{"id":1003,"date":"2010-10-29T00:02:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T11:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:19:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:19:29","slug":"gouden-carolus-hopsinjoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/10\/29\/gouden-carolus-hopsinjoor\/","title":{"rendered":"Gouden Carolus ‘Hopsinjoor’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gouden Carolus 'Hopsinjoor'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An evening of pub-hopping and beer-having had made Kirsten and I rather peckish, so we backtracked a little up Hood Street to a place called Gothenburg<\/a>, which had caught our eye on our way to House<\/a>. She picked the food, and I took about ten times as long to pick the beers.<\/p>\n

I had missed this ‘Hopsinjoor’ when we had a few bottles at work — we presumably got them from the same place the restaurant did; local (to Hamilton, that is) beer importers Beer Store<\/a> — so leapt at the chance to have one. Kirsten herself had never had the Westmalle Tripel, and I thought both would go well with the prawns, calamari and anchovy pizza we’d ordered. And go well they did, indeed. I feel I deserve some Beer Matching points for that, but really the bulk of the credit goes to the restaurant for their insanely<\/em> yumtastic food, and to these rather clever breweries.<\/p>\n

The ‘Hopsinjoor’, as the name begins to give away, is a hoppier-than-usual Belgian ale, which has considerable zing thereby added to the nicely dry, complex goodness that is a well-made pale golden strong ale of its type. Trading a few sips for a side-by-side comparison, the extra angles of flavour become really apparent.<\/p>\n

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Diary II entry #31, Gouden Carolus 'Hopsinjoor'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Gouden Carolus ‘Hopsinjoor’ 27\/10\/10 330ml 8% $14 @ Gothenburg, Hamilton. This place for dinner, and drinks took longer to decide on; I’m guessing that Beer Store are largely to credit for the impressive, Belgian-stuffed beer list. We had this one at work a while ago, but I missed out. It’s a cloudy, pale straw. Big, yeasty nose; not a lot of hops present until you get to the face. There, they give a nice zingy bitterness that is welcome + unusual. Kirsten had the Westmalle Tripel and both have gone ludicrously well with the insanely tasty prawns, calamari + anchovy pizza we went for. Civilised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An evening of pub-hopping and beer-having had made Kirsten and I rather peckish, so we backtracked a little up Hood Street to a place called Gothenburg, which had caught our eye on our way to House. She picked the food, and I took about ten times as long to pick the beers. I had missed … Continue reading Gouden Carolus ‘Hopsinjoor’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[26,6,16],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-belgian","tag-pages","tag-belgium"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5967,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/09\/23\/station-ident-changeover\/","url_meta":{"origin":1003,"position":0},"title":"Station Ident: Changeover","author":"Phil","date":"September 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"So,\u00a0Beer Diary II is dead \u2014 or at least about to embark on its mostly-bookshelved (but never abandoned) retirement \u2014 long live\u00a0Beer Diary\u00a0III. 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