Tap. Cloudy orange color with white head. Aroma of oranges, grapefruit, zest, pines.Taste is hop centered with grapefruit, oranges, zest, pines.

Draught sample at Hoppy Beer Fest in Tel Aviv. Hazy yellow. Stale hops, sweetish, bitter finish, alcohol.

Draught at Lauter, smallish head, hazy deepish orange colour, aroma of citrus and herbs, light flavor of tropical fruit with a hint of melon, and a bit of wood, medium bitterness. Good, not to heavy for the style.

Bottled (shared with Mats R.). Golden colour with a mediumsized white head. Aroma is floral, fruity, some herbal and mild earthy tones. Flavour is floral, herbal, earthy and some mild bready tones.

Double IPA - set in the original West Coast idiom - by one of the great pioneers and still leading names in the Polish craft beer movement; 50 cl can from De Apotheek. Egg-white, frothy, membrane-lacing, bit irregular but firm, medium thick head, eventually thin and open, on a near-clear, warm 'old golden' beer with yellow glow and lively visible sparkling. Dank aroma of moldy lemons, grapefruit juice, overripe onions, toasted garlic, white bread crust, gin, hints of raw cucumber, unripe pineapple, green banana peel, pond water teeming with green algae, armpit sweat, moist allspice powder, old socks, cheese rind. Clean, dryish onset, lively carbonated with minerally effects throughout, hints of green banana, unripe starfruit and apple peel, oily and rounded, full mouthfeel; white-bready and pleasantly cereally maltiness quickly bittered by notably spicy, grapefruity, oniony hops with a cheesy edge as well as a relatively high degree of sweaty dankness. The hops last for a long time - very long even but I do not expect anything less from the intended style - and their bitterness is enhanced by gin-like alcohol, but softer cereally malt sweetishness also passes through in the end, even with lingering traces of yellow-green fruits. Ends nonetheless spicy, long, resinous, dry and warming, with the hops upfront. A bit more biscuity maltiness to level with the hops would strongly improve this DIPA in my view, and the alcohol is just a bit too obvious for this strength; not the most refined DIPA I had, and the 'West Coast' association needs to be interpreted in the current sense of the word, i.e. "not as bitter as they used to be due to meanwhile hugely increased IPA audiences and NEIPA influences"... Typical 'West Coast' of this day and age, but the old West Coast IPAs and DIPAs I came to enjoy so much ten years ago - after a lot of exercise initially - were something different in my experience. Good, in all, but not what Pinta does best, and not nearly as enticing as the old top dogs of classic West Coast DIPA (think Russian River, Alesmith, Stone, Bell's or even Dogfish Head) from what I remember - though admittedly still highly enjoyable if you like your IPAs old-fashionedly bitter, like I do. Otherwise put: still bitter enough to shock the young haze boys of our present day.

On tap at Viva la PINTA, Krakow, Poland. A golden coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Hoppy, citrus, grapefruit, tropical fruit aroma & taste. Decent enough old school DIPA.