7.8

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

NEIPA by this Dutch champion of IPAs (to my taste at least) and one of Holland’s foremost craft breweries in general. Thanks to Craftmember for sharing the can. Egg-white, cobweb-lacing, mousy, even creamy head, resting stable over a cloudy apricot blonde beer with deeper orangey tinge. Aroma of mango purée, tangerine, granadilla, guava, yellow kiwi, milk, dough, pineapple juice. Colourfully hoppy-fruity onset, lots of kiwi, mango and tangerine, medium carb, soft doughy core, somewhat creamy mouthfeel as it ought to be in this style; lots of vibrant, fresh (‘non-dank’) tropical hoppiness, passionfruit, mango, papaja and citrus (mandarin), with a light spicy bitter note in the end – yet no hop burn. Perfectly measured, elegant, completely flawless NEIPA – if they are like this, I can certainly appreciate a modern hazy IPA in spite of my nostalgic love for bitter and clean West Coast IPAs.

6.6

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Can at home. Ugly murky orange color, average sized white head. Aroma and flavor are lightly malts, hops, a bit sweetish, some tropical fruit notes, some orangepeel. Decent.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

0.44 l can from a trade with markoijelena (thank you Marko!), canned in October 2020. Hazy, amber with a medium large, frothy, almost stable, white head. Sweetish, intensely fruity and a little dank aroma of mango, green peppers, lychee and pineapple. Gently sweet, very fruity, fairly juicy taste of mango, pineapple and passion fruit, followed by a short, minimally bitter, a little dank finish. Full body, smooth and creamy mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Very thick and pleasant NEIPA, really fruity and juicy, quite good!

8.5

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

13/XII/20 - 44cl can from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ home, BB: 29/VII/21, canned: 29/X/20 (2020-1124)

Pretty cloudy orange blond beer, small creamy white head, little stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: some mango, vanilla touch, tropical fruits, little malty. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty, some mango, papaya, grapefruit bitterness, sweet touch, bit dry. Aftertaste: pretty bitter, fruity, sweet touch, fruity, grapefruit, hint of kiwi, bit spicy finish, very decent.

7.8

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

Very hazy golden light orange with a small off white head. Aroma of dank hops , citrus and tropical fruits. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can. Hazy orange pour. Aroma of sweet orange, passion fruit, pineapple, mango, oat and bready malt. Taste has oat, creamy orange, pineapple, juicy mango, bready malt and some skunk. Very typical neipa, doesn't stand out in any way, but not bad either.

8

Ruikt vers, smaakt vers. "Dank", hoppig, tikkie harsig. Lekker!

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can. Mango juice color. Mango and soft yeasty herbal notes in the aroma and flavor. Sweet. Hopbitter finish. Juicy.