Going Old School

Going Old School (Amager / Bagby, Taani / USA) pdl 0,5 l. alc 7,5 %vol. Ratebeeri liigimääratlus "IPA" ja hinnang 88 punkti!!

Tootjainfo: "These days it appears that trends in the craft beer world come and go faster than ever before. Beer drinkers with a fresh Untappd account will claim to be experts in craft only two months after advocating to anybody, who’d care to listen, that PBR was the hottest thing since beer floats. And they WILL demand new stuff, will insist on the lazy and dried out brewers to get their act together. And so we do…. Let’s talk IPAs. We’ve had the red ones, the white ones and the black ones. And now we hardly remember those styles anymore. At the moment it’s all about the haze, that lovely juicy haze. It’s great, it’s amazing, it’s wonderful. And in spite of all the bitching above, it is truly inspiring to be challenged, to be kept sharp. But then again, sometimes it’s also such a relief to return to a beer that you really feel for, a beer that has dug its own cavity in your heart. To a true hophead’s brewery like Amager such a beer is a West Coast IPA – a style that was itself new and innovative quite some years ago. So juicy and hop forward, with hops that bite. And when Jeff Bagby came by our brewery for a collaboration, it was a no brainer that a West Coast IPA should be born. Jeff with a past at Stone and Pizza Port and a hand in some of the juiciest IPAs out of California. Bagby Beer Company and Amager share the love for those potent hop bombs, and we’re not even ashamed to admit it."

Keskmist kasvu pikakaelaline pudel, sildil surfar. Kollaka varjundiga vaht täidab kolmandiku klaasist, kadudes küll üsna kiirelt, kuid haakudes kena vahupitsina klaasiseintele. Õlle värvus - kirkalt kuldne. Aroom on magusakas, puuviljane, meenutades täisküpset ananassi.

Esmamekk on keskmisest suts raskema kehaga ja mõrkjas-magusakas. Keskmaitse on mahlane, lainetav ja loksuv, võluvalt mahla ja vaigu segune. Lõppmaitse läheb üle vaigusemasse poolde, lausa kuusevõrselikku hapukasa-mõrkjasse ilmanurka. Järelmekk toob üllatavlt esile üldise mõrkja mahlasuse tagant suisa biskviidist linnaselist pehmust ning lõppudelõpuks kumab keelepäral merre loojuva päikese vürtsikas sira.

Keskmisest tipake raskema kehaga, mõõdukalt karboniseerunud ja kuivapoolse paletiga, mõrkjas-magusakas-mõrkjas-hapukas-magusakas-vürtsika buketiga Übertasandi rüübe. Hea, väga hea IPA. Kui see oleks vana Gambrinuse üks esimesi kokkupuuteid IPAdega, siis ohiks kiita nii et vähe pole. hetkel aga tuleb tõdeda, et tõepoolest on saavutatud "vanakooli IPA" selle sõna nii u 15 aastases tähenduses. Noaotsatäis kirbemat hallitusjuustu sobiks siia manu õige kenasti.

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