Kraddel (15872) reviewed Hip Hop Hooray from Gistgeest 4 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Pours very hazed yellow. Small to medium white head. Scent is raw, green hops. Taste is full, sharp, bitter, tad green. Bit 1-dimentional. Has the base ( malt & MF ) of a eastcoast (not a westcoast as written in the description ! ) , but not the fruityness (again.. Did he mix up east and west ? ) Pretty sharp, fairly bitter. Not WC style completely, but definately not EC. Anyway, enough about styletechnical crap. The beer is good, the mouthfeel is great, and at least it tastes different to all these current IPA's, which I can respect. Might not be my personal favorite, but hey, thats a personal opinion only.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Darth Vapor from Gistgeest 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
One of the newer Antwerpian Gistgeest beers, a smoked porter flavoured with chipotle peppers. Foamy, towering high, pure beige, pillowy, loudly crackling head, leaving very little lacing but settling as a medium sized, slowly opening layer of mousse, black robe with thin mahogany edges. Aroma of coffee grounds, indeed dried chili peppers (quite clearly), burnt toast, dried prunes, smoked bacon touch as promised, old raisins, brown bread crust, fried plantain, toffee, ground pecan nuts, hints of cola, dry cookies, tea, dry earth, moist nutmeg. Fruity onset, dried prunes, some vague pear and baked banana, dried apple peel, very fizzy carbonation (bit much for a porter of any kind really) adding a stingy and sourish feel, continuing well into the middle when toasty, brown-bready and eventually roasted coffee maltiness unfolds, with a little bit of caramelly sweetness but much more toasty and eventually roasted to even slightly ashy bitterness. The smoked element remains subtle, but noticeable as a smoked bacon accent in the end, when the chipotle effect also reveals itself in the form of a mild but unmistakable 'piquanterie'. The chili heat remains however equally gentle as the smokiness, so that this coffee grounds-like roasted bitterness keeps prevailing, emphasized by a leafy hop bitter note. Yeasty accents linger in the end, but not to the point where it becomes annoying, though I probably would have preferred a somewhat cleaner profile, with less ashiness and breadiness and more chipotle spice and Rauchmalz - and, perhaps even more than anything, less of that annoyingly fizzing overcarbonation. Alaskan Smoked Porter, the archetype of the smoked porter substyle, seems insufficiently known here... Still, to local Belgian standards, this is not a bad effort, it is quite a 'feisty' little beer with enough darkness and punch to more or less justify the Darth Vader association - which to me (as a Star Wars fan) was probably the foremost reason for buying this bottle in the first place.
Bart23 (982) ticked Ipa Bakkes from Gistgeest 4 years ago
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Tripel Tropical from Gistgeest 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Good white head over hazy orange-golden beer. Orange, orangezeste, alcohol, white candi sugar, yeast. Utterly classical. Sweet, if with a spicy vector (coriander?). Maltsyrup, white candi sugar, and a lot of yeastfeatures. Seems not completely attenuated. Quite slick, alcoholwarmth, sharp, burning feel. Good carbonation. No coriander in the ingredients' list. Yet I'm convinced it's there - comparing to the smell of Rochefort. Thanks to Stef!
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Nonkel Pop from Gistgeest 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Good dense off-white head over greyish veiled, fine bubbled copperish yellow beer. Very strong orangepeel nose, orangeliqueur, nose of bitter oranges/kumquat. Again orangepeel, with fine points of acidity and spicy bitter, all mild. Bit peppery, and faint toasted malts. Warming up, ginger and mint. Light body, spritzy carbonation. Really IPA? No, certainly not. But neither really original, that's the pity.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Ipa Bakkes from Gistgeest 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Kveik IPA with Centennial, Simcoe and Citra, by this rising star at the Antwerp craft brewing firmament, thanks to 77ships for sharing. Egg-white, rather thinnish and bubbly, moussy, dot-lacing head on a hazy apricot-tinged golden blonde beer. Aroma of moldy oranges, sweet onion, touch mango, stale sweat, ripe pear, old rusk, olive oil, apple juice hint. Cleanish fruity onset, pear and some mango with a dash of red apple and perhaps lychee thrown in, medium carbonated with supple body; bread-crusty, lightly biscuity maltiness, bittered by a medium long, citric and slightly dank hop bitterness, evoking impressions of dried orange peel, bitter kitchen herbs and green olives, stretching out over quite some distance but still remaining relatively gentle in actual bitterness. Supple, quite easygoing Belgian IPA that hides its alcohol well – there is way worse on the market here when it comes to IPAs.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Spelt'Aap from Gistgeest 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Very good, ultra-dense pale mango-yellow head over fully hazy orange-ochre beer. End of bottle solid yeast. Fresh-smelling nose, herbal, weeds, EU hops, nettles, citruspeel. Yeastesters. Bitter, hoppy, with sweet malts tucked underneath. Slightly burning feel. Typical spelt thumbprint is there, if mutch less than in some other speltbeers. Again garden weeds, nettles. Quite slick, medium bodied (high for a "saison"). Feels better carbonated than it looks. Nice! Seriously bitter, but nowhere unpleasant.
Bart23 (982) ticked Hoppy Ending from Gistgeest 5 years ago
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Hoppy Ending from Gistgeest 5 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
Cascadian dark ale (or at least inspired by it) from this interesting Antwerp craft brewer; steinie bottle from Wijnegemse Drankenhal. Gusher, but slowly so. Thick and frothy, audibly crackling, foamy, pale yellowish beige, stable head on a dark chocolate brown (though not actually 'black') beer, hazy with ruddy hue, showing some dark protein bits sinking to the bottom - clearly this bottle is already past its prime, so I'll take that in consideration when rating. Still a hoppy explosion in the nose, the old school way: grapefruit peel, pine resin, cedar wood, moist pepper, onion, orange juice, brown bread, dry beef broth cubes, fried black olives, toasted walnut, caramel, dry earth, nutmeg, sweet Brazil cigars somewhere in the background. Crisp, fizzy onset, strongly stinging (over)carbonation at first but calming down further on, fruity hints of old raisins, pear and dried fig, restrainedly sweetish with a soft sourish undertone; brown-bready and bit caramelly maltiness, a tad sweetish but quickly bittered, by a nutty toasted malt aspect but most of all, by a very firm, 'old school American', grapefruity, piney, peppery, leafy hop bitterness, offering retronasal aspects of black pepper, toasted onion and bitter fruit - while undeniable yeast breadiness and fruitiness peeps through as well. Long, bitter finish, but mitigated a bit by this yeasty breadiness, juicy and satisfying all the same. Black IPA-inspired for sure, aromatically a fond memory from a recent past when this style was still popular, but not truly 'black' - if anything, this is more of a 'brown IPA' with some Belgian yeast notes pushing themselves forward through it as well. Whatever it is, I did certainly enjoy it.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Hoppy Ending from Gistgeest 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Off-white head over cola-coloured beer. Nice New World hops, ever so slightly dusty smelling, and a bit of brown candi sugar; grapes. Good fragrant flavour of fruity (exotic fruit and citrus) hops. Bit thinnish MF, faintly slick; not very carbonated. Bit sweetish for a dark IPA, but in itself a nice enough beer. Thanks to Stef!