6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

5/V/24 - 33cl bottle @ Toer de Geuze bus ride, BB: 10/II/26 (2024-268) Thanks to Niels for sharing the bottle!

Pretty cloudy blond orange beer, creamy off-white head, stable, a little adhesive. Aroma: malty, grains, sweet impression, a bit fruity, some apples, yeasty. Where’s the rauch? MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, very malty, grains, a little bitter, grassy touch, very yeasty. Aftertaste: grains, bitter, spicy, very malty, ok but not really smoky?

7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Stacks.
A: hazy black, stable, foamy, tan head.
A: toast, burnt pine nuts, grapefruit peel, earth, black olive.
T: sweetish blackcurrant; bitter toast & coffee, umami-earthy notes.
F: bitter piney & earthy hops, toast, coffee, warming vodka-like alcohol.
P: medium body, creamy texture, soft carbonation.
Decent if somewhat harsh BIPA.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Gushing to huge, dense, lightly yellowish whipped eggwhite-like head over well-carbonated, fully hazy yellow beer. Wood, spices (rosemary?), (dried) pineneedles, hopoil. Quite bitter. Bit oxydized hops. Dull bitterness, herbal, almost pharmaceutical, earthy. Medium bodied, very slick, almost overcarbonated. Earthiness keeps hanging around. Bit weird taste, undefined.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Small cream-tan head over opaque dark-brown beer. Bit of tobacco, wet paper, wet straw, faint hopoil. Rather sweet (certainly for an IPA), orange, orangepeel, black grains, dried leaves. Hints at hopoil. Rather well-bodied, slick, well carbonated. Not half dry enough for a black IPA; despite its apparent high IBU, it sorely misses lupulin.

6.6

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Beers@Moviefun (?).
A: hazy yellow, small, frothy, off-white head; sediment.
A: unripe mandarin, grapefruit peel, wheat, peach, lime.
T: sweetish unripe peach, sourish citrus, wheat.
F: grassy hops, quite bitter citrus pith and stone fruit pit.
P: medium body, slick texture, soft carbonation.
Decent example of the style.

6

DØE Ølfestival 2023. Hazy golden with a lasting white head. Fruity, herbal and spicy aroma with ginger, but also clove, cinnamon and citrus. Dry, spicy flavour with plenty ginger.