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0,44 litre Can, from Vinmonopolet Oslo City, at Plaza Hotel, Oslo. Blueish with white head. Malts, hops, Tropical fruits, grapes, prunes, herbal, some bitterness.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at Wishful Drinking, Rickmansworth, Herts. A purple coloured pour with a medium blueish head on top. Hoppy, mango, tropical fruit aroma and taste. Quite sweet and dank, certainly an unusual colour for a DIPA. Decent and interesting.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at Suds and Soda, Derby bimble, 11/02/22. Dark purple to black with a decent light blue head ... pretty unique. Nose is citric zest, pine resin, grapefruit, papaya, mixed tropical fruit punch. Taste comprises juicy citric flesh, grapefruit, blood orange, pine resin, soft malts. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spliced with juicy come resinous hop bitterness. Decent DIPA.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Draft: Poured a deep purple with a blueish tint to white head. Aroma is fruity, hoppy. Taste is hoppy, citrus, astringent.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Tap at suds and sods. A hazed purple blue coloured pour with a lasting greyish blue coloured head. Aroma is dank hop, pencil wood, ink, purple, jammy dank. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, sticky, dank hop, squid ink, grass, green mango. Jammy. Palate is semi sweet, creamy, moderate carbonation.

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7.4

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

6th November 2021
Can. Well it's an arresting sight this one, not had too many purple beers, and it is purple to me, not blue. So a hazy deep purple (duh duh daah, duh duh da daah) with a thin and sadly short lived mauve head. Palate is light and fairly smooth with emerging decent fine carbonation. Light malts provide a light sweetness. Quite a zippy hop spice kicks off from the get go and it starts to burn a little but but not too much. Very bright and sweet candy fruits are the next most obvious thing. Some soft pine in the mid. Piney citrus on the back end but never the dominant flavour. Finishes light and still reminding you that hop spice is high on the agenda here. Different. Am I entertained? Yes. Am I chugging this back like hop manna - nah! It's just a little weird with the constrasting sweet candy fruits and hop spice. If there had been some more traditional hop fruits in the middle of all this I think it would have been a much more joined up and drinkable affair. Good fun all the same. The colour appears to come from Butterfly Pea powder.