Bottle shared thanks to Mrk. Hazy golden with smaller sized off white head. Huge sweetened mango, sugary, dried peach, some alcohol, sherry wine, light cognac, some bitter herbs and booze. Very sweet and quite bitter too. Full bodied. So over the top it’s hard to even finish a 3rd of the bottle, still a decent aroma though.

Bottle picked up from De Molen Brewery shop, Borefts Beer Festival w/e, consumed at home down the office, Tuesday 4th October 2016 Pours hazy orange amber with a distinctive yolky, sunny glow, not much in the way of carbonation here though. Quite thick in the mouth, sweetish but with a big thick orangey and marmaladey flavour. Quite a bit of oomph, some sweetened orange rind, good but not totally my thing. A6 A3 T8 P4 Ov15 3.6

Hazy, yellow-orange colored, small+ white head. Aroma is of malt and caramalt, a strong mix of citrus, floral, spicy and fruity hop notes. Taste is medium to very sweet caramalt, some orange, citrus, floral pine, bit spicy and some fruity hops, moderate+ aroma and bitterness, rather fresh hoppiness, bittersweet finish with noticeable alcohol and warmth. Medium to full bodied, soft+ carbonation, oily-resiny. Fresh hops but alcohol too evident, anyway very good! (bottle, Magic Beer Room, Zagreb)

A random appearance at the MBR Sour Beer gathering. Thanks Ludo! Poured a misty yellow-golden body. Orange juice, heavy, light maltiness. Sweetish orange juice notes ending quite dry and bitter, sweetish, ending bittersweet. Despite the gimmicky stats, this is very much a respectable beer. Hats off, Naparbier!

Very strong imperial IPA by what is at least Spain’s best known ’new school’ craft brewery, with a milky, medium thick, egg-white, bubbly head breaking quickly in the middle but retaining well around the edge, sitting on top of a lightly hazy, deep ’old gold’ coloured beer with somewhat greenish hue, becoming misty and a bit deeper orange coloured with the sediment added. Strong, sweet, exotic aroma with a slightly ’skunky’ twist of old hops, impressions of ripe mango, tangerine, lychee, moldy mandarin peel, honey liqueur, sweet dessert wine, Grand Marnier, melting butter, canned pineapple slices, stale sweat, orange candy, faint stinky hint of sewer water somewhere but luckily very subtly so. Candied sweet onset, quite intense, lots of marmelade, white raisin and candied mango, in other words: ’clean’ fruitiness coated by residual white candi sugar sweetness. Soft carbonation, oily and rather vinous mouthfeel, gliding heavily over the tongue’s surface in a thick caramelly malt sweetness and leaving behind traces of the candied fruit sweetness on the one hand and early announcements of both hops and alcohol on the other hand. The latter two come to full fruition in the finish, where spicy, resinous, grapefruity hops effectuate a long-lasting bitterness (albeit not ’deep’ enough to stop the sweetness from flowing through unabatedly) and white rum- and liqueur-like alcohol heat warms the back of the mouth and throat, fortunately without becoming too astringent. Still, this type of beers is a bit over the top for me: I love a good double IPA and I can appreciate the increased intensity of both sweetness and hop bitterness, but these ’imperial’ IPAs of 11+% ABV are often a bit too alcoholic in taste, to my palate at least. That goes for this one as well: it feels very liqueurish, in much the same way as e.g. Evil Twin’s Molotov Cocktail and others, and I prefer a more ’beery’ character in an IPA. Still, this is a fascinating and intense beer to marvel at, and in spite of the alcoholic sensations left behind in the mouth and throat - and even a bit on the lips - it certainly has an interesting complexity of flavors to it, delivering what it pretends to be, so I will still grant it a high score because of that alone.

330ml bottle bought at Habemus Birra. Frothy pearl white head, scattered lacing on the glassware, hazy orange coloured body. Smell of mango and apricot. Solid fruity flavours of peaches, mango and apricot joined by herbal hops. Rather heavy bitterness to a lingering finish. Well rounded on the swallow. Excellent bitter fruity sipper (hotel room, Alicante 02.06.2016).