3

Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 12

Turbeau IPA. Õlle on selline jook, et iga uus kord kui klaasi või pudeli suule tõstad, siis leiad midagi uut, sõltuvalt tuhandest-miljonist pisiasjast, mis hetke olukorda mõjutavad. Seega piirdun iga õlle juures selle tekstiga.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

33 cl. bottle @ Alcatraz Festival 2023. Hazy golden with a big white head. Malty yeasty aroma with some hops. Sweet taste with a sweet finish. To call it an IPA, even a Belgian IPA, is too much but it certainly is a tasty Belgian blonde.

5.2

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

Bottle shared, golden beer, small head. Large amount of floaty shit. Aroma is malt, sweet, hop. Taste is the same, sweer, bitter, weak

7.1

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

Franky De Smet-Van Damme, lead singer of the Belgian metal band Channel Zero, successfully launched his first 'own' beer a few years ago (I was not in the least impressed by it but many others apparently were) and has recently extended the range of his Turbeau brand into several other beers, including this IPA. Steinie bottle from Drankenhal Van Callenberge, not mentioning the actual brewery anywhere; considering that there seem to be both longneck and steinie bottles of this beer on the market, I am wildly guessing that the first come from BeerSelect and the latter still from Strubbe, who brewed his first beer as well (Turbeau Noir) - so if this is correct, I can understand why the brewery is not disclosed, and I am the lucky one with the Strubbe version here in front of me... The Strubbe version seems to have preceded the BeerSelect version, from what I can find. Thick and frothy, snow white, intricately cobweb-lacing, rocky head, resting stable on an initially lightly misty yellow-golden blonde beer with dispersed dark yeast dots - usually not a good sign for anything with 'IPA' on its label; shifts to a deeper and hazy peach blonde further on (with even more visible yeast - a 'soup' effect, so to speak). Aroma of soggy old bread, raw potato, banana peel, cooked turnip, cold chamomile tea, clove, withering grass, moist white pepper, damp earth, apple peel and a very volatile solventy component (floor polish or something) which luckily vanished into thin air as quickly as it arose. Fruity onset in a restrainedly sweetish way, banana peel, apple peel and a touch of peach, moderately carbonated, with a vague sourish streak underneath; smooth, rounded but somewhat thinnish body. Cereally, soggy-bready malt core, pale maltiness with no further adornments, under continuing half-sweet fruitiness and rather 'dirty' yeastiness (as predicted by visual assessment), producing rogue phenols varying between clove and nutmeg to vague band aid. The hops, meanwhile, remain proportionally quiet - the opposite from what one would expect from an IPA - and even though they offer relatively little aroma (apart from dandelion, damp tree leaves and wet wood bluegrass), they do manage to produce a slight degree of hop burn in the end, something I would expect more from a NEIPA style 'hop soup' than a Belgian IPA. Leafy bitterness does linger, along with all that yeasty breadiness, solvents and spiciness. In itself drinkable enough and certainly not worse than many ordinary Belgian blondes of artisanal signature, but generally quite messy and 'dirty', lacking focus and - more dramatically perhaps - lacking hop aroma, in spite of those earthy and grassy elements it provides. Granted, this Turbeau IPA is more hop-forward than the ordinary Belgian blonde ale, but to call it IPA seems a bit of a stretch (even a Belgian one); this is one of those many cases of a Belgian beer trying to be hip by using the globally popular 'IPA' stamp but not having any idea of what true IPA is about nowadays. I think Mr. De Smet-Van Damme better sticks to what he does best, and that is to sing metal music - or talk to one of only few Belgian breweries capable of brewing an actual modern IPA (Totem, Uncharted, Source, Ermitage, whatever)...

7

Bottle from Drinks Vanuxeem, Ploegsteert, Belgium. Pours a hazy light amber/straw colour with a thinnish soapy looking white head. Aromas of mixed yellow fruits and hints of tropical fruits with a little bit of peppery spice. Taste is again yellow and tropical fruits with more peppery spice and a touch of citrus pith on the finish. A little bit of sweetness and nice enough balance. Decent beer.

6

Sampled @ Zythos Beer Festival 2022. A clear pale yellow golden beer with a white lacing. Aroma of grassy bitter hops, pale malt. Taste of straw, grassy hops, pale malt.

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Bottle shared at Kingsday Tasting 2022. Clear golden color, white head. Aroma and flavor are malts, softly hoppy, reminds me of an English IPA. Not too bad tbh. Just too much carbonation. Okay.

6.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Mild bitterer Beginn. Wenig würzig, hell getreidig, zum Mittelteil hopfiger, rund. Langer Nachhall. 10/9/10/9//9