Thiriez’ double IPA aged on wine barrels, 75 cl bottle of six years old. Extreme and violent gusher : impossible to remove the crown cap without being confronted with a fountain of beer and considerable loss, and foam kept escaping from the bottle neck for a long time after that. What ended up in the glass, showed a coarse and irregular, snow white, lightly lacing, open head quickly thinning and eventually disappearing altogether, over a cloudy, warm orange-hued peach blonde robe. Rather weird aroma of old blankets and mattresses, moldy oranges, brown soap, dried plants in a herbarium, pelargonium leaves, old white wine, dusty attic, vermouth, white grapes, soaking wet wood, gooseberry jam, mandarin juice, wrinkly old apples. Estery onset, lots of sweet blood orange, ripe purple gooseberry and sweet white grape aspects, drying (yet not sharply acidic) tartness running throughout the whole palate – a combination of wine tartness and sourness resulting from what I suspect is best considered a ‘happy’ infection depending on your personal preferences. Honeyish, lightly biscuity malt sweet body dried by this tartness, fluffy and powdery mouthfeel, softly carbonated ; old wood tannins at the back reinforce both the wine tartness, which keeps lingering deep into the finish and beyond the beer itself as is often the case with wine barrel aged ales, and a rooty, spicy, firm hop bitterness. Lingering fruity esters, wine flavours and a whiff of warming brandy-ish alcohol colour the end phase. Highly unmanageable gushing is never a pleasant thing, but putting that aside, this is an interesting beer: apart from a confident hop bitterness in the finish, nothing is left of its former DIPA personality (which wasn’t too great and convincing to begin with if I remember the regular version well), but the wine barrel treatment with infection to go with it, has de facto turned this into a sour ale. Not the worst one I had, to be honest, but there are weird aspects to the nose which took me a while to get used to.

Biere que j'ai commencé à boire en 2017 et qui m'avait semblé très convenable à l'epoque. Je la trouvais chez compagnons des saisons et au cirque. Je lui trouvais une belle robe orange trouble. IPA typique avec une belle amertume bien maîtrisée, vraiment agréable à boire. Pas d'une subtilité à toute épreuve, ni très complexe mais pas trop alcooleuse. Cependant j'en ai rebu récemment et mon avis a changé, je ne pense pas que ce soit la bière qui a changé mais mon niveau d'exigence dans le domaine, il y a énormément d'excellentes IPA de nos jours et celle-ci ne fait pas du tout le poids, à part une amertume désagréable en fin de bouche on ne retrouve pas tout ce qui fait le plaisir d'une bonne Ipa. On est plutôt sur une bière assez ratée et déséquilibrée.

Bottle 750ml. @ 8th. BBF 2016 [ 8th Borefts Beer Festival 2016 ] @ Brouwerij de Molen, Bodegraven, Netherlands. [ As Thiriez Dalva ].Unclear medium yellow colour with a small, fizzy and open, good lacing, mostly diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, moderate hoppy, citrus, marmalade hops, fruity hops, peach. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, marmalade hops, pale malt, fruity hops. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20160924] 6-3-7-3-13

Bottle from Worldwide Alcohol bottle shop, Chelmsford, shared at Dan’s. Pours golden with a small white head. Light aroma of hop, and citrus fruit. Medium plus sweetness and light bitterness. Medium body and sticky texture, carbonation is soft. Enjoyable.

Sample at Borefts 2016. Poured a very slightly hazy light amber with a thin white head. The aroma is citrus fruit, light hop. The flavour is moderate sweet with a rich oily buttery yeast, toffee, fruit, alcohol palate. Full bodied with soft carbonation.

Sample at Borefts 2016. Golden beer, aroma is malt. Taste is malt, citrus, sweet, meh

Tap@Borefts 2016, Bodegraven - pours golden amber with a white head. Aroma and taste comprises sweet tropical fruits, grapefruit, tangerine, malty backbone, hoppy bitter finish.