Hazy amber beer with a medium creamy head and a light, sour fruit smell. Flavour is light, bitter orange, quite tangy on the tongue. Leaves an airy, fruity aftertaste. It’s nothing spectacular but it’s nice.

Keg at the hanging bat. Pours pale amber, nose is floral, citrus, toffee, taste is similar, dry juicy fruit, little sweet.

Bottle from Amersin. Aroma hoppy, grassy, minty, citrusy. Clear deep orange colour, stable head. Taste is rather thin bodied, mostly hoppy, moderate bitterness. Tasty and sessionable.

Bottle at ÅBF08 as De Molen Amerikaans. Weak hop aroma. Tbe flavour is quite yeasty. Some hops, fresh and grassy. Slightly rough hoppiness, but still nice enough. 7 3 6 3 14

Draught at Alvinne pre-ZBF09 as De Molen Amerikaans. Draught, 4.5%. Very nice caramelly and slightly grassy aroma. Cloudy grey amber colour. Nice creamy tan head. Teaish and grassy hop flavour, good bitterness. Almost herbal finish. Cleansing bitterness. 7 3 6 3 16

33cl bottle (BBD 1 July 16) in Chez Sophie, Shrewsbury on 28 April 2015 as Amerikaans. Being renamed because it hasn’t got a ’&’ in it’s name: the only De Molen without a ’&’. Amber with a tight head, hops burst onto your senses from the start, bitter, sharp and tasty, I liked it.

Alias Amerikaans. Orangebrun tåkete med høyt kremete hvitt skum. En god del bunnfall. Lukt av sitrus. Smaker medium bittert. Kort.

Tasted as Amerikaans, half year old bottle, generously donated by De Molen’s online beer shop in compensation for a missing bottle in my order... Big thanks to Joost. Deep orange blonde, misty but completely murky with deposit, under a milky, creamy, pale beige head with good lacing and good retention. ’Dank’ and rich aroma of blood orange flesh, pink grapefruit peel, strawberry ice cream, freshly toasted bread, bitter honey, tulips, unsalted peanuts, subtle caramel, vague suggestion of aniseed, fresh peaches and pineapple... Almost smells like a double IPA. Taste matches the promising aroma: crisp, fresh and fruity, vivid, suggestions of peaches, redcurrant and mango, minerals, salty touch fortunately staying subdued, honeyishly sweet maltiness underneath, medium carbo, smoothly slipping into the finish, where a whole bouquet of aromatic, floral and very citrussy hops come to development, somewhat resinous, dry, bitter and fairly long, but still gentle and in balance with the mouth-watering malt sweetness. About the name: I understand De Molen wanted a twofold name for this, like they do for most of their other beers, but why digging up the name of a different beer they produced a few years ago? In terms of style: if this is a bottled bitter with American-style C-hops, I don’t know what differentiates it from an APA. I will classify it as an APA in my personal data, and a damn good one at that. Apart from all this: the living proof that a (relatively) low ABV beer can boast tons of flavours, a new trend in the craft beer landscape, and I for one am curious to see if this will evolve any further than pure hoppiness.