Bottle @ home. Hazy dark yellow colour with a medium sized white head. Smells hops, malts, somewhat piney. Tastes hops, fruity, quite sweet, a bit overripe fruits. Medium body, soft carbo. After a few sips it’s getting less and less double ipa like to me.

Bottled. Hazy orange colour with a mediumsized creamy white head, which leaves some lace. Aroma is zest, some peach and mild mango with some slight alcohol sweetness as well as some mild dough like notes. Flavour is crisp malts, quite sweet malts, some alcohol, fruits and mild toffeeish notes. Nice fruity aftertaste with some mild yeasty tones to it as well.

Dutch DIPA brewed in Belgium, bottle from an Albert Heijn supermarket. Very thick and frothy, ’membranously’ lacing, snow white, dense head retaining well, hazy warm orange blonde robe with somewhat pinkish hue, turning a deeper amber with sediment. Aroma of pine-scented soap, cedar essential oil, yellow grapefruit, damp chicken spices, freshly cut red bell pepper, sundried tomatoes, pink peppercorns, sweetness of apricot, papaja, biscuit, white wine, faint banana and freshly squeezed orange juice piercing through. Vividly fruity onset with all kinds of impressions, unripe peach, dried banana, mango, mandarin, starfruit, with a grapefruity bitterness already palpable at the start, spritzy but ’refined’ carbonation, supple, oily, smooth mouthfeel. The bitterness of the white underside of grapefruit peel increases early and rapidly, over a juicy, caramelly, lightly honeyish and biscuity malt sweet backbone, sweeping away all sweetness in the end, where it develops into a tonic water-, dandelion milk juice- and yellow grapefruit peel-like, even somewhat harsh bitterness, drying the back of the mouth completely and producing retronasal aromas of pine resin, (again) grapefruit and some orange peel. This hop dried the throat, along with an afterglow of wodka-like, but not too astringent alcohol. The idea is there, the hops are well-chosen for the style, but it has a somewhat harsh and pungent hop bitterness which I’d rather associate with the earlier days of DIPA; today, a softer bitterness with more sweet tropical fruit aromas, as many American craft breweries are doing, would seem more appropriate, I think. I’d use this as an introduction to the style for those who are not yet accustomed to it - if only as a means to shock their palate. For those who are already used to DIPAs: enjoyable for sure, but seems just a little bit too heavily balanced to the hop bitter aspect of it and could have done with more intense hop aroma and slightly less intense hop bitterness. I like it, but Uiltje’s Big Fat 5 remains unchallenged when it comes to Dutch DIPAs, at least from the ones I tasted so far.

On Tap @5ª Feria de la Cerveza de Noblejas. 01/10/16 Color ambar, sabor frutal resinosa, notas dulces.

Draught at the brewery, small creamy head, hazy deep orange color, aroma of orange and peach with some light bread behind, medium strong herbal bitterness, biscuit and a hint of grains and fruits. Nice but not great.

Towering, dense light yellowish head over coldhazed golden beer with faint orange sheen. Nose with lots of exotic fruit (passion, grape, pomelo, melon,...). Like digging in a sherbet box. More fruit, balanced by a rather agreable bitterness. Still lots of sweetness in the background. Citrus, and a bit of resin. Light for an IIPA, but not watery. Longlasting main flavours. Light, but very likeable IIPA.

0.33l bottle. Hazy orange body, white head. Aroma of toffee, biscuit, grapes and citruses. Taste of toffee, toast, berries and some citruses. Nice but it’s not so intense and complex as what I expect from a DIPA. More like a (quite strong) pale ale to me.