Brouwbar has been quietly reinventing and improving some of their original recipes lately and this one is intended as the improved version of DI10 – the house DIPA. Tasted at – where else – Brouwbar. Egg-white, thick, stable and creamy, papery-lacing head, equally misty peach blonde robe with warm orangey tinge. Aroma of fresh orange (peeled “à vif”) and mandarins, fresh mango cubes, yellow kiwi, ripe pear, strawberry, wet potato chips, minerals, sweetbread, lychee, alcoholic wodka whiff. Sweet and fruity in a clean way – as usual with Brouwbar – hinting at ripe orange, mango and lychee, minerally and ‘cristalline’ carbonation stinging a bit on the tongue’s surface (perhaps a bit too enthusiastically so for this style), slick and rounded mouthfeel, very supple. Sweetbready, very lightly caramelly malt sweet middle drenched in retronasal ‘hop fruitiness’, again with (blood) orange in the foreground and mango in the background, providing the same soft end bitterness as in the previous version. Due to the malt bill being ‘thinner’ in this version – the idea being to make it a less malty beer and therefore putting more emphasis on hop aromatics – the alcohol is also a bit more ‘naked’ and palpable as a lightly astringent, bittering warmth in the finish, more so than was the case in the first version. Not necessarily better than the original, to my taste, a bit thinner and boozier, but certainly more aromatic – which evens things out I suppose, so same score for both editions for me.

26/01/2018 @home - 33cl bottle from Brouwbar Taproom. Clear orange, not much head. Nose is malts, banana, DMS. Taste is malts, banana, some pepper, dry touch, DMS again. A pity, the DMS spoiled it here for me.

On tap at the brewpub. cloudy orange with white head. Some vague hoppiness, light fruit, malty, soft texture, bit watery and bland. Light+ bodied.

On tap at the brewpub. cloudy dark orange with medium white head. Caramel, malty, some ripe, fruit, orange, sweet, bit sour. Moderate bitterness in finish. Medium bodied.

On tap at the brewpub. Black with beige head. Moderate hoppiness, some fruit, pine, light roastiness, moderate bitterness in finish. Medium bodied.

On tap at the brewpub. Unclear hazy golden, white head. Tropical fruit, mango, passion fruit, bit juicy, smooth. Low bitterness. Soft texture. Medium bodied.

On tap at the brewpub. Hazy orange with small white head. Some hops in aroma, slightly sourish, yeasty, fruity. Light to medium bodied.

03/01/2018 - tasting glass @Brouwbar Taproom. Hazy dark yellow, nice creamy white head; Nose has some malt, fruits, gentle bitterness, bit yeast. Taste is fruits, bit yeast, malt base. Not my prefered style so I'm not an expert here but this seemed a nice example of it for me.