Into The Haze
DEYA Brewing Company

Copenhagen 7/2 2022. 50 cl can from Mikkeller web-shop. White can with a child-like drawing of some threatening eyes, what looks like a palm tree and a cross-breed between a lizard and a dog (however that should be possible).

Pours opaque, hazy, golden yellow with a mid-sized white head. Settles as a thin but consistent layer of flimsy foam just covering the surface of the beer. Substantial lacing.

Aroma is fairly intense with a light odor of sweet, stone fruits and tropical fruit mingling with citric fumes. Peach and mango. Blood orange, tangerine and lemon.

Light carbonation. Slightly thick, oily, soft, smooth, lightly tingling texture.

Flavor is intense with a medium strong sweetness neatly balanced by a medium strong bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter and a bit unforgiving. Lingering. Finish is dry.

Fine, dry and quite potent. Good one.

 

 

Deya's best, of the many I tried in and purchasing cans at the brewery. Balanced if just a little sweet for my taste, this beer proved to me that they know how to use hops to make a true NEIPA.

 

 

 

 

Pours a hazy, pale orange coloration with a medium, fluffy head. Smells of light biscuity malt and tropical/citrus hops, with notes of mango, passion fruit, grapefruit and lime peel. Taste is a good balance of light biscuity malt and grassy, tropical/citrus hops, with tangy notes of mango and passion fruit and quite zesty notes of grapefruit, lime peel and lemongrass, as well as a certain, grassy dankness and just a hint of chalk. Finishes with a medium bitterness and medium hop burn, as well as some tropical/citrus notes lingering in the aftertaste. Soft, pillowy mouthfeel with a medium body and carbonation.

All right, after my third Deya in a row now, I'm officially not getting the hype, even though this one was by far the best of the lot. For one, all of the stuff I had today tasted more or less the same to me, very grassy, slightly dank and with kinda chalky, washed out tropical/citrus notes, feeling a little one-dimensional, with a certain hop burn and very pale in coloration as well. This was a little more tropical, but still quite strong on the zesty citrus, with a great mouthfeel, as all of their stuff, but all in all, I'm just not feeling this, even though it's barely 45 days old. Maybe their stuff just keeps up REALLY badly though.

 

 

Pours a hazy yellow with fine, soapy head.

Smell is juicy and citrusy with notes of nectarine, grass, peach and mango.

Taste is juicy, soft but powerful. Notes of citrus, mango, peach, nectarine and a hint of elderflower. Solid bitterness and great balance. Drinks like a much stronger beer, tastewise.

Mouthfeel is medium, soft and pillowy with good carbonation.

Overall, an excellent IPA, somewhere in between AIPA and NE IPA.

 

 

Pint at Crate, really good. Grainy, no bitterness. One of the better Euro NEIPAs we have tried.

On tap. White head. Lace. Hazy golden sunset yellow.

Orange juice and floral, earthy hops. Has a vanilla/lactose sweetness. Solid, but could use a bit more flavor.

Sample at Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2018, Blue Session. Really pale and hazy look. Aroma has clean, citrusy hops and some light dank notes. Taste is hoppy and grassy with a light bitterness on the finish. Clean and easy drinking.