Bottle, BB 20.01.2017 (thanks BlazerT!). Pours amber with huge whiteish head. The head stays. Aroma is fruity, citrus, some apricots, Belgian yeast. Flavor is sweet and bitter, citrus, grapefruit, slight apricots, caramel, some sugar. Finish is dry-grapefruit bitter with sweet notes. Alcohol is mostly covered. Overall: very good.

Hybrid of Belgian tripel and American IPA - effectively resulting in what I tend to categorize as Belgian IPA - from a craft brewery in Poznan, bottle obtained from a trade, cheers Kamil! Cobweb-lacing, irregular, egg-white, bubbly head with good retention, only very slowly breaking open in the middle after a while; misty peach blonde robe with warm orange hue. Aroma of apricot, cooked carrot, mashed potato, camomile, coriander seed, hint of dried lavender, soap, faint bubblegum, melilot, orange peel oil, pear, volatile but inexpected ’heavy’ sweet odour of honey or even honey liqueur piercing through upon closer inspection, old ’jenever’, banana peel, very old cloves, soggy bread. Estery-fruity onset, coming across as very ’Belgian’ indeed, with hints of peach, gooseberry and banana, sourish and sweetish well in balance with the banana ester that remains restricted to an accent rather than the dominating factor; minerally accents everywhere, as in sparkling water, accompanying a finely tingling, sparkling but not exaggeratedly fizzy carbonation. Slick, supple but ’full’ mouthfeel, juicy malt sweet middle with lingering fruit esters and residual white candi sugar on top as well as growing spicy phenols, in its basic character pleasantly bready with a caramelly edge. In the finish, the spicy phenols reach their full strength, overseeing a deep yeasty and hoppy earthiness, drying, gently but adequately bittering with a spicy and resinous tonic-water like, long-lasting character at the back. Warming ’jenever’-like alcohol accompanies the tail and the hops produce some retronasal floral and leafy hints. Earthy bitterness dominates after swallowing, but the fruity and malty sweetishness is there to balance it. Ever since Belgium allowed the international - or rather, at least in origin, American - ’hop forward’ trend to seep into its mainstream beers, a lot of these hoppy tripels have arisen, some of them more tilted to the international IPA style, others remaining firmly rooted in the earthy, yeasty Belgian ale traditions. This one well understands this contrast: I would not go as far as to call it even partially American IPA, but it does have the same earthy, deep, resinous, noble hop bitterness as many of the Belgian examples in this new substyle of ’Belgian IPA’ if you can call it that (I’d rather opt for ’IPA-influenced tripel’, but that admittedly sounds less practical). If this one were to be put alongside, say, Gouden Carolus Hopsinjoor, Houblon Chouffe, Urthel Hop-It and many of the more local ’Belgian IPAs’, I would have easily been fooled into thinking this is a Belgian beer so in that sense: mission accomplished. I think this beer is best regarded as a Polish tripel rather than anything truly IPA-like but whether you like hopped-up Belgian tripels or not, this one sure does a good job at it, though it could perhaps do with a bit less of the yeasty phenols, which seem to overpower the noble hop aromas from time to time. Being Belgian, I can only say that this is at least a very credible beer. Na zdrowie!

Bottle courtesy of rlgk. Pours hazy orange with a frothy goldenish white head that leaves some sticky lacing on the glass. Smell is slightly fruity and tiny earthy with crackers, grapefruit, pineapple, pears, hay, pepper corns, minerals and lemon zest. Taste is bitter, fruity, tiny grassy and tiny spicy. Mouthfeel is slightly dry, sparkling, round, tiny boozy and medium bodied. Finish is bitter with crackers, pears, tropical fruits, hay, dry soil, minerals, pepper corns and lemon zest. Strong Belgian IPA. Quite nice! --- Beer merged from original tick of Szczun on 15 Sep 2016 at 13:47 - Score: 7. Original review text: Backlog. Fairly cool Belgian IPA.

Bottle at home. Semi-hazy orange pour with a tall off-white head. Notes of yeast, dark fruit oxidation, dried fruit, honey. Not much American IPA going on in here, and it’s not much of a tripel either, more like a Belgian pale ale. Medium body, medium to high carbonation and a bitter-sweet (mostly sweet) aftertaste.

Pours unclear orange. Good white head. Smell is full, fruity ( orange-style hoppyness ) Taste is nicely bitter. The back sure is Tripel-like ! very yeasty. However, the front taste is all aromatic and bitter hoppyness. It’s weird how one style goes over into the other, it’s not a blend like chouffe houblon is. this is more like a 1-sip-2-beers kinda thing. very fun one to try.

Cheers Mat: 14th June 2016, 500ml bottle at the Shrewsbury Beer Share. One of the best beers I have had so far from Poland (all been mostly lager based brews) and a real surprise when tasting it. Off-white head above the misty orange bodied brew, the nose a spicy orange affair with floral notes, the taste similar and with a bite to it. Good body depth too: impressed.

Orange yellow with little white head. Aroma is peach, orange, floral hops, bubblegum. Taste is a little fruity sweetness and slight bitterness. Heavy mouthfeel, overall ok.

Bottle. Hazy orange color with white head. Aroma is fussle oils, peach, apricot. Taste is boozy, estery, peach, apricot. Quite dirty, but not bad. Not too sweet.

Bottle. Cloudy orange, offwhite head. Fresh lemony salty hop aroma. Medium body, coats the tongue. Sweet fermenting orange peel, some esters, somewhat fresh funk, light spice, nice hoppiness in the finish. A bit dirty, but overal really well balanced funky fun.