A clear golden yellow beer with a white lacing. Aroma of mild fruity hops, pale malt, yeast. Taste of yellow fruits, sweetish wheat malt, yeast.

Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Süffiger, mild hefiger und ebenso milder herber Beginn. Leichte Süße, schwach aromatisch, eher kurzer Abgang. 8/6/6/6/8/6

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

Poues cloudy blonde. Med white head. Scent is very mild, notes of (green) hops. Touch of malt
Taste is sweetish. Malty. Pearl necklace candy. Restrained bitterness. Soft and easy going. Med body and med high carbo. Very safe and easy.

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

New England style IPA - or at least intended as such - by this brewery in Zedelgem near Bruges, which apparently changed its name to Brouwerij Koekoek in the meantime (wait till that Koekoeksbrouwer-ei finds out - someone fetch the popcorn). Snow white, very dense and pillowy, busily cobweb-lacing, bit irregular-bubbled but in any case very firm, stable, hops-enhanced head resting heavily on an initially clear, warm 'old golden' beer with peachy-orangey tinge and a steady column of fine sparkling rising up through the middle, turning misty with sediment. Aroma of mandarin, orange juice and orange zest, honeydew, papaya, dry cake, canned pineapple, guava, peach jam, cookies, hints of white soap, lychee, pink peppercorns, baker's yeast, biscuit, vague and non-disturbing rubbery hint somewhere. Clean but fruity, sweetish onset, bright orange, mandarin and peach with hints of banana, pineapple and melon, quite juicy, with moderate carbonation still adding minerally effects (which are not typical for NEIPA, but anyway); slick, bit oily, very smooth mouthfeel. Slender biscuity and bread-crusty maltiness with cereally core, coloured by growing citrusy hoppiness, returning to that bright mandarin and orange feel, but also adding a peppery, late but effective, bit resinous bitterness, coating the back of the mouth and throat. Retronasal notes of grass, soap (quite strong in the end even) and mango add further colour. The bitterness is clearly more outspoken than is typically the case for a NEIPA and the tropical fruit juice effect also remains very understated so that all things considered, this beer bears more resemblance with e.g. Musketeers' Troubadour Magma NEIPA than with 'real' NEIPAs, that is to say: a Belgian blonde pretending to be a NEIPA, ending up somewhere in between Belgian blonde and NEIPA and in that sense still belonging to that wide range of (often unintentional) 'Belgian IPAs'. All things aside, a pleasant enough, sweetly elegant and balanced hoppy blonde, cleaner and fruitier-hoppy than is typically the case in Belgian-brewed IPAs regardless of substyle, so in spite of the ugly longneck bottle with bright pink cap, a pleasant experience - better than expected indeed.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Dorada amarillenta de densa espuma. Rico aroma frutal, mango, melocotón. Buen paso en boca con cuerpo moderado y buen punto de gas. Sabroso sabor, equilibrado. Fruta tropical en el sabor y amargor entre moderado e intenso. Muy rica.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

23/VII/22 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ Ardenne Holiday, BB: 8/II/24 (cause who doesn’t love a 2 year old IPA...?) (2022-915)

Cloudy blond to beige beer, big creamy off-white head, little stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: floral start, some chlorine, a bit fruity, banana, yeast. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter start, malty, grains, very yeasty, grassy, a bit chemical. Aftertaste: slightly fruity, very yeasty, chemical, solvents, sweet. Wow, this is by no means an IPA. IPA is not just taking your regular Belgian Blond beer recipe and making it extra bitter with more hops. I thought we had established that by now...

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

33cl bottle from Prik&Tik Kampenhout, Belgium. F: big, white, good retention. C: shiny gold, hazy. A: malty, orange, tangerine, pineapple, floral. T: medium malty base, orange, tangerine, pineapple, mango touch, floral, bit more on the sweet side but good balanced, medium carbonation, enjoyed for sure.

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

Small yellow head, shards of lace over hazy orange-golden beer. Inviting nose of exotic fruit, old cakebottom, rosewater. Very faint oxydation, not disturbing. Bitter and fruity, in a more than decent balance. Hints at concentrated fruitjuices underneath for a mild sweet note. Citruspeel bitterness remains throughout into the aftertaste. Walnut, copper. Medium bodied, hopoilslickness and -dry, at the verge of astringency. Good carbonation. Brewer obviously believes in bitterness. So do I.