Bottle at home from La Cave a Bulles, Paris, 28th December 19. Pours a great looking orange yellow, good white head. Aroma is tropical and fresh with bitter citrus, grapefruit and piney. Taste is resinous, tropical, fruity, pine, fresh, aromatic. Lovely DIPA from this brewery again.

The third one in what is apparently a growing series of DIPAs by this northern French microbrewer in the Roubaix region – hopped with Mosaic and Ekuanot. Thanks Jan for sharing at GIST. Thick, egg-white, mousy, lacing head, cloudy yolk-yellowish blonde robe. Aroma of old onions, stale sweat even, diesel but also yellow kiwi, mango, starfruit, bread crumbs. Sweetish onset, fizzy, light sourish note, dried mango and vague guava aspects, ripe pineapple perhaps, soft bread-pulpy body, a bit powdery from hop residue in this case and quickly soaked in mango-, pineapple- and strongly dank sweat- and onion-like New World hop aromas. The hops add a late peppery bitter note as well, while the alcohol remains very well hidden. Clearly aiming for Trillium or Tree House style DIPA, not quite getting there, but a very meritorious attempt nonetheless – never saw this coming from France, to be honest. Along with a few Popihn brews, the best French IPA I had so far.