NI33 New England IPA
Brouwbar in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
7.19
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed NI33 New England IPA from Brouwbar 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
The third version of Brouwbar's New England IPA, a bit stronger than the previous ones, with Ekuanot joining in the hops department; tasted at Brouwbar during the local Patersholfeesten. Thick and frothy, creamy, egg-white, papery lacing, very stable head, hazy yellow blonde with pale apricot tinge. Aroma of green kiwi, ripe mango, starfruit, pineapple, dough, pomelo, lime zest, cream. Fruity onset in a clean way, hints of kiwi, mango and pineapple returning, sharply carbonated (even a bit numbing so a bit much for the intended style, with some minerally side effects); soft doughy malt base, restrained in sweetness, soaked in very juicy, zesty aromatic hops, bringing back the mango, green kiwi and pomelo aspects retronasally, while adding as good as no real bitterness; ends lightly creamy, fruity-hoppy and juicy with a very light spicy touch. Seems a bit cleaner and less exuberant than the two previous versions in spite of containing more hop varieties; a bit overcarbonated as well, so in all, strangely a little bit less NEIPA-like than NI08 and NI18, but the differences are small (I'm nitpicking here) and this third rendition sure is an accomplished IPA by this brewpub once again. Will revisit - and likely re-rate - next time at Brouwbar, too, because tasting circumstances were not ideal (plastic cups!) and I may have missed a nuance or two; so take this rating as a provisional one.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed NI33 New England IPA from Brouwbar 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brouwbar NI33 New England IPA (by Brouwbar):
Aroma: 10/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5
9/VIII/19 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a - (2019-1159)
Little cloudy to light yellow beer, big solid creamy yellowish head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: oh boy, super fruity, lots of tropical fruits, pineapple and passion fruits, some citrus, lovely. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice bitter start, some grapefruit, tropical fruits, citrus notes, hoppy, some passion fruits, little malty. Aftertaste: hoppy, some overripe fruits, some papaya, dry, bitter, grassy, pretty herbal, not as fruity as in the nose, some passion fruits, decent one, was expecting more due to the aroma though. ;-)