7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Clear golden beer with a white head. Aroma of stone fruits, mild apricot, pale malt. Taste of ripe apricot, dry stone fruits, pine, moderate bitterness.

7

Belgian piss

7

lol

6.8

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

Double IPA hopped with two classics in the New World hop department, Amarillo and Citra; can from Drink Malpaix in Walcourt. Egg-white, moussy, membrane-lacing, dense and stable head, misty deep golden robe with pale orangey hue, initially clear but turning hazy with sediment - clearly the looks of an old school West Coast DIPA and nowhere near a NEDIPA. Aroma of dandelion, mugwort and other bitter weeds, unripe peach, old bread crust, dry hay, white pepper, rusk, touch green olive. Dry, unripe-fruity onset, green banana and unripe peach, medium carbonation; smooth and bit oily body, dry cereally and bread-crusty maltiness, grainy even, bittered by a leafy, old grapefruit peel-like, wormwoody hoppiness providing a lingering spiciness and rootiness that dries the entire finish. The alcohol remains perfectly hidden. Not very convincing if you ask me: this feels like a more-than-average dry and bitter tripel rather than a true IPA; this happens all the time in Belgium when brewers, big and small, attempt to create IPAs for the sheer marketing value of the term, but I must honestly say that I was expecting Borinage to pull it off. Work afoot here - but if consumed as a dry tripel or hoppy 'edelbier', you will probably be much less disappointed.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

30/IV/21 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: 22/XII/22 (2021-344)

Little cloudy orange beer, huge creamy fluffy yellowish head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: floral, fruity, yeasty, some tropical fruits, grapefruit. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: pretty bitter, fruity, grapefruit, marijuana, citrus, bit grassy, floral, soapy touch. Aftertaste: nice, dry, bitter, bit resinous, piny, grapefruit, bit chemical, medicinal, meh, not bad, not great.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

33cl bottle from Rob the Gourmets’ Market in Brussels. Collab Brasserie du Borinage and Bastard Brewers brewed @ La Manufacture Urbaine in Charleroi. F: medium, egg-white, good retention. C: gold, hazy. A: orange, tangerine, bit dusty, floral, bit pine. T: medium malty base, orange, tangerine, caramel, bit mineral, decent bitterness, soft carbonation, nice if not as DIPA, enjoyed.

7

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

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