Bottle. Slightly golden color with white head. Aroma is fruity, a bit funky. Taste is fruity, estery. Medium carbonation. Ok, but quite weird.

Sampled @ Zythos Bier Festival 2017. Klare goldene Farbe. Geruch ist mild hopfig, grasig, Heu. Geschmack ist trocken zitronig hopfig, grasig, Citrusfrüchte.

At Zythos 2017. Pours clear golden. Aroma is sweaty socks, floral. Body is light, with some sweetness dominated by bitterness, lively carbonation. Herbal. Short palate. Okay.

Belgian IPA (I assume) from this new brewing project near Kortrijk. Very tightly ’paper lacing’, egg-white, dense and stable, moussy head over a clear deep and warm orange coloured beer with ’old gold’ tinge. Atypical but interesting aroma of old dried ginger, moist paprika crisps, jute bags, walnut, dry grapefruit zest, raw broccoli, beetroot juice, celeriac puree, wet straw, iron, rainwater, raw white mushrooms, yellow grapefruit peel, subtle hints of moist white pepper, mustard seed, fresh green seaweed, raw chicken, chalk cliffs, brown soap, cooked Brussels sprouts, fried eggs. Fruity onset, bit estery, very low in sweetness with only a slight hint of unripe fruit (peach, green banana) surrounded by a soft, ’dim’ but nevertheless quite vivid sourish accent, otherwise fairly neutral; minerally side effects join a certain, albeit very subtle umami presence (green olive in this case) well concealed in the background. Carbonation is on the fizzy side even for the intended style, bringing a lot of minerally effects; mouthfeel nonetheless stays fairly smooth and supple, but is a bit soapy as well. Nice cereally and almost ’freshly baked’ bready malt core carries the ’dry’ fruity esters to a refreshingly bittering finish, with generous herbal and mildly spicy, very leafy hop qualities including floral - if not ’rural’ - aromas being pushed upwards retronasally; a yeasty, bready aspect with slight phenolic aspects does join in, but remotely so. Juicy ’cereally’ malt sweetishness remains dominant with a very ’dry’ herbal hop bitter colour added to it. "This is not an IPA", the label literally says (translated and reinterpreted from French) and I get the idea of not following the American - or international - IPA craze, but I am a bit inclined to disagree with the brewery: this smells, looks and feels like an old English style IPA the way it was before the New World claimed the style... Sure, there are certain ’Belgian’ yeast aspects, but in comparison with many other new attempts at "IPA" (the way the traditional Belgian brewers see it), this one is aromatic, quenching and indeed ’honest’ all at once - in other words, committing itself to the very roots of the India pale ale style in its very core. If viewed that way, this is a very accomplished beer and so far the best I had from this interesting new project.

Pours rather unclear amber, very big white head. Smell is bit hoppy. Nice ambermalty background. Taste is decently bitter. nice crispy ambermalty. Very decent beer. i like drinkin’ this, I enjoy the taste, even the MF . But indeed, it is not an IPA. At least they’re honest, and I can see the clear comparency to the style ,as it is more hoppy than an amber ale.