Crazy Diamond
Triggerfish Brewing in Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa 🇿🇦
IPA - Belgian Regular|
Score
6.88
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Crazy Diamond, the second collaboration between Andre De Beer and Eric van Heerden Stretches the boundaries of local craft beer. This Belgian Double IPA releases a taste explosion that has to be experienced. The Cullinan and Somerset West version should be tasted to understand the impact of the variations in process in the same recipe.
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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
keg at the brewery 2023 vintage (drunk 2025 )...copper thin tan lacing ...soft sweet caramel toffee fruit nose .juicy sweet caramel toffee fruit ..oily sweet caramel toffee malts 8.5
bottle at the brewery 2025 (same day Aug 29th )...dark amber ..thin tan lacing ..soft sweet caramel ..earthy fruit nose ..dark sweet earthy roast ..big rich sweet caramel toffee fruit 8.0
bottle at the brewery 2025 (same day Aug 29th )...dark amber ..thin tan lacing ..soft sweet caramel ..earthy fruit nose ..dark sweet earthy roast ..big rich sweet caramel toffee fruit 8.0
Tried
on 29 Aug 2025
at 13:01
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours hazy amber. Aroma is boozy, plums, toasted malts, sugars, sauerkraut. Body is heavy and strong, sweet and bitter and boozy, and well carbonated. Phenols and minerals and hops and pine and sugars. Not really Belgian, not really an IPA, but they are both there in a way. Works.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2018
at 20:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Thank you for sharing Yarric! 750 ml. bottle sampled @ "De grote Black Tuesday Tasting". Apparently insanely expensive, about € 30 !!!! Dark brown, little head. Nose is old pine resin, big caramel, overly sweet, coffee, awkward. Taste is pine resin, sugar, weird, coffee, dash mushroom, sugar, caramel, toffee,… Thick malty body. Hard to describe but very odd & I am not too crazy about this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2015
at 10:42
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Small yellowish head over hazy amber beer. Buttermilk, spoiled milk, spicy blossoms. Spoiled milk, milkchocolate, coffee with milkchocolate mixed. Well bodied and well-carbonated. Ugh... the nose was still allright, but once tasted...
Tried
on 15 Nov 2015
at 03:49