Moderately hoppy, quite bitter, some citrussy fruityness. Just a very solid IPA, no more, no less. Pity, was hoping for more sillynes.

BKL2016. Herbal, light onion aroma with citrus Light green golden, white cream Light straw and cardboard in the malt, strong green hops, tart grapefruit peel. Medium light dry body, sparkly Good in the long run

Tap at Open Baladin in Rome-Italy. Bright semi clear light golden color, frothy white foam with retention and drafts ob the glass. Nose: funky, weed, grapefruit, lime. Mouth: medium carbonation, grapefruit soft tartness, rich grainy. Really tasty!

Pours ratherclear blonde, ok white head. Smell is bitter, full, mlty, bit fruity. Taste is bitter, rather intense, creamy, tad sweet, fruity . Very refreshing.

(Bought at Malt Attacks)

Golden, almost clear. Lasting laces. Mango and orange aroma. Grapefruit taste, medium body. Fresh bitterness.

33cl bottle from Beer52.com. A somewhat hazy pale straw pour with a tight white head and light carbonation; tropical fruit aroma; tropical fruit taste with a touch of chalk; and a sharp, juicy grapefruit finish that lingers. A good attempt at a New World style IPA.

Brewfist ’IPA’, or so it is called, with thick and rocky, egg shell-white, ’Brugues lace’-sticky head and misty golden blonde colour with ochre hue. Aroma of freshly cut sorrel and nettles, green apple peel, wet straw, green plum, grass, freshly grated ginger root, white pepper, strong chamomille flowers - I’m in Flanders’ fields rather than in present-day IPA world. Crisp, restrainedly fruity onset, unripe wood fruits, raw rhubarb sourishness, unripe pineapple, undergoing a medium strong, slightly minerally carbonation with a vague salty edge; a strange apple juice-like fruit sweetness appears in the middle (out of nowhere), overseeing a pale, lightly bready malt sweetishness and subtle spicy yeastiness. Ends in drying, crisp, grassy and leafy hop bitterness with a dried citrus peel quality to it and letting a lot of the bready malt sweetness and yeasty fruity and spicy ’Belgian’ effect to pass through. Everyone seems to need a saison nowadays and many fail to master the concept; Brewfist, apparently capable of delivering a good example, bizarrely sells this saison as an IPA. What went wrong there? This is a full-fledged saison in the most authentic sense of the word: if I had tasted this ten or fifteen years ago, I would have ascribed this to some Hainaut brewery. This fascinates me: were the creators of this beer too shy to call it a saison, and opted for the easy-going designation of IPA instead? If this is the case, I, for one, am sure this was an ill-fated decision, as this lovely beer is a lot more credible as a saison than as an IPA (regardless of substyle)...