Fantastic IPA
De Circus Brouwerij in Zwevegem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA Regular|
Score
6.76
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HOPS: Mosaic, Eukanot, Columbus, Amarillo & Citra
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Koelschtrinker (42542) reviewed Fantastic IPA from De Circus Brouwerij 1 month ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Mild hopfiger, leicht herb-getreidiger Beginn. Eher schwacher Körper, geringe Bitterkeit, minimal fruchtig, weich. Kurzer Abgang. 8/6/6/6/7/6
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Fantastic IPA from De Circus Brouwerij 1 month ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
A clear golden yellow beer with a white head. Aroma of mild citrusy hops, flowers, pale malt. Taste of sharp citrusy hops, flowers, hay, moderate bitterness.
Bbcplux (311) ticked Fantastic IPA from De Circus Brouwerij 1 month ago
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Fantastic IPA from De Circus Brouwerij 1 month ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
IPA by this Circus brewery, operating in Zwevegem in West-Flanders, hopped with a line-up of classic New World hop varieties (Citra, Amarillo, Columbus, Mosaic and Ekuanot); steinie bottle from the Carrefour supermarket in Sint-Denijs-Westrem. Thick and frothy, crackling, snow white, coarse but densely structured, uneven-bubbled, shred-lacing, stable head, initially clear pure and deep 'old gold' coloured beer with brass tinge and columns of steady, strong, large-bubbled sparkling in the middle; turns misty and more ochre-ish with sediment. Aroma rather restrained for something calling itself 'IPA', impressions of dried grapefruit zest, old lemon peel, soggy bread crust, faint hints of green guava and lychee from the Ekuanot shyly piercing through here and there, kumquat, raw parsnip, dried herb-flavoured crackers, dandelion leaves, stale croissants, sweetclover, unripe peach, young mugwort, dry straw, white pepper, dried out cheese rind. Dryish onset, sharply carbonated with very minerally, but also somewhat stingy effect (too much for IPA in the true Anglo-Saxon sense at least - but certainly very 'Belgian'); notes of unripe peach and unsweet hard Conference pear, supple bread-crusty pale malt core with grainy edges - yet no residual sugars worth mentioning. Retronasally, a vague whiff of old cardboard passes by, while the hops have clearly faded: some dried citrus rind and field flower notes are there, even a shadow of what was once something lychee-like, but the underlying bitterness is much more powerful, with a rooty, peppery, leafy, wormwood-astringent effect. Slight bready yeast (and malt) notes linger, but this rooty hop bitterness prevails over everything, even if it gradually fades in the moments following. Clearly, this is not as fresh anymore as I probably should have tasted it, I believe that the hop aromas were more expressive when this was young - but more importantly it is more 'clean', dry and sleek than I was expecting. In all, closer to a Belgian 'bitter blond' more than true 'postmodern' IPA, but a very decent one at that.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Fantastic IPA from De Circus Brouwerij 2 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
6 July 2025. At Moen Feest. Cheers to Anke & Silke!
A: clear dark golden, small, off-white head.
A: grapefruit peel, mandarin, toasted onion, green olive, biscuit.
T: sweetish mango & melon, bitter grapefruit, onion, biscuit.
F: bitter resinous hops, grapefruit.
P: medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation.
Quite clean, nicely bitter, positively surprised.
Icedwarf (4896) reviewed Fantastic IPA from De Circus Brouwerij 2 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Donkergeel bier met mooi stevig schuim. Smaak is fruitig en bitter hoppig met wat ananas, abrikoos, grapfruit en een beetje hars. Degelijke en smaakvolle IPA.
Bierridder (4318) ticked Fantastic IPA from De Circus Brouwerij 5 months ago
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Fantastic IPA from De Circus Brouwerij 8 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
33cl bottle from Carrefour Market Cours St. Michel in Brussels.
F: medium, white, average retention.
C: pale gold, hazy.
A: citrus, grapefruits, pineapples, lime.
T: medium malty base, citrus, mandarin, pineapples, bit herbal, decent bitterness, medium carbonation, nothing really special here, drinkable.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Fantastic IPA from De Circus Brouwerij 9 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
1/V/25 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: II/2027 (2025-426)
Clear gold blond beer, big solid creamy white head, stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: pretty fruity, some tropical fruits, yeasty, banana, a little herbal, lemony, minty touch. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: good bitterness, very resinous, fruity, some citrus, grapefruit. Aftertaste: fruity, sweet malts, good bitterness, citrus, zesty.