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Bottle from Belgiuminabox. Pours a very dark ruby/brown colour with a thinnish beige head. Aromas of dry dark fruits, caramel, chocolate, berries, brown bread and a little brown sugar. Taste is more dark fruits, caramel, chocolate with added roasty and nutty notes. Lightish body with light fizz on the palate and a fairly long dark fruity and sweet chocolate finish. Not bad.

7.3

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

2019 version. Complex yeasty Blond with lits of bright hop notes. Fresh, fruity and yeasty.

7.1

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

330ml bottle. Cloudy, orangey golden colour with average, thick, creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, white head. Grassy, fruity, slightly leafy and piney, minimally strawy, hoppy and pale malty aroma, rather unspecific fruitiness, orchard fruit, a touch of hay, weed, even minimally floral overtones, some lychee, green tea. Taste is grassy and fruity, minimally leafy and strawy, hoppy, minimally sweet pale malty, unspecific fruitiness, orchard fruit like apple and pear, some lychee, hints of weed, hay, green tea, peppery spicy yeasty overtones; well hidden alcohol. Watery texture, smooth and soft palate, fine, soft, still efficacious carbonation. Quite manifold, mild and mellow, highly drinkable - nice.

7

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

Bottle from LDW, Eke. Hazy blond, white foam. MEdium sweet, notes of peach, light citrussy. Balance is ok.

6.8

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

Bottle at Water en Brood. Bit hazy golden, sweet malts, honey, flowery hops, sugary, light alcohol, soft bread. Solid medium sweet and medium bitter. Almost full bodied. Decent tripel.

7.1

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

(bottle) clear, bright, dark orange amber colour with a small beige head; aroma of roasted nuts, chocolate; balanced flavour with a long, light bitter with a hint of tart finish

7.9

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

As All Inclusive IPA 2019, but apart from the year, everything has remained the same as in 2018, so hopped with all the varieties grown in De Plukker's own hop farm. Bottle from a Bioplanet (a chain of supermarkets centered around organic foods) in Ghent. Snow white, thick and mousy, large-bubbled, membrane-lacing, gradually opening and thinning head on a misty warm orange blonde beer with peachy hue and lively sparkling everywhere. Quite complex and sophisticated aroma of mandarin, orange peel, bread crumbs, cantaloupe, white pepper, bitter honey, unripe peach, dried apricot, banana peel, freshly grated ginger, toasted pumpkin seed, raw parsnip. Sweetish onset hinting at peach, pineapple and light banana, fizzy carbonation but nowhere harshly stinging, supple and lean, bit oily body; lovely 'clean' biscuity and slenderly bready malt body with a thin caramelly edge as well as brightening minerally accents here and there, quickly superseded by a bright, citric as well as restrainedly earthy hoppiness, adding pink pepper, fresh orange peel and mandarin noted retronasally and a persistent, long and rooty but elegant and pleasantly peppery bitterness, adorned with some spicy phenolic accents and a late dash of warming, gin-like alcohol. This All Inclusive series seems to get better every year - though I liked these beers from the beginning, it seems as if they are gradually evolving more and more into the direction of 'real', New World IPA, coming from a yeasty and earthy Belgian background. These yeasty and earthy aspects are still there, though, but they play with the hops in a fascinatingly balanced and entertaining way. This is 'Belgian IPA' in the Belgian sense of the word, mind you) at its very best and dramatically underrated as far as I'm concerned.

7

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

Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Moderate malty and hoppy and yeasty aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Creamy palate.

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

31/XII/19 - 75cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent), shared @ Ardennes holiday, BB: IV/2021 - (2019-2226)

Clear orange beer, small creamy yellowish head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: caramel, malty, grains, hint of diacetyl. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty, grains, hay, pretty bitter, little metallic, hoppy, bit grassy. Aftertaste: bitter, dry, bit resinous, malty, caramel, grains.