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Collab of Dutch Frontaal with Frost Beer Works, a craft brewery in Vermont - seemingly to ensure NEIPA credibility... Can from BeerFreakChick, shared with my girlfriend. Eggshell-white, mousy, bit irregular, rather loosely structured, quickly opening and eventually all but vanishing head on a cloudy peach blonde beer with pale orangey glow. Aroma of lime zest, dry marijuana, green mango, diesel 'dankness', pink grapefruit juice, yellow curry, dried lemongrass, freshly cut Jalapeño peppers, lemon peel, papaja, bitter honey, maracuja, olive oil. Very juicy from the start, lots of sour and sweet fruitiness reminiscent of guava, starfruit and granadilla, medium to soft carb (still finely 'prickling' though); full and fluffy body, a tad oily. Sweetish middle, doughy 'soil' underneath impressions of Honeydew melon, passionfruit and papaja, with a ginger powder-like spiciness to it; tropical alright, but still maintaining a more zesty citrus peel effect as well, pomelo- and mandarin-like, even with some welcoming bitterness in the end, in itself fortified by a splash of warming but otherwise well-positioned, wodka-like alcohol. The big wave of tropical yet zesty fruitiness remains the main attraction here, and performs exceptionally well. Exemplary for a 'NEDIPA' - I can think of only very few other Dutch ones in this genre that are in the same league, and apparently the involvement of a Vermont brewery did have the desired effect of coming up with a very credible, elegant and powerful example of the style. The only thing that bothered me a little bit - as it does in many NEDIPAs, now that I come to think of it - was the lack of head retention, but maybe this is not an important feature of the style anymore to begin with, so I will not take this into consideration in my rating. In any case a truly beautiful beer, if this is the kind of style you are into.

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