Draft @ Brouwbar. Hazy yellow colour, white foam. Very nice aroma of tropical fruit, mango, pine. Body is rather thin, citrussy, light bready notes. Good.

26 April 2018. From tap at Brouwbar. Sample 2/6. Shared with Anke.
Pours clear golden with a lasting, frothy, off-white head; little lacing. The aroma contains grapefruit, mango, fruity hops, grass, some spruce, biscuit malt. It tastes light to medium hoppy bitter, a bit piney & grassy, backed by a medium fruity & malty sweetness. Dry, hoppy, bittersweet finish. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. A new and modern brewery needs a modern IPA, and they succeeded at that.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Brouwbar I02 IPA (by Brouwbar):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5

9/II/18 - 33cl bottle from Brouwbar (Ghent) @ home - BB: n/a, first batch (2018-153)

Clear red orange to amber beer, small creamy irregular off-white head, pretty stable, little adhesive. Aroma: yes, that's the sweet spot! Lovely mix of tropical fruits and citrus, grapefruit, mango, peaches, some caramel malts. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: some caramel, sweet malts up front, little sourish, fruity, rather sweet and sugary. Aftertaste: sweet and malty, bit of banana, not bitter at all, some grains, cow fodder, more banana. Was rather disappointing, such a good smell, but the flavour was lacking. Could use more bitterness and maybe a more neutral yeast?

A modern, young, craft-oriented new brewpub in Ghent naturally needs an IPA... Tasted from tap as part of a tasting flight but afterwards in full 33 cl form as well. Irregularly lacing, off-white, moussy, well-retaining head, hazy orangey peach blonde robe. Aroma strikes with a big wave of sweet fruitiness: mandarin juice, fresh blood orange, ripe mango, tangerine, thickly spread over a layer of pleasant biscuit and freshly baked cookies, with subtler hints of honey, sweet tropical flowers, marmelade and fennel seed. Cleanly fruity onset, sweet notes of mango, yellow kiwi, sweet oranges and melon, with a very light sourish accent; medium carbonation, with a very smooth, slick, bit oily mouthfeel. Pleasant sweet biscuity and dry cookie-ish malt middle, caramelly and very supple, but strangely, the finish remains primarily sweet, with marmelade- and mango chutney-like impressions; the expected hop bitterness remains very limited, with a somewhat thin ending as a result. Very elegant and pleasant beer for sure, highly aromatic in a sweet, orangey way, implicitly NEIPA-inspired (when is this craze going to end?) but lacking in creaminess to qualify as one. I, for one, still prefer classic West Coast bitterness over that fruit juice hype, and I believe that this little IPA would benefit from more actual bitterness. Other than that: completely flawless from a technical viewpoint, like all Brouwbar's first try-outs - and in that sense highly stimulating to keep following their works.