American style IPA (is there anything else these days?) by one of the province of Antwerp’s smallest, but also most innovative and internationally oriented craft brewers, hopped with nothing but cryo hops (Citra, Idaho 7, Talus, Ekuanot and Cryo Pop). At LIBF, cheers Kevin! Snow white, moussy, medium sized, stable head, hazy warm yolk-golden robe with somewhat peachy tinge. Very ‘fresh’, radiant aroma of green mango, fresh rather than dried lemongrass, lime zest, green spring onion, fresh white bread dough, cheese spread, carambola, touch ripe apricot. Utterly clean and fresh onset, impressions of guava and starfruit with hints of freshly cut lemongrass and lime zest, sweetish with a sourish edge, minerally carbonated with smooth body – a slick, very supple and very ‘rounded’ white-bready maltiness with the slightest biscuity edge drenched in very ‘green’, edgy, zesty hop aromas, lots of ‘green tropical fruit’ with citric effects (pomelo, yuzu) and even a hint of sweet ripe pineapple. Bitterness remains gentle, though it is present and rounds things off very elegantly. Cryo hops were designed to allow brewers to pump large amounts of alpha acids and hop flavours into their beer without creating overly astringent bitterness or bits of leftover plant material, and the brewer of this beer is well aware that using nothing but cryo hops will result in less bitterness, spiciness and ‘resinousness’ than if he would have used hop pellets or hop cones; yet that seems to have been the whole intention here, and the result is utterly refreshing, bright and brilliantly ‘green’, an IPA perhaps more accessible than I am used to from this brewery, but one I could drink by the gallon.