Ipa Bakkes

Pours a hazed blonde. Taste is fairly intense bitter, pretty different to the NEIPA style I expected, but after all, this is a Hazy IPA, not a NEIPA. Pleasant citrus aroma, as well as a very malty base. Easy drinker, upper strength IPA.

9/II/22 - 33cl can from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ home, BB: XII/2022 (on the label), BB: 30/III/23 (on the can) (2022-150)

Clear orange blond beer, big creamy irregular white head, unstable, dissipates quickly, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of orange peel, yeasty, some banana, bit fruity, caramel malts. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter start, bit resinous, fruity notes, orange peel, some tropical fruits, rather sweet, sugary, caramel. Aftertaste: bitter, a little malty, orange peel, a bit oxidized, resinous hops, dry finish. Decent, but rather oxidized.

Kveik IPA with Centennial, Simcoe and Citra, by this rising star at the Antwerp craft brewing firmament, thanks to 77ships for sharing. Egg-white, rather thinnish and bubbly, moussy, dot-lacing head on a hazy apricot-tinged golden blonde beer. Aroma of moldy oranges, sweet onion, touch mango, stale sweat, ripe pear, old rusk, olive oil, apple juice hint. Cleanish fruity onset, pear and some mango with a dash of red apple and perhaps lychee thrown in, medium carbonated with supple body; bread-crusty, lightly biscuity maltiness, bittered by a medium long, citric and slightly dank hop bitterness, evoking impressions of dried orange peel, bitter kitchen herbs and green olives, stretching out over quite some distance but still remaining relatively gentle in actual bitterness. Supple, quite easygoing Belgian IPA that hides its alcohol well – there is way worse on the market here when it comes to IPAs.