The latest Bucket List beer to date in this ongoing series by the prolific Musketeers brewery, a session IPA this time. Bottle from De Picker in Zele (I think). Very thick and foamy, egg-white, thickly cobweb-lacing, large-bubbled but stable head, remaining huge and unaltered for a long time on an initially clear, pale yellow-straw blonde beer with some loose bubbles rising up here and there, turning misty with somewhat greenish tinge with the sediment added. Aroma of dried lemon peel, fresh white bread dough, lemongrass, raw parsnip, freshly mown lawn, sweetclover, unripe mango, chalk, potato juice, straw and something very faintly sulfuric. Clean onset, restrained in sweetness with hints of green banana and unripe pear, lively carbonation but small-bubbled, slight sourish grainy undertone, rounded mouthfeel (feeling relatively full for this ABV); slick cereally pale maltiness, dryish and thinnish, under strong grassy hop bitterness with floral and only very lightly citrusy edges, vaguely reminiscent of dried lemon peel, lemonbalm and field flowers retronasally. The hops deposit a drying, 'green' bitterness dominating the finish, sufficiently so to counter the malts and make this beer end the way it was intended: an altogether simple, but effective thirst quencher. The term 'IPA' seems a bit far-fetched here, though: this is more like a light Belgian blonde, in a postmodern hop-forward guise. With this in mind, I have to draw the same conclusion I already did with other recent creations of theirs: for some or other reason, the most evident one being the fact that they have to pay back the large new brewing plant they installed in Sint-Gillis-Waas a few years ago, these guys have lost all contact with what craft brewing was originally about, and therefore lost contact with their own past, when they managed to stun me from time to time with groundbreaking, beautiful beers. The days when I impatiently anticipated every new yearly release of Troudadour Magma Special Edition are clearly gone forever.