6.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

330ml bottle. Pours a generally clear gold, large fluffy white head. Medium to high carbonation. Pretty much as I remember from 6 years ago.. some glowing honey and caramelised malt.. not massively harmonised, but ok overall.

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle via the brewery - thanks, mom & dad! Hazy orange, stable, foamy, off-white head. Aroma of ripe apricot, plum, dried orange peel, honey, jam, grass, red apple, biscuit. Taste has sweet red apple, apricot, plum over a honeyish & sugary malt base with a touch of bitter orange peel. Floral hoppy finish offering sweet ripe fruit, a somewhat harshly bitter grassiness and boozy triple sec-like alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Lacks balance and restraint - bad batch perhaps this year?

7.2

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

(Bottle) Pale amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Fruity, hoppy nose with apricots, toast, orange peel, caramel, mandarin and herbal hops. Malty, hoppy taste with notes of caramel, toast, spicy yeast, mandarin, orange peel and a generous herbal/citric bitterness in the finish. Almost full body, with a touch of sweetness. Fresh and tasty, with a good herbal hop presence. Nice one.

7.3

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

2019 version. Complex yeasty Blond with lits of bright hop notes. Fresh, fruity and yeasty.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

330ml bottle. Cloudy, orangey golden colour with average, thick, creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, white head. Grassy, fruity, slightly leafy and piney, minimally strawy, hoppy and pale malty aroma, rather unspecific fruitiness, orchard fruit, a touch of hay, weed, even minimally floral overtones, some lychee, green tea. Taste is grassy and fruity, minimally leafy and strawy, hoppy, minimally sweet pale malty, unspecific fruitiness, orchard fruit like apple and pear, some lychee, hints of weed, hay, green tea, peppery spicy yeasty overtones; well hidden alcohol. Watery texture, smooth and soft palate, fine, soft, still efficacious carbonation. Quite manifold, mild and mellow, highly drinkable - nice.

7.9

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

As All Inclusive IPA 2019, but apart from the year, everything has remained the same as in 2018, so hopped with all the varieties grown in De Plukker's own hop farm. Bottle from a Bioplanet (a chain of supermarkets centered around organic foods) in Ghent. Snow white, thick and mousy, large-bubbled, membrane-lacing, gradually opening and thinning head on a misty warm orange blonde beer with peachy hue and lively sparkling everywhere. Quite complex and sophisticated aroma of mandarin, orange peel, bread crumbs, cantaloupe, white pepper, bitter honey, unripe peach, dried apricot, banana peel, freshly grated ginger, toasted pumpkin seed, raw parsnip. Sweetish onset hinting at peach, pineapple and light banana, fizzy carbonation but nowhere harshly stinging, supple and lean, bit oily body; lovely 'clean' biscuity and slenderly bready malt body with a thin caramelly edge as well as brightening minerally accents here and there, quickly superseded by a bright, citric as well as restrainedly earthy hoppiness, adding pink pepper, fresh orange peel and mandarin noted retronasally and a persistent, long and rooty but elegant and pleasantly peppery bitterness, adorned with some spicy phenolic accents and a late dash of warming, gin-like alcohol. This All Inclusive series seems to get better every year - though I liked these beers from the beginning, it seems as if they are gradually evolving more and more into the direction of 'real', New World IPA, coming from a yeasty and earthy Belgian background. These yeasty and earthy aspects are still there, though, but they play with the hops in a fascinatingly balanced and entertaining way. This is 'Belgian IPA' in the Belgian sense of the word, mind you) at its very best and dramatically underrated as far as I'm concerned.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pours an almost clear amber colour with a large frothy white head. Aroma is fruity and hoppy; light bready malts and lychees. A moderately sweet taste, sweet malts, some caramel and some resiny bitterness in the finish.

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