Пиво Brussels Calling (2018) - Brasserie de la Senne

Brussels Calling is our anniversary beer, brewed every year on December 22, the day of the very first brew in our new Brussels installations in 2010. The base is always a blond beer, 6.5% ABV, but we change the hops every year. This year we go back to Germany, with new varieties literally selected on the field. The result is a “Belgian IPA”, in which balance is king and - weird but true - room is left for fermentation flavours.
The bouquet of the 2017 edition is intensely exotic (bergamot, grapefruit, kumquat, peach) and floral, with a light sulphur note that gives it character. These flavours get longer and more intense in the taste, paired with a nice malt base, and they are structured by an intense but elegant bitterness, that reinforces the freshness of the beer. In the end the fruity character merges with a long and dry bitterness.
The experts will recognise in its beautiful haziness a massive dry hopping!