Houten Kop

Brewed by Brouwerij Strubbe
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Ichtegem, Belgium

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tumbler

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Bottle @ home.
Clear medium orange amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate yeasty, cheese, plastic, spicy, gum - rubber. Flavor is moderate sweet and light light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium to light, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. (280608)

The aroma is very spicy with notes of lemongrass, coriander, and more. The color is a clear orange and it has an enormous white head. The flavor is also spicy with notes of coriander, cloves, citrus, and a very subtle grassy hoppy end.

25 cL bottle at Delirium Café in Brussel. Pours clear cobber with a lacing white head. Light malt, slight metallic aroma and with a minor spice note. Light caramel malt flavour with a light spice note. Smooth finish with a mix of yeast, caramel malt and more subdued spice note. Distinct dry bitterness in the finish.

(Bottle 25 cl) Amber coloured with a small off-white head. Has some fruity notes from the ale-yeast, some malt and some indefinable spices. Late bitterness. Quenching but thin-bodied and hasn’t really much going on. Not unpleasant just rather anonymous. 050398

Bottled (from Cracked Kettle). Deep amber colour with mediumsized off-white foamy head. Aroma is tropical fruits, nectar, caramel malts, some slight nuttyness as well as yeast. Flavour is caramel malts, some syrup, fruits, yeast and liquorice. Mild notes of some flowery hops as well. Pleasant and balanced brew.

Bottled. Clear golden coloured with a white head. Spicy aroma with notes of fruits and honey. Spicy flavour with some sweetness and notes of fruits and hops. Fruity and hoppy finish.

Bottled. Cloudy orange with creamy head. Balsamic vinegar aroma. Fruity, rounded and malty. Some cherry in the finish. Complex and tasty.

Bottle @ Heeren Van Liedekercke, Denderleeuw. Pours a golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty yeasty spicy aroma. Fruity malty yeasty spicy flavor. Has a fruity malty yeasty finish.

Bottle. Aroma is slightly more hop aromatic than expected. Clear copper colour. Stable white head. The flavour is nicely bitter, otherwise not that interesting.

25cl bottle: Pours hazy amber with a very fine stable & lasting white creamy head. Aroma is sweet of malts, bread, fruits & yeast. Medium body & carbonation. Dry & a slight hoppy end. But the flavor really lacks something - very anonymous. Short end!