Fugushima

Goudgeel bier met schuim wat snel wegzakt. Smaak is bitterzoet met iets van mango, ananas, sinaasappel en wat honing. Degelijk bier.

pours hazy, fruitjuice-lookin blonde. Medium sized white head. Scent is expressive, fresh and summery, tropical fruits by the hops, classic NE style yeast. This surpasses expectations ! Taste is full, mild bitterness, very malty back, creamy MF. Summery, tropical, slightly citrus hops. Finally, a true NEIPA style brewed in BE (one of the few!) . Might be a bit fast-fading to international standards, but for national competitions, this can be put with the best ones ! promissing, and by far the best out of the 3 first beers I've tried by them.

Hazy milky blond colour, white foam. Hoppy, lots of citrus, oranges, some floral notes. Rather sweet, little bitter finish.

33cl can @ Planchette, Etterbeek. BB 2/4/2023.
Couleur pâle léger voile paille, col épais blanc-cassé, crémeux tenace.
Arôme est frais, belle dose de houblons sans partir dans tous les sens - ici deux bases Citra et Simoe suffisent pour apporter de fines effluves d'agrumes et de pin, léger rétro terreux/herbacé avec une base de malts qui perce en rétro-nasal, apportant de fait, la base suffisante pour un bon équilibre.
Palais est plaisant, une IPA de bonne facture surfant sur la vague 'hazy' sans pour cela submerger le palais. Le tout garde un bel apport des houblons - pas mal d'agrumes auxquels se prêtent de fines notes de pin du Simcoe. C'est assez bien ficelé, et rappelle des classiques de la côte ouest.

Sample at Zythos 2022, light golden beer, small head. Aroma is citrus, hops, fruit. Taste is the same, bitter, citrus, lemon. Nice

Bière 33 cl bue au Tea Late à Liège. Robe dorée peu trouble, sna strand intérêt. Nez houblon et notes de miel. Bouche sur les fruits exotiques, pamplemousse, mangue. Sympa mais les saveurs pourraient être plus intenses.

33cl can from Carrefour market LA CHASSE (BRUSSEL). F: medium, white, average retention. C: pale gold, milky hazy. A: rich citrus, grapefruits, yellow tropical fruits, bit passion fruits, bit onion effect, spicy. T: medium to full malty base, orange, grapefruits, bit onion, spicy, floral, pineapple, soft to medium carbonation, nice bitterness, good balanced beer, enjoyed for sure.

The first beer from a brand new brewing company in Brussels, only having started up this year - with a NEIPA, how times have changed... Very thick and dense, regularly shaped, egg-white, membrane-lacing, stable head over a hazy yellow blonde beer with somewhat khaki tinge. Powerful aroma of lime blossom and orange orchard, ripe papaya, grapefruit zest, green spring onion, wild garlic leaves, paprika powder, vague ginger, wet bread dough, milk, faint armpit sweat dankness, dried green olives, southernwood. Hop-fruity onset with some light esters mixed in, pear, rambutan, green mango, spritzy but fine-bubbled carbonation adding some light minerality but not getting too much in the way of a smooth, near-creamy mouthfeel, though perhaps feeling a tad on the thin side for ABV and style; silky, smooth doughy maltiness, a tad whole grain porrigde-like with a cereally edge, highly aromatized early on by an almost old-fashioned dose of strong Simcoe (spring onion, spices) and Citra (lime zest, pink grapefruit) reminding me more of the aromatic effects in a West Coast IPA than a true NEIPA. There is some peppery end bitterness, but I can feel that it has deliberately been kept limited to aim at a NEIPA effect - yet it is strong and long-lasting enough to confirm my West Coast-y feel about this one. This Fugushima certainly conveys a NEIPA experience in its looks, but on an aromatic and flavour level, I cannot shake that old school West Coast feel off - this beer feels like a NEIPA if it were made by Sierra Nevada, Stone or AleSmith. That said, I cannot deny that this is a damn fine American style IPA, with the Belgian idiom kept at bay - if present at all. If regarded this way, I must sincerely congratulate these Fugu guys (Nico and Sam) - so with the fish after which their company is likely named in mind, I am willing to take the risk and taste whatever beer they brew next, as one swallow does not make a spring.