6.9

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

Bottle at home. Pours deep golden/orange with thick and huge white head. Nose is thaz of a classic Belgian, yeasty and fruity, In taste the Belgian character appears first too, and closes with some definite, but not quite pronounced hoppy bitterness. Has light body and extremely lively carbonation, hence initially not quite easy to drink. Not bad by far, but more I would've liked more IPA notes.

7.5

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

kolejny polski craft. Dzis wielkie i minimalistyczne testowanie. IPA w stylu belgijskim. nawet fajna, choc dobrze nachmielona nie doszukalem sie chmielu z Poppering. Tresciwe smaczne, uniwersalne w laczeniu z jedzeniem. Tyle powiem bo mam dzis zachmielony jezyk juz.

7.1

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

Keg at Jabeerwocky, Warsaw. Hazy orange colour, small head. Marmeladey nose. Mid sweet with medium to full body and rounded mouthfeel. Fruity with grapefruit and seville orange. Mid bitter finish.

5.6

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Butelka, niedługo przed terminem. Pomarańczowo-złote, lekko opalizuje. Piana licha. Fenolowo-przyprawowe, trochę owocowości - stereotypowy belg. W smaku dość słodkie, goryczka łodygowa, trochę zalega. Nie mój styl...

7.2

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

(tap 0,3l @ JBM (Brno)) Overall: Good, fruity-citrusy-piny and bitter.
Aroma: Fruity, pine, light yeasts.
Appearance: Hazy golden. Medium, white head.
Taste: Tropical fruits, citrusy, medium sweet, medium bitter.
Palate: Medium body. Bitter finish.

BL. Oj pilem to kuzwa, gupi UT

6.9

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

On tap at Kufle i Kapsle, pours a hazy blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out lots of Belgian yeast, along with citrus hops, and some pithy fruitiness. Flavour is along the same lines, marrying the Belgian yeast and citrus hops pretty well. A bit perfumey and floral, but it works decently.

7

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

500 ml. Bottle @ Gollem. Odd beer, lacks any distinct hop for the IPA description and there isn’t really anything that I would call Belgian to be found here. It is BBF 04.11.17 so it isn’t past BBF but it feels like age might be at play here. The profile that you get is a quite weird one. Dark ruby amber, big solid creamy white head. Nose is dark bread, raisin, dried dark fruit, sweet spice, caramel, red fruit, big on the bread, odd,… Taste is weird milky, very grainy, candy, sweet cherry, caramel, little hop big caramel & dried bread,.. Thin empty caramel, hollow body,… Peculiar not bad but not what you seek in a hoppy beer. Drinks okay but I assume age played a part here, date better.

6.8

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

Botled. A hazy golden beer with a beige head. The aroma has notes of malt, oranges, hops, and spices. The flavor is sweet with notes of oranges, malt, and hops, leading to a bitter finish.

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Polish "new wave Belgian IPA" hopped with Citra, Mosaic, Simcoe and Chinook - sounds more American than Belgian to me, but we’ll see. Medium sized, regular, egg-white head consisting of a steady moussy rim and some flat islands in the middle, on top of a misty, warm ’old gold’ coloured beer with pale orange hue, turning a warmer, deeper peachy orange with sediment. Indeed ’tropical’, lush and rather dank bouquet of tangelo, ripe peaches, cedar oil, mango, honey, apple banana, sapodilla, hint of stale ’old hops’ urine, sweet onions and shallots, ponderosa pine, white bread dough, ripe pear, freshly cut grass, minerals, unripe strawberry, moist white pepper, rainwater, raw carrot. Juicy, vividly and generously fruity onset, a rich basket of blood orange, mandarin, apple banana, peach, mango and sapodilla, some underlying passion fruit-ish sourishness but mostly explicitly sweet, orange juice-like, with lots of residual sugariness, even sticking to the teeth a bit; carbonation is spritzy in a ’good’, refined kind of way, mouthfeel is smooth, full and a bit oily. The residual sugary sweetness stretches out over the middle, lending a honeyish feel to an already sweet caramelly malt backbone with a light breadiness to it, but eventually blends in with the hop bitterness that comes to full fruition in the finish, depositing a resinous, spicy, very grapefruity bitterness on the back of the tongue, whilst releasing retronasal aromas of citrus peel and flesh, sweet tropical fruits, some pine and a toasted onion accent from (probably) the Simcoe. Ends as juicy as it began, with still that orange- or even marmelade-like sweetness being competently dried by the hop bitterness. Sweeter than expected, that is certain, perhaps tilted a tad too much to the sweet side, but in any case a very generously hopped, rich and utterly juicy IPA, style-wise situated somewhere in between the old West Coast IPA and the currently trendy New England IPA style - I guess the term ’international IPA’ is well at place here for those blurring the subtle substyle boundaries set out by the Americans, who, after all, invented this style, at least in its present-day form. Another living proof of the drive and creativity behind this new generation of Polish craft breweries that almost miraculously popped up in the past few years, but the question remains: why ’Belgian’? I guess they used a Belgian yeast strain, and there are indeed some familiar sweet Belgian blonde- or tripel-like traits to this beer, but the Belgian factor remains in the background, all things considered - and that is probably a good thing in this case, though I’d expect this factor to significantly increase with time, as the delicate American hop aromas fade and refermentation in the bottle progresses. In this young and fresh, I’d almost say ’enthusiastic’ form though, this is better than I expected. I need to get me more Rockmill beers!