Dalva
(has 3 batches)

Ambar anaranjada, miel. Consistentemente turbia. Espuma cremosa. Aroma lupulado, resinoso. En boca buen cuerpo y bien de gas. Base malteada, intensamente amarga. Herbal, pino, pomelo. Potente.

Sampled at Borefts 2016, Bodegraven. Clear hazy orange with a white head. Notes of honey, sugar, caramel and oranges. Medium body and carbonation and a bitter-sweet finish.

At Borefts 2016. thnx for sharing,everyone ! Pours rather unclear blonde, small white head. Smell is sweet, bit bitter. Taste is bit sweet, some bitterness. very fruity and in balance. Quite nice !

Bottle. Hazy golden color with small white head. Aroma is grapefruit, grassy, some phenols. Taste is grapefruit, grassy, residual sweetness, some toasted malts, but rather dry. Slightly boozy bitter finish. Good!

DIPA from one of the more progressive French breweries, hopped with American hops as well as some rather unknown French variety. Medium thick, off-white, moussy head breaking in the middle but well retaining on the edge, lightly hazy peachy orange blonde robe, cloudy with a darker pinkish hue with deposit added. Aroma seems to have more in common with Belgian tripel than with American DIPA, yielding impressions of banana (even bubblegum), peach, orange flesh, paprika, ripe gooseberry, sweetbread, honey, white pepper, jute, marmelade, sweet white wine, dry hay, tulips, toasted white bread, yellow plum, ginger, horseradish, very weak toasted onion and grapefruit peel. Fruity, estery onset, hints of gooseberry, sweet ripe banana, pineapple and peach, with a redcurrant sourishness surrounding it; medium carbo. Slick, slightly oily, supple but ’full’ caramelly and even honeyish malt sweetness with a toasted bittering accent, while fruity esters as well as phenolic spiciness dance on top. Finishes in a thoroughly earthy, spicy hoppiness, gently tonic water- or grapefruit-like but nowhere near as firm as one would expect from a beer calling itself ’double IPA’; retronasally, I get notes of citrus peel and even some very subtle pine, but not enough to save the day. Caramelly malt ’juiciness’ comes through, accompanied by the earthy hop bitterness. France is slowly becoming aware of the craft beer revolution - but very slowly indeed; if even Thiriez is uncapable of evoking the American IPA experience, then who remains? This is not a DIPA: this is a Belgian IPA at best, in other words: a tripel adorned with far too moderately applied American hoppiness. Bittering, sure, but where are the New World hop effects in the nose and what is that truckload of isoamylacetate (banana) doing here? Reminds me a bit of Brabant’s Plato’s Cave, but less daring and way too ’Belgian’ to qualify as a DIPA. By itself not a bad beer by any means, but I expected something way more American so in that sense, a bit of a disappointment. Regard this as a ’Belgian IPA’ and you’ll enjoy this a lot more, I think.

330ml bottle bought @Johnny’s Off License (Rome). Pours deep golden/light amber with a medium and persistent off-white head. Aroma is malty, sugary, resin, pine, citrus. Flavour has a strong malt profile with a decent bitter end, a bit unbalanced. Medium body, light carbonation. No.

Sampled from 0.75 l bottle at Borresteijn’s place. Slightly hazy, straw yellow with a white head. Sourish-fruity, slightly funky aroma of lemon, gooseberry, white grapes, oak and hints of glue. Sweetish-sourish, fruity and slightly funky taste of lemon, rhubarb, gooseberry, oak and some leather, followed by a medium long, dry and tart finish. Thin to medium body, spritzy and moderately astringent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Very nice!

Bottle at tasting. Big explosive gusher, sorry for your kitchen tiles Borresteijn. Aroma of funk, horseblanket and old grain. Taste of sour grain, horseblanket, oak, some lacto and nice funk. Nice wild beer.

75cl Bottle. Major kitchen redecorator gusher. Hazy golden colour, white head. Aroma of deodorant, Brett, lemons, wood, funk. Flavour follows, nice but a bit too soapy. Light to medium bodied.