G13

Very hazy golden and orange coloured body with a copper glow and a perfect, three centimetre tall off-white head - looks fabulous! Aroma of super dry oak, brett, cedar, piney hops along with a good malt and alcohol note - very nice smell as well! Medium-bodied; Assertive hops up front with a very dry and oaky finish showing the cedar nicely with a distinctly cedar flavour at the tail end that shows some brett and funk for complexity. Aftertaste is very complex with the dryness very noticeable along with some sweetness from fruits, a bit of earthy malt and a touch of wild yeastie brett funk at the end - great and well-rounded while being very complex. Overall, a nice and very well-balanced IPA with tons of other flavours and complexities - perhaps one of the best IPAs I’ve had this year and perhaps in a few years! Not a traditional IPA, but that’s okay - it’s great! Well worth picking up if you can still find it and perhaps holding onto it for a while if you already have it - the yeast should do wonders and variances in the bottle. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Whole Foods in New York (Bowery), New York on 27-May-2016 for US$9,99 sampled at home in Washington on 18-November-2016.

Bottle, 6.5%. Slightly hazy golden with medium off-white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, hops, brett, tart, hops and funk. Flavour is malt, fruit, brett, funk, medium dry, little sweet, grapefruit, hops, orange, little cedar, pine and medium bitter.

Bottle @ Lots of Mark Knofler and Fransk’ kartofler, Ulfborg 2016. Pours hazy dark golden with a white head. Lots of citra, grass and funk. Tart and dry.