Campus Gold

Brewed by Brouwerij Huyghe
Style: Belgian Ale
Melle, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Sweet nose with notes of yeast and banana. Golden body, with a small white head. Sweet flavor, but rather weak.

Clumsy Belgian ale that tastes much stronger than its 6% abv. It poured a cloudy gold colour with a thick white head. Banana notes in a light, wheaty nose. My first taste impression was of bubble gum, followed by a big slug of alcohol in a thick, chewy body. There are also strong bitter tea characters but it’s dominated by the alcohol. Lacks balance - tastes like a much stronger beer. (Bottle)

Hazy golden colour with a big fast dissapering white head. Sweet yeasty aroma and a spicy taste. Medium body and a dry finish.

A hazy orange beer with no head. The aroma is sweet and very yesty. The flavor is dry and sweet with strong notes of oranges.

Cloudy golden colour with white head. Malty yeasty aroma. Flavor is spicy with a bitter finish.

Hazy pale gold coloured, with a frothy white head. Aroma is citrus/apricot and some yeast. Taste is big hops upfront, then spices and citrus through to a dryish bitter finish. Medium bodied, quite highly carbonated. A pleasant beer.

Quite aged sample, difficult to say if it’s already Huyghe or a Biertoren original - the brewery that launched this, and immediately went bankrupt for overinvestment Pale amber; very little bubbles for carbonation to small crème head. Oxidation nose, walnut, madeirisation, biscuit, liqueur. Very biscuity taste, cookie malt & again some liqueurish notes. Quite empty, in fact. Alcohol obvious, not burning, medium bodied, rather slick. The age seems - together with the fact that it made it into my cellar - to hint at Biertoren. The total emptiness, as well as the treacherous sticker "fast sale" speaks otherwise. I fear Huyghe after all.

Appearance: hazy apricot color, underneath a short, slight, though terrifically bubbly white head. Aroma, musty, sour, citric, a slice of lemon, and a drizzle of orange zest, yeasty, with a brilliant hoppy twist, almost champagne-like in effervescence. Taste: a blast, right-off of hopp-tude, but theareafter, the flavor is mild, though that blast returns with every subsequent sip. Flavor continues to be spicy, citric, and kicky, though light in body with a medium, uneventful finish. Despite certain disappointments, the flavor never lacks a recurring spicy tinge.