Brouwbar DI20 Double IPA

DI20 Double IPA

 

Brouwbar in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

  IPA - Imperial / Double Regular
Score
7.13
ABV: 7.9% IBU: 60 Ticks: 6
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7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

5 July 2019. At Dok Brewing Festival. Cheers to Anke & Ghent beer crew! Hazy golden-ochre with a lasting, small, foamy, off-white head. Aroma of ripe orange & mango, honey, banana peel, bread, cucumber, vegetable oil, lime. Taste is medium fruity sweet, notes of ripe orange & mango, subtler peach & pineapple, clashing with bitter pepper & grass on a bready, honey-like maltiness that has a somewhat spicy, yeasty & oniony edge. Dryish, piney hoppy finish, slightly floral with lingering ripe fruit, yeast & 'spicy' hoppiness, creating a warming gin-like alcohol effect. Medium body, slick-oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Clean & elegant as a whole again by Brouwbar, though a bit rougher in execution this time.

Tried on 04 Aug 2019 at 16:57


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

21/07/2019 @home - 33cl bottle from a trade with tderoeck. Cloudy blonde, nice white head. Nose is malts, fruits, bitterhops. TAste is malts, floral, nice bitterness.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Jul 2019 at 11:01


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Golden colour with fluffy head. Aroma and flavour have a lot of floral notes. Well balanced and sessionable.

Tried on 07 Jul 2019 at 21:35


7

Tried from Draft at Dok Brewing Company on 06 Jul 2019 at 15:20


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Brouwbar has been quietly reinventing and improving some of their original recipes lately and this one is intended as the improved version of DI10 – the house DIPA. Tasted at – where else – Brouwbar. Egg-white, thick, stable and creamy, papery-lacing head, equally misty peach blonde robe with warm orangey tinge. Aroma of fresh orange (peeled “à vif”) and mandarins, fresh mango cubes, yellow kiwi, ripe pear, strawberry, wet potato chips, minerals, sweetbread, lychee, alcoholic wodka whiff. Sweet and fruity in a clean way – as usual with Brouwbar – hinting at ripe orange, mango and lychee, minerally and ‘cristalline’ carbonation stinging a bit on the tongue’s surface (perhaps a bit too enthusiastically so for this style), slick and rounded mouthfeel, very supple. Sweetbready, very lightly caramelly malt sweet middle drenched in retronasal ‘hop fruitiness’, again with (blood) orange in the foreground and mango in the background, providing the same soft end bitterness as in the previous version. Due to the malt bill being ‘thinner’ in this version – the idea being to make it a less malty beer and therefore putting more emphasis on hop aromatics – the alcohol is also a bit more ‘naked’ and palpable as a lightly astringent, bittering warmth in the finish, more so than was the case in the first version. Not necessarily better than the original, to my taste, a bit thinner and boozier, but certainly more aromatic – which evens things out I suppose, so same score for both editions for me.

Tried on 28 Jan 2019 at 16:19


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Brouwbar DI20 Double IPA (by Brouwbar):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5

23/XII/18 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a - (2018-2006)

Clear deep blond to orange beer, small creamy solid yellowish head, stable, little adhesive. Aroma: sweet malts, bit of caramel, fruity, mango, orange peel. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very malty, bit sweet, vanilla touch, pretty sugary impression, not really bitter. Aftertaste: little fruity, lots of malts, some citrus, caramel, some cow fodder, grapefruit notes, orange peel, tropical fruits.

Tried from Draft on 23 Dec 2018 at 21:05