thick and frothy, snow white, irregularly shaped, stable head, warm and hazy peach blonde robe with vaguely greenish tinge. Aroma of mandarin, straw, pear, raw pineapple, minerals, bread crumbs, young ’jenever’, dried orange peel, cloves, soap, withering tulips, wet grass and very vague suspicion of chlorine. Fruity, crisp, sweetish onset, peachy with a dash of light banana and some red apple, a soapy and soflty sourish starfruit-like hint as well, with - at least initially - sharp carbonation ever for what is basically a tripel, numbing a bit, yet the mouthfeel stays sufficiently smooth, quite full and rounded too. Pleasantly bready malt sweetishness in the middle, somewhat soapy, with a subtly biscuity touch; then an phenolic, clove-like spiciness develops, eventually overshadowed by a long, drying, earthy, peppery hop finish, a bit orangey retronasally and a tad wormwood-like in the throat, but a lot of juicy malt sweetness is retained; warming, ’jenever’-like alcohol hint in the very end. Classically Belgian tripel-ish blonde like the regular Lupulus Blonde but adorned with some more hoppiness with a lightly orangey character. Pleasant enough and qualifying as a ’Belgian IPA’, in itself a compromise of tripel and IPA, and a good one at that.