6.8

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

Bottle at home. Aroma is malt, caramel, fruity hops, tropical fruits, pine resin, toffee, ripe tangerine and sweet apricot. Flavour is a touch above moderate sweet with a medium bittersweet finish. Body is medium. Rather heavy on the caramel malts and resin, not generally my kind of IPA, yet nicely rich sweet ripe fruity.

6

Neutral grainy beginning. Easy to drink, fruity red with a mild soft grainy finish. Caramel, dry bitter red malt, burned bitter red malty dry finish. Not too sessionable, but nice.

6

Malty, grainy, caramel, bready

6.5

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

33 cl. bottle @ Rick. Hazy dark amber with an off-white head. Malty caramel aroma with some hops. Sweet caramel taste with a bitter finish. Not so much an IPA as an amber ale but I liked it regardless.

5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 6

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Standard IPA by this acclaimed and rarely disappointing brewery in Rotterdam, bottle from the Mitra in Lelystad. Thick and frothy, egg-white, membrane-lacing, stable head on a lightly hazy, 'rusty'-reddish warm amber beer with coppery glow, a tad darker than usual for the style (at least in the now 'classic' sense of the word). Dank but also refreshingly citric aroma of candied orange peel, orange cake, shallots sweating in butter, melon, lychee, bread crust, peanuts, lavender soap, cedar essential oil. Crisp, fruity onset, hinting at orange, melon and persimmon, spritzy carbonation, oily mouthfeel; biscuity and peanutty maltiness, cracker-like underneath a blanket of oily hoppiness, a tad oniony and piney but most of all citrus peel-like with a grapefruity, mildly peppery bitterness to it, quite long and lingering over equally lingering biscuity malts. Lovely old school IPA, West Coast-ish in general make-up - it seems this 'original' U.S. IPA style is silently making something of a return? I, for one, hope it is.

6.6

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

On tap at De Kaapse, pours a deep dark amber with a medium beige head. Aroma brings out rich resinous hops and big bready caramel malt - smells bold for an amber. Flavour is rich and resinous, with big resinous hops, chewy caramel malts, and bready notes. Viscous and syrupy, a little too sweet. Decent.

7

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

Keg at the brewery Rotterdam. A clear reddy amber coloured pour with a lasting off white head. Aroma is subdued, pine, jammy hops, bready grains, fresh pine. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, clean lightly toasted malts, hint of toffee, pine needles. Palate is semi sweet, light chewy hop resin, mellow carbonation. As an amber ale.

7.2

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

Draught @ the brewpub Aroma has caramel, resin and minerals. Flavour has caramel, resin, minerals and hints of menthol. A solid amber ale. Why this is listed as IPA?