8

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

bottle@home. Blond/gold, nice white head. Nose: citrus, flowers, some sweetness. Very smooth and balanced (dry/bitter/sweet) in taste. Finish with plesant hops. I like it!

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle at home ... golden amber ... big white head .. soft zezty peppery orange fruit nose ... juicy fruits ... big orange .. peppery fruit .. juicy peppery orange .. dry finish .. but big fruit

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Deca, Woesten, Flanders, consumed at home Easter Sunday 16th April 2017 after Day 3 of another hard days pond building. We’re now cooking Minced Beef and cheese Pies (we’ve used Soya mince) for our American visitors on Tuesday Hazy grubby gold with a white filmy head, a touch of soapy, perfumey, aromatic but punchy hops on a typically Belgian yeasty spicey beer. It’s fruity, soft in the mouth, a touch dry, it’s good, Belgian IPA. A7 A3 T7 P4 Ov15 3.6

7.5

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

Bottle from Deca and drunk at home. Hazy gold lasting white head. Sherbet hoppy aroma. Light citrus and grapefruit aroma. Light in the malts. Good hops. Some sherbet on the finish. Utterly drinkable. The bottle disappeared very quickly. Some tangerine. Excellent.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Belgian style IPA from De Landing in collaboration with Bier & Karakter, bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck. Regularly shaped, medium thick, dense, egg-white, stable head, slowly thinning in the middle but leaving behind a papery, continuous pattern of lacing; hazy yellow blonde with warm ’old gold’ hue and strings of lively bubbles. Fascinating aroma of granadilla, moldy yellow grapefruit, sweaty feet (sorry), abbey cheese, green banana, valerian, stewed rhubarb, pineapple, white bread, withering basil, Cantaloupe, crackers, mandarin, damp hay, minerals, tonic water, honey, mirabelle plum, iron. Fruity onset, lots of pear and pineapple, some peach, sweet with a confident souring edge of gooseberry and starfruit, minerally side notes, medium carbo, full and smooth, slightly buttery mouthfeel. Creamy malt sweetness underneath, bit cereally but smooth and pleasant, carrying the fruit onwards to an aromatically hoppy finish, some phenols here and there but mostly a very grapefruity, even slightly passion-fruit like retronasal hop fragrance, paired with a firm, but not overly harsh, long-stretched, peppery and tonic water-like bitterness drying the tail; the valeric acid which is so clearly present in the nose, does not return, fortunately. A vague hint of calvados-like alcohol is noticeable too but stays very well hidden. Belgian IPA is most often a hybrid of classic Belgian blonde or tripel on the one hand and true IPA on the other hand, usually because brewers here do not dare to go as far as to brew a full-fledged modern Anglo-Saxon IPA, or do not know how to. This one, compared with many others, is closer to the Anglo-Saxon end of the spectrum than to the traditionally Belgian end. We need more daring beers like this if we want to connect with the international beer scene, rather than remaining stuck in 20th-century chauvinism. Apart from the very clear valeric acid aspects in the nose (sweaty feet and stinky cheese, in this case doubtlessly coming from old hops), I can appreciate this effort a lot, if only for its stylistic premise. I’d love to taste this without that valeric acid, though: doubtlessly this must be a masterpiece then, certainly to national standards.

6

Bier van de maand. Blond, bitter, droog. Banaan, perzik op achtergrond. Zeer bijzondere smaak waaraan je moet wennen. Toch verrassend lekker

7.8

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

15/10/2016 - sample from bottle @ Bles Bierhappening. Hazy light yellow, nice white head. Nose is fruty, bitter hops. Taste is exotic fruits, some citrus, nice bitter ending.

7.8

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

F: big, white, good retention. C: yellow to pale gold, hazy. A: citrus, lemon, a lot of tropical fruits, passion fruits, orange juice, hint of yeast. T: malt, citrus, orange, passion fruits, tropical fruits, medium body, good carbonation, very good balanced Belgian IPA, sample @ Zottegem Beerfestival 2016.

8.5

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

Imported from my RateBeer account as Bier & Karakter / Brouwerij De Landing XXV (by Bier & Karakter):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 18/20, MyTotalScore: 4.3/5

7/X/16 - 33cl bottle from the honorary party pig :p @ home, BB: 3/IX/19 (2016-1214) Thanks to PriorL for the bottle!

Little hazy dark blond to orange beer, creamy white head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: citrus, lots of grapefruit, pineapple, some oranges, passion fruit, well done! I'm impressed already. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very fruity start, pineapple, grapefruit, soft bitterness, citrus, very nice. Aftertaste: grapefruit, pineapple, bitter, very fruity. Very well done!