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

Imperial (or 'triple') IPA by this zealous brewery in Limburg, creating nothing but one-offs, each time named after the christian calendarium and the saint celebrated on the day of brewing - in this case Abraham of Bulgaria. Longneck bottle as usual, with stylish label as usual, now about eight months old. Medium thick, snow white, dense, creamy, membrane-lacing, stable head, slowly thinning in the middle; clear peach-orangey tinged deep golden robe with few tiny bubbles here and there, shifting to hazy vague beige-tinged orange peach blonde with sediment. Expressive aroma of mandarin, pink grapefruit flesh, melon, honey, gin, persimmon, bergamot, ripe pear, dry crackers, old dry apple cake, fresh wormwood leaf, yellow curry, wok oil, jasmine rice. Rounded, sweetish-fruity onset, persimmon, pear, melon and some guava, soft carb with full, vinous, bit oily body; quite 'heavy' on the tongue for this type of beer even, with full biscuity, cracker-like and somewhat doughy maltiness, in the end steeped in citric and slightly tropical hoppiness with orange blossom, mandarin, rambutan and tamarillo aromas. The hops also add a long, grapefruity and eventually wormwoody bitterness, sustained by a dash of warming, spicy, gin-like alcohol; biscuity malt sweetishness nevertheless pierces through as well. Rather mellow compared with the old school DIPAs and IIPAs of the West Coast that once got me into the style, a typical 'new school' interpretation of it as it were, but admittedly well-brewed - and still with enough grapefruity bitterness, going on for a long time, to remain credible as a classically styled IIPA - none of that sweet fruit juice NEIPA nonsense here...