A small can from a neighbourhood convenience store. Aroma: canned grapefruit. Appearance: hazy light amber, half a finger off-white head. Palate: light-bodied and rather tart on the tongue, softish carbonation; rather dry finish, with some astringency. Taste: heavily bitter, astringent, plenty pine. A surprise hit of sherbet lemons, besides which, a drinkable but instantly forgettable beer.

0,33 l bottle. Pours hazy light golden with couple of fingers of white, quick and loud dissipating white head, until only veil remains. Aroma is full of hop notes, grassy, floral, citruses and pine, Belgian yeast, peppery spicy, a hint of biscuit malt base. Taste is medium sweet and bitter. Flavor packs plenty of citruses, lemon zest. Body is medium, carbonation lively, borderline prickly. Finish is medium long, it packs a decent bitter punch. I really like it, very nice summer drink.

Bottle from Havnens Vin & Tobakhus. Pours cloudy dark golden with large white head. Aroma is malt, intense orange, tangerine, succade, lime zest, and cardamom. Taste is medium sweet, medium bitter and light acidic. Body is oily with fizzy carbonation. Finish is long and balanced sweet and bitter with notes of malt, caramel, orange, tangerine, succade, pomelo, coriander seeds, cardamom, and chalk

One of these 'postmodern' Lupulus creations trying to be innovative, in this case a NEIPA using Cryo Pop, a pelletised blend of hops in which, through a cryogenic processing technique, the lupulin is separated from the actual hop flower from which it came, thus creating a more 'pureed', concentrated hoppines. Can from the Jumbo supermarket in Ghent. Off-white, irregular-bubbled, open, very loosely knit foam developing during pouring, but then dissolving like the foam on a glass of coke - equally quickly and with exactly the same fizzing sound, leaving absolutely nothing in a few seconds for some strange reason; pale straw blonde, clear robe with a minimum of visible sparkling and a yellowish glow. Aroma of lemon blossoms, honey pomelo flesh, dried lemonbalm, unripe banana, watermelon, green guava, bread crumbs, freshly mown lawn, raw turnip, curry powder, jasmin and even sesame seed oil faraway in the distance. Fruity onset, sweetish with notes of guava, green banana, green kiwi and unripe melon, oddly quite well-carbonated (even a bit stingy) in spite of the total lack of head retention, supple body, cereally pale malt sweet(ish) with vague bread crumb-like notes, aromatised by the Cryo Pop - in this case providing guava, lime blossom and watermelon impressions, but all rather fleetingly so, needing more 'expression' in a way; bitterness meanwhile remains very limited while they did manage to offer a 'naturally' dry finish, weirdly. I visited this brewery fifteen-odd years ago when they just became independent of Achouffe and brewed altogether traditional Belgian ales, but even in those days, they did come up with something pleasantly surprising every now and then (the collaborational IPA with Brooklyn in NY, Brooklynette, back in their Trois Fourquets period, remains unforgettable); yet at that time, I did not see coming what would emerge from this small brewery later. In their endless search for boosting simple recipes with new and trendy hop innovations, they have produced a few pretty decent beers in the past five to ten years so I was hoping for this one to be among those; and basically it does more or less meet my expectations, with a hoppy juiciness and aromatic intensity one only rarely sees in Belgium. Then again, it lacks haziness, creaminess and colourfulness to qualify as even a standard NEIPA - and even more offensively, it lacks a head completely... A difficult case in my system of reviewing - but let's balance out the pros against the contras and give it a medium good score.