7.6

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

33cl can from AbeerVinum, Rimini, Italy. Pours dark orange gold, fairly hazy, with fine white foam. Aroma is fruity and citrus, spicy and dank. Body is partially dense, with average carbonation. Taste is medium-high bitter, but with a nice dose of sweetness behind. Final is average and still with an intense aromatic profile.

5.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Smell- weak malt, caramel, hops, weak gasoline. Foam- weak hops, bitter tones, malt, burned sugar. Head is medium to large, and white in color. Sticks. Appearance- generic yellow bottle cap, cool label. Cloudy orange in color, no carbonation. From - pint Taste - weak hops, weak burned sugar, gasoline, and alcohol in the mix. Bit boozy on the back.

6

33cl bottle. A hazy yellow golden beer with a white head. Aroma of herbs, yeast, belgian yeast, some mango. Taste of intense spicy hops, herbs, some juicy hops, yeast.

7.4

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

One of several ‘Hopnytized’ beers by Enigma, all hop-forward beers with somewhat psychedelic (or indeed ‘hypnotizing’) labels. Very thick, hops-enhanced, egg-white, foamy, cobweb-lacing head on a lightly misty, deep and pure golden beer with vaguely greenish tinge and strong visible sparkling. Aroma of straw, bitter honey, dried chamomile, white bread dough, raw potato peel, radish, honey, halfripe banana, clove, pumice, minerals. Green pear, unripe peach and a dash of banana peel in the onset, lively carbonated with thinly sourish undertone, over an arch of white-bready, slick-cereally malts towards a florally hoppy finish, where clove-like phenols and an eventually rooty, drying, straw- and white pepper-like hoppiness adds body and character. Indeed a very typical “Belgian IPA” – as in: compromise between Belgian blonde or tripel and ‘real’ IPA, which is kind of a compliment in this case because many intended Belgian IPAs have literally nothing IPA-like apart from the higher hop dosage. This one fits the style perfectly, a style I can sure appreciate every now and then if done right. Makes me even more curious for the other IPAs in this series: Enigma apparently has no problems adding yet another fine hoppy Belgian to the market, but can they tackle a true Anglo-Saxon style IPA too?

7

Too carbonated... After waltzing... A okay