Brouwbar DI55 Double IPA

DI55 Double IPA

 

Brouwbar in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

IPA - Imperial / Double Regular
Score
7.16
ABV: 9.5% IBU: 86 Ticks: 3
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7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

30 May 2021. At Brouwbar; cheers to Anke & Ama Deke! Clear amber, lasting, foamy, off-white head. Aroma of mango, pink grapefruit, pomegrenate, pine, spruce, biscuit, pink pepper, peanuts, gin, vague burnt BBQ herbs. Taste has sweetish mango, pomegrenate & melon over a biscuity & peanutty malty base, quite bitter grapefruit kicking in along spruce, herbs & spicy yeast. Peppery & piney hoppy finish, lingering accents of red fruit, grapefruit peel, herbs and expected spicy gin-like alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Powerful and complex DIPA, a feat - again - by Brouwbar!

Tried on 17 Jun 2021 at 18:35


7.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

One of two new Brouwbar beers created during the 'second lockdown' in Belgium, along with a quadrupel. Bottle from the brewery, cheers Benjamin! Medium thick, egg-white, irregularly membrane-lacing, creamy, slowly breaking but generally stable head on a warm peach blonde beer with orangey-brownish tinge. Rich and strong bouquet of ripe mango (from half a yard away), orange jam, lychee, overripe yellow kiwi, dough, gin, rosemary, passionfruit coulis, pink peppercorns, mandarin peel and a background whiff of herb cheese hinting at slight oxidation of the hops - but by no means disturbing in my opinion. Lively fruity onset, mango, ripe peach, guava and lychee, softly stinging and somewhat minerally carbonation, full and smooth body, bit 'fluffy'; doughy and sweet-biscuity malt 'soil' soaked in highly aromatic, 'sultry' tropical hoppiness, lots of mango juice, ripe papaja and guava, hints of melon and ripe tangerine, also providing a powdery bitter touch though softly so, while additional pepperiness grows from a gin-like alcohol glow, heating the throat a bit yet managing to stay aside for long enough not to disturb the workings of the hops. Very luscious and generously tropical, notably more so than earlier DIPAs made by Brouwbar - as usual with this brewery, all the preceding beers, though enjoyable enough for what they were, seem to be mere exercises in gradually achieving more and more character. The alcohol is perhaps just a tad too present and the hops seem to be a little bit oxidized, but these factors only help to establish that character and I can only appreciate that. Too bad that this one was created during a period when Brouwbar is necessarily closed - this deserves a second batch, served fresh from tap, when the catering business in Belgium is allowed to reopen. In this bottled form, though: among the better IPA embodiments made by Brouwbar so far.

Tried on 04 Jan 2021 at 01:50


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

25/XII/20 - 33cl bottle from the brewery, shared @ home, BB: 1/VI/21 (2020-1156)

Pretty cloudy amber blond beer, big bubbled but small head, dissipates immediately, leaving no lacing in the glass. Aroma: tropical fruits, some nail polish, orange peel, mango, pineapples, sweet malts, caramel, honey, bit oxidized, hint of rum, some overripe tropical fruits. MF: no carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sweet malts, caramel, quite some alcohol, sugary, rum, soft bitterness, some nail polish remover, ripe pineapple, papaya, guava, overripe fruits, pretty bitter. Aftertaste: rather dry finish, bitter, lots of alcohol warming in the throat, more tropical fruits, dried orange peel.

Tried from Bottle at Brouwbar on 25 Dec 2020 at 22:00