Can from a local bottle shop. Aroma is fruity hop, tropical fruits, soft pale malt, orange, mango, hint of coconut. Moderate bitter and slightly sweetish. Medium body. Good one by Uiltje.

Bottle picked up from Beyond Beer webshop, Hamburg, consumed at home Saturday 28th March 2026 after a hard day of gardening (mostly cutting back the old apple tree). We had a Greek meal tonight, Chicken Souvlaki, Greek Salad, Pittas, Roasted Potatoes. Listening to the new album from Seamus Fogerty - Ships. Pours very dark brown edging towards black with a beige head. The Speyside cask certainly leaves it's mark, that said it's not in yer' face. Smooth and easy drinking for the abv, chocolate and a little liquorice combine. Like the others in this series it's not showy but it's a solid effort. Score: 7.4

Keg at taphuys. Pours golden, nose is huge grapefruit, floral, lemon, taste is juicy citrus, sweet, refreshing. 7

Keg at taphuys. Pours hazy golden, nose is caramel, citrus, hay, taste is sweet citrus, floral, banana. 7/7/8/8/7

Op tap bij Proeflokaal Reijngoud. Diepgouden kleur, witte kraag. Dennen, harsig, rubber, witte van citrusschil, de man met de hamer was al langsgeweest maar ik weet nog dat het bier me niet kon bekoren. Lichte body.

Triple IPA (or close to it at least - for me the use of 'triple' in IPA context requires an ABV of minimum 10% but this is rather subjective obviously) in which, oddly, not the hops are explicited as the stars of the show, but some yeast strain indigenous to La Réunion in the Indian Ocean, isolated from an indigenous species of St. John's wort there by a local craft brewer - but from what I could find, this yeast strain is just plain old Saccharomyces cerevisiae growing in an inaccessible place in the wild. Strange to find something like this on the shelf of an Albert Heijn supermarket, but this is 2026 after all (not to forget that the once bold and innovative Uiltje has been taken over by corporate brewing meanwhile too)... Irregular yet stable, opening, off-white, tiny bubbled head lacing in shreds over an initially clear, deep orange blonde, in fact almost amber robe with visible sparkling in the middle. Aroma of drying orange peel, grapefruit zest, pink peppercorns, red curry paste, turmeric, triple sec, dry biscuit, crackers, wodka, deep-fried parsley, dried rowan berries, roasted bell pepper, paprika powder. Dryish onset with flashes of sweeter persimmon through dried peach and dried lingonberry notes, yet altogether clean and very low in esters; moderately to even softly carbonated with oily, full mouthfeel (though seemingly thinned a bit by alcohol). Peanutty, cracker-like 'amber' malts, only remotely sweetish, under slightly tropical hop aromas (mango hints, honey pomelo, tamarillo - but all quite 'muffled') and growing hop bitterness, which eventually becomes wide-spread over the tongue, even if an important part of that bitterness is due to the alcohol. The latter behaves altogether decent for a 9.5% pale beer, but in the end still becomes way too astringent for me, though I have to admit that with the IPA concept in mind, its pepperiness does lend the hops a bit more 'punch'. Dry finish, with the hops being citrus pith-, tonic water- and bitter herb-like, in spite of those retronasal tropical aromas (which were very volatile anyway). In that sense, this reminds me a bit of the new Mr. Worldwide by Dok I had earlier tonight: strong, clear (!), sleek and bitter, but still with flashes of tropical fruit sweetness... Notice, meanwhile, that I am primarily talking about the play of hops, malts and alcohol here but hardly about the properties of the yeast, because it does not matter so much: the beer is not yeasty at all to begin with and moreover this 'yellow flower' strain is actually, biologically, just cultured yeast, so why bother? Generally speaking, a decent triple IPA of the 'old school', West Coast idiom - or at least 'kissed' by it. Can I start having hopes that the original West Coast style is silently making its way into the present Euro IPA world?

Pours a hazed lemonjuice. Small white head. Scent is citrus, mild. Taste is medium, very common NA craftbeer. Bit citrus, sweetish, ok. Very 13 in a dozen

Black with a beige head. Thick, full bodied. Good dry roasted notes over sweet malts, chocolate, light vanilla, cocoa, a touch of very dark ripe fruits. Long, lingering bittersweet finish with cocoa, chocolate, sweet malts. Wouldn’t call this a special beer nor does it bring anything new to the table but it is a very well made beer with loads of goodness within.

Blik 44cl thuis. Zacht, juicy, wat witte druif, citrustonen, maltig, haver, grapefruit, mango, wat bittertonen, ananas, fruitzoeten. (15-3-2026).