Bottle @ home. Hazy pale yellow with a huge white head. Smells slightly sperm, malts, sweet. Tastes sweet, dough, butter, malts. Medium body, soft carbo.

Bottle from Belgian Beer Shop, Leuven. Golden copper colour, creamy beige foam. Medium carbonation. Harsh bitterness. Some notes of citrus. Hoppy bitter finish. Not very well balanced. Ok.

33cl bottle from Bierboom, Brugge. Pours hazy deep golden to orange with a white head. Fruity and fairly yeasty aroma with medium hoppy and floral notes, light citrus and pine and hints of herbs and malt. Medium sweet with fruity and hoppy flavours and a certain bitterness. Quite decent!

@ ZBF 15. Thnx for sharing, geeks! Pours rather clear amber. Smell is nicely hopped, with a good grainy back. Taste is bitter, bit grainy. Intense. Nice !

New beer conceived as an IPA, a term which is more and more becoming loosely used for just ’hoppy’ pale beers in Belgium, thereby losing its true meaning. This one had a firm, creamy, off-white head and orangey blonde colour, hazy with yeast bit floating around. Aroma has dried orange peel, hay, earth and unripe peach, but is completely ruined by a very strong presence of butyric acid (stale sweat and rancid butter). Restrained fruity taste, sour berries and pineapple, yeasty and grainy, slight salty accent, cheesy and floral hops in the finish, bittering and quite long, with some warming alcohol. Not well balanced, lacking the aromatic qualities of a true IPA and above all, ridden with the very off-putting odour of butyric acid, this was probably the least pleasant beer I tasted at ZBF 2015. Update: had this again at BBF 2016 where it still had a whiff of rancid butter to it, but far less vigorously than at ZBF; still it could do with a fresher, more elegant aromatic hop bouquet. This rating is an average of both.

16/04/2015 @home. Sample of 33cl bottle from Bi erhalle Deconinck, Vichte. Hazy golden with massive white head. Aroma : fruits, malts, yeast, spices. Taste : bitter hops, citrus, spices, some sweetness

33 cl bottle. Pours clodu yellow with a small white head. Aroma is fruity, light yeasty phenolic. Bitter, toaste and slight fruity. Dry and bitter finish.

33 cl bottle. Pours hazy brown with a small tan head. Aroma is toasted malty. Light breadish and malty. Bitter, herbal, citrusy and toasted malty. Dry and bitter, toasted far finish.

33cl bottle at De Bierboom, Brugge on 5th Feb 2015. The original beer was brewed in a 20 litre kettle at a craft and produce fair, then dry hopped back at De Bierboom. I got to try that at as well, split between Rudy, my wife and me. The commercial brew uses only two hop varieties, the first brew three. All the ingredients are Belgian. The pour was slightly hazy orange affair with a thin head. Plenty of hops in the aroma and dry taste, not too sure why others are scoring it so low: I thought it interesting and different for a Belgian IPA, even though the initial brew a little better.