7

Cloudy, golden color and a nice white head. Nose Is wheaty hoppy, fruity. Taste Is creamy, Lemon and Grapefruit, wheaty and a little yeasty.fruity-hoopy finish

6.5

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

EB - Can 440ml. @ [ Petalax 🇫🇮 💻👀 Virtual Tasting ] - fonefan & Brugmansia House. 🏡🇩🇰 ☀️ 🐝🦋 [ As Uiltje Epic Tsunami Surf Session ]. ABV: 6.8%. [20250819]. 6/3/7/3/-14

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

355mL can. Pours dark brown with a small beige head. Lots of burnt toast, burnt vanilla, and cinnamon on the nose. Flavour has burnt sugars, crunchy toast, cinnamon. Still a fair amount of sugary sweetness on lingering around. It's okay, but lacking much complexity beyond the initial pastry flavours.

8

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

In my point of view, it is a solid imperial ipa. The alcohol is warm but it is well integrated and not burning your tongue and throat, fruity, side of pineapple, lychee, fruity and perfectly bitter and citrus, 30.09.20 at Epalinges, finding mushrooms, so.perfect beverage with a good meal.

6.6

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Hazy gold with a bubbly white head and a soft citrus aroma. A touch fizzy with juicy fruit, sharp fruity bitterness and a dry bittersweet finish.

Libertine, Shrewsbury

8.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

After a rather successfull attempt at the historical East Coast IPA, I had this deliberately old-fashioned black IPA by Uiltje, also generously donated by Hinke - what an interesting IPA evening that was. Thick and foamy, densely creamy, membrane-like lacing, pale yellowish beige head over a pitch black beer. Rich aroma of spruce tips, bergamot, orange zest, toasted Brazil nuts, dark bitter chocolate, lemonbalm, After Eight, Thai basil, unsmoked pipe tobacco, pink peppercorns, burnt blackcurrants, cooked dark grapes. Lively onset, fruity in a non-estery way, quite juicy even (so we are off to a good start here), reminiscent of fig, pear and ripe blackberry; sweetish with mellow carb and smooth, oily, full mouthfeel. Dark mouth-filling maltiness, toffee, dark chocolate, Macadamia nuts and toast but all very elegant and not becoming too roasty - at least not to the point where it becomes stout-like; instead, from the middle onwards the hops gain momentum, drenching these malts in a citrusy, grapey, zesty bitterness and 'hop fruitiness', piled on top of that dark maltiness and its inherent bitter aspect. The toasty aspect of the malts, however, remains beautifully subordinate to the hops, which eventually even display a Pacific-tropical character, highlighted by a calvados-like alcohol glow which otherwise does not stand in the way of everything. As one of Holland's most experienced IPA brewers, Uiltje, even in the clutches of Heineken, manages to pay tribute to its own track record of Cascadian dark ales, and does so with bravoure and grandeur: while many present-day European BIPAs are essentially hop bitter stouts or porters, this one understands perfectly what the genre is about and brings it to perfect balance. It is black, roast-inclined even, but still completely smells and tastes like an IPA: black IPA is all about finding the exact balancing point in that, which proves far more difficult than many contemporary brewers seem to think. I have been longing for a really good black IPA for a long time and now I finally got it. It surprises me that even within Heineken, this famous brewery is still capable of such greatness - Uiltje has absolutely managed to find the exact balancing point here and produced a black IPA the likes of which are very rare today, even in the States. A masterpiece in its style, as far as I am concerned.

7.6

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

New Uiltje beer with an interesting premise: it tries to recreate the old East Coast IPA, the forerunner of the now-ubiquitous New England idiom, in a time when West Coast IPAs were all the rage; considering how East Coast IPA is apparently not even a category of its own here, this should almost be regarded as a historical beer style - apart from Brooklyn IPA, I cannot even think of such an oldskool East Coast IPA still being produced today... Thanks Hinke for the can! Huge, foamy, egg-white, membrane-lacing, firm, densely moussey head over a hazy peach blonde robe with deep golden glow. Aroma of dried grapefruit zest, fresh dill, Graham crackers, dill seed, wormwood, bitter honey, sundried tomatoes, cheese rind, dry green peppercorns, tonic water, green olives, herb cheese, persimmon, thyme, biscuit. Cleanly fruity onset, dryish even, with notes of dried persimmon and unripe peach but not estery, softish carb with somewhat resinous and oily, smooth mouthfeel; cracker- and slightly toast-like maltiness with a touch of biscuit, under a long-bittering, very grapefruity, wormwoody, green-peppery hop bitterness, dry and oily all the way, while some of that cracker-like maltiness lingers. Something vaguely cheesy (from hops I suppose) is present too, but faintly so. Indeed very oldskool no matter how you look at it: Uiltje, one of the pioneers in postmodern IPA in Holland, knows what that is about, but amplifies the bitterness to such an extent that this is also - ironically - more West Coast than many revivalist West Coast IPAs brewed today... In my memory, East Coast IPAs at the time were more mellow and fruity, i.e. a bit closer to the New England IPA style that succeeded it, but it has admittedly been a very long time since I had one and there is no denying that Uiltje managed to produce an American style IPA here that does taste like a blast from the past. The transition from West Coast to New England happened at the American East Coast for sure, and I believe it is safe to say that this one comes very close to what those early East Coast IPAs represented. A trip down memory lane, or close to that - have a point for that alone.

8.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle picked up from Drankgigant.nl webshop, Vlissingen, Netherlands and consumed sat outside Frank, Plattling Wohnmobilstellplatz. Friday 8th August 2025 after a fab' day at Straubing Gäubodenvolksfest and finishing off with a nice Greek meal at Poseidon opposite where we are staying by the outdoor swimming pool. Pours shark eye black with a creamy mid sized, rapidly departing light beige head. There is sweet praline, toffee also coffee, not too heavy on the brandy but it's there, creamy vanilla, and a nuttiness on the nose. Rich, smooth, indulgent, there's a nice roastiness with hints of dried fruit and maybe some licorice, finishing warmy a bit boozy with a background bitterness. Great stuff, so glad that I picked up two now.

6.5

old Beer52 tick

7

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

Sample, thanks oh6gdx! Almost clear orangey golden, mid sized head. Orangey nose with canteloupe and passionfruit. Mid sweet with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Fruity, biscuity malt. Grapefruit and melon. Mid bitter finish.