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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Distance in Mind from NaparBCN 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Fruit IPA (sweet cherry and peach – a combination I have never seen in any IPA, or any beer, so far) made by the famed NaparBCN in collaboration with Belgian Hedonis. From tap at Gainsbar in Kortrijk. Creamy, egg-white, large-bubbled but well-retaining head lacing in irregular shreds over a murky, ruddy-hued bronze beer with deep orange-peachy hue. Aroma of overripe peaches indeed, sweet cherry as well but much less obviously so, dried orange peel, medlar, old biscuit, soggy bread, ripe pear, damp earth, cloves, bitter weeds, baker’s yeast, apple sauce. Fruity, estery onset with indeed a lot of ‘real’ fruitiness, again much more peach than sweet cherry, altogether sweet but not overly so; harsh, stinging carbonation, smooth malt sweet body, bready and biscuity in a ‘soggy’ kind of way, bit caramelly too. The sweet fruit continues well into the end without completely covering the malt sweetness, and gets countered there by an earthy, weedy hop bitterness reminiscent of bitter citrus peel and dried bitter herbs; meanwhile strong estery and even phenolic (clove) effects develop, with a very bready yeastiness softening the finish. Interesting beer, feeling very ‘Belgian’ in its overt yeastiness and at the same time very ‘un-Belgian’ in its combination of fruits and bitter hops; very distinct and original, while very drinkable and refreshing as well. I liked this a lot, even if it had apparently passed its prime already.
77ships (14506) reviewed Distance in Mind from NaparBCN 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft glass @ Spéciale Belge Taproom. Cherry & peach IPA apparently. Dark amber, creamy off-white head. Nose is lactose, sugar, sweet sugar & malty. Low iron, massively malty, like a very malty old school DIPA with dark bread, grain, caramel, lactose, fair but not really what it should be & the fruit is totally lost. Very malty body.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Distance in Mind from NaparBCN 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as NaparBCN / Hedonis Distance in Mind (by NaparBCN):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5
6/VII/18 - on tap @ DOK Brewing Company (Gent) during WC Football Belgium-Brasil - BB: n/a (2018-812)
Clear red amber beer, creamy small off)white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: some tropical fruits, pineapple, grapefruit, tangerines, hoppy, bit resinous. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter start, bit sweet, some caramel, malty, soft bitterness, fruity. Aftertaste: banana peel, some citrus, malty, caramel touch.