8.1

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

NEDIPA from what appears to be the latest hype in the hazy IPA world: Fidens, a young (2019) brewery in New York specialising in the genre and referred to as "the best brewery you never heard of" by one particular beer writer a few years back - I have to admit that I had, indeed, never heard of them until Martijn came up with this can at Proevertjesdag in Ostend. Snow white, shred-lacing, opening and irregular head over a cloudy yolk-yellow blonde robe with apricot tinge. Aroma of mango juice, ripe papaya, rambutan, pineapple milkshake, meringue, hot olive oil, diesel, butter, yellow kiwi, sweat, fruit porridge, granadilla. Utterly fruity, dense onset, tropical fruit juice-like as expected with lots of mango, papaya and kiwi, some lychee and granadilla too, moderately carbonated (but okay for the style) with a fluffy, full body; 'deep' fruitiness penetrates everything, through a rounded doughy pale malt core and into a very colourful, lively finish radiating with all the abovementioned tropical fruit, bringing utter juiciness but also retronasal dank, sweaty and herbal notes (lemon thyme). Bitterness remains subordinate to all that juiciness but still the whole does not become overly sweet, as is all too often the case in this type of beers; the alcohol warms without doing anything else, the way it should be in a 10% ABV beer of any genre. Classic - using a trio of meanwhile very classic hop varieties, but doing so in an admittedly technically perfect way, the likes of which I associate more typically with actual New England (Tree House, Trillium). Great work indeed, if nothing new under the sun and in spite of the fact that I have grown tired of all these hazy IPAs in the past ten-odd years - but give me a perfectly executed, fresh one like this and I am a happy man.

8

0,473 litre Can, from a trade, at home. Hazy yellow with white head. Malts, hops, yeast, Citrus, pineapple, Tropical, some booze in The finnish.

8.1

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pours a hazy, soupy mustard yellow, with smallish head. Aroma is dank, with green onion notes on top of citrus and tropical fruit. Flavor follows. Fairly sweet base to the beer, though not in a cloying fashion. Moderate hop bitterness in the finish. Very soft mouthfeel. ABV is well-hidden in both aroma and flavor.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Blik gedeeld door Keukeman, geprobeerd met Roelzie. Het is een super troebel bleekgeel bier met een volle schuimkraag. Het heeft een wat muffe vreemde geur. De smaak is geweldig hoppig en fruitig.

7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Can pour at Opening Bash: light orange haze with a white head. Mellow tropical fruitiness. Hefty fruitiness. Not very bitter. Quite good.

7.9

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

Opening Bash 2022. Pours hazy yellow. Grapefruit, papaya, pineapple, orange. Good body. Good.