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Copenhagen 8/9 2020. 33 cl can. A gift from colleagues. Keith Shore drawing of the little guy with the black hat hiding in evergreen foliage on the can.

Pours hazy, pale yellow with a big dense white head residing as a crown atop of the beer. Settles as 5 cm thick layer of foam covering the surfface of the beer completely. Substantial lacing.

Aroma is a bit subdued due to the massive amount of foam. Fresh tropical fruit mingling with citric notes. Peach and mango. Grape fruit and citrus.

Strong carbonation. Thin, watery, lively and tingling texture.

Flavor is medium intense with a medium strong sweetness followed by a lighter bitterness. Aftertaste is lightly bitter and ligngers shortly. Finish is semi dry.

Pretty good bang for the buck for an ABV of 3,5.

Drank at Notes Bar & Kitchen, Coimbra.

 

330ml bottle - I read 'torrified wheat' as 'terrified wheat'. Why wouldn't I?

This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some decent finely webbed lace around the glass as things quickly blow off.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, muddled domestic citrus peel, some hard water flintiness, and plain leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, oat bran, orange and red grapefruit citrus rind, some damp minerality, and more earthy, musty, and piney hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of hop astringency perhaps not adhering to the local ordinances at this point in the process. It finishes trending dry, the hops edging out the malt in the lingering sphere.

Overall - this is one of the better low ABV IPAs that I have yet to meet, as it maintains a fullness that is normally lacking. However, I don't think that I will be paying six dollars a pop for this ever again, because, y'know, what's the freakin' point? Bang for yer buck, mateys!

 

Slightly hazy golden color. Aroma has soft floral notes like elderflower and grassy hops. Light body, medium effervescence, soft bitterness and floral hop notes. Easy drinking, a well made session IPA.