Bottle at Moeder Lambic Fontainas, Brussels, Belgium. A black coloured pour with a medium beige head on top. Roasty, malty, chocolate, coffee aroma. Tastes roasty, malty, chocolate, coffee. Rich and tasty imperial stout.

Cask at Moeder Lambic Fontainas, Brussels, Belgium. A black coloured pour with a bubbly off white head on top. Roasty, malty, chocolate aroma. Tastes roasty, malty, chocolate, vanilla. Delicious porter and on cask in Brussels too.

Amateur ou non du film retour vers le futur, cette IIPA est bien limitée. Avec 35 d'IBU, il aurait fallu une base très peu sucrée et un houblonnage à cru pour avoir une amertume conséquente. Cela n''est pas le cas et c'est donc une IPA faiblarde qui de fait nous est ici proposée. De surcroît, les arômes, s'ils sont globalement plaisants ne sont pas pour autant transcendants et sans réelle complexité. En verre, c'est passable avec un blond légèrement trouble (EBC de 6) avec une mousse blanche nappant la surface. Le nez est laiteux sur la pomme, la pêche, le jasmin et très légèrement herbacé. Une pointe d'épices apparaît également à l'attaque. Celle-ci est relativement douce, peu amère. La deuxième bouche est sur une corpulence correcte mais sans évolution aromatique et toujours avec une amertume poussive. Cette dernière s'affirme quelque peu en arrière-bouche et sur le final, mais en perdant quelque peu en arômes et sans être brillante. L'alcool à 8% est tout juste correct. Pas transcendent.

Imported from my RateBeer account as No Science Sabotage (by No Science):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5

29/VI/19 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ Abeel's place, BB: n/a - (2019-909)

Clear blond to orange beer, small aery irregular white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: fruity, pretty malty, herbal touch, lots of banana peel, grains, cow fodder. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter, banana peel, metallic, lots of malts, cow fodder, bit sweet. Aftertaste: very malty, grains, hay, cow fodder, bitter, hoppy, dry.

DIPA with wheat and oat apparently brewed for Hoppy House, a craft beer shop in Eigenbrakel near Brussels (note to self: visit this shop next time you're in Brussels...). Longneck bottle from Geers in Ghent. Pillowy, egg-white, creamy, dense, thick and frothy, stable head irregularly but thickly lacing over a warm golden blonde beer with pale apricot tinge, vivid but 'refined' sparkling and tiny dots of yeast throughout. Aroma of not completely ripe orange, yuzu, banana milkshake, ripe peach, sweet red apple, honey, cut flowers, withering grass, hint of toasted onions, sugared bread or even the icing on sweetbread, sweet dessert wine, cream, stewed turnip, chewing gum, touch white pepper. Sweet, fruity onset, lots of banana with even a light 'bubblegumminess' to it, hints of peach, pineapple and ripe pear, lively and minerally carbonation, a tad sharpish for the intended style, rounded mouthfeel; cereally, sweetbready maltiness, feeling a bit thinner than it ought to be at this ABV, slick wheatiness indeed with a light soapy edge made even slicker by the oats, leading to a grassy, mildly peppery and restrainedly citric hoppiness, providing some basic fruity notes retronasally but much too understated for the style, as well as a spicy but remarkably late and altogether relatively mild, slightly rooty and 'noble' bitterness; banana ester and wheat slickness (even downright soapiness) linger a bit in the background, drenched in gin-like, warming alcohol which provides a bit of wryness and could have been better hidden - especially since most of the end bitterness, altogether soft in nature, comes from the alcohol more than the hops. A lingering powdery effect is, alas, not to be ascribed to the hops, either, but is generated by yeast, getting evidently stronger after adding the sediment. In all, enjoyable enough as such, but let's be honest about it: this is by no means a double IPA, this has all the properties of a solid, hoppy Belgian tripel with a dash of citric U.S. hops thrown in. Much too estery-yeasty and not nearly hoppy enough for any kind of IPA with the alcohol not very well hidden, I recommend drinking this with tripel in mind and then it will be alright; for the enthusiasts expecting a true DIPA in American fashion, like me, a very obvious disappointment. I can still enjoy a good tripel, though, so I will not be too severe in rating this, but I cannot ignore the fact that promising a DIPA and not delivering it, means a point off for (totally) not being true to style. No Science, even if some of their beers are certainly decent if not great, misses the point of DIPA here; make sure you get your hands on a few bottles of Pliny the Elder guys, look up the recipe of a Pliny the Elder clone and start all over again, I'm sure you have the potential to pull this off!

(Draught at GIST, Brussels, 21 Oct 2018) Pale yellow colour with frothy, white head. Malty, hoppy nose with bread, grass, citrus and herbal hops. Fruity, hoppy taste with notes of citrus, bread, grass and a fresh herbal bitterness in the finish. Medium body, with a touch of sweetness. Tasty and refreshing. Nice one.

IPA by this 'nouvelle vague' brewery in Brussels, tasted from tap at GIST, thanks Goedele for sharing! Snow white, cobweb-lacing, mousy, thick and frothy head on a hazy 'old gold' coloured beer. Aroma of old lemon zest, bread crust, banana peel, moist white pepper, camomile, white bread slices, yellow grapefruit. Restrainedly sweetish onset, unripe banana, pineapple, sharp and fizzy carbonation adding lots and lots of minerally effects yet acceptable for what it is; pleasantly bread crumb-like maltiness, cereally, Pilsener-like, but soon bittered by a spicy, grapefruit peel-like hoppiness, bit quinine-like in the end but subduedly fruity as well, tad powdery and working well with the bread crumb-like malt profile. Very quenching, easygoing but modern beer, but in terms of style, more like an old school Belgian bitter blonde than a true IPA in the contemporary sense of the word.

(Draught at Nuetnigenough, Brussels, 20 Oct 2018) Golden colour, slightly hazy, with creamy white head. Fruity, hoppy nose with notes of grass, bread, citrus and herbal hops. Malty, fruity taste with grainy malt, citrus, grass, hay, peaches and a balanced grassy, herbal bitterness in the finish. Medium body, with a certain sweetness. Tasty and refreshing. Nice one.