NIJPA
Brouwerij 't IJ in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
IPA - New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
6.86
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Surrounded by pineapple, peach and guava, you will enjoy it.
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Koelschtrinker (42161) reviewed NIJPA from Brouwerij 't IJ 1 month ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6
Hell hopfiger, mäßig hefig-fruchtiger Antrunk. Leicht herb, süffig, helles Malz, keine Bitterkeit. Konstante Aromatik, mittellanger Abgang, rund. 9/10/10/7/8/8
beerhunter111 (50413) reviewed NIJPA from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
A hazy golden yellow beer with a white head. Aroma of yellow stone fruits, apricot, yeast, mango. Taste of citrusy hops, yellow stone fruits, mango, yeast. Moderate bitterness.
Inoven (3731) reviewed NIJPA from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Stomerij
Bleekgeel troebel bier met matig wit schuim.
Aroma van citrusvruchten.
Smaak is fruitig; sinaasappel, mango.
Nasmaak is licht hoppig. .
TomHendriksen (8095) reviewed NIJPA from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Blik gedeeld met familie bij de Stomerij. Het is een troebel geel bier met een volle witte schuimkraag. Het heeft een aroma van tropische vruchten. De smaak is vol fruitig, meloen en mango achtig.
Taboada (8738) reviewed NIJPA from Brouwerij 't IJ 3 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Draft, half pint. @"Brouwerij 't IJ", Amsterdam (The Netherlands). 25/08/2025
[#8.613 Global - #329 Netherlands - #18 Brouwerij 't IJ]
Pours light hazed golden with a white head. Aroma: grassy hops, orange zest and crackers. Taste: crackers and zesty notes. Guava palate.
Next one, please!
Benzai (24278) reviewed NIJPA from Brouwerij 't IJ 4 months ago
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Can shared by Joes. Clear bright golden color, average sized white head. Smell and taste malts, hoppy, moderately bitter. Nothing too special, but easy to drink light IPA. Okay.
steentje (986) ticked NIJPA from Brouwerij 't IJ 5 months ago
Alengrin (11561) reviewed NIJPA from Brouwerij 't IJ 6 months ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Old Dutch 'pre-craft' pioneer 't IJ, now in Moortgat's hands, attempting New England IPA, the hazy and fruity IPA style which has long overthrown the original West Coast IPA in being the dominant IPA idiom on the market globally (except for Belgium perhaps where the often enjoyable, but somehow hilariously unintentional "Belgian IPA" dominates...). One pour says enough: medium sized, off-white, 'Brugse kant'-like lacing, quickly breaking but otherwise stable head on a crystal clear (!) warm old golden robe with very sparse visible sparkling - not looking like a NEIPA at all. Aroma of old onions (even stale armpit sweat) above the intended tropical aromas of slight guava (more like dried peach here) and some background pineapple (canned in this case) both thinly hovering on top of impressions of toasted garlic, freshly struck matches, old dry crackers, moist white pepper, withering leek, raw parsnip. Crisp onset, not at all juicy as a NEIPA should be, some restrained fruitiness reminiscent of green pear and unripe peach with a dash of banana, again only very thinly topped with a guava streak that comes from whatever source, all moderately carbonated but still more minerally than is custom in any kind of NEIPA. Slick, cereally and very slightly toasted maltiness, sweetish and cracker-ish, supporting an aromatically expressive hoppiness rather than completely fusing with it as it ought to be - creating notes of orange, pineapple and peach more than tropical guava or papaya, even if a kind of 'fake' tropicalness hangs around; the hops provide a white pepper-ish bitter note in the end too, much more so (and more 'traditionally' so) than in a NEIPA made correctly - and, ironically, in spite of the brewery itself explicitly stating that according to them, NEIPA is "not bitter"... Still, a pleasant sweet-sourish yellow-green fruitiness hangs around after swallowing - I would even dare to use the word 'juicy', but with a lot of reservation. Look, this brewery set up its business in the eighties, about four decades before NEIPA even came into existence, so it should not suprise anyone that they act like some boomer uncle trying to be 'hip' among millennials and that seems to be what is going wrong here: though by no means an unpleasant beer, it is not a NEIPA at all - it does not even qualify as one in the margins of the genre and it is of little use trying to see this as a true NEIPA. This is essentially (and historically understandably) a Belgian IPA of sorts - read: a Belgian blonde with updated hops - made a little bit less bitter and aromatised with something guava-ish (vaguely at least). Viewed that way, an odd construction which is bound to severely disappoint consumers expecting a proper NEIPA - clearly reflected in the ratings here. I, for a change, will be a bit less harsh towards it, because it does taste quite agreeable - whenever a beer misses its intended style I feel obliged to subtract points for that, but if it is nonetheless a decent beer, this will be only symbolic, and that is basically the case here for me. So, in short: not a NEIPA (or 'NIJPA' as they put it - adding insult to injury) but a very drinkable ale as such.
gave a cheers!
minutemat (16133) reviewed NIJPA from Brouwerij 't IJ 7 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
330ml can from Pros market, Loop op Zand during Roadburn. Pours a misty yellow, white head. Noticeably sweet and fruity, moderate exotics, some bubblegummy notes. Almost artificially sweetened, tho I'm sure it's not. Ok haze.