3.5 month old found keg, at the source, well advertised as such. Crystal clear golden color. Still lightly bitter pine. OK.

Double IPA bij Uiltje, from tap at Stokerij in Ghent. Very thick, densely creamy, snow white, stable, tightly lacing head crowning a hazy ochre-tinged peach blonde beer. Lusciously sweet and tropical aroma of freshly squeezed orange juice, a lot of lychee, ripe mango, papaja, sweetbread, meringue, honey, sweet mint leaves, rosewater, gin, dough. Tropical fruitiness in the onset as well, lots of lychee and mango, some pineapple and granadilla, sweet with a soft sourish lime-like edge, sharp and somewhat numbing carbonation, thick and rounded, bit oily mouthfeel. Pleasantly soft and doughy white bread-like malt body, upon which a very generously aromatic hoppiness builds, with the lychee, mango, orange and papaja notes returning retronasally at full force – yet actual hop bitterness remains soft and gentle for this style, so the tropical fruit sweetness gets all the credit here, highlighted by a pleasantly warming gin-like booziness. Uiltje is among the best craft breweries in the Netherlands and if they want to make a top notch DIPA in which tropical aromas have to shine rather than being excessively hop bitter (in other words: New England style), they can do it – this is the proof. Went back the next day for another one…