400ml, draft.
Pours pale peach, hazy with thin, diminishing white head.
Nose is citrus and fruity, but not sweet. Flavor is short, fruity - your typical NEIPA with a bit of a bitter finish.

Tap at Kaapse festival. Murky pink juice. Massive raspberry, passion fruit puree, sour wheat, lemon juice, salty. Solid sour, medium sweet. Medium bodied, fruit puree.

Tap at Kaapse festival. Hazy yellow golden. Pineapple, oats, alcohol, sugar, zesty, creamy. Solod sweet, light bitter. Full bodied.

Tap at Kaapse festival. Dark brown. Lots of coffee, chestnuts, chocolate, earthy, brown sugar, hazelnuts. Solid sweet, less bitter. Slick full body.

Tap at Kaapse festival. Hazy yellow with white head. Oats, gooseberries, star fruit, zesty, wheat, green unripe fruit. Medium sweet and bitter. Medium bodied.

APA of the hazy disposition - aren't they all these days - by this craft brewery in Liège, one of many arising in the "Cité Ardente" after U.S. style craft brewing hit Wallonia, but one of the few still operating today - by delivering this to the Jumbo supermarket in Ghent, for example. Intricately 'Brugse kant'-like lacing, off-white, irregular, medium thick, opening head, structured rather loosely over a hazy pale straw blonde robe with olive-greenish tinge, looking more like a witbier or a Berliner Weisse than an APA to be frank. Aroma of baked sweet onion, even a whiff of toasted garlic, pear, jasmin blossoming, whipped cream, aloe liquid soap, old school sweetener (saccharin) or children's medicine, unsugared cold oatmeal porridge, sweetclover, pomelo (but not the 'honey' variant this time), some dank 'diesel' in the background, green guava, pepino. Sweetish onset but in a relatively clean way, hinting at guava, pepino and - more than anything - pear, with even an apple-ish side note; medium carb, very smooth and creamy mouthfeel albeit in a somewhat 'slender' way. Cereal-flake-like core, clear oatmeal velvetiness (and actual oatmeal flavour!), oddly somewhat less obvious wheat slickness, all drenched in the aromas of the hops, a parade of postmodern classics providing floweriness, herbalness (green tea!), soapiness and ripe-green-fruitiness (pepino), with notes of diesel and sweat in the margin. The overall aromatically sweet impression remains 'green' and flowery rather than becoming sugary, which is a good thing, but I do miss a touch of actual hop bitterness here; a bit more malt 'body' (i.e. just a tad more darkishness) could have helped as well to provide character. Put into context though, its decided 'non-Belgianness' - relatively rare in Belgian interpretations of APAs and IPAs - betrays Norm's house style for sure. Just a tad too meagre, soapy, slick and sweet for me, but generally not bad.

Can from Beerdome. Hazy yellow with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruity and moderate hoppy - citrus and earthy. Flavor is quite sweet and light bitter. Dry and light bitter finish. 280326

NEIPA by this microbrewer in Liège hopped with three familiar C-hops, although the third one is not Cascade or Centennial this time but Cashmere, sometimes said to have a somewhat coconutty aroma; can from the Jumbo supermarket at the edge of Ghent's harbour area. Thin and open, irregular, off-white ring of unstable foam around the edge but other than that no head; opaque flax blonde colour with apricot tinge. Aroma of baby fruit porridge, turmeric, rambutan, kiwi, cherimoya, fresh dill somewhere, Betterfood, fermenting pineapple, lemongrass, cantaloupe, fennel, faint toasted hazelnut effect (oddly and unexpectedly) or at least something very biscuity at the edges - no coconut though. Juicy onset, sweetish but not too much so, tropical fruit-juice-ish in a somewhat 'milky' kind of way, impressions of yellow kiwi, rambutan and slight mango as well as melon; smooth mouthfeel, prickly carb but not over the top and leaving the mouthfeel 'milky' enough for the style. Cereally oatmeal porridge-flavoured core, soaked in these tropical and mildly citric hops, with the cantaloupe, rambutan and cherimoya returning - carrying a sharper, yet thin citric edge along as well. Bitterness remains absolutely limited to a slightly drying, almost unnoticeably spicing effect in the end, hop burn is nowhere to be seen and the aromas, though not overwhelming in comparison with what is custom for this genre, gently and steadily linger. Quite a bit of complexity orthonasally, well-structured flavour-wise: this is not a bad IPA at all. Just too bad that a few minutes in, it looks like tropical fruit juice more than beer with its complete 'headlessness'...