Brewery Broers in Wachtebeke trying to lure the hipsters with this attempt at the most crazed beer style of the moment, a style hardly known in Belgium so far outside of beer geek subculture. Creamy but bit irregular, egg-white, slightly opening head over a cloudy, warm peachy orange blonde beer with ochre-ish hue - a tad darker and murkier than what I am used to from the average American NEIPA. Aroma of stale old lime juice, dried mango, white bread dough, passionfruit, sweat, old bread crust, grapefruit peel, cold onion soup. Sweetish and sourish onset, quite 'full' with mango, passionfruit and sweet grape notes alongside a less exotic peachy aspect, but all in a somewhat dullish way; softish carb, smooth and bit fluffy mouthfeel, bready malt base. Second half shows oniony and grapefruity hoppiness, rather 'dank' with still some more colourful passionfruit aspects, with a quite long, spicy bitterness down below in the back of the mouth - a bit too much so for the intended style. In all, not such a bad attempt at NEIPA coming from a rather classically oriented Flemish brewery, but clearly not in mint condition anymore, I guess this has seen a bit too much oxygen already; not lusciously aromatic enough for the style either. Enjoyable, but BBP (in collaboration with Weird Beard, admittedly), Ghent's city centre Brouwbar and Totem have all done - or are doing - better NEIPAs.

28/04/2018 – 10cl glass shared with an international ratebeer crew @ZBF2018 Brown colour with small tanned head. Nose is nothing outspoken : bit malt, bit fruit, too thin. Taste is malts, fruits, caramel, soft roast.

28/04/2018 – 10cl glass shared with an international ratebeer crew @ZBF2018 Brown colour with copper sides, medium head. Nose has some fruits, malts. Taste is dark malts, some fruit, caramel, bit thin.

Trockener, wenig würziger Beginn. Leichte Malznoten, Kräuter, dabei immer mit fruchtiger Nase. Okay. 8/8/8/8//8

Moderat malzig-säuerlicher Beginn. Laff würzig, wässriger Hintergrund, starke Karbonisierung. Beeren? 8/7/8/8//8

Eher trockener, moderat würziger Beginn mit herb-bitterem Touch. Wenig kräutrig, rund, süffig. 10/7/8/9//9

Hopfig blumiger, fein herber Beginn. Trocken, süffig würzig, eher dunkel. Harzig, mittellanger Nachhall. 10/9//9/10//9

Bottle. Hazy pale golden-ish color with no head. Aroma is vanilla, phenols, belgian yeast. Taste is vanilla, booze, candy, dough. A bit chalky mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Ok.

Bottle. Murky orangeish color with white head. Aroma is tropical fruits, straw, herbal, murky yeasts. Taste is grassy hops, mealy. Silky mouthfeel with medium carbonation. This has not much to do with a NEIPA.