Maeght van Gottem
With a virgin hopcone in the bottle! Probably the redemption of Gottems’ Blondje.
3.3
151 reviews
Deinze-Gottem, Belgium
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Bottle. I was aware of its reputation so stored upright in the fridge and I had a large glass nearby. Pours rather awkward with all the foam and the hop flower stuck in the neck of the bottle. The result is a cloudy yellow/orange pour with loads of yeast chunks and a huge head. Floral, grassy aroma. Taste follows with orange peel, malts, honey. Moderate sweet and bitter, somewhat creamy, short finish. Ok, but not ok enough to warrant for all the hassle really.
33cl bottle from a trade with Douberd, many thanks! Soft Gusher! Pours hazy deep golden colour with a huge most good lasting white head. Aroma of mild bitter hops, citrus, grass. Taste of grassy and dry bitter hops, citrus, pale malt, grains, good!
Bottle. Opened warm and was a gusher. However, settles down to pleasant fresh hoppiness as promised. Pleasant. One I would buy again.
Sterk ondergewaardeerd bier, maar dit is wel de toekomst. Lekker bitter, tenminste een echt bitter bier. Bier om een avond mee af te sluiten!
Somewhat hazy golden yellow, hop bells floating in the bottle. Gusher. White lacing foam head. Hoppy aroma and bitter taste. Nice gift from Tinus. (Velp 201604)
0.33 bottle. Very hazy, dark copper color and a small white head with a heck ton of hop buds. Aroma of hops, fermentation, yeasts, not particularly pleasant. Taste is grassy, hoppy, kind of devoid of proper character, not even properly bitter. A medium body, a somewhat creamy texture, and a lively carbonation. Finish is long and kind of unusual too, once again hoppy but not bitter - fermentation flavors take the lead. Overall, not a savory beer - I imagine it takes a peculiar palate to enjoy this one or I simply landed a bad bottle.
Bottle. Just got it before it gushed. Gold with a puffy white head that lasts OK. There’s a big bit of the hop cone left in the bottle and a fair few floaties in the glass. Aroma of dough, vanilla, peach, bitter orange. And so it tastes. It’s fruit and dough sweet and a bit muddled - I’m sure the hop detritus didn’t help - until it gathers itself in a dry and bitter finish that has some pepper and flowers as well as citrusy hops.
Echt wel een speciaal biertje, als je het opendoet komt er zeer veel schuim uit, want er zit ook een hop in. Zeer lekker trouwens.
Bottle 0.33l from Dranken Geers Gent Belgium.06.08.2015.Hah suprise suprise.Hop flower came out from a bottle.Pour it hazy orange color with small white head.Aroma floral.Taste of high carbonation, sweet fruity, grapefruit pinch, Belgian yeast finish.Ok
Bottle from Hopduvel, Gent. Mine actually didn’t explode which was nice. Aware of it’s volatile nature, I left it in the fridge upright for a couple weeks before cracking it open. Appearance is typical Belgian blond. Quite an odd bitter metallic soapy orangey floral fragrant peppery Belgian blond with an entire hop in the bottle for some stupid reason. Managed to keep almost all chunks out of the pour though so pretty proud of myself.
Blonde non filtrée, non pasteurisée, refermentée, houblonnée en dry hop, et avec une fleur de houblon venant de Vlamertinge (entre Ypres et Poperinge) dans chaque bouteille, ce qui en fait en principe la seule bière au monde dont le dry hop se fait en bouteille aussi. Remarquable idée.
Niveau abv de 6,5 % , pour un exemplaire un an avant sa date, c’est très bien ainsi.
Couleur jaune abricoté, à l’important volume de matières en suspension.
Bulles moyennes par centaines en fontaine centrale très vive.
Mousse beige clair avec une belle texture ferme en haut, stable à 2 mm.
Arômes de malt grillé, houblon, lie de vin blanc moelleux.
1ère bouche structurée, à la très belle entame malt/houblon, à l’équilibre.
