Bottle from about 2013, so about 6 years old. A dark brown ipa with a thin mocha head. In aroma, sweet nutty caramel with herbal hops, ok. In mouth, grainy nutty caramel malt with resinous herbal hops, nice alcohol warmth, still not bad after 6 years.

Fles thuis geprobeerd na vakantie. Het bier is donker amberkleurig met een creme kleurig schuim. De geur is hoppig en wat zurig. De smaak is moutig, hoppig en wat grapefruit achtig.

Cask at Cat Bar CAT. Pours a near clear orange gold with a white head that lasts throughout the beer. Aroma has bread and grass with a light earthy citrus underlying. Flavor has bread and light dry citrus with grass and straw supporting.

Tap at Craft Room. Murky brown-ochre-amber body, opaque even, nice off white creamy head that didn't last that long... The aroma started off vegetal, sourish, cabbage-like, but some stone fruit notes showed up thankfully. Earthy taste, medium hop bitterness, herbal touches, trace tartness nice mouthfeel. Nice lasting hoppy bitterness Er, this is off, infection has started. I can imagine this being a good beer when in proper shape, but nope... Will rerate fresh at sone point.

Sampled keg. Possibly infected. Orange hazy amber, off-white head, creamy. Nose is some brett with marmelade, candied fruit. Taste is overly sweet, butter, caramel, less brett than in the nose, sugar, caramel, bit too sugary. Not really what an IPA should be, likely a bad batch. Body is sweet caramel, sugar, butter.

Bottle sample at the "Farewell to Vova Shack" tasting at Stas’s place. Thanks Stas. Hazy amber with a beige head. Aroma of slightly stale fruity hops, yeast. Flavor has sweetish malt, a bit of caramel, yeast, and bitter fruity hops, slightly stale. Medium-bodied.

IPA from a Spanish brewing company which is best known in Belgium for its collabs with Het Nest. No gushing, but still the head is towering high, inches thick even with careful pouring, rocky, bath foam-like, egg-white in colour and very dense, leaving thick patches of ’papery’ lacing on the edges; initially clear, deep amber colour with bright orange hue, turning hazy and almost coppery with sediment. Aroma of lemon-scented soap, kumquat, pink grapefruit peel, biscuit, lavender, cloves, ginger, persimmon, sundried tomato, vermouth, dried mango, roasted pine nuts, dry earth, tree leaves, gin, barbecue sauce, bell pepper, carrot - a mixture of Belgian yeastiness, phenolic and estery, with strong hop fragrance. Vivid onset with an unsurprisingly sharp, minerally, souring and somewhat numbing carbonation attacking hints of dried redcurrant, green banana, unripe peach and gooseberry, sourish with a sweet core blending in with a biscuity, nutty malt backbone, becoming strongly toasted in the end, the bitterness of which not just supports, but almost overpowers the drying, resinous, wormwood- and grapefruit peel-like, actually quite harsh hop bitterness, which lasts for a long time along with retronasal phenols (cloves) and floral and earthy hop notes. A soapy effect remains together with a long, tonic water-ish bitterness, a bready and notably sourish yeastiness and lots of toasted malt bitterness. Something went wrong with fermentation here: though I got no gushing, it is still very difficult to pour this beer without ending up with a head of several inches thick, and this visual feature is doubtlessly connected to the - for this style - highly phenolic, yeasty and very earthy character in nose and mouth, making it very ’Belgian’ in its general make-up. I can accept this as a decent ’Belgian IPA’ - whether this was the intention or not - but I can imagine many people expecting a clean Anglo-Saxon IPA will be disappointed. Still, flavour-wise there is not much wrong with this, this beer shows uncompromizing bitterness and personality, from a longneck bottle with a glossy label depicting a female devil... Unexpected and a bit weird, but enjoyable.

Bottle shared, minor gusher. Very hazy orange brown with a huge off white head. Aroma of tart lemon, herbs, urinal cake, light caramel and malt. Flavour is light moderate sweet and moderate bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Bottle shared thanks to deankerm. Slight gusher. Clear amber with huge fizzy beige head. Lemon juice, caramel, rotten wood, bitter herbs, lime, lemon balm. Under medium sweet and medium bitter. Medium bodied with lots of carbonation.

On tap @ BierCab. This is a light blurry soft amber colored one. A nice white bubbly head is safely placed on the top and it's lacing quite nicely as well. A really nice sweet hoppy and fruity aroma on this. Caramel and malts to the balance. It has a oily feeling in the mouth and it's just below average on the small bubbles. Well bitter almost a little resinous. Piney, dry with hints of wood. Red long fruity tail. Good stuff. 05.08.2014