Bottle from Geers. Aroma of grapefruit peel, olive oil, pine nuts, toasted onion, melon, mandarin, cake, honey, gin. Taste has sweetish mango & melon, bitter grapefruit, dank onion, cake & honey maltiness. Long bitter finish, lingering grapefruit peel & mango, bit dank, warming gin alcohol & bitter tonic. A delight in its genre, deserves the score raise.

Original rating: 3 May 2019. 8/8/9/8/8.5=8.4
At Dok Brewing Company, Ghent. Shared with Anke!

Pours clear orange with a lasting, small, frothy, off-white head; little lacing. Aroma of ripe mango, orange peel, grapefruit juice, lime, pine resin, onion, white pepper. Taste is medium fruity sweet, notes of ripe mango, peach & pineapple, making way for a heavy hoppy bitterness that offers pine, orange peel & grapefruit juice, a bit oniony, touch of lime & bready-honeyish malts underneath. Dry, very bitter, resinous hoppy finish, though still sweetish with orange, mango & honey in the back. Medium to full body, oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Hefty IIPA for sure, but with sufficient mellow fruitiness for balance.

Bottle at Cervecería Polar, Madrid. It pours hazy amber with some greenish iridescence and an off-white thick cream. Aroma is very intense: orange, grapefruit, camphor, honey, loquat and peach are among the most conspicuous scents. Taste is balanced between the tartness and the (very strong) bitterness. Low carb. Extremely long-lasting, bitter finish which brings to the mouth some reminiscences of coffee. Very good.

F: big, creamy, white, average retention. C: deep gold, hazy. A: citrus, caramel, grapefruits, some chopped onions, mellow tropical fruits, bits pine, juniper alcohol, biscuits. T: malty backbone, orange, harmonic long lasting bitterness, grapefruits, biscuits, pine resin, very fruity, mellow tropical fruits, full body and lower carbonation, taste is great yet aroma not so but all together great beer for the style, fully enjoyed, 33cl bottle from Malting Pot in Brussels.