DI74 Double IPA
Brouwbar in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.38
|
|
nathanvc (6963) reviewed DI74 Double IPA from Brouwbar 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
19 March 2022. At Brouwbar. Shared with the lovely Anke!
Hazy dark orange, thin, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of grapefruit juice, pineapple, pear, apricot, biscuit, honey, pine perfume. Taste has sweet pear, orange & mango; bitter core of grapefruit & pine over biscuity, honeyish, slightly peanutty maltiness. Piney hoppy finish, grapefruity still, perfumey, malty yet equally bitter too, with a dash of warming gin-like alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Expressive yet balanced, very good, again.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed DI74 Double IPA from Brouwbar 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
28/I/22 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a (2022-112)
Clear orange blond beer, big creamy off-white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: nice, tropical fruits, bit malty. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice, very fruity, good bitterness, tropical fruits, mango, lovely. Aftertaste: nice bitterness, juicy, fruity, tropical fruits, nice one, I like it!
Alengrin (11609) reviewed DI74 Double IPA from Brouwbar 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
New variation in Brouwbar’s DIPA (and IIPA) venturings, from tap at the brewpub. Medium thick, moussy, irregularly lacing, egg-white, slowly opening head on a hazy deep orangey-peach blonde beer. Aroma of orange peel, pink grapefruit, marmalade, lime zest, guava, rosewater, biscuit, ripe peach, lychee, gin, rainwater in the background. Clean, rounded, sweetish onset, peach, orange and guava sensations, medium carbonated with supple but full, oily body; lovely clean and sleek biscuity maltiness with sweet caramelly edge, quickly taken over by a wave of well-measured, generous and expressive New World hoppiness, bringing a bitterness of orange pith and grapefruit juice with a hint of pink peppercorns, as well as retronasal aromas of lychee wine, guava, orange water and grapefruit blossoms. A warming, wodka-ish alcohol glow is noticeable in the end, but not to the point where it distracts from that lovely play of malts and hops. Again a very elegant DIPA, typical Brouwbar style, sleek and rounded without overstating anything; feels a bit West Coast-like but with light tropical notes – a ‘mountain DIPA’, one could tentatively argue. Easily drinkable in any case and one I will certainly revisit next time at Brouwbar.