Can from House Of Trembling Madness. Clear golden body with a thin white head. Steady carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of grapefruit and salted orange. Flavour of orange, grapefruit and melon rind. Medium body with a slick texture. Soft fizz. Clean and hoppy and very drinkable for the ABV.

1st March 2025
Can. Bright clear gold beer, decent bubbly pale cream colour head. Light palate, mildly dry, a good fine minerally crisp snap. Light malts, trace of grain, works here, a mild honeyish sweetness. Crisp cooling pine hops. Bright but light citrus, some peel in there. A mild nip of hop spice. Sweeter things on the back end, hard to tell if it's yeasty esters or hop fruits. Pineapple! Crisp finish. A good clean crisp dipa, a bit more hop fruit intensity would make this a very good dipa indeed.

NEDIPA by one of (old) England's specialists in the genre, originated as an anniversary edition; can from DeApotheek, bought after a free taster at the shop, thanks Bart! Medium thick, creamy, snow white, somewhat irregular but stable head, opaque peach blonde robe with beige-ish tinge. Intense aroma of granadilla, guava, mango purée, fresh dough, grated ginger, crumbled Betterfood, a whiff of wodka, marihuana-like dankness, pineapple juice, pomelo zest. Utterly juicy onset, sweet-fruity with a slight sourish-citrusy edge, lots of passionfruit and mango with dashes of papaya and pineapple, medium carb with full, fluffy, rounded body. Creamy, doughy malt base thoroughly soaked in this tropical hoppiness with citric edge, bringing back all, the mango and passionfruit as well as the pomelo, but also a peppery bitterness reinforced by wodka-like alcohol but more so by a certain degree of hop burn - with a bitter, (hop-)oily effect I can appreciate - so even if there is a certain hop burn, it remains sufficiently agreeable in this case not to bother me. This is not another turbid 'hop soup': this is, everything considered, a well-structured, very convincing and expressive, utterly radiant hazy IPA - very good in its genre indeed.

440ml can from Tesco. Hazy orange golden pour, small frothy white head. Citrusy aroma, orange and grapefruit, with light tropical notes. Taste brings mild citrus zestiness, orange, grapefruit, just shyb of being juicy.

Can from House Of Trembling Madness. Hazy bronze body with a white head. Low carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of dried grass and orange. Flavour of orange and lemongrass. Medium body with a smooth texture. Soft fizz. A solid IPA.

Keg at the Last Zebra, Carlisle. Pours hazy yellow gold with a thin white head. Aromas of tropical fruit and pine. Taste is light sweet tropical fruit. Good body, steady carbonation. Light bitter finish.

330ml can. Jet black colour with late awakening, average to huge, thick, dense, creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, brown head. Sweet-ish, chocolately, dark malty and slightly fruity aroma, notes of cocoa, dark chocolate, molasses, treacle, a touch of date, fig, brown sugar. Taste is chocolately, slightly roasty, dark malty and slightly fruity, minimally spicy, notes of cocoa, dry cocoa, dark chocolate, hints of date, fig, maple syrup, a touch of molasses, treacle, pan cake; slightly bitter hoppy counterpart.
Viscous texture, smooth and soft, slightly cloying palate, medium to fine, dense, creamy carbonation.
Rich and intense, sticky - nice sipper.