 chris_o (4398), London, Greater London, England
May 8, 2008 Updated: May 18, 2008
On tap at t Brugse Beertje, Brugge, April 2008. Hazy blond colour with a moderate fluffy head. Bags of orange peel in the aroma, developing into a big, bitter Seville orange feel on the palate. Lots of spice flavours, although whether that is due to added spices or just the inherent nature of the Belgian yeast I’m not too sure. I suspect the former. There aren’t too many Belgian takes on an American IPA style around and the results are certainly interesting. I’m not remotely interested in whether this merits the double IPA tag but I did feel that the heavy hop rush and the Belgian spiciness could have been a little better integrated. Still a very tasty and intriguing beer. Might try to get some bottles to age.
jerohen (1461), Bussum, Netherlands
Aug 6, 2008 Bottled at home. Orange coloured, thick lasting white head, beautiful. Very spicy nose, some hops but not much. Extremely spicy flavour, some yeast, caramel, cloying. Very bitter flavour. Overly spiced cloyingly bitter beer, absolutely not my thing. But it does look nice.
harrisoni (5011), Ashford, Kent, England
Aug 4, 2008 Bottle at Chris_o Pre GBBF Shindig 08. Cloudy pale gold. Lasting beige head. Some yeast, it’s ok, it’s got some hop, good hop sting on the end. Some earthiness. Hops are good, but too earthy.
BoBoChamp (588), Gent, Belgium
Jul 28, 2008 33cl, from De Hopduvel Gent, complex brew, cloudy, small head, good hoppy brew
austone (305), Turku; Pori, Finland
Jul 20, 2008 Bottle. Flakey golden, thick white head. Alcoholic, delicate fruity aroma, not that much hops. Reminds me of La Chouffe. Flavor is much in the same vein; fruits, stronger hops, sweet malts, yeast, clean grapefruit bitterness. Nothing extreme, nor too exciting. Medium to full bodied, smooth strongly carbonated palate.
TBone (4910), Pori, Finland
Jul 20, 2008 Bottled (BB 2013)
Hazy orange color, huge brown-yellow head. Fruits, hops and smoked ham (!) in the nose. Crisp citrusy and fruity hoppy flavor. Alcohol is quite present. Some cream cracker breadyness and odd yeasty flavors. Someway I can imagine smokey notes also in the flavor. Strange, not easily rateable IPA.
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