On tap at Craft Room, Zagreb. Poured a misty reddish amber body with a lasting off white head. Creamy aroma, peach, herbal notes, caramel, toast. Taste... citric, peachy notes, juicy, tasty, some notes of orange too. Medium herbal bitterness. Enjoyable, juicy IPA, the kind I might actually love the most. Not the best beer like that, perhaps, but world class and I’d go for it again.

Draft at Beer Temple. Cloudy orange with an off white head. Aroma of fruity hops, caramel malt and grapefruit. Flavour is moderate sweet and over moderate bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Classic Mikkeller IPA brewed at the Proef in Belgium, 33 cl bottle, in the regular (non-gluten free) version. Irregular, medium sized, yellowish white, well retaining head, deep and warm orange blonde colour with even a light reddish hue (and therefore unsurprisingly turning deep amber with deposit), completely cloudy from the start. Aroma has a lot of ’old hop’ dankness (stale sweat, even urine) - in fact, a tad too much of it to be as appealing as it could have been; apart from that, I get notes of grapefruit, dried lemon peel, fried egg, sweet curry, pine needles, peach, baker’s yeast, papaja, overripe pineapple, withering spring flowers, damp forest floor even, faint sweet strawberry piercing through. Sweetish and sourish fruitiness in the mouth, papaja, gooseberry, pineapple, pomelo with some grapefruity bitterness already popping up right from the start, with a slight salty edge to it; carbo remains soft and fit for the style, mouthfeel is rounded, supple, slim and a bit oily. Soft, somewhat grainy and lightly bready malt body provides structure enough and balances well with the hop profile, which, as said, can be felt from the start and only grows in intensity towards the end, ensuring a deeply, tonic-water and grapefruit-like, almost completely drying, resinous bittering effect in the finish, yielding lots of piney and dried citrus peel-like retronasal aromas. The earthy effect of these ’older’ hops (at least so it seems) is further reinforced with a strong yeastiness, which is easily identified not just by an earthy flavor and mouthfeel, but also by peach- and gooseberry-like ester aromas still hanging around at the back. I am all for recognizing a ’Belgian IPA’ category here and this one seems to qualify: the hops are clearly (and strongly) of New World signature, but the yeastiness and esteriness is a very Belgian feature. In this respect, this is a tasteful and quaffable IPA for sure, but I cannot help feeling more ’cleansiness’ in its yeast profile would make this - apart from a lot more ’American’ - a lot better... Still, appetizing, nicely drying and bittering IPA, I enjoyed it.

0.33l bottle from braufactum, 3.99€.
pours a hazy amber with a big creamy head and a nice lacing. aroma of sprucy and fruity hops, spices, flowers, caramel malts. flavour of brown sugar, caramel malts, fruity hops, yellow fruits. long bittersweet finish. a bit sweet for me.

Pours a very hazy, darker shade of orange-amber color, topped with a very generous off-white head. Pretty lasting as well. Very nice and intense fruity aroma - citruses and some sweet fruits, grapefruit, peach and a bit of lichi. Starts a bit on the sweet side with moderate hoppy bitterness developing later on. A tad soury in the finish. Gentle but very lasting bittery aftertaste. Medium light and very nice.

0,33 l bottle from Kristall-König. Thanks a lot! Murky brwon in the glass, one finger light beige foamy head. Strong hopy with citrus on the nose. Taste is also strong hopy, citrus and pale malt in the background but present. Long lasting bitterness in the aftertaste. Heavy stuff.

Bottled 330ml. -from Vrutak Zagreb. Dark golden/amber coloured, medium sized off-white head, citrusy hoppy nose. Sweet malty, citrusy hoppy, light caramel and touch of alcohol with dry hoppy finish and long-lasting bitter aftertaste. Pleasant IPA.

12 oz bottle poured. Pours a really thick caramel orange color with some lasting foam head. Spice heavy hop aroma. Flavor is earthy hops and rich caramel. Smooth, thicker body. Very tasty, enjoyable beer.