New England IPA

Hazy IPA by a locally popular brewery in northern Copenhagen, from tap at the Seaside Toldboden bar on a beautiful afternoon, shortly after visiting the famous mermaid statue… Thin and open, snow white, somewhat edge-retaining but generally unstable head over a hazy peach blonde beer with rosy and beige tinges. Aroma of orange flesh, pomelo, grapefruit juice, a whiff of mango, freshly cut red apples, apricot jam, lime zest, hint of old dry biscuit. Sweetish and sourish onset, very juicy and fruity, hinting at mango, lime, green melon and yuzu and really tasting like some fruit juice cocktail – a basket of ripe fruit, fizzily carbonated (too much so for the intended style perhaps but quite refreshing on a hot day) with supple, slightly creamy mouthfeel. Slender Betterfood- and biscuit dough-like maltiness soaked in persisting fruity juiciness of yellow fruit, from guava and mango to green melon and apricot, remaining low in bitterness; a very citric sourish streak keeps things fresh and radiant till the end. This is NEIPA trying to evoke fruit juice, like so many these days, but its lack of sugary sweetness truly saved it for me – I enjoyed this quite a lot, actually. Nice encounter with a brewery I had not yet tasted anything of.