330 ml. bottle. BBF 10/11/16 (quite strict for a Belgian beer). Hazy bright sparkling golden, creamy faintly off-white head. Nose is big on BE yeast, sweet banana, yeasty sweetish bread, something faintly green bitter but BE yeast fluffy sweetness rains supreme. Taste is interesting fluffy big white bread, yeast but cleaner & fluffier than in the nose, faintly floral, almost fine pine needles behind the banana sweetness, BE yeast, low white pepper. Body is fluffy white bread & banana. Interesting beer, nose is quite excessive on the yeast, taste is yeast but very clean, fruit, low lemon, banana, bread, perfectly developed, hops are barely there with mainly white pepper, faint pine needles. Heavy bitterness from the description doesn’t add up but it feels like a wonderful display of BE yeast. As a Belgian Strong Ale this makes perfect sense but as a hoppy brew even in a De Ranke sense it doesn’t make much sense. I don’t get USA hops at all in here, I like it but less than the other Tartaruga beers so far, it is oddly off from its apparent intent.

hazy brownish amber colour, one inch dense yellowinsh head; aroma of tropical fruits, some grapefruit, piney and celery notes, as well as bread; perfectly balanced bittersweet taste with celery, tropical fruits, biscuits and some orange zest oils; great IPA

hazy golden colour, large, though not too stable and dense off-white head; aroma of grapefruit, mango, peach, some pine resiny, floral, biscuity and grassy notes, maybe some dill, too; taste is similar to the aroma with berry notes, too; excellent!