Brouwerij den Hopperd

Microbrewery in Westmeerbeek, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪

Established in 1996

Contact
Netestraat 41, Westmeerbeek, 2235, Belgium
Description
Brouwerij Den Hopperd is a small independent brewery specialized in organic beer. All our beers are brewed and bottled in our own brewery. Owner Bart Desaeger attended the brewery school in Ghent. In 1996 the first own beer was brewed. From 1999 onwards Bart has opted to produce organic beers only.

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7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle: Poured a hazy yellow orange brown, with a huge foamy off white head. The aroma is citrus fruit and spice. Taste is fruit with caramel and very alcohol burn.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Mar 2008 at 14:00


6.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle: Poured a rusty yellow with a huge foam head. Aroma is sweet with fruit and malts. Taste is a metallic malt with sugars. Leaves a dry yeast finish.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Mar 2008 at 13:30


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle: Poured a clear yellow with a huge fizz white head. Aroma is spices and leafy, very veggy. Taste is very herbal with onion and spice.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Mar 2008 at 13:29


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottled. Deep reddish brown colour with beige mediumsized head. Aroma is caramel malts, some alcohol and yeast. Some grass also lurking in the background. Flavour is quite much the same. Mouthdrying palate.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Feb 2008 at 00:16


3.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

Bottled. Hazy yellow colour, small white head. Aroma is cooked vegetables along iwth some spices. Flavour is grassy, yeasty, some fruityness and sweet malts. Aftertaste is mainly cooked vegetables and spices.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Feb 2008 at 01:04


5.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Darker chestnut; fast gone, yellowish head. Deep frying fat, insectoid exsudate, caramel syrup left open, chamomille - what is it? Taste is thankfully better; caramel sweet, but held in check by bitterish leafy notes. Medium bodied, slightly oily. Haven’t they solved their infection problems yet?

Tried on 24 Sep 2007 at 00:50


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled. Hazy golden colour with some particles floating around, huge off-white creamy head. Aroma is pumpkins, alcohol and spices. Flavour is quite the same along with slight caramel and earthyness.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Sep 2007 at 12:57


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5

Light hazy amber color. Nose is an odd pumpkin pie and peach flavor. A bit thin mouth with bready notes, caramel and pumpkin pie. Less fruity than expected.

Tried on 11 Sep 2007 at 09:07


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Clear medium yellow orange color with a average to large frothy good lacing mostly lasting white head. Aroma is moderate hoppy, citrus lemon, moderate to heavy yeasty, cheese. Flavor is moderate sweet, light acidic and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Jul 2007 at 12:10


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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Tasted under the name of "Veller"Golden beer, with a slight orange shine, well-carbonated under a huge, off-white head, collapsing. End of bottle full of UFO’s. A bit astringent, slightly sweet, pale malt, and a little, if unmistakable, spicy-peppery-alcohol smell. Sharp, bitterish-spicy tripel with typical high attenuation. Strange spicyness, that is difficult to describe; peppery, but also ginger, horseradish and some exotic spice. Yeast makes it more creamy, slightly sweeter, fuller and less sharp. Very dry and astringent MF, a tad aggressive. Well-attenuated but not thin. Again a typical Den Hopperd product, obviously pretty close to the Kameleon Tripel.Earlier Rating: 8/8/2004 Total Score: 3.3Very thick, collapsing off-white head, irregular; hazy orange with greenish shine. Very fruity nose, this time completely orange zeste. Orange peel again in the taste, markedly short bitterish taste, a bit artificial even. Short finish. After some time, there’s a sourish tinge coming up, of the best effect, as it manages to make the whole more balanced at last. Dry beer, dry-out effect. Clearly better than the amber. Unfortunately there’s again a taint that has a medicinal artificial taste. Biological, yes, but what about biological cleanness?

Tried from Bottle on 04 Jul 2007 at 14:08