Ginormous

Draught @ Mikkeller bar, Victoria gade. Pours slightly hazy orange golden with a small offwhite head. Aroma of malt, light caramel, fruity hops, peach, melon, grapes. Flavor is malt, sweet fruity hops, peach, melon. Medium body, average to lively carbonation. 300415

Tap at CBC2015. Hazy amber color, small white head. Grassy, citrusy aroma. Medium-bodied. Fruity, sweetish, not do bitter, malty. Ok.

On tap at the brewery. Pours a clear copper orange with medium beige head leaving sticky lacing. The aroma is toasted malt and pine. Medium mouth, strong pine, caramel, light bitterness, very nice.

Tap @ Mikkeller, Viktoriagade. Hazy orange with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and rather hoppy - fruity and grapefruit. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 300415

Double IPA by Gigantic, from a 65 cl bottle with a label reminiscent of Transformers or something of the kind. Medium thick and irregular, egg-white head leaving some lacing, colour clear orange blonde with vivid sparkling; deeper copper colour and equally misty with deposit, with which a sweet and pleasant estery fruitiness is added as well. Dank, appetizing aroma of grapefruit peel, blood orange, lime zest, ripe peach, mango, walnuts, toasted bread, pine wood, baked banana, pineapple slices, dried ginger, hay, earth, champagne, bitter honey, bitter herbs, hint of beef jerky, and a fair amount of whisky-like alcohol. Crisp, clean with a controlled fruitiness, sweet and honeyish even, pineapple, hint of banana, sweet apples, orange flesh; some traces of resiny hops are already apparent here. Carbo is fairly soft, lean and supple body, a little bit oily, with a strong basis of toasted, nutty and slightly caramelly malts as expected from the style, supporting a strong, almost ’hot’, spicy, grapefruity, resinous hop bitterness, increasing towards the back of the tongue, made even drier due to a warming, even somewhat wry, almost wodka-like alcohol presence; under all this abrasive hops and alcohol turmoil, a subtle hint of honeyish malt sweetness peeps through as well, making this DIPA very balanced and therefore highly enjoyable. Perhaps not the most subtle or rich example of the style, certainly a tad too alcoholic for my taste, but nonetheless a more than decent representative of it.

Bottle @ Rooie Dop, medium sample. Deep orange color, short head. Aroma of grapefruit, pine, biscuity malts. Medium bitter in taste. Decent stuff, but a bit one dimensional. Again a very easy dangerous drinker.

Bottle at home that was pretty unneccessary for the hour. reddish pour small beige head. Nose is lovely tropical fruits, pine and caramel. Tastes of red fruit, mango, pine, caramel, honey, resinous through and through. The dank hops coat throat. Lingering finish of red fruit.

Bomber - hazy glowing orange - minimal lace - smells of dank, musky citrus, grass, pine - medium sweet orange and grapefruit - low carbonation makes for a kind of limp mouthfeel - fairly sweet, a bit sugary - a lot of citric hop character - along with the sweetness, tastes like sugar-covered grapefruit - has a nice finishing bitterness, with some earthy malt character as well - meh, it’s okay.

Bottle. Beermoth, Manchester. Hazy, amber colour. Film of white head. Dank and fusty orange. Some pineapple. Some mango. Brioche sweet malts. Hint of pine resin. Taste is chewy sweet. Zesty, oily bitter. Soft, oily palate. Finishes long, juicy bitter. It’s not as fresh as you’d like, but it’s still a silly drinkable beer.