@ The Monkeys, Mons. Hazy dark amber colour, white creamy foam. Earthy, citrussy, yeasty with notes of tropical fruit. Rather bitter taste with an earthy character. Too much carbonation.

Double IPA hopped with two classics in the New World hop department, Amarillo and Citra; can from Drink Malpaix in Walcourt. Egg-white, moussy, membrane-lacing, dense and stable head, misty deep golden robe with pale orangey hue, initially clear but turning hazy with sediment - clearly the looks of an old school West Coast DIPA and nowhere near a NEDIPA. Aroma of dandelion, mugwort and other bitter weeds, unripe peach, old bread crust, dry hay, white pepper, rusk, touch green olive. Dry, unripe-fruity onset, green banana and unripe peach, medium carbonation; smooth and bit oily body, dry cereally and bread-crusty maltiness, grainy even, bittered by a leafy, old grapefruit peel-like, wormwoody hoppiness providing a lingering spiciness and rootiness that dries the entire finish. The alcohol remains perfectly hidden. Not very convincing if you ask me: this feels like a more-than-average dry and bitter tripel rather than a true IPA; this happens all the time in Belgium when brewers, big and small, attempt to create IPAs for the sheer marketing value of the term, but I must honestly say that I was expecting Borinage to pull it off. Work afoot here - but if consumed as a dry tripel or hoppy 'edelbier', you will probably be much less disappointed.

33cl bottle from Rob the Gourmets’ Market in Brussels. Collab Brasserie du Borinage and Bastard Brewers brewed @ La Manufacture Urbaine in Charleroi. F: medium, egg-white, good retention. C: gold, hazy. A: orange, tangerine, bit dusty, floral, bit pine. T: medium malty base, orange, tangerine, caramel, bit mineral, decent bitterness, soft carbonation, nice if not as DIPA, enjoyed.

@Dok Brewing Company