6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

A clear deep golden beer with a big off white head. Aroma of mild resinous hops, oranges, pine. Taste of mild piney hops, oranges, herbs, high carbonation.

6.1

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Starke Karbonisierung. Bitterer, wenig karamelliger Hopfenbeginn. Moderate Süße, eher trocken, die starke Karbonisierung stört. Trocken, bitter, mittellanger Abgang. OK. 10/9/9/9/8/9

7.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours hazy golden with a thick white head. Aromas of caramel, light tropical fruit and citrus. Taste adds some spice. Dry finish.

6.9

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Deca nous propose avec cette Sir Grassshoper une IPA simple mais agréable qui fait le job. Le visuel est sur un blond doré limpide avec une effervescence moyennement soutenue avec de grosses bulles et une fort mousse blanc cassé crémeuse. Lez, sur une alliance de pamplemousse, de pomme et d'herbes avec une pointe d'ananas est appréciable. En bouche, si on peut regretter le peu de variation, l'amertumes est plaisante avec un bon équilibre avec la base maltée. L'alcool à 6,5 % accompagne bien l'ensemble. Simple mais efficace, cette IPA passe facilement.

6

Sweet, caramel, alcohol

5

Magus, mõru, kuiv, pärmine. Okish.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

330ml bottle from Deca Brewery. Hazed deep golden copper appearance, good white head. Decent IPA, crisp and hoppy with moderate spicy citrus. Not bad.

6.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Bottle at home. Clear golden color, medium sized white head. Aroma and flavor are lightly malts, some hops, lightly some notes of apples oddly enough. Mwah.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Dark blond colour with stable head. There's some bready malts. Slightly sweet. Subtly hopped. Quite rounded. Moderately bitter. Not bad.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Newish hoppy blonde by Deca with a fun label of anthropomorphic grasshopper – initially prompting me to think this was a new creation by Beerbugs in Limburg, but they already have a beer called Grasshopper, of course… Anyway, you do not see a new Deca beer every day, so I was curious for this one. Thick and sticky, egg-white, very dense and frothy, foamy, stable head on an initially clear, ‘metallic’ pale orangey-blonde robe, turning misty with sediment. Aroma of orange peel, dried rosemary, old biscuit, bread crust, moist white pepper, parsnip, fresh wormwood, dried apricot, grass, field flowers. Fruity onset but not too sweet or estery, hints of unripe peach and red apple, lively carbonated with quite pronounced minerality; supple, smooth body. Bread-crusty and slightly peanutty maltiness, lean with a slight cracker- or rusk-like edge, increasingly bittered by a spicy, rooty, softly but still convincingly quinine-like hoppiness, evoking wormwood, citrus pith and bitter weeds without becoming overly exuberant; lingering maltiness and fruitiness as well. Predictable, old school ‘Belgian IPA’ if this is a category that must have its own status – a category which, more accurately phrased, consists of hop-forward Belgian blondes and tripels, and that is exactly what this is, even if the yeast factor (which often sits in the way of the IPA intentions of this type of beers) has been kept well under control here and the hop bitterness is firm enough to evoke at least a very basic IPA association. In all, a very solid, enjoyable and well-crafted Belgian hoppy blonde rather than true IPA, but this is something I have absolutely nothing against.