Hazy orange colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have plenty of tropical fruit hop notes. Nicely dry in the finish.

16/06/2019 @home - 33cl bottle from Malt Attacks. Dark red, nice tanned head. Nose is bitter fruits, bit malts. Taste is bit sweet malts, bitter fruits, tropical fruits, bit oily. Nice bitterness.

I Draught /I Very good mango to cream head, stable, over fully hazy redbrown beer, textbook lace. Bit roasted, mix of milk- and bitter chocolate, cake, hops. Bitterish, faint roast, again quite chocolatey. Hops are there, but subdued. Medium bodied, somehow feeling thinner than it probably is; good carbonation, not visible. Not much IPA in character.

27 April 2019. At Zythos Bierfestival. Deputy Taster: Anke. Cheers to Ama Deke, Erwin, John & Meeki! Hazy red-brown, lasting, small, foamy, tan head. Aroma of walnut shell, pink grapefruit, orange peel, mocha, tea leaves, red grape, raisin, unripe strawberry. Taste is light fruity sweet, notes of raisin, orange & pink grapefruit, bordering on bitter, making way for hoppy notes of pine, grass, herbs & unripe mango, bready malts underneath. Dry, piney hoppy finish, lingering grapefruit peel & orange. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Interesting brew, nice balance between the components.

Red IPA by this new and progressive Walloon microbrewery, bottle from Etre Gourmet. Medium thick, paper-lacing, creamy, bit irregular, yellowish pale beige, closed head over a misty ruddy bronze beer with rusty-copper reddish hue but more looking brown than red generally speaking. Aroma of dry grapefruit peel, tonic water, roasted pine nuts, wet toast, dried wormwood, persimmon, barbecue spices, dry tree leaves, frying olive oil. Cleanly fruity onset, some background notes of unripe banana and hard pear, spritzy carbonation, slick oily mouthfeel; smooth, bit resinous nutty malt body, peanut and toast aspects with more bitterness than sweetness to it, yet still harbouring a softening bready edge. Hoppiness, though, comes up quickly, adding dried citrus peel and light pine aspects retronasally in a clean, ‘non-dank’ way, a tad earthy but most of all, powerfully bittering, with a dry, spicy effect. Hopped the ‘old school’ way, this is a credible and very pleasant example of the intended American style, even if it cannot hide just a little bit of ‘yeasty Belgianness’. Very enjoyable and much better in its respective style than the Carya from the same brewery I had the day before.

F: big, tan, good retention. C: dark coppery to brown, hazy. A: malty, caramel, biscuits, a lot of fresh tropical fruits, bit pine, bit passion fruits. T: solid malty backbone, caramel, biscuits, bit grapefruits, tropical fruits, bit pine resin, decent bitterness, relatively easy drinkable, very nice balanced and pleasant surprise from for me new brewery from Wallonia, really enjoyable, 33cl bottle from Malting Pot bottle shop in Brussels.

Draft @ BBP Beer X-mas Party. Léger orange, col épais crémeux blanc-cassé. Arôme est bien houblonné aux effluves arborants des notes d'agrumes, fruité moyen virant sur le tropical avec un petit bouquet rappelant le thé vert voire le jasmin. Allie bien les notes de malt type ambre et caramel. Palais est finement fruité sur les agrumes - pointe tropicale avec qcq notes de pamplemousse. Malt rappelant le Vienna, crystal ou ambre laissant un fini un peu grain.