Gylden brun klar med høyt offwhite skum. Lukter sitrus, fersken, sydhavsfrukter og animalsk lukt mot kjøtt. Middels fylde. Lett bitterhet, blomster, sitrus og noe fudge. Kort.

Jopen’s take on the modern IPA, from a bottle at Antwaerps Bierhuyske. Thick, dense, creamy, off-white, cobweb-lacing head over a misty peach blonde beer with ochre-ish tinge. Aroma is unfortunately incapacitated by an unmistakable bacterial infection, which - mixed with the Mosaic - results in impressions of sour oranges, wet earth or mud, dust, spoiled milk and egg yolk, through which the delicate mango- and passionfruit-like hops still pierce, but obviously this is not the way it was intended... Same for the taste: fruity and estery, more so than is acceptable for an IPA, hints of sour passionfruit, unripe gooseberries, fermenting apples and tangerine, spritzy carbo (too much so), very earthy yeastiness throughout, ’dirty’, over a bready malt sweetish middle - the sweetness evidently ruined by the sourness of the infection. Citrusy and mildly tropical aromatic hoppiness is still there in the end, but it too gets lost in this dirty, souring (even very lightly vinegary) infection effect. Too bad, Craftmember told me he drinks this regularly and deems it an excellent IPA, but in this condition, it is of course not representative for what it intends to be. I probably should not rate it because of the infection, but I have nothing else to base my opinion on so this rating is inherently biased - but I will certainly revisit this when I come across it in prime and uninfected condition.

Bottle at home, orange beer, small head. Aroma is citrus, hops, malt, grassy. Taste is the same, bitter dry, decent ipa