Bottle 330ml
Murky dark amber brown color, good creamy beige head. Aroma is odd burned rubber and hop oils. Medium-bodied. Very bitter, certainly feels more than 65 EBU. Piney, resiny, rubbery hop oils in the flavor even. Demanding, bitter but not bad.

[backlog] 22-08-15 // bottle at home. Cloudy golden, big white head. Yeasty nose. Banana, yeasty aroma, light bitter.

Bottle 330ml (Saveur)
Dark red color, good beige head. Salty licorice in the nose with some piney hops. Medium-bodied. Salty licorice, piney-resiny hoppyness. Clean and balanced mouthfeel. Ok CDA.

Dark muddied brown coloured body with a nice, thinnish, single centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of roasted and toasted malt with a good anise note, some cardamom, coriander seed and a touch of rye and grain, all with a faint hoppy smell at the end - not strong though. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong rye and grain flavours at first with a deep toasted flavour showing coffee, toffee and earth. Aftertaste has hints of mushrooms and umami flavours with a good hop character showing more herbal elements and a good dose of belgian yeast, of course. Overall, a nice rich beer with a good range of flavours and a well-layered complexity throughout. More of a typical (aside from the roasted malt portion) belgian ale than a Black IPA to me, but I can read English and the label says ’Black IPA’. I sampled this 33 cL bottle purchased at Bier Tempel in Bruxelles, Belgium on 18-January-2015 for €3,50 sampled at home on 21-August-2015 in Washington.

(On tap @ PiBar, Lausanne, Aug 11 2015) Pours hazy dark gold with a smallish white head and lace. Aroma is yeasty, bready malts with some sweetness, wet and grassy vegetation, some sweetish banana esters, spicy peppery notes, phenolic, a bit of pit fruit, berries and some citrus pith. Flavour is equally all over the board, bready yeast/malt combo, fresh grassy hops, grapefruit, flowers, jumbled up fruit bowl, sweet estery notes, peppery bitterness. Don’t quite know what to make of it, fairly dry but still definitely Belgian. Average body and high carb. Alright but I had half a pint and that was more than enough, not my style of Belgian IPA.

Aangename weizen. Ideaal Brussels biertje na een eerste Brusselse werkdag

A very dark brown beer, a head is big and beige. Aroma has chocolate and roastiness, fruitness and hint of pine. Taste is roasted, some coffee, medium bitterness, some pine and fruits. The end is dry with coffee. Medium bodied, strong carbonation. Quite good but nothing more.