Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as De Keukenbrouwers Hip Hop Milk Stout (by Microbrouwerij De Keukenbrouwers):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 1/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 2.7/5
17/VIII/17 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte) @ Help-Me-Get-to-10K-In-Time-Tasting 3 (home) - BB: 8/X/18 (2017-1252)
Slow gusher!
Clear red brown beer (how is it still not black?), big aery fizzy beige head, unstable, falls down quickly. Aroma: sweet, dried fruits, raisins, malty, grains, soft roast, bit oxidized. MF: very lively carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of dark chocolate, bitter hops, caramel, bit sourish, sweet touch. Aftertaste: ripe banana, bitter finish, soft roast, little sourish, caramel, more banana, some lactose. Not a proper stout, starting with the choice of malts, continuing in the yeast being used. More like a Dubbel bit a little bit of roasted malts.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Flesje gedeeld door Benzai en Kermis. Bleek, troebel bier met matig schuim. Aroma van veel gember en kruiden. In de smaak zit te veel gember, in de verte een beetje zoet met een zure nasmaak.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle @ home shared with Inoven and kermis. Clear pale golden color, decent sized white head that lasts for quite a while. Aroma is ginger with oregano. Taste is almost the same: ginger, oregano, quite salty and weird as gose always is. Meh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
5 3 5 2 9 Bottle shared with Benzai. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma of ginger, oregano, wheat and soap. Flavour is above light sweet and no real sourness. Above light bodied with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Quite classically conceived tripel in this series, steini bottle from Pyl-Blommaert in Melsele. Thick, egg-white, moussy head, slowly showing irregular gaps in the middle but otherwise well-retaining, over a lightly hazy, pure and warm golden blonde beer with vaguely greenish tinge; more yellow-ochre-ish and completely misty with sediment. Aroma of pear, white pepper, dried field flowers (Saaz), ginger, old ’jenever’, straw, some banana, pineapple, camomile, soggy white bread, abbey cheese, dried grapefruit peel, old dry lemon zest even, but also an unfortunate hint of DMS (cooked cabbage). Spritzy, lively onset, sharp carbonation but with small bubbles so not overly harsh within the typical properties of the style, estery banana, pineapple and pear notes, sweetish with sourish edges, full and smooth mouthfeel. Some residual sugars lend a thinly honeyish effect to an otherwise bready, bit grainy malt middle, with a touch of soapiness from the wheat also providing a ’deep’, dim sourish effect. Ends dry, with some powdery yeast effects (not unpleasant actually), warming ’jenever’-like alcohol and a quite elegant hop profile, very floral (camomile), hayish and a bit spicy (pepper), adding sufficient dryness agains the initial sweetishness. Not a bad effort at all, apart from that DMS note, which fortunately does remain subtle enough not to ruin the whole thing. I like the idea of applying Cascade to an otherwise very classical, standard Belgian tripel, but in this case - and the age of the bottle may be at play here - it is more the Saaz which performs very well, adding elegant ’noble’ hoppiness to it. Decent enough, in all.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as De Keukenbrouwers Hip Hop Orange Crush (by Microbrouwerij De Keukenbrouwers):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5
11/VIII/17 - 33cl bottle from Willems (Grobbendonk) @ home - BB: 4/III/19 (2017-1203)
GUSHER ALERT!
Clear deep orange beer, lots of junk particles floating around in the beer under a bit aery to fluffy yellowish head, falls down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of orange lemonade, soapy, bit fruity, more citrus notes, orange peel. MF: way too much carbon, medium to light body. Taste: ginger, bit sourish, spicy touch, citrus, bit watery, lemony notes. Aftertaste: fruity, soft bitterness, citrus, mandarins, fruity, pretty yeasty, little sourish. Decent, but by no means would this qualify as an ipa...
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
One of the Keukenbrouwers’ IPAs, tweaked by the addition of hibiscus. Steini bottle from Pyl-Blommaert near Beveren, curious to find out what this is. Quite strongly under pressure, but no gusher. Very thick, pillowy, bath foam-like, tightly ’membranous’ lacing, egg-white, coarse head over an immediately misty, ochre-ish peach blonde beer with yeast floating around everywhere; adding the sediment unsurprisingly leads to a mud pool look, very murky and ochre-ish, like some kind of swamp only a very brave man would dare to wade through. Aroma is a very Belgian but admittedly rather unusual and fascinating mixture of ripe peach, roses, catnip, sweetish hibiscus indeed piercing through the whole, brown soap, green apple, banana, soggy old bread, old dried ginger, wry pear peel, raw potato, earth, parsnip, some chewing gum, hints of white pepper, stale lemon juice and old oranges. Estery, fruity onset, banana amidst peach, ripe yellow plum and sourish rhubarb and green pear notes, quite sharply carbonated, too much so in fact, (to style) inappropriately harshening an otherwise soft, fluffy and even somewhat soapy mouthfeel. This soapiness increases towards the finish, bridging a bready malt sweetish underground with cereally sides, and clearly comes from that hibiscus flower thing, bringing its typical sweetish-perfumey-floral flavour along, piercing through a mildly citrusy, rooty, spicy and earthy hop bitterness (made a lot earthier by the yeast suspension) that sticks to the back of the tongue in a tenacious, resiny, tonic water-like way; so does that hibiscus flavour, albeit a lot less obviously so. The yeast sediment, a very present factor especially in the end, sharply enlarges not only that rooty, harsh hop bitterness, but also the hibiscus element and, obviously, the bready, eventually starchy and very ’dirty’ yeastiness. Considering previous experiences with bottles from this brewery - which, by the way, seems to perform incomparably better from tap - I did not have high hopes for this ’flowered West Coast IPA’, and my suspicion proved right: this is a dirty, muddy, murky mess of a beer, a ’Belgian style IPA’ at best but even in that segment not the best one around, with a huge overdosis of yeastiness even a Belgian IPA - if you consider this the yeastiest of IPA substyles - is not flattered by. Needs a whole lot of cleaning up - it’s not because you pump a whole lot of hop bitterness in what is essentially a Belgian blonde, that you automatically get an IPA, and even if it were cleaned up, I’m still not sure if I would appreciate this hibiscus thing running through the whole like a sweet, perfumey soapiness, from nose to finish. I can still drink this, hence the 2+ score, but otherwise this is not my beer, yet I do believe that this bottle may have suffered a bit from being on this local shop’s shelves for too long and this beer is probably a whole lot better on draught like most of Keukenbrouwers’ beers.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as De Keukenbrouwers Hip Hop Wipa (by Microbrouwerij De Keukenbrouwers):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5
6/VIII/17 - 33cl bottle from Willems (Grobbendonk) @ home - BB: 8/VII/18 (2017-1177)
Pretty cloudy yellowish to beige head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very yeasty, some banana, smoky touch (?), bit fruity. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty smoky start, sourish, lots of yeast, sweet, banana. Aftertaste: lots of yeast, banana, bit malty, soapy, soft bitterness, bit sourish, smoky touch. By no means is this an IPA.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4
Bottle @ home. Hazy orange color, huge chunks of yeast residu floating in it, full sized white to off-white head. Smell and taste malts, orangepeel, lightly orangepeel tart and some bitterness. Decent body and very high and unpleasant carbonation. Not good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle @ home. Gusher! Opaque dark brown color, huge foamy beige colored head that lasts for quite a while. Aroma is malts, dark malts, coffee. Tastes about the same. Carbonation is way too high, body is decent to medium. Overall not too bad but the carbonation ruins everything.