by Rügener Insel-Brauerie

This beer from Insel Brauerie, on the island of Rügen in the German Baltic coast is an IPA with a difference.  To borrow words from the brewery’s own site, they describe the beer as being “strong, full of character, Nordically rough-edged…the roar of the Baltic Sea captured in the glass.”

Simply calling this beer a Double IPA would really do it an injustice, and have the drinker expecting this beer to be something that it doesn’t ever want to be.

We have a rich malty backbone supporting a beer with lots of hop character for a single hop beer.  Only 100% German Magnum hops are used here, but the beer is fermented over a bed of pinecones and pine branches.   And as is common for the Inselbrau beers, the beers are open fermented.

It definitely adds a resinous piney character, without it being sweet in nature. Quite the opposite in fact, with the beer having a dryness that makes it a very refreshing beer that finishes dry and slightly bitter with a pleasant earthy, piney aftertaste that lingers.

The label declares this as ‘seltenes bier’ which means ‘rare beer’.  You probably won’t have a more interesting DIPA in a while.

 

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Country
Germany
Alcohol
7.5%
Style
Imperial IPA
Size
330ml

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