Baladin Open

Brewed by Le Baladin
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Piozzo, Italy

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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250ml bottle. Pours a murky gold with a large head. Aroma is earthy, grassy hops, touch of banana and cooked veg. Taste is mostly cooked veg. A bit earthy in the finish, maybe a hint of hops. Fresh in at the shop that day, so fuck knows if it’s poorly made or stuck with distro. American beers get to the country fresh so no reason why an Italian beer can’t.

Bottle thanks to hoppypocket. Light hazy gold pour, white head and medium lacing. Aroma: Lots of cooked veggies, earth, old grain some alcohol. Very brash. Taste is musty grain, again very earthy. Just doesn’t feel very refined. Definitly bad.

Large frothy white head. gl. md. translucent sparkling thin dark yellow body. aroma: heavy malty and hoppy, flowers, orange, honey and vanilla. if: light sweet and acidic moderate bitter. ff: light sweet heavy bitter; long duration. palate: medium body watery texture medium carbonation light alcoholic finish. Acidez diferenciada, sem ser azeda, amargor lupulado, permeado magistralmente por dulçor maltado achocolatado, fugindo do padrão ipa, 120 s

Tiny 25cl bottle from Beerhouse. Served into a snifter. Pours a cloudy but bright sunrise orange, two fingers of white head, very nice lace retention. I don’t know how old this bottle is, but I don’t sniff a lot of hops at all. Light malt presence, small yeast smell as well. Moderate bitterness in the mouth, soft to medium carbonation, kind of watery texture. Honestly this doesn’t taste like a tipycal IPA to me, I would have loved a little bit more body and hops presence. Still nice tho.

Bottle at le mondiale 2011. Big resinous hop aroma. Quite pungent with a strng cereal maltiness. More of a cranked up english pale ale with high alpha hops. The hops fade and the biscuity malts come through in the finish.

light hoppy aroma,yellow,hazy, white foam, light sweetness, lightly bitter, medium body, creamy, soft carbonation, short finish.

Bottle from Beers of Europe. Hoppy resin aroma. Rich golden amber colour, good head, lot of sediment. Strong hop, resin, alcohol flavour. Lingering alcohol aftertaste. Nice bottle. Slightly too strong on the alcohol flavour. Otherwise very good.

Bottle. Clear golden with big white head. Flavour is malt, hops, citrus, bitter, fruit, little pine and a little sweet.

Hazy yellow color. Smell is nice with hops and fruits, but the taste is a bummer. It’s not bad but it’s way too sweet. Doesn’t taste like an IPA.

This beer scored a bit above average. To me it could use more bitterness, bit more fruitiness. Not saying it’s bad though. It’s a little bit dull for an IPA.