Emelisse Double IPA

Brewed by Bierbrouwerij Grand-Café Emelisse
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Kamperland, Netherlands

(Bottle, Arendsnest, Amsterdam, 3 Aug 2009) Dark amber colour with frothy, beige head. Fruity, malty nose with citrus, caramel, orange peel and a touch of pine needles. Malty, fruity taste with heavy notes of pine needles, resin, orange peel and bittersweet orange marmalade. Long bitter citrussy, piney finish backed up with a solid caramel malt foundation. Full body, fairly sweet. Excellent beer.

Bottle at home ... from my GBBF haul ... amber .. big white off white head ... dull carboardy malt ... bitter toffee and quite a lot of toffee ... quite a lot of hops ..little yeast ... some fruit ... Ah Joris;s Burnt cake sums this up. Its the burnt raisin caramelised rasin toy get on the edge of a Dark fruit cake when its a little over done...tart hops

(Bottled 06/2009, 9% ABV) Opaque amber with a medium, firm and lacy head. Toffee-malty aroma with yeasty hints and some grassy hops underneath. Sweetish-malty flavor with the apparently hefty amount of hops only coming up in the finish. Some gluey notes typical of homebrews of this ABV, and a thick, cookie-malty layer above all. Medium, slicky body with soft carbonation. This is not bad - it’s just quite strange. Like a test version of German-American IPA tuned to fit the Dutch sweet tooth, and brewed with Belgian-style yeast.

Brewing IPA’s Dutch style is becoming a bit of a trend around here lately, and the Emelisse brewers are the second ones to give it a go after De Molen. Their version is less yeasty than the Molen IPA’s but is still unfiltered and retains the soft bodied consistency of Dutch and Belgian beers. A well crafted beer that aims for balance rather than outstanding features. People used to (D)IPAs from American microbreweries might find it a bit tame.

Bottle (at ChrisO, bottled 06/2009). Orange hazy color, good creamy off-white head. Very toffeish sweet aroma (diacetyl?). Quite sweet flavor, fruity, hoppy aftertaste. Very odd and not very good double IPA.

Bottled. Amber colour, small beige head. Aroma is harsh malts and grains, cereals and some slight notes of bread. Flavour is sour wooden infection. Mild chocolateish notes as well. Probably not in tthe best possible condition.

This orange beer poured with a decent off-white head and a toffee aroma. The flavor is sour caramel malt with some hop bitterness.

Pours clean copper with an ok off-white head. Aromas of paler stone fruits and floral hop. Medium body with mild frothy carbonation. Flavor is a bit peach or apricot. Finishes lush and decently bitter. Rather floral.