Corsendonk Grand Hops 2017
Brouwerij Corsendonk
- From:
- Brouwerij Corsendonk
- Belgium
- Style:
- Belgian Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 6.9%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.49 | pDev: 10.32%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 21, 2018
- Added:
- Jun 02, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.63/5 rDev +4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.63/5 rDev +4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
330ml bottle (2018 edition, with Aramis and Tomahawk hops).
This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and creamy bone-white head, which leaves a decent array of snow rime lace around the glass as it very lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of biscuity and grainy cereal malt, some bruised apple/pear fruitiness, estery yeast, and some mild leafy, weedy, and gently lit-up floral hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, some mixed pome and generic citrus fruity notes, a subtle Belgian yeastiness, hints of earthy spice, and more understated weedy, herbal, and musky floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-satisfying frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and waning frooty essences holding fast in the after-party scene.
Overall - yeah, I'm not really getting anything 'grand' in terms of my impressions of the hoppy quotient of this offering. However, it's still essentially a well-made Belgian golden ale, with perhaps an extra soupcon of plain bitterness. Pleasant enough, but a fail in its attempt at New World pale ale apery.
Jul 21, 2018This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and creamy bone-white head, which leaves a decent array of snow rime lace around the glass as it very lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of biscuity and grainy cereal malt, some bruised apple/pear fruitiness, estery yeast, and some mild leafy, weedy, and gently lit-up floral hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, some mixed pome and generic citrus fruity notes, a subtle Belgian yeastiness, hints of earthy spice, and more understated weedy, herbal, and musky floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-satisfying frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and waning frooty essences holding fast in the after-party scene.
Overall - yeah, I'm not really getting anything 'grand' in terms of my impressions of the hoppy quotient of this offering. However, it's still essentially a well-made Belgian golden ale, with perhaps an extra soupcon of plain bitterness. Pleasant enough, but a fail in its attempt at New World pale ale apery.
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