Jopen Adriaan

Jopen
Brewed at Brouwerij Huyghe
Style: Traditional Ale
Haarlem, Netherlands

Bottle from Riversbend: Pours a dirty gold color with a small white head. Smell is thick with lemon and some spice. Smells pretty sweet. Taste is a little sweeter than the smell leads on. I taste a bit of a butter bread taste with just a hint of lemon. This is easy to drink in the summer.

bottle - Pours murky orange with numerous dark floaters that sink after awhile. It has a very herbal aroma and flavor and tastes somewhat sweet. I really can’t place the herbs, but they certainly give it a unique flavor. It reminds me of the heather ale that I tried awhile back. The carbonation is low and the body seems a little watery. It has a light, dry finish. It’s an okay quaff, but I definitely wouldn’t pay $6 for a bottle again.

Bottle from Party Town. Poured a hazy golden color with a small white head that modtly lasted with good lacing. Good aroma of spice and yeasty fruit. Medium body with smooth texture. Good fruity sour & sweet flavor with a spicy complex finish of moderate duration. Interesting complex good brew.

Mile lemony aroma, Cloudy golden appearance. Complete lack of carbonation and drinks like a lemondade. Taste of citrus, almost like fresca and ends with slightly bitter spicy tones. Would be nice on hot summer’s day but could use some maltiness. Still a unique brew.

This beer is one of the main reasons that I am glad I’ve expanded my horizons and am trying and rating many different beers. Sometimes you win, some you lose, but always an adventure. Similar to Gose, this beer had a style and taste all its own. Poured to a hazy orange-gold with medium off-white head that lingered well and left okay lacing. Then things got interesting. The aroma was a strange mixture of seemed to be apples, green vegetables and unknown spices. Since I did not read anything on this prior to tasting, I actually thought it would be classified as a Vegetable/Herb beer. The flavor of this beer followed suit perfectly, as I tasted several different tastes at different times, again centered around vegetables and fruits. And while the 5% alcohol never made itself known in either aroma or taste, the finish was fairly long, though not real thrist quenching. This was not a beer I could drink all the time, or a lot of, but a unique experience that I’m glad I had.

This ale pours a slightly cloudy orange gold color from a 12oz bottle. Small sized white foamy head. Aroma is fruit (pears and peaches) and spices (coriander and pepper). A light bodied ale. Malts are very fruity and sweet. Not hoppy since it’s a gruit. Lots of spices balance this ale out, coriander, pepper and ginger. It’s a touch floral and earthy as well. Light tasting, it’s very wit like, but there is a lot of flavors; some tea, fruit sweetness and spices compare and contrast in this beer. Interesting, but I am not sure I would want to drink this one a lot. Well worth trying though. Mouthfeel is a touch thin. Finish is clean and crisp. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Poured a hazy light yellow with a small white head. Fruity and herbal spiced. Light sweet malt. Lightly tart sweet and spiced flavor.

from crackedkettle.com - hazy golden-orange colour with a large white head; perfumy aroma of pear with a spicy touch (coriander?); soft initial sweetness sonn balanced by a dry bitterness; short and dry fruity finish - a good one