t IJ Columbus

2/1/05 330ml. Plaza liquor. Amber with small white head. Spicey hoppy aroma. Sharp yeasty spicey taste with some alcohol burn.

Date: 09/02/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

opaque light orange, whispy white head, touch of lace, yeasty bread aroma with light fruit, big yeast flavor, light bitterness, touch of dry fruit,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Bottled @ Cafe Belgique, Amsterdam. A red beer with a small white head. Aroma is fruity and flowery. Taste is malty and sweet. Nice flowery hops in the end.

Bottle. High fluffy but lasting off-white head. Haxy orange body. Grassy and hoppy aroma with a hint of nuts. Fruity (mainly oranges) well catbonated and hoppy flavor. Long bitter hops aftertaste.

[Shared with Erik.] I like thisone quite a lot. Notes of flowers and parfume in the good way, some bitterness, fruits and yeasty.

330. Thanks, TheWolf! I think I may be starting to get this funk thing. Slowly. And this beer is available in Seattle now, at least occasionally, so maybe I’m just taking baby steps, but I am kind of liking this beer. Pours hazy coppery dark amber with a thick platinum blonde head, lots of lace. Big funky nose: sour cherries, foot, basement, horse blanket. Clearly some widely variegated spontaneous fermentation happening, albeit down the road a piece from the Belgian originals. Fizzy carb, medium body, lots of dank heavy funk all over the mid-palate. This one isn’t actually a whole lot easier to take than the seriously funkified lambics, but it’s juuuust sweeter/softer enough to hit me where I want to be hit and it’s a pleasure to drink. A gateway funk, perhaps.

smells very hoppy, almost like an IPA. golden brown with big head. after tasting it its still bitter hoppy with a few sweet caramel hints.

Draught at the t’IJ brewpub. Amber color with small floating chucks and creamy head. Bittersweet, very phenolic, peppery, worty and toffeish aroma and flavor. Some orange and lemon flavor. This was the best of the beers tasted at the brewpub and I was quite dissappointed. I very much prefer the dryer bottled versions of IJ beers.