Gulpener Lentebock

Brewed by Gulpener Bierbrouwerij
Style: Heller Bock
Gulpen, Netherlands

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Stein

Bottle 300ml. @ home.

Clear medium yellow amber color with a large to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, malty, bock alike. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, sharp grass bitter, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20110122]

An amber beer with a fine light brown head. The aroma is acidic - almost like a Flemmish Sour Ale - of over ripe fruit. The flavor is sweet, slightly acidic and slightly smoked, combined with notes of smoke, which gives it a dry end.

(Bottle 30 cl) Courtesy of Myrup. Pours a beautiful clear, warm deep amber golden. Some caramel in the aroma, but also sourish and rotten notes of vegetables. Medium body, notes of caramel, herbs and soap - very very strange. I kinda hope that this is infected and not intended this way. Very subdued bitterness. 140608

Bottled. Amber golden colour with small white head. Aroma is malts, some caramel with mild notes of grassy hops. Flavour is malts, grain, some hops as well as alcohol and some metal.

Bottled. Clear golden coloured with a small off white head. Fruity aroma of cookies, malts and corn. Fruity flavour of cookies and malts with notes of corn and hops. Fruity finish. A bit cloying.

Bottle, 6.5%. Very vinous aroma, smells quite old, but is not. Dark copper colour, small white head. The flavour is also vinous and reminds me of a beer consisting of 90 percent lager and 10 percent oud bruin. Not bad though, but the sweetness is a little sugary. Medium carbonation. Ends with alcohol and roughness which actually suits this beer. Grows on me.

Another solid outing from Gulpener, who make consistently good, but not great, beers. This is a bright amber bock that reminds of a tripel with its peachy, flowery esters, soft body (ok, that’s not really a hallmark of a tripel, but it is on some of the better ones)...very sweet, packs a little kick, like that from a ’korenwolf’. A pure form pale bock, with no dark malt character at all. If it weren’t for the esters, this would be a big dortmunder.

Bottled (BB 05/2009)
Courtesy of bierkoning, thanks Edo! Clear amber color, very small white head. Vegetables, bacon, sweet malts in the nose. Very malty, sweetish and a bit vegetably. Some alcohol.