HopSaSam

Client Brewer in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

Established in 2012

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Sint-Salvatorsstraat 4, Oudenaarde, 9700, Belgium
Description
HopSaSam is an independent beer architect that loves to create new beer styles, flavours, combinations,...

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7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

10/IX/22 - 50cl bottle @ Belgian Beer Geek Gathering (Gent), BB: +15Y, bottled: XI/2020 (2022-1150) Thanks to Bierridder for sharing the bottle!

Clear to a little cloudy brown beer, no head. Aroma: nice, a bit oxidized, lots of calvados, some soy sauce, boozy, vanilla notes, aged and oxidized beer. MF: soft to no carbon, medium to full body. Taste: very sugary, boozy, alcohol, calvados, more alcohol that burns the throat, sugary, dried fruits, caramel. Aftertaste: sugary, lots of alcohol, pretty boozy, calvados, more alcohol, sugary, oxidized, dried fruits, raisins.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Sep 2022 at 19:30


7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

50cl bottle at Belgian Beergeeks/Brewver summer tasting at Tim's house. Thanks Siegfried. Bottled 11/2020, BB 11/2035.
Couleur cuivre sur un léger voie, pas de col.
Arôme reprend un caractère Calvados et un effluve plus sur le caramel que la version 350. Malt pâle, grillé et des notes de fruits secs.
Palais reste faiblard au niveau effervescence, douceur résiduelle de la barrique, Calvados est présent et donne une bonne dimension en fin de bouche avec la fraicheur de barrique et ce côté frais acerbe de cidre mais avec le booze en plus.
In fine, assez similaire à la version 350 - les nuances sont subtiles et pas spécialement notables.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Sep 2022 at 16:11


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

50cl bottle at Belgian Beergeeks/Brewver summer tasting at Tim's house. Thanks Siegfried.
Bottled 11/2020, BB 11/2035.
Cuivre, pas de col.
Arôme au nez boozy, belles notes de Calvados avec un léger rétro-nasal de sucre résiduel - garde une bonne base de malts.
Palais est assez plat en bouche, peu d'effervescence qui vient accentuer le caractère boozy. Calvados apporte une belle pointe de fraicheur, retrait sur le côté barley wine, caramel, léger grillé et qcq notes de fruits secs.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Sep 2022 at 16:08


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

20 August 2022. At 12de Gents Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke, Pieter & the whole crew!

Hazy black, small, beige head. Aroma of mocha, vanilla cream, candied plum, pear, liquorice, sweetened fondant, dark fudge. Taste has sweet plum, fig & pear in a toasty, dark-chocolatey, fudge-like malt body with a soft umami soy edge. Herbal & peppery hoppy finish, chili burn kicking in and connecting with the bitter fondant and tobacco notes, remaining sweetish (dried fruits), warming whisky-like alcohol in the very end. Medium body, creamy texture, soft carbonation. Rough but noteworthy chili Stout.

Tried on 30 Aug 2022 at 17:34


6

Rozijntjes, caramel, mega zoet, verbrande caramel, moah

Tried from Bottle on 11 Jun 2022 at 19:51


8

Tried from Bottle on 04 Jun 2022 at 10:42


8.5

@Brouwers in het bos 2022

Tried from Bottle on 04 Jun 2022 at 10:21


6.5

@ Brouwers in het bos 2022

Tried from Bottle on 04 Jun 2022 at 10:19


7

Tasty barley wine... (too) Sweet... Rum raisins, Aftertaste fades fast. Flat... Alcohol well hidden. Lacks character for such a big beer imho.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Apr 2022 at 18:29


9

Tried from Bottle on 18 Mar 2022 at 11:18