De Ranke Hop Harvest 2010

Brewed by Brouwerij De Ranke
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Dottignies/Dottenijs, Belgium

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Botella. Hazy golden look. Citrus hoppy bit sweet aroma. Ok mouthfeel. Flowery hoppy citrus yeasty flavour, bit dry.

Thanks to bu11zeye for sharing this bottle. The beer pours a yellow color with a white head. The aroma is quite strange. I get a lot of farmhouse and yeast character, as well as some light funk and some apple cider-like qualities. The flavor is also reminiscent of a cider, with some funk and brett-like notes. There is also a strong biscuit malt component and the beer is very dry. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation. A weird beer. Not too IPA like, but not bad overall.

75 cl bottle @ Gastropub Tuulensuu. Rated on 18.03.2011
Aroma is fresh with soapy citrus, hops and some floral notes. Flavour has lots of soapy citrus and hops with fruits. Tripel meets IPA: the result is rather refreshing and nice!

750 ml bottle. A cloudy medium to dark blonde beer, with a huge, frothy/fizzy, lightly lacing, fully lasting white head. The aroma is lightly malty (biscuits), moderately hoppy (flowers, resin), moderately yeasty (barnyard, dough), with notes of oranges and some urine-like off notes. The flavor is moderately sweet, moderately acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body, watery/velvety texture, lively carbonation, dry, long finish with moderate bitterness. Not an IPA for sure, more like a funky Saison. Something between a funky Jolly Pumpkin and a rustic Fantome. Some strange notes in the aroma, but overall very good.

UPDATED: JAN 22, 2012 murky gold, frothy white head that lasts, patchy lacing. Eggy Brett nose with light pine, citrus and white pepper combo. Flavor is dank at front, luciernaga like until heavy egg and light oxidation hit mid, paper closing it out. A bit of waxy body, lightly dank pine and pepper finish, bit more dry toast and co2 bitterness. If fresher, a luciernaga clone, though still quite nice.

Orange body with a huge white head. Aroma is lambic - like but more hoppy, with mustiness and a hint of grapefruit. Flavour has an aggressive sourness and acidity, with grapes, green apple, a bit unbalanced. Quite interesting nonetheless.

courtesy of Laurent Mousson - cloudy dark orange beer under a giant foamy white head; nice lace; fairly aroma of bitter oranges, almonds and cream; full-bodied and highly carbonated; creamy mouthfeel, pretty bitter with a long almondy bitter finish

Tap, Moeder Lambic. Pours a clear pale yellow body with a two finger frothy and fizzy white head. Deliciously light and delicate floral hop nose, very perfume like qualities. Delicate bready pils malt. Brightly bitter on the flavor but not overly hoppy, just tons of floral perfumy hops. Nice bready malt backbone. Lighter bodied for such a big beer, wonderful in it’s assertiveness while remaining simple. Maybe one of the best IPAs to come out of Belgium.

nose is apricot, weak piss, wet medium hops, feel is medium, carb is medium, taste is bittersweet hops, soap, cereal, dry lemon, sea weed

Bottle: Pale golden, slowly collapsing loose rocky white head, fruity-yeasty nose, hops present, but in the second row; moderate to solid sweet-bitter flavour, almost full bodied, smooth; drier and hoppier in the finish, but the yeastiness and the fruitiness still dominate. Not bad, but unharmonic or, as Joris wrote, "was the hop harvest that bad?"............

(bottle, 75cl, gushing) Cloudy, pale golden colour with a blond and rocky frothy head. Spicy Belgian yeast character with citric hops and a flowery touch. Moderately bitter flavour with a tinge of sourness and malty sweetness, medium bodied with a spritzy carbonation. Slightly sourish wheaty and yeasty taste with present citrus-fruity hops and a spicy tail; dry-ish bitter-sweet and citric finish with a well-masked alcohol. Doesn´t fit that right. 20.X.11