Brasserie Dieu Du Ciel! Disco Soleil – American IPA at 6.5% ABV

Brasserie Dieu Du Ciel! Disco Soleil American IPA at 6.5% ABV ($2.95 via Beer Club Offering #14, 341ml, bottle date 14-Nov-2014)

Pours cloudy pale gold with one finger of rocky white head, excellent retention, moderate lacing. (4/5) Nose is multiple variations on citrus: pulp, pith, and rind, with tropical fruit sweetness and pale malt. (8/10) Taste is moderate sweet and moderate bitter. (8/10) Light to medium body, prickly to moderate sustained carbonation, and a bittersweet finish. (4/5)

Really solid A/IPA: bright and juicy citrus, lots of fun to drink. The cloudy gold colour makes it almost look like the orange juice it smells like. Not sure I could clearly identify the citrus as kumquat, as opposed to sweet mandarins, for example, but I’ll take their word for it. The initial flavour is all fairly high (yet well-balanced) sweet citrus, giving way to a nice hoppy bitterness towards the finish, and the ABV never makes an appearance. I could drink a lot of these. (16/20)

(Yes, I forgot to take a photo before diving in. Draw your own conclusions.)

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