pours a lovely copper-amber colour, and the dry-hopping presents an inviting bouquet of tropical fruit aromas.
The beer is less hoppy than maybe expected, with the caramel malt body offsetting some of the hop bitterness. Fruit flavours aplenty with grapefruit, melon, pineapple, apricot, and also a piney note.
Balance is the word for this beer, being a perfect marriage of fruit and malt sweetness with hop bitterness.
History of the Beer: Brouwerij De Molen in the Netherlands holds an annual beer fest (Borefts), where they invite their favourite brewers. For the 2nd festival, he asked brewers to brew an interpretation of his Vuur & Vlam beer; and this is Struise’s.
A big, juicy American style double IPA, dry-hopped with Amarillo
A Double IPA made for Boreft's, featuring hops from De Molen's own hop fields
This collaborative brew between De Molen and Omnipollo is an Imperial Pineapple IPA
A Belgian double IPA, with fourteen different hops added continuously during the brewing process
by Brouwerij Emelisse/Slot-Oostende
A cracking Double IPA, in the true West Coast US style
This beer replaces the Double Rye IPA, loaded with Mosaic, Simcoe and Loral hops with a crisp malt body
A spicy Rye Imperial IPA, with generous additions of Citra, Simcoe and Cascade
A Belgian Double IPA collaboration brew between Stewart Brewing (UK) and De Molen
The body of a Belgian triple style beer, hopped like an American Imperial IPA - the best of two brewing cultures in one beer.
A cross between Flemish brewing tradition, and the big IPA's of the US West Coast
More like a traditional quadrupel than the Pannepot; brewed for the Dutch market.
One of the best Belgian beers you'll ever taste - so much flavour it's impossible to describe.
Struise's spiced strong dark ale Pannepot, matured in Bordeaux barriques for a full 4 years
An amber ale brewed with barley, wheat and oats and finished with a little Belgian candi sugar.
A delicious dark quadruple aged for three years in Woodford Reserve Bourbon barrels
The Struise Tsjeeses is their blond-amber Christmas seasonal beer, with this 2014 vintage being aged in Bourbon barrels
Another masterpiece from Struise, a blonde Christmas Ale full of flavours that come through in layers.
A cracking seasonal blond-amber Christmas beer from De Struise Brouwers
Struise's winter seasonal offering - a 10% strong blond spiced ale
