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Copenhagen 11/2 2018. 33 cl bottle from Vin de Table, Frederikssundsvej, Kbh. NV. Fixing tools with some obscure mix of hops ready to inject on the label. Reminds me of an underground comics drawing.

Pours hazy amber. So hazy it reaches the point of opacity. Foamy off-white head. Settles as 3 cm thick blanket of foam. Massive lacing.

Aroma is intense and comes through the abundant amount of foam. Fermented exotic fruit and a shitload of bitter grapefruit. The malt provides a slightly sweet base. Some alcohol provides a boozy odor.

Light carbonation and medium thick and creamy soft texture.

Flavor is medium sweet followed by strong fruity bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter. Lingering.

Soft spoken but rich and bitter IPA.

On tap at the source.

Pours a clear amber with fine head.

Smell is fruity and a bit juicy and peppery with notes of citrus, brown bread and peach.

Taste is fruity and a bit peppery with a solid bitterness. Notes of pine, citrus, peach, black tea and some caramel.

Mouthfeel is medium, smooth and well carbonated.

Overall, a very nice IPA with a slight twist,

Darker than your average IPA srm, this one is darker than even amber, has some brown and auburn thrown in with it. Carbonation was well done, 3/5" head on it. Aroma was not really hoppy, dry hopping isn't quite as ubiquitous around the world as you may presume.

Taste dropped lots of hops, but almost nothing beyond the bitterness they offer up. The yeast was definitely not American, brought some phenols and spice rack with it. Toffee, caramel, brown malt notes. Expensive import, glad I got to try it, but not going back to bang either. Plenty bready, dark bread.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

330ml bottle. "Free Hops" clinics, indeed!

This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber hue, with a teeming tower of overflowing bullshit head, the kind wholly unnecessary in this quality control world of ours, which eventually leaves some weirdly decent patchy swaths of sudsy lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.

It smells of peppy grapefruit, blood orange, pineapple, and overripe peach fruit, edgy pine resin notes, a spicy rye and caramel malt collaboration, and further leafy, somewhat perfumed hops. The taste is more sharply bitter grapefruit and generic orange pith, wet leafy pine needles, clammy caramel malt, a spicy, indistinct rye graininess, a touch of warming alcohol, and mild leafy, weedy hops.

The bubbles are rather plain and ineffectual, the body an adequate medium weight, and mostly pithy in its heady attempt at smoothness. It finishes off-dry, barely, the hovering piney, and reduced citrusy hops kind of smothering the lingering caramel malt in its version of an end game.

An agreeable enough RIPA, though the guest malt ingredient doesn't seem to have the normal staying power one might expect from yer average grain. Still, a hoppy affair, that much is true, one who's muddled first impression shouldn't be cause for anything less than an overall rosy appreciation.