Bottle from Daniels Drinkmarket, Tongeren. Hazy amber colour, white foam. Dull, dusty and soapy IPA, very light bitter, where are the hops?

Hazy golden with little white head. Aroma is pine cone slight sweet tropic fruit. No grapefruit. Some honey and toast. Taste is sweet honey with some bitter hops. Medium drinkable. Not overdone. Could be smoother but ok. Good. I somehow expected nonsense. The label didn't lie after all.

Bottle @ home shared with Joes. Hazy yellow golden color, full sized rough and bubbly white head. Aroma is malts, hops, a bit floral. Taste malts, hops, a bit grassy, then citrus, light citrus hop bitter. Body is average to decent, carbonation is medium to firm. Hmm not a big fan. Drinkable for sure and no flaws, but just a bit average.

New beer from De Bieradviseur, executed at the new Amburon brewery in Limburg. At tderoeck’s Belgian ticks tasting. Coarse, cobweb-lacing, egg-white, bubbly head, hazy peach blonde colour. Aroma of dried orange peel, baker’s yeast, some burnt rubber, orange juice accent, banana, cooked carrots, peach, pear and a hint of DMS. Fruity onset, sweet Belgian banana ester, peach and apple accents with a sourish edge, fizzy carbo, bready malt sweet basis with minerally and phenolic touches here and there, drying hop bitter finish, floral with a dash of citrus peel but not the lush ’citrussiness’ one expects from a beer dry-hopped with Amarillo; esters and phenols also interfere so this remains in all its aspects a ’Belgian IPA’: Belgian blonde or tripel being made hop-forward under influence of the global IPA craze. Could vastly improve with more Amarillo and a cleaner yeast profile, but enjoyable enough as it is.

Imported from my RateBeer account as No Nonsense IPA Dry-Hopped Amarillo (by Amburon Belgian Craftbrewery NV):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 9/20, MyTotalScore: 2.7/5

21/VII/17 - 33cl bottle from Willems (Grobbendonk), shared @ Belgian Ticks Tasting (home) - BB: 18/III/19 (2017-1077)

Clear orange beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: soapy, bit fruity, sweet, yeast. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet, little fruity, some citrus, bitter touch, very sugary, metallic bitterness. Aftertaste: little bitter, soapy, metallic, ripe banana, sugary, sweet, marzipan. By no means does this classify as an IPA. Where are all the hop aromas? Especially while drinking all these Belgian styles, an IPA should really jump out, but this one... doesn't. Too bad, disappointment in a bottle. :-(

Thank you tderoeck! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ “Belgian Ticks Tasting Ghent”. Clear golden, creamy small white collapsing bubbles. Nose is sweet oily, overly sweet malty, stone fruit, weak, oily, flat,.. Far too high carbonation,… Basic yeasty, sweet dough, stone fruit, very low hop, chemical, sweet, sugar, yeast, stone fruit, oily,… Not a good IPA but not the worst, drinkable, sweet oily stone floor & low raw dough,… These BE attempts at USA hoppy beers remain depressing.

Pours rather unclear blonde, small white head. Smell is not fresh at all. To much malty notes, yeasty, not very natural. No hops at all. Taste is full, mild bitterness. Hidden hoparoma. Very yeasty. Some malts as well. Not nearly enough hops to be called IPA. Can’t we just make an agreement about not calling stuff like this an IPA , Belgian brewers ? That’d be great...

Glass at 24 uurs van Maastricht 2017: Orange beer. Aroma is citrus, hops. Taste is the same, bitter, nice one.