K - Hop Session
Brasserie Epik in Lustin, Namur, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
6.74
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6.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Session IPA (or IPA 'tout court' - the word 'session' in its name creates confusion in any case) by a local new brewer in the Namur province of Wallonia. Snow white, thick, moussy, large-bubbled head on a cloudy apricot blonde beer with beige-ish tinge. Aroma of dried grapefruit peel, old bread crust, dried lemon thyme, wormwood, old urine hint, dry earth, old crumbling lemon cake, clay. Quite crisp, fruity onset, hints of banana peel and dried apricot, some oxidized apple slice, not sweet though; spritzy carbonation accompanying a bread-crusty, old rusk-like, cereally maltiness bittered by old grapefruit peel, wormwood leaf and dried bitter dandelion effects, mingling with phenolic spiciness and lots of bready yeastiness. The hop bitterness, in an earthy, grassy way, prevails in the end - but as is so often the case in Belgium, it has apparently not been well understood that a lot of hop bitterness does not magically turn a blonde or tripel into an IPA of any kind... By itself not an unpleasant beer, if you like them a bit messy, bready and bitter with lots of Belgian yeast spiciness, but clearly less successful in its IPA intentions.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2021
at 14:57