6.5

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

F: huge, light tan, long lasting. C: orange/amber, hazy. A: orange peels, light spicy, banana, peach, yeasty. T: malty, orange peels, bit of alcohol, banana, yeasty, some metallic tones, spicy, bit of honey, medium to full body, medium to high carbonation, not bad and that’s all, 33cl bottle from Cactus Remich Drink Shop in Luxembourg.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8

Bottle bought in Lille (France) Is this another goddamn foreign-country-only-release ? Anyway, happy to have stubled upon it. 75 cl Bottle. Pours rather unclear darker blonde/amber. Regular Sized head. Smell is bit sweet. Not super intense, but got a certain thick sweetness hidden in the back. some green hop aspects (very mildly so) . Some maltyness, and of course some Belgian yeast, but not overly intense. Taste is full, bit sweet, malty, very bready malts. Mild sweetness ( less than expected) higher carbonation and a very decent bitterness. Some ambermalty crisp. Aftertaste starts of as a decently (higher than average for the style) bitterness, only to move on towards a more malty finish. Very decent beer, too much carbonation for me though.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Deca, Woesten, Flanders, consumed at home Easter Sunday 16th April 2017 after Day 3 of another hard days pond building. We’re now cooking Minced Beef and cheese Pies (we’ve used Soya mince) for our American visitors on Tuesday Hazy grubby gold with a white filmy head, a touch of soapy, perfumey, aromatic but punchy hops on a typically Belgian yeasty spicey beer. It’s fruity, soft in the mouth, a touch dry, it’s good, Belgian IPA. A7 A3 T7 P4 Ov15 3.6

6.6

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

Bottle from Deca and drunk at home. Hazy gold brown colour dirty lasting white head. Hoppy aroma. Hoppy in the mouth a bit like something like Hommelbier. decent enough. Good bitterness on the finish. Good hops a bit like Cascades I guess.

7.5

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

Bottle from Deca and drunk at home. Hazy gold lasting white head. Sherbet hoppy aroma. Light citrus and grapefruit aroma. Light in the malts. Good hops. Some sherbet on the finish. Utterly drinkable. The bottle disappeared very quickly. Some tangerine. Excellent.

6.8

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

Bottle picked up at Deca Services, Oostvleteren, Belgium consumed at home Sunday 26th March 2017 whilst cooking Moussaka outside. Pours hazy mucky dirty yellow brown, slim white. Really quite a bitter beer, pluncky (new word), dry, fruity, hoppy, good stuff. A6 A3 T7 P3 Ov14 3.4

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Belgian style IPA from De Landing in collaboration with Bier & Karakter, bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck. Regularly shaped, medium thick, dense, egg-white, stable head, slowly thinning in the middle but leaving behind a papery, continuous pattern of lacing; hazy yellow blonde with warm ’old gold’ hue and strings of lively bubbles. Fascinating aroma of granadilla, moldy yellow grapefruit, sweaty feet (sorry), abbey cheese, green banana, valerian, stewed rhubarb, pineapple, white bread, withering basil, Cantaloupe, crackers, mandarin, damp hay, minerals, tonic water, honey, mirabelle plum, iron. Fruity onset, lots of pear and pineapple, some peach, sweet with a confident souring edge of gooseberry and starfruit, minerally side notes, medium carbo, full and smooth, slightly buttery mouthfeel. Creamy malt sweetness underneath, bit cereally but smooth and pleasant, carrying the fruit onwards to an aromatically hoppy finish, some phenols here and there but mostly a very grapefruity, even slightly passion-fruit like retronasal hop fragrance, paired with a firm, but not overly harsh, long-stretched, peppery and tonic water-like bitterness drying the tail; the valeric acid which is so clearly present in the nose, does not return, fortunately. A vague hint of calvados-like alcohol is noticeable too but stays very well hidden. Belgian IPA is most often a hybrid of classic Belgian blonde or tripel on the one hand and true IPA on the other hand, usually because brewers here do not dare to go as far as to brew a full-fledged modern Anglo-Saxon IPA, or do not know how to. This one, compared with many others, is closer to the Anglo-Saxon end of the spectrum than to the traditionally Belgian end. We need more daring beers like this if we want to connect with the international beer scene, rather than remaining stuck in 20th-century chauvinism. Apart from the very clear valeric acid aspects in the nose (sweaty feet and stinky cheese, in this case doubtlessly coming from old hops), I can appreciate this effort a lot, if only for its stylistic premise. I’d love to taste this without that valeric acid, though: doubtlessly this must be a masterpiece then, certainly to national standards.

6

Bier van de maand. Blond, bitter, droog. Banaan, perzik op achtergrond. Zeer bijzondere smaak waaraan je moet wennen. Toch verrassend lekker

8

Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

7.8

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

15/10/2016 - sample from bottle @ Bles Bierhappening. Hazy light yellow, nice white head. Nose is fruty, bitter hops. Taste is exotic fruits, some citrus, nice bitter ending.