8.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8.5

From a 473ml can on 10/8/2025. Pours a clear deep golden with a medium head. Has a delightful caramel pine hoppy nose that tends only to be found in genuine US WC IPAs. As you'd expect from the size, it's sweetish, with orange marmalade, caramel and toast, which is met by a big, lingering pine-resin bitterness. Has a slick, slightly oily mouthfeel and moderate carbonation. A complex and very satisfying very big IPA.

Bottle at Goblet Zagreb, shared with a buncha special people giddy to try a 9 year old Triple IPA (marked 11/23/15). Poured a dark brown body. some head actually. Huge, rough oxidation in the aroma - dust, cardboard, some herbal notes. Raisins in the dusty, cardboardy taste, rough herbal notes. Yeah... had worse beers that were actually within BB date, but not many. If I can tick it without scoring it here, fantastic, if not, well... I clearly need to rerate it.

10

Let’s go gypsy king!

8

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

Pretty good beer, nothing super special but solid. Aromas are wet grain, wet hops, a touch of resin and a little weed. Flavors are similar to nose, with really good balance between sweet, bitter and carbonation. Full-bodied and finish is on the bitter side. Alcohol is very well hidden.

8

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

Bottled. Golden colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is pine, citrus, nectar and some slight caramel malts with a bit toffeeish sweetness too. Flavour has the same elements, but also some alcohol and ripe fruits to it. Sweetish, and actually nicely bitter too.

7.8

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

Early rating from Beer Buddy app

7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Deep golden colour with thin creamy head. Aroma and flavour have loads of hop notes with skunky and piney elements laid up next to citrus peel and tropical fruit juice.

7.6

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

Bottle picked up from Beer Republic, webshop, Breda, Netherlands and consumed at home Sunday 26th April 2020 at home Attenkirchen on another wonderful glorious day, once again wall to wall sunshine, day 40 of lockdown :-(. Cooking outside again, and we're having Chorizo and Fish Stew, we're listening to Stuart Maconie Freak Zone on 6Music. Pours hazy amber with a white head. Pine resin and orange peel combination on the nose. Citrus in the mouth, but also pine, quite sweet with a big maltiness. Good.

8.4

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Ultra juicy. Can’t feel booze. Bit scary. Bitter resinous hoppiness. Light funk and some kind of creaminess. Good stuff.