Arrière-bouche incisive sur la fleur de houblon.
2ème à la grande harmonie malt/houblon.
Arrière-bouche bien précise et longue.
3ème avec une envolée sur des nuances houblon et fleur (de houblon …).
Arrière-bouche complexe et longue.
Longueur avec une belle exploration du houblon à terrain découvert …
Jambes bien marquées, un peu collantes.
Levure construite, digne, dense, très grande ligne.
Alcool parfaitement progressif, et soutient magnifique de l’ensemble.
Finale avec beauté, mais pas transcendance.
CONCLUSION : grande bière du canard, avec cette offrande magnifique d’une fleur de houblon dans la bouteille. Nous aurions juste voulu planer avec la finale...
Bottle at home.
It gushes, as stated, a sorry quantity in my sink, after evading the launched hopbell, but saved most nicely in my glass. It pours a mirky honeycolour, nice lively carbonation with an offwhite frothy head.
It’s a treat on the nose with (grassy) hops, sweet malt, yeast, some floral tones, a definitive citrus/orange peel note, some caramel, and a funky background.
Although the pearling carbonation shows big bubbles it has a nice soft, dry mouthfeel, and a soft carbonation geel too.
A lovely bittersoft taste with hint of orangepeel, which gives also a light high sour citric edge to it all. There’s caramel, bready yeast, sweet malt too. Maybe it’s the "dry bottle hopping" as I will call it, but it has an interesting, well balanced hoppy, fruity taste, with sweet, sour and bitter in it.
I will remember her defloration with fondness and respect, but can’t wait to meet het sisters! 😇
Bottle at home. I was prepared for this to be the mother of all gushers, imagine my surprise when it behaved like any other beer on the block when I opened the bottle. Aroma of malt, yeast, grassy hops, a hint of citrus, spicy notes, some floral, peppery notes. Flavour is medium bitter. Body is medium. Very nice hoppy Belgian Ale.
The hop flower doesn’t make for an easy pour. Lots of residue. Otherwise cloudy orange with a good foam top. Taste is orange peel, hops, bit of caramel but not too much, some earth. Starts pretty one sided bitter but has an excellently balanced bitter sweet finish
2/15/2012 10:37:11 PM Bottle from Beer Planet. Body is hazy yellow with big head. Nose fruity and slightly sour. Taste is hops, citrus and caramel notes. Pretty good.
nice aroma fruitfulness and hops looks trouble lot of yeast orange and big head some fruit in the flavor and of the aroma hops nicely balanced a nice one
bottle at home. The hop flower inside is a nice feature, opening gently avoids a gusher (and fridged) and pushes the hop cone out of the bottle. Colour is dark yellow, nose is lots of yeast and fresh malts. Body is sweet and malty, taste is again loads of the yeast. Decent.
Bottled, gusher warning. Amber colour, rich off-white fluffy head. Aroma is fruity, caramelly, nice floral notes. Flavour is quite similar. A nicely hoppy Belgian ale. Pleasant.
26th May 2015
Mild gusher! Hazy gold beer, decent pale cream colour head. Something of a surprise when a whole hop cone popped out! Palate is airy, semi dry and mildly crispy. Thin malts, mildly sweet. Touch of spicy yeasty twang. Modest floralness and mild citrus and hop spice. Light semi dry finish. Not bad.
Une très belle bière houblonnée, fruitée avec une touche de levure. La bouche allie une structure crémeuse, un beau fruit et une longue finale raffraîchissante. Un délice de fin de soirée.
Bottle, couple of taps on the top and the hop cone comes out. Nice detail. Very beautiful pour, honey color, nice foam head. Perfect. Refreshing aroma, large pine flavor. Strangely...a strong smell of marihuana. Hint of lemon, Belgian yeast. Strange amalgam, but nice. Taste starts relatively bitter, tar resemblance even. Slowly develops to blue cheese, fungus, dried lemon, hint of spinach. Slightly doughy character. Aftertaste is slightly sticky. Honestly, this ticks all the boxes in the "weird, but pleasant" category. Well worth the find.
