8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
330 ml bottle into tulip glass, best before 12/2014. Highly carbonated gusher upon opening. Pours murky bright orange color with a 3 finger fluffy off white head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Dense foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a large amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of lemon, lime, orange peel, pear, apple, pepper, herbal, floral, grass, candi sugar, and herbal/yeast earthiness. Very nice aromas with good complexity and balance of fruity/spicy yeast, earthy hops, and light pale malt notes; with good strength. Very bright aromas. Taste of big lemon, lime, orange peel, pear, apple, pepper, herbal, floral, grass, candi sugar, light honey, and herbal/yeast earthiness. Good amount of earthy yeast spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of lemon, lime, orange peel, pear, apple, pepper, candi sugar, light honey, and herbal/yeast earthiness on the finish for a short bit. Nicely dry finish. Damn nice complexity and balance of fruity/spicy yeast, earthy hops, and light pale malt flavors; with a great crisp malt/yeast balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Very high carbonation and light-medium bodied; with a very smooth, crisp, and foamy mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a light warming present after the finish. Overall this is an excellent Belgian strong pale ale. All around great complexity and balance of bright fruity/spicy yeast, earthy hops, and light pale malt flavors; and extremely smooth and crisp to sip on for the high ABV. With the combination of the difficult over carbonated pour and murky appearance, I was expecting this to taste old and malty; but it tasted spot on. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2015
at 20:00
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 1.5
Bottle @ home. Huge gusher. Hazy golden yellow colour with no real head. Smells sweet, malts, sugar, spices. Tastes sweet, herbs. Just bad. Medium body, medium carbo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2015
at 16:11
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
11.2oz shorty grenade bottle. Yeasty thick orange body. Creamy. respectably steady white head. Kind of a noble hop aroma, but a real underlying citrus depth in the hop character. The lack of filtration lends a creamy mouthfeel which really benefits this style. Maybe the most enjoyable Belgian IPA I’ve had in some time, I’d go back for more of this. No hairspray, drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2015
at 22:11
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Sampled @ O.B.E.R. Kerstbierfestival 2014, Essen. Trübes braunes Bier, keine Schaumbildung. Geruch säuerlich, Pappe, muffig, Kräuter. Geschmack säuerlich fruchtig, muffig, würzig, schlecht!
Tried
on 21 Dec 2014
at 10:08
2.8/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
Sampled at Kerstbierfestival Essen 2014. Murky brownish color, no head. Aroma has a lot of herbs or spices, dishwasher water. Taste is sour and infected and I’m not even gonna describe it any further. Horrible. Stop this please. Burn the brewery.
Tried
on 21 Dec 2014
at 08:53
3.3/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
750 ml. bottle sampled @ O.B.E.R. Kestbierfestival 2014. (Thx!) Murky dishwater brown, sewage water appearance with no head. It looks horrible. Smell is very sweet spices, rotting, dish water, bad warm lemon tea. Taste is rotting cider, spoiled lemon, vegetable stock, ditch water, moldy, aftertaste is rotting & awful,.. Watery beer with little in way of carbonation. Gaverhopke strikes again, no resembles of beer & strongly unpleasant. What gives?
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2014
at 15:43
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at home in London - sourced from one of the online shops. Pours perfectly clear gold with a lively, frothy white head. Not the most inviting of aromas as far as DIPAs go - there’s some grass, leaves, mild yeast and drying berries. The flavor is moderately sweet and there’s a big, boozy punch in the throat, coupled with notes of ripe apples, orange, wood, grass, pear and melon. Full bodied with high carbonation. Warm to hot on the finish with bready, lightly toasted malts, grape, more berries, ripe orange and other citrus, mild bitter grass, some esters, oily pine. A bit messy. Drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2014
at 20:30
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
a slightly orange colour, a long lasting head is big and blond. The aroma is strongly fruitful, slightly tropical, citrusfruits, sweet marshmellows and some spices. Taste has fruits, some marshmellows and spices, surprisingly, some slightly alcohol in the end, but not after the couple of sips. Bitterness in the end but that’s not very strong. Medium+ bodied, strong carbonation, not heavy at all. Old coast DIPA with belgian fruits, a stronger character would be better.
Tried
on 11 Dec 2014
at 14:39
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
29/11/2014 @WBF 75cl bottle Orange, amber with no head. Aroma is sweet, honey. Taste is sweet white wine honey, some wood. More wine like than beer
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2014
at 22:03
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
WBF Pours clear, dark amber . No head . Smell is sweet, metallic . Taste is sharp , thin , oak , wine a bit . Honey-ish aspects . Fleshy aftertaste
Tried
on 01 Dec 2014
at 01:37