Sebletitje (15913) reviewed Jesus Of Subeerbia from Brouwerij de HopHemel 1 month ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
33cl can de et partagée avec Tderoeck, merci! BB 21/11/2026, lot# HH-25019.
Couleur pâle/orange, léger trouble, col léger blanc-cassé.
Arôme sur un caractère marqué par les houblons - pas mal d'agrumes, qcq pointes de fruits rouges avec un appui délicat des malts.
Palais sur une amertume assez marquée - agrumes, sécheresse tout autant marquée avec un côté poussiéreux en find e bouche. Notes houblonnées rappelant un léger cassis, melon, groseille avec une petite pointe surette.
Pas spécialement détecté le côté neipa.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6
Can from Beerdome. Clear golden with a small white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and heavy green grapes. Flavor is quite sweet and light bitter. Sweet finish. A bit watery. 100326
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
330ml can. Murky, grey-ish, dark amber colour with average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, snow white head. Herbal-grassy and slightly citrusy fruity, hoppy aroma, wheaty malty backgroiund, hints of lemongrass, lemon peel, whiffs of lime. Taste is bitter, herbal-grassy, minimally tart-ish, citrusy fruity hoppy, pale and wheaty malty basis without residual sweetness, hints of lemon peel, a touch of lime and lemongrass, sorrel; earthy-grassy, hoppy finish.
Oily-watery texture, smooth and minimally greasy, simultaneously dry palate, fine, prickly carbonation.
Very grassy, earthy, barely fruity hoppy, slightly off-putting colour - not convincing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Helder oranjegeel bier met schuim wat niet lang blijft staan. Smaak is bitterzoet en fruitig met iets van honing, wat karamel, een beetje citrus en kandij.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Adelheid v2 from Brouwerij de HopHemel 3 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
The second version of Adelheid sampled a while after I already had the third version - so I guess I will need to compare them 'in reverse', so to speak... Flavoured with oak chips and infused with an apple brandy wine which cannot even be officially called calvados because it was produced in Belgium (by a distillery also producing beer) rather than the Calvados region in France. Thanks tderoeck for sharing. Gusher alert so be careful... Medium thick, pale yellow-beige, tiny-bubbled, bit creamy head, lightly misty copper robe with paler orange glow. Aroma of caramel candy, calvados of whatever kind indeed, rosewater, clove, dried lingonberries, persimmon, something strawberry-like somewhere, hazelnut oil, clay, nougat. Sweetish onset in a clean, sleek way, hinting at persimmon, lingonberry and red apple, softish carb, vinous and somewhat oily mouthfeel. Dry-biscuity, vaguely hazelnutty malt core, fairly dry and even lacking a bit in sweetness for this style, under growing but quite subtle apple flavours indeed amounting to a calvados impression. The alcohol becomes a tad peppery without burning away all the flavours - what you would expect from a brandy-infused ale, I guess; hops remain mild and superficial, and so does the woodiness of the oak chips, which, though noticeable, do not add all that much here. In all, decent enough Belgian style barleywine (which is a justifiable concept to me) but not so different from version three, perhaps a bit rounder? Whatever the case, both need a more layered, more 'deeply biscuity' maltiness and more 'oomph' in general - clearly barleywine is not really HopHemel's forte...
Icedwarf (4944) reviewed Rommelaar from Brouwerij de HopHemel 3 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Oranjegeel bier met schuim. Smaak is bitterzoet en kruidig met iets van rozijnen, wat sinaasappel en banaan. Een heel goed bier.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Thorlákur from Brouwerij de HopHemel 3 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Coffee flavoured barleywine in an already endless series of one-offs by Limburg's HopHemel, named after the Icelandic patron saint as a nod to the collaborating, Iceland-themed Puffin 'brewery'. Thanks tderoeck for sharing the can! Thin and open, pale yellowish beige, shred-lacing, dissolving head on a clear amber robe with beautiful deep copper glow - the exact colour I want to see in any kind of barleywine. Aroma of 'green' coffee beans rather than actual coffee, dry biscuit, caramel, (cheap) whisky, dry straw, old teabags, dried prunes, rusk, dried persimmon, white pepper. Cleanly fruity onset, smooth dried apple and persimmon with a touch of raisin, sweetish but nowhere sticky, softly carbonated with oily mouthfeel (actually feeling thinner than the ABV would suggest). Biscuity and rusk-like malty middle, a bit on the meagre side for the intended style, though; soft bitterness follows, initially established by this whiff of coffee - but the 'real' coffee aroma I was hoping for, sadly remains almost mute. Its bitterness fades quickly too, making room for a more 'peppery' and floral bitterness of hops, highlighted by warming, vaguely whisky-like but generally well-hidden alcohol. If you are going to do a coffee barleywine, then I think there should be a warm, aromatic coffee presence at least in the nose: the coffee is there, but in an all too subtle, too 'green' and raw kind of way, an aroma I have encountered in many other (non-stout) coffee-flavoured beers before - yet usually stronger (!). Not too bad, in all, but needs a lot more 'oomph' for a barleywine in general and certainly a coffee-flavoured one; another proof that a collab is sometimes - and in my personal experience even quite often - less than the sum of its parts, as both HopHemel and Puffin have produced more enduring barleywines than this one.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Helder geel bier zonder schuim. Smaak is licht bitter droog als een cava met wat druiven, wat citrus en wijn. Jammer dat het niet "bubbelt" want anders zou je het idee hebben een soort champagne te drinken in plaats van een bier.
nathanvc (7053) reviewed Khaos 2.0 from Brouwerij de HopHemel 3 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can from Stacks.
A: hazy black, small, foamy, beige head.
A: coffee bean, old fondant, grapefruit peel, pine, chestnut.
T: sweetish brambleberry, bitter fondant, pine, toast.
F: earthy, bit piney hops, coffee roast.
P: medium body, slick texture, soft carbonation.
I remember the original being a bit more complex, still enjoyable.
