Sir Hopalot
Brouwerij 'T Duo in Putte, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij VissenbergIPA Regular Out of Production
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Score
6.88
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Alengrin (10989) reviewed Sir Hopalot from Brouwerij 'T Duo 5 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Hoppy Belgian ale by 't Duo, steinie bottle from Willems in Grobbendonk. Very agressive gusher, with beer spouting out of the bottle neck even with careful opening - impossible to open without considerable loss, something I passionately hate, so this is clearly not a good start. Anyway: typical 'gusher head', initially filling the glass with a towering high, egg-white foam but quickly collapsing into an irregular ring of off-white moussy with some 'dots' in the middle, on a milky straw-yellow blonde beer, like a home made pineapple juice or something, turning into a 'dirty' greenish-tinged murky ochre with sediment - and after the last remainders of the head are gone, looking decidedly unattractive. Aroma of a lot of yellow grapefruit flesh, cucumber, pumpkin flesh, lemon zest, sourdough, milk gone sour, mandarin peel, damp hay, cold camomile tea, kimchi, horseradish, citrus-flavoured children's medicine, sweaty feet, raw dough. Estery onset, a wild array of flavours reminiscent of pineapple, green banana, starfruit, yellow plum and green apple, with a certain 'dirtiness' already apparent at the beginning - clearly the result of some bacterial infection; sweet core with a sourish edge, with a notable citrusy aspect to it. Fizzy and minerally carb, soapy and slick mouthfeel; soggy old bread pulp-like malt base, the breadiness increased by considerable - again - 'dirty' yeastiness. Hop bitterness grows on it, but remains of a remarkably fresh, citrus peel-like nature and never gets too harsh; its delicate citrusy aromas, however, are unsurprisingly marred by an overt yeastiness, including a ton of obnoxious spicy and ethereal phenols. Juicy-bittering ending, very estery, but also very dirty and phenolic, with an underlying 'bacterial' sourishness, almost lactic in nature, distracting from the, in all, quite colourful and pleasantly citrusy hoppiness that went in here. Something very obviously went wrong with this beer, and in spite of all its good and innovative intentions, it comes out as a dirty and unmanageable mess, I didn't even finish it, which says a lot in my case. Duo has done a lot better than this!
beerhunter111 (43004) reviewed Sir Hopalot from Brouwerij 'T Duo 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Sampled @ Zythos Bier Festival 2018. A hazy pale golden beer with a mid sized most good lasting white head. Aroma of citrus hops, grassy hops. Taste of mild citrusy hops, grassy fresh hops, pine, easy to drink, good.
tderoeck (20818) reviewed Sir Hopalot from Brouwerij 'T Duo 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as 'T Duo Sir Hopalot (by 'T Duo):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5
28/IV/18 - shared @ Zythos Bierfestival 2018 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2018-564) Thanks to the ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!
Pretty cloudy pale blond beer, aery irregular white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty fruity, grapefruit, passion fruit, rather cheesy, grains, some lychees, pineapple. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: super hoppy, grapefruit, bitter, bit of marijuana, orange peel. Aftertaste: bit spicy, lots of passion fruit, dry, bit resinous.