Kraddel (15872) reviewed Hop from Brouwerij Den Druppel 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 9
Bottle. Pours clear blonde, good white head. Smell is sharp, intense bitterhop. Bit of ’green’ aroma as well. Taste is sharp, intense bitter. Green indeed, as the smell made me expect. Not much maltyness, and not as dry as the likes of XX bitter. Ok body, rather high carbo. The rather overpowering bitterness sadly makes it a bit one-dimentionnal to me...
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Hop from Brouwerij Den Druppel 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as Druppel Hop (by Brouwerij Den Druppel):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5
10/XI/15 - 33cl bottle from local Delhaize supermarket @ home - BB: 27/VIII/17 (2015-1547)
Clear dark blond beer, huge creamy foamy head, very stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: some citrus, grassy, bit herbal, soapy, grapefruit notes, bit piny, fruity. MF: too much carbon, medium body. Taste: herbal and spicy, coriander, pretty bitter, sugary, yeast. Reminds me very much of a Duvel. Aftertaste: citrus, yeast profile, herbal, pretty dry and bitter, sweet touch as well, quite alcohol, bit of a medicinal bitterness. I'd say it's a good Duvel imitation, but I don't catch much of those American hops they're boasting about on the label.
Damn backlog, looks like I could've been first... :p
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Hop from Brouwerij Den Druppel 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Elected "best hobby brew" of Belgium in the yearly brewing contest held by Brouwland (the nation’s reference when it comes to home brewing equipment), so their beer is sold temporarily at the Delhaize supermarkets now. Fairly thick, egg-white, dense and stable head remaining closed all the time and leaving thick lacing on the edges of the glass, residing over a hazy yellow golden beer with fierce sparkling, becoming more orangey and clouded with deposit, with a ’fog’ of yeast bits suspended throughout its entire robe. Aroma shouts Belgian yeast at first glance, with impressions of banana-flavoured bubblegum, canned pineapple, a lot of straw, peach, gooseberry, chamomille, powder sugar, honey, shortbread, mandarin flesh, cantaloupe, hints of white pepper, dried nettles, dry earth and white bread. Crisp, fruity onset, estery with strong isoamylacetate (banana!) along with unripe green plum, yellow kiwi and gooseberry, some hops already noticeable, lively and initially strong, somewhat minerally carbonation; supple malt sweetish middle phase, a bit grainy and bready, adorned with honeyish flavours, some spicy yeastiness but most of all, the hops becoming more and more apparent announcing the finish, which has a juicy maltiness to it (and even a faint ’white candi sugar sweetness’ lingering), but is otherwise mostly coloured by a ’noble’, leafy, peppery, herbal hop bitterness, drying the back of the mouth and providing balance against the sweetness, with a pleasant hop bitterness lingering after swallowing; a gin-like alcohol flavour is there and adds warmth to the aftertaste but manages to remain fairly discrete. Typical example of the ’tripel hop’ trend in Belgium, which is nothing else but ’Belgian IPA’ as our colleagues at Beeradvocate say: a hybrid between classic Belgian tripel and IPA. A tad overcarbonated perhaps and too much of the stereotypical isoamylacetate to my taste, but otherwise a fine beer for sure, without obvious flaws; based on the looks, which were a bit hazy from the start, I expected a lot more off-flavours. Very Belgian, though, in many respects: has a lot in common with those Duvel Tripel Hops, Lefêbvre’s Hopus series or Houblon Chouffe and in that sense not excelling in originality. But I don’t know what the other contenders tasted like, of course...
Rubin77 (10243) reviewed Hop from Brouwerij Den Druppel 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
F: huge white frothy, very long lasting. C: hazy, yellow to gold. A: citrusy, passion fruit, black currant, hoppy aromas, hint of gooseberry. T: bottle 0,33l from Delhaize, Bruxelles, medium body, average to higher carbonation, hoppy bitterness, sweet fruity tones, resin, lemon, lemon peels, sweet yellow plums, mango, for me more like IPA than Belgian strong ale, good.