6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottled. Hazy golden colour, big white head. Aroma is fruity, floral, and some wooden and mild nectary tones. Flavour is nectar, some wooden, mild floral, fruity and some hebal tones. Mild spiciness in the finish.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

22/XII/19 - 75cl bottle @ C'kes crib, BB: 6/II/24 (2019-2183) Thanks to Ama for sharing the bottle!

Clear orange blond beer, big creamy yellowish head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: floral, bit soapy, citrus, spicy, dry, bit herbal. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish, very floral, bitter and slightly soapy, herbal, spicy touch. Aftertaste: sweet malty notes, spicy, grains, hay, very floral finish.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Clear amber with a 3/2 white head. Aroma of bitter oranges with a marmalade touch, floral, doughy and spicy notes. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation. Some sticky bread crust sweetness along with some apricot before floral and citrus notes and a hint of resin. Firm to strong bitterness in the manner you'd expect from De Ranke. Deeply refreshing.

7

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

THT Oktober. Bottle. Hazy golden with white head. Hazy golden with white head. Sweet malts, dry malts, moderate sweet and bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation.

6.8

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Sampled at THT October. Almost clear golden with white head. Lots of fresh herbal hops, grassy, light lime, spicy hops, soft malts, flowery, bread crust, caramel. Medium sweet and quite bitter. Medium bodied. Lots of green hops here. OK.

7

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8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle. Color: Hazy orange golden, frothy white head. Aroma: Floral, yeasty, hop. Taste: Rather complex for an IPA. Some Belgium Saison yeast, fruity notes of yellow fruit, stonefruit, some banana and bitter citrus, orange zest. Medium hopbitterness. Moderate malty sweetness. Medium body, average carbonation. Long lasting very hopbitter and citrus zest finish. Very nice. I don't know Brasserie Dunham, but this is what I would call an European IPA with a great, typical De Ranke twist.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Belgian style IPA hopped with classic Centennial and Cascade, made by De Ranke in collaboration with Canadian craft brewer Dunham, the opposite of Simplexité done earlier in the opposite direction, both geographically and conceptually. Bottle with De Ranke style front label, 75 cl with crown cap, shared with Goedele. Off-white, mousy, frothy, cobweb-lacing, beautifully irregularly 'rolling' head over a lightly hazed, pale orange blonde beer with strong visible sparkling, turning misty with sediment. Aroma of grapefruit and the white underside of an orange peel, straw, damp bread crust, fresh wormwood leaves, unripe peach, radish peel, old cheese rind, green olives, dough, touch halfripe banana. Unripe peach and apricot fruitiness in the onset, touch banana again but generally quite restrained in sweetness, very spritzy yet nowhere painfully stinging carbonation, minerally in effect and fit for the style. Bread crust- and cracker-like dryish malt body, lingering fruitiness soaked up by a strong, earthy, very rooty and quinine-like, grapefruity hop bitterness, very wormwoody and long-stretching, while earthy and phenolic yeasty notes play around on top. Very bitter, earthy 'Belgian' IPA of a kind I can certainly appreciate, the New World hops however fail to yield the bright citrusy and piney aromas they could have yielded - but the overall dry, earthy, spicy De Ranke character makes up for that, if you ask me.

8.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bouteille 75cl de Malt Attacks. Orange-doré, col épais et tenace un peu blanc-cassé. Arôme est classique de DeRanke tout comme DLS à sa signature, ici on reconnaît bien cette brasserie. Effet belge au niveau levure, avec des ajouts houblonnés plaisant et qui arrivent à garder un bouquet terreux avec un effet herbacé de Cascade rappelant presque le thé vert macha. Palais est fortement orienté belge au niveau tant de la levure que du caractère houblonné. Je note pas mal de sécheresse et de terreux. Herbacé avec une petite touche forestière-pin, sorte de fleurs de houblons séchées.