Bottle from Wallington Beer Fest. Crazy explosive gusher with a whole hop exploding out the bottle. The nose is soft, doughy, spicy, creamy, grassy, floral and some soapy citrus. The taste is crisp, raw bitterness, doughy, spicy, floral, grass and soap with a dry finish. Medium body, high carbonation and foamy mouth-feel. Gushing and hop cone are a bit gimmicky, but the beer itself ain’t bad.
Very interesting beer, fresh hops that give delicious aroma and flavours. a hop cone decorating the interior of the bottle. beautiful
Hoppy ale in the literal sense of the word, because this is bottled with an actual hop cone inside. Notorious gusher (intentionally so, a rarity!), due to which the hop cone usually is driven out of the bottle - a playful gimmicky effect a hophead like myself can only condescendingly smile at. The head I eventually captured, was very thick and rocky, sticky, yellowish and stable; the beer itself a cloudy peach blonde. Aroma dominated by the ’green’ and resinous effect of the hop cone, with a vegetable, spicy hoppiness, under which more subtle hints of peach, orange zest, melon, caramel, pineapple and cheese are present. Fresh fruity and citrussy taste, light and smooth, with the expected fresh and green, powerful, dry peppery, sticky, long hop bitterness finishing the palate. I enjoyed this very much, a kind of direct forerunner to the hops revival in Belgian beer culture; when I first tasted it, in late 2005, the label was not yet finished...
33cl bottle at Molenhof in Oostvleteren. Highly effervescent and uncontrollably turbid pour, it’s yeasty and milky and ugly in the glass.
Of course, the nose is yeasty, musty, green, lemon-y and slightly lactic. Highly effervescent, highly acidic, off dry, hoppy and green. Medium-light body with a faint touch of alcohol. Hard to review in this state... you see, they put a hop cone into the bottle, giving the beer an extra billion nucleation points, so there’s no controlling the pour, you end up with a milky glass with a raw / wet / green hop character. The beer seems to have potential, if they could just give up on the hop cone gimmick and make it clean.
Bottle at home in London - sourced from Ales by Mail. Gusher! I mean, even the stock image is gushing. Pours murky gold with a few hop leaves floating about (most of the cone flew out with the initial gush) and a creamy white head. The aroma has some pale, doughy bread malts, hints of yeast, floral hops. Medium sweet flavor with some alcohol, ripening apples, yeast, candi sugar, bitter grass. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Grassy bitter finish with some raw alcohol burnt, more pale and bready malts, some wheat, yeast, plastic, white grape. Not a big fan.
33cl flesje bij café De Gouveneur, Maastricht
Alcoholpercentage van 6,5%
Uitgeschonken in Tripel Karmeliet glas
Uiterlijk: goudoranje kleur met dikke witte schuimkraag. Apart natuurlijk de echte hopbloem in het glas. Zoals eerder vermeld een echte 'gusher', indien niet bekend is de helft weg van je fles
Aroma en smaak: bloemig, fruitig zoals perzik, bitter door de hop
Conclusie: apart ook door de originaliteit. Maar smaak is ook lekker, ondanks ik niet zo van bitter hou.
Bottle @ blue jay. Bbe 2013. Strange concept. Pours a very hazy orange with lots of particles. nose is hops snd caramel. Taste again hops with hints of citrus. Body is bit odd with a bittet after taste.
Een bier met een hele speciale smaak, niet echt mijn ding, maar sommige mensen zullen dit goed vinden.
Bottle @ Michaels. Heavy gusher. Pours slightly hazy golden with a white head, heavy floaties. Aroma of malt, grain, light yeast, grassy hops, little citrus. Flavor malt, grainy, yeast, grassy hops, citrusnotes. Medium body, lively carbonation. 210614