6.8

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

Pours a clear, medium colored gold. Big white stable head. Scent is be yeast, relatively mild. Taste is sharp, strong yesst profile, medium bitter, sweet finish. A very 13-in-a-dozen beer and i would be far from surprised if this were a label beer. Nothing off, but surely boring and not giving any added value to the saturated market.

8

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 7.5

Cloudy deep yellow to amber with a tall ivory-coloured head. Solid pale malt, spicy and funky, pp leasant fruity esters, hay, warming alcohol. Light sweet, light to medium hop bitterness. Nice stuff.

7

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

Dorada algo turbia, con espuma abundante de aspecto jabonosa, retención correcta. Marcado aroma a plátano. En boca es ligera, algo oleosa, de amargor notable, y sabor frutal con claro predominio de plátano, algo de albaricoque y notas especiadas y jengibre. Sabrosa.

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

25/IV/25 - 33cl bottle from Mr. Hop (webshop) @ Peter’s 50th birthday party, Cabane Banane (Gent), BB: n/a (2025-412) Thanks to Peter for sharing today’s beers!

Clear orange beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, grains, yeasty, cow fodder, little fruity. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty, a little fruity, some citrus, bitter, ok. Aftertaste: bitter, fruity, orange peel, unpleasant bitterness, malty, grains, meh. Not really an IPA now, is it?

7

Super dry. Strange but interesting.

6.8

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

Fles 33cl thuis. Banaan, licht romig, steenfruit, kruidig, rogge, zoetig, zacht, citrustonen. (19-4-2025).

7.1

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

Scheldebrouwerij, having sensed the winds of change in the beer world a bit late, seems to use their standard strong blonde ‘n Toeback for single hop variants apparently – this one using a new (2024) dual purpose variety developed by Yakima Chief Hops. Thanks tderoeck for sharing. Egg-white, foamy, thick and stable, regular head on an initially clear, pale orangey peach blonde robe with dots of yeast bits creating haziness further on. Aroma of stale orange juice, lemon bread, overripe peach, some banana, sweat, fruit porridge, margarine, milk going sour. Sweet onset, banana ester, a tad bubblegummy, mixed with peach and pear hints, medium carbonated with slick body, a tad oily even; cereally and lightly biscuity maltiness with retronasal sweaty accents disturbing the hops a bit, which are displayed in a promising, orange- and mango-evoking, but eventually rather ‘muffled’ way, bittering adequately but aromatically not being allowed to shine as brightly as they should. The alcohol, on the other hand, remains remarkably well hidden. I believe in the potential of this new Krush hops, but this beer does not seem to be able to do them justice. Drinkable postmodern Belgian, sure, but in need of more ‘oomph’ and brightness.

5.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

8/III/25 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared with Alengrin @ home, BB: X/2026, L24278 (2025-263)

Clear orange beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: fruity, some banana, a bit of citrus, yeasty touch, some cardboard. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, yeasty, bitter, pretty soapy, a little weird. Aftertaste: unpleasant bitterness, grassy, oxidized, cardboard, more yeast.