New APA (or, as the brewery puts it, 'Transatlantic Pale Ale') by an inspiring new microbrewing project in the ‘Heirnis’ quarter of Ghent, can generously offered to me by Erwin P., cheers! Thick and foamy, egg-white, plaster-like lacing, irregularly edged head, clear orange-golden robe with lively sparkling, turning misty and deeper peachy-orange with sediment. Aroma of (old) dried orange peel, dry biscuit, stewed red onion, dust, bread crust, field flowers, old cotton rope, crackers, paprika powder, rose petals. Dryishly fruity onset, dried apricot and a dash of dried apple peel, fizzy carbonation with slender but sufficiently full mouthfeel; dry bread-crusty and old-cracker-like malts quickly superseded by a firm, citrus pith- and wormwood leaf-like hop bitterness with a grapefruity aroma; ends dry, bitter and a bit ‘dusty’ and powdery, weirdly so for a young pale ale. Decent enough, basically a hop-forward Belgian blonde (and more or less intended as such) in a clean, ‘Americanized’ way, but a bit more New World hop aroma would have made it more enduring.

Golden colour with thin head. Pale malts and rounded hop bitterness. Light citrus. Some off notes, perhaps a touch diacetyl too.