Can shared at BBGG. Hazy yellow. Pineapple, mango, cactus fruit, dank weedy hops, lemon. Over medium sweet, light bitter. Medium bodied. Nice.

33cl can de et partagée avec Tdroeck à Ixelles.
BB 30/05/2026.
Pâle/dorée, col blanc tenace.
Arôme est chargé sur les agrumes, léger effet raisin blanc pour cette hazy mettant en avant des houblons NZ.
Plais repend le sgrande slignes de ce qui fait la renomée de Soma, à savoir des bières qui tapent dans le niveau de 'haze' - il donc apprécier cela, ce que je fais selon les versions. Pointe épicée du haze en fin de bouche, avec ce retrait de Sauvignon qui persiste.

Dok collaborating with this Spanish craft brewery, resulting in a New Zealand style NEIPA; intended as "double NEIPA", in fact, but this website does not allow for beers under 7.5% ABV to be classified as such - justly so, imagine the chaos and anarchy that would occur otherwise. Like other NZ IPAs, this is intended to be very 'tropical' and showcasing different embodiments of New Zealand's most famous modern hop variety, Nelson Sauvin. Thin and loose, egg-white ring of bubbles on a completely opaque, milky straw blonde robe with beige tinge. Dank aroma of yellow kiwi, 'diesel', stale mango juice, withering southernwood or even shiso, honey pomelo, overripe sweet red onions, gari, rambutan, granadilla, milk powder, soggy Betterfood, white wine must, sake. 'Tropical' juicy onset, sweetish with a slight sourish edge, softly carbonated with creamy body, supporting impressions of granadilla, mango, kiwi and rambutan with a dash of smoky papaya thrown in - all very sultry and 'heavy', a fragrance becoming only stronger towards the end, spanning a soft, soggy-bready, soaked-cereally malt core buried under an overdose of Nelson, so to speak. Its full potential unfolds in the finish, with a retronasal bomb of overripe red onion, shiso, yellow kiwi, dessert wine and sake effects, primarily sweet-fruity but complex, with even a very faint smoky note somewhere. Down below, the juiciness turns more citric in the very end but still in a sweet, tropical way (honey pomelo throughout), picking up herbal and oniony notes as well and establishing a persistently peppery, pleasant bitterness, accentuated by a slight - but not too strong - hop burn. "Quadrupel dry-hopped" indeed - this brew packs a lot of sultry, sweet-tropical, exotic power, that much is clear. Not Dok's most subtle creation in the vast IPA field, perhaps, but Nelson through and through - evoking the shores of New Zealand as convincingly as the shores of any other Pacific archipel. I should actually visit that region someday. Oh, and as for Soma: congrats, you have just joined the ranks of those many, many creative craft brewers collaborating with our Ghentian pride, Dok Brewing Company...