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Christiania! Sort of a new region. Thanks to Leah for bringing this back!

6.9

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

Bottle.Amber colour with medium white head.Aroma of tangerine and dry hops nice tropical taste but still the good old west coast style nice and well balanced finish.

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle, brewed at Amager (batch 2803). Misty dark amber body, off-white head. Some hemp notes in the aroma, chalky, resin notes, perfumed, grainy notes. Hm. Lean, dry taste, lean hemp, some sweetish fruity touches, resin, ending astringent and bitter. Probably took a hit with age, this isn't great.

7.2

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

33cl bottle as a gift. Pours clear amber with a medium, off-white head. Citrus, herbs and notes of malt, pine and caramel in the aroma. Medium to moderate sweet with medium flavour intensity and ditto bitterness. Tasty, refreshing and quite enjoyable.

6.9

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

Draft. A cloude amber beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, hops, spices, and pine needles. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, pine needles, hops, and spices, leading to a bitter finish.

7.1

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

Bottle 33 cl. Pours a clear amber with an off-white head. Fresh, piney, citrusy nose. Medium body, a dry fruitiness with an almost perfumy pineyness. Bitter finish. Lovely. 160123

7.5

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

West Coast IPA by a microbrewery set up in the heart of Freetown Christiania, the famous hippie commune in the middle of Copenhagen, installed on former military grounds in 1971 and still a living attraction for hippies, buccaneers, weed smokers and tourists alike. The brewery was set up in little more than a shed but looked professional enough; too bad you have to drink everything straight from the can (for safety reasons – which I can relate to in this particular environment, but still). Still, with some twists and turns, I managed to find out that this West Coast IPA had a moussy, yellowish off-white, slowly opening but generally well-retaining, membrane-lacing head and darkish orange blonde robe (the latter description is to be taken with a pinch of salt, as this is obviously very hard to determine when you have to drink from a can). Aroma of marijuana (effectively used here – not surprising seen the context – but also from hops), toasted onions, dried thyme, roasted peanuts, white pepper, Graham crackers, wormwood leaves, pine resin, grapefruit peel. Cleanly fruity onset, some unripe apricot and persimmon, grapefruity hoppiness noticeable from the start, fizzy carbonation but nowhere harshly stinging; smooth, oily, full mouthfeel. Dryish toasty and cracker-like malts with a peanutty core, strongly bittered by a generous dose of grapefruity, leafy, oniony, wormwood hoppiness, adding notes of pine resin, pink peppercorns, tonic water and bitter herbs, resinous and long. Qualifies fully as a robust, unforgivingly bitter (128 IBU!), old school West Coast IPA – even more so than many others intended as such these days – so I guess my suspicions were unfounded: this Christiania brewery is technically very accomplished. The marijuana, or just hemp in this case, is probably unnecessary in their other beers, but in a West Coast IPA it only helps to accentuate the weediness and resinous qualities of the hops – so well done, one I might even revisit when in Copenhagen again, in spite of that whole Christiania not quite being my favourite neighbourhood there…