DI94 Double IPA
Brouwbar in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.86
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed DI94 Double IPA from Brouwbar 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
11 February 2023. At Brouwbar. Shared with the lovely Anke!
Hazy golden, stable, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of biscuit, jam, orange peel, overripe mango, grapefruit juice, gin, triple sec, apricot, vague butter (but not disturbing). Taste has sweet mango, peach & tangerine in a biscuity malt body, balanced by bitter citrus peel and pine & herbs around it, slightly dank too. Dry, bitter, earthy hoppy finish with grapefruity and tonic-like elements; warming dash of alcohol somewhere between gin and sweeter triple sec. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Firm and well-structured DIPA, Brouwbar's so good at this.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed DI94 Double IPA from Brouwbar 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
The seventh double IPA by Brouwbar already (next to two imperial IPAs), released during their 5-year anniversary party last Saturday. Egg-white, frothy, stable, moussy head, misty orange-peach blonde robe. Aroma of orange pith, minneola, biscuit, Mandarine Napoléon, dry green peppercorns, red onion, unripe peach, rusk, gin, olive oil, green mango. Fruity onset, sweetish with very light umami accents here and there, impressions of tamarillo and persimmon edged by early hoppy orange peel effects, minerally and fizzy carbonation, full oily body – but supple and easily drinkable. Lovely cracker-, rusk- and lightly biscuit-like malt body with a waferthin toasty edge, increasingly bittered by a refreshingly citric (grapefruity) but also toasted-oniony, peppery and slightly piney wave of old school New World hoppiness – becoming a tad rooty in the end but remaining altogether relatively mild, just like many of these present-day West Coast style IPAs seem softer and more ‘compromizing’ in bitterness (or NEIPA-influenced) than the original ones were fifteen to twenty years (or more) years ago. A hint of gin-like alcohol is noticeable but does not disturb the play of malts and hops. Delicious new Brouwbar DIPA – like the six previous ones, to be fair – worthy to celebrate the fifth year of existence of this lovely little brewpub. Big cheers to Benjamin and Jolien, hopefully Brouwbar has many, many more years ahead!
tderoeck (22711) reviewed DI94 Double IPA from Brouwbar 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
11/II/23 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a (2023-145)
Clear orange beer, small aery irregular off-white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: nice and fruity, some tropical fruits, caramel malts, grains, more tropical fruits, juicy, a hint of diacetyl. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: oh boy, lots of diacetyl in this one. Not very pleasant, yoghurt and butter, very bitter, some tropical fruits, sweet, some cough syrup. Aftertaste: very bitter, lots of diacetyl, some mango, buttery, very bitter, resinous, some tropical fruits, more resin, meh.
Tasted this again at Gents Bierfestival in August 2023, by then the diacetyl had long gone and it was a very pleasant beer. Will update when entering my reviews from the festival.