Bottle from Coop. Pours cloudy paleish amber. Aroma is wit yeastiness, herbs, some tropical hops, hints of lemon. Body is medium, lively bubbles for a refreshing experience, with some tartness, lemon flavours and an almost dry carbonation. Even a bit tart, indeed takes the approach of a dry simple white wine. Turns a tad watery on the palate, otherwise a good beer.

Draft tasting glass @ Pudel – Tallinn. That concept alone, marked as hazy on top at the bar, some things should not exist. Mellow orange juice nose, haze, washing powder. Mediciore orange peel APA juice, washing powder, weeds, powdery chalk,… More chalky than haze. Weak chalky haze, stupid concept & result is a weak APA.

Supermarket bottle in Tartu. Clear amber color light amber head. Aroma of lightly spiced caramel biscuit. Taste is sweet herbal caramel. OK.

Draft at Pudel. Murky orange juice color. Orange and pineapple aroma. Taste is lightly bitter citrus, hop burn mouthfeel

New attempt at ‘double’ NEIPA apparently, bottle at Velootje in Ghent. Cobweb-lacing, eggshell-white, creamy and dense, stable head over a misty peach blonde beer with ochre-ish hue. Aroma of dried lemon zest, mango chutney, bread crust, pineapple, old wrinkled apples, sweetbread, withering kitchen herbs (oregano), straw, moist white pepper, dried apricots, dusty old baker’s yeast, pear. Sweetish onset, peachy and banana-ish estery notes with some mango and pineapple accents, sourish undertone, sharpish carb with minerally effects; doughy and bready malt base, long hop bittering finish with retronasal New World hop aromatics (oregano, mango, citrus peel) but also a peppery bitterness I do not expect from anything labelled as a NEIPA – plus an earthy and phenolic Belgian yeast character. Tasty and, by itself, well-executed beer for sure, but putting “New England IPA” on the label does create certain expectations which clearly aren’t met here: this is clearly too yeasty and phenolic for anything NEIPA-like and is perhaps better approached as a “Belgian IPA” even if it is made by an Estonian craft brewer: a hop-forward but basically Belgian style ale with – admittedly – quite expressive New World hop qualities mixed with too many yeast impressions. In that sense enjoyable enough so I won’t be too harsh on this one – just do not expect anything Trillium-, Tree House- or Cloudwater-like.

bottiglia 33 cl, schiuma bianca fine evanescente, colore giallo smorto torbido, al naso è molto aromatica cereali limone frutta tropicale e vago vino bianco, in bocca scorza di limone succo d'uva, carbonatazione moderata, corpo leggero, molto acida, amaro leggero. Anomala ma nel complesso si lascia bere. 14.04.18

Bottle from LDW, Eke. Hazy yellow colour, white creamy foam. Nose of pineapple, citrus. Taste is medium sweet, light lemony, some papaya notes. Not very bitter for an IPA. Good.