Väike Raidur

Collab of Germany's Craft Republic with Estonia's Öllenaut, brewed at the latter; sampled from tap at Just Beer. IPA hopped with Simcoe, Citra and Columbus. Thick and creamy, cobweb-lacing, egg-white, very stable head, lightly hazy, warm orange-hued peach blonde robe. Aroma jumps to the nose with brightness and freshness, very fruity and sweet with a small amount of 'dankness', impressions of freshly squeezed mango juice, mandarin flesh, orange, ripe passionfruit, sweet shallots (the Simcoe, I suppose), ripe melon, tangerine, green bananana, guava, lightly toasted white bread. Vivid onset, lots of mango, orange, guava and melon, sweet and tropical, slight sourish lime-like edge, medium carbo, oily mouthfeel, some minerally aspects at the sides. Light and very supple, bit caramelly, cereally malt body, rounded, underneath a very aromatic New World hoppiness, lots of ripe mango and fresh orange again, probably the Citra part of it - gloriously shining, sweet onion- or shallot-like Simcoe too, subtle piney note, bittering in an elegant, long, resinous and quenching way; lovely juicy fruitiness and malt sweetness peep through. Consumed farm fresh, this is a vibrant, mouthwateringly juicy, classy example of generic international IPA - with the Citra being applied to it utmost potential of 'sunniness'. Loved it.