Jopen Chapters 09/12 2022 - Hella Hyphy

Chapters 09/12 2022 - Hella Hyphy

 

Jopen in Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱

IPA Series Out of Production
Score
7.38
ABV: 6.0% IBU: - Ticks: 3
De moeder van alle IPA’s: de West Coast IPA. Gebrouwen om het karakter van de Amerikaanse hop te benadrukken. Droog, bitter met een mix van citrusfruit (grapefruit) en harsige plakkende hop-oliën.
 

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8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

West Coast IPA by Jopen, one of Holland's forerunners of the craft beer movement that came along some years after they first started, but still going strong and keeping in touch with all these postmodern evolutions. Thanks to Hinke again for the can! Beaten egg-white, audibly fizzing, busily cobweb-lacing, thick and firm head, clear yellow blonde robe with warm 'old golden' hue and a steady column of lively sparkling rising up from the middle, lightly misty and a bit more orangey further on. Indeed remarkably 'pure West Coast' aroma of pink grapefruit flesh and yellow grapefruit peel, pine resin, dry biscuit, salted peanuts, crushed pink peppercorns, wormwood leaves, olive oil, tamarillo, old toast, dry cheese rind, spruce tips. Crisp, clean, dry onset, some tamarillo, green olive and persimmon hints, citrusy bitter notes early on, spritzy carbonation but still oily, slick mouthfeel, rounded but oddly feeling a bit thin at this ABV; toasty, cracker-like malts with thin biscuity edge, dryish and grainy in its core, almost immediately bittered by classic West Coast hoppiness, in a very grapefruit peel- and wormwood-like way, piney and resinous, peppery and drying, long and audacious - more so than is usually the case when younger brewers want to try this historically crucial style (perhaps even the start motor of the whole U.S. and later global craft beer movement, in a sense). Some biscuity and toasty malts pass along, but the hops remain firmly in control and stick deep in the throat - a feeling I have not felt in a long time. Jopen nailed it, in my opinion: this is the kind of IPA I learned to appreciate (with a certain difficulty at first) many years ago, when I first came into contact with American craft beer. A whole lot has changed since then, but the palate-wrecking, piney, oniony and grapefruity bitterness of these early U.S. style IPAs will remain with me for as long as I live - and Jopen, more so than I was expecting, manages to take me back to those days, with good old Stone IPA coming quite close to this one in general flavour profile. New England is nowhere in sight here, not even the mountains in between - this is proper oldskool stuff, and I guess the fact that Jopen has been on the scene since the late nineties may have helped them create something as historically authentic as this. Have an extra point for that alone.

Tried on 05 May 2023 at 22:44


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Can. Almost clear deep golden. Sweet malts, spruce, orange zest, quite some bitter spicy notes and a touch of soap. Medium sweet and quite bitter. Medium and oily body. Good, it’s nice to have an actual bitter beer rhese days 😎

Tried from Can on 18 Mar 2023 at 21:59


8.9
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

Can at home. Clear golden color, small white head. Aroma and flavor are malts, very nice old school hoppiness and a very solid hoppy bitterness. Lovely beer.

Tried on 29 Nov 2022 at 22:41