Kameleon Ginseng

Brewed by Brouwerij den Hopperd
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Westmeerbeek, Belgium

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Bottle: Poured a clear yellow with a huge fizz white head. Aroma is spices and leafy, very veggy. Taste is very herbal with onion and spice.

9/III/2012 33cl bottle @ De Heeren van Liedekercke (Denderleeuw) - BB: no markings on the label where they should be (2012-224)

Clear blond beer, small creamy white head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: pretty dusty, dry spices, some banana, sugar. MF: good carbon, light body. Taste: some citrus, toast, hop bitterness, spiciness, green banana, grains, fresh cut grass. Aftertaste: bitter hops, grassy, vegetables. Weird, not great.

Bottle: Medium to small white head, that changes into a lacing fairly quick. Smell hops, flowers, yeast, fresh fruit, yellow fruit, citrus, lemon. Very nice. Taste is a crisp mix of hops, fruit, orange, hint of lemon, light hint of malts and soap with a good growing bitterness. Good bitter light fruity herby aftertaste. Medium carbo, tingly mouthfeel, medium to fuller body and a texture between watery and creamy. I liked this beer.

11.2 oz bottle-trade with jtclockwork-pours a white head and hazy straw/yellow color. Aroma is ginseng-herbal, light malt/grain, some lemon. Taste is ginseng/herbal, spice hops, sweet light malt/grain. Finishes drying and with effervescence in the throat. I am hoping the bottle he traded to me did not taste the same as the one he had, as our palates tend to pick up similar characteristics.

(33cl bottle) Pours a clear yellow body with a small white head. Aroma of nuts, toasted grain, and ginseng. Flavor of ginseng, minerals, medicinal, and grass with a dry finish.

330 ml bottle. Finland.
Hazy yellow colour with tiny white head. Sugary sweet and malty aroma. Mild unpleasant vegetable flavour. It’s almost like broth. Not very tasty.

33 cl bottle @ home. Pale yellow color, hazy. Soapy white head. Aroma’s of sweet fruit, wheat, malt, some ginseng (retronasal). Flavor is fairly neutral, some acidity of the carbonation. Bit watery mouthfeel. Vaguely bitter finish. Interesting if unimpressive.

UPDATED: JUL 10, 2011 Bottle. Pours cloudy yellowish gold. White head. Nose is pungent cooked rotten vegetables, trash and compost. Taste is even worse. Cooked vegetables, rotten food, surgical gloves cheap metal, chemicals and medical waste. Foul lingering aftertaste that won’t leave the palate. Two sips and drain poured. I can’t take any more of this. By far the worst drinking experience I’ve ever had and I’ve sampled Bud Chelada.

head: bubbly, white
colour: light, blond
smell: flowers, sweet, hops,lightly some yeast, sweetcorn ...
taste: skunky, steamed brocolli , corn, yeast , flowers, bitter sweet end ... conclusion borin , unbalanced and weird ...

(bottle, 33cl) Hazy, pale golden colour with a medium-sized and slightly off-white foamy head. Slightly sweet and sour fruity aroma with a shy spicy touch. Quite bitter flavour with a dry and astringent mouthfeel, light to medium bodied with a mild carbonation. Bitter and astringently spicy (ginger) taste with a fruity touch towards the finish; ginger- and peppery spicy aftertaste. A rather harsh and not very rounded brew. 10.I.11

Bottle 33 cl from Willems in Grobbendonk (B). Blonde with crackling shaken under a nice white foam, firm and striking. Fragance moderatly hoppy, malt, lemon, ginger, toffy. The flavor is soft, sweetened, vegetable, with hints of coriander and floral. Final in herbaceous bitterness and point of astringency