Koelschip Hopfazupfabier (5.5%)

Brouwerij het Koelschip
Formerly brewed at Maasland Brouwerij
Style: Zwickel/Keller/Landbier
Almere, Netherlands

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Copper, light brown colour. Aroma is grass and sour dough. Flavour has an unpleasant sourness, very yeasty too. Any hop is overpowered from the acidity. Possibly a bad bottle, definitely a drain pour.

(30cl bottle best by Dec 2011 thanks to bu11zeye) clearish orange with a nice creamy khaki colored head. Nose of candied orange, sweet bread, Belgian yeast and citrus. Taste is creamy, nice sweetness, herbal and well balanced with the hops. Decent! One of the better in the style I can recall.

Bottle (33 cl) from the Cracked Kettle. Shady amber with medium off-white head. A bit unclean aroma with notes of green peas and potoe cellar. Dry with low to medium bitterness and and some astringency. Meh.

(330ml bottle) Pours a murky orange body with a small off-white head. Aroma of grass, herbs, florals, and some caramel. Flavor of herbs, nuts, caramel, toffee, baked apple, and some citrus with a dry, moderately bitter finish.

Bottle courtesy bu11zeye. Pours a hazy copper orange appearance with a white ring of head. Aroma is soft and gentle hops with a very faint sense of lip stick. Flavor is slightly bitter with some malty sweetness. Soft hops. Finishes dry and bitter.

Pours out orange-brown, small to medium head, could hold a bit longer. The smell is very hoppy with sour-sweet fruits. The taste is decent, good hopped but not overdone, sweetness and sourness from caramel and citrus fruits. Some yeast gets trough, light bitterness and earthy at the end. A bit watery, but not bad at all. Could use some more carbonation.

Bottle 300ml. @ home.
Clear medium orange amber yellow orange color with a few small to medium sized body particles, a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, light vintage malt, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus, orange, hop oil, overripped fruit notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to light, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100315]

Bottle. A strong aroma of hops, citrus, quite sour. The head is medium large, white and fizzy with a short duration. The body is orange. The taste is bitter , light fruity. Not much carbonation, the body is very dry and rather light.

Bottle @ home. Orange brown color, cloudy. Flowery and citric hops in the aroma, with hints of cinnamon and pepper. Hoppy, citric, yeasty flavor with cinnamon, mint and pepper. Surprisingly good.