BREWER: Løwlander Beer Co., North Holland, Netherlands
STYLE: IPA
ABV: 6%
VESSEL: 330ml brown bottle
TWITTER: @LowlanderBeer
INSTAGRAM: lowlanderbeer
DATE POSTED: 24th August 2019
JYMI SAY’S…
Now, I think most people dream of making it… though I also think most people’s definition of making it are pretty different.
Some folk feel making it is having enough money to sink a rather large liner.
Others may feel like inventing something that changes the world could be classed as making it.
Whilst there are also those out there that train and work hard for years in a sport that they may not even be paid for. But if that chap or lass then goes on to represent their country they would consider themselves as making it I’m sure.
I thought that I had made once I had got married. I was wrong…
Because then my children came along. Then I really thought that finally I had made it. But I was wrong once more.
Because then I got a visual on a Lowlander IPA bottle and thought to myself, “I will not have truly made it until I’m a content monkey, wearing a captains hat on top of a snazzy hair do, smoking a pipe surrounded by bottles of ale”.
What an incredible bottle we have on our hands here. Ape aside the colours, artwork, fonts and ratios are just sublime. It doesn’t necessarily make this IPA look enticing nor crushable or even really like a bottle of beer. But it does look great!
Words coming out from our good looking vessel’s label include… Botanicals. Corriander. White Tea. Citrusy. Hoppy. Bitter. Refreshing. Spice.
Delve in?
Yes. I. Did.
Good beer this. No, in fact this is a really good beer. Actually, it’s great. It has a really soft texture to it suggesting the brewer took extra care whilst doing their thing. The taste is actually very well described on the front label with the mentions of coriander and tea. There is without doubt the presence of both but only subtly. It is also citrusy, hoppy and bitter. We’re also told of these refreshing notes of spice and after a lot of watch staring they eventually turned up way into the aftertaste. Brilliant.
Lowlander IPA doesn’t taste like it’s 6%, does taste like it’s brewed with botanicals and basically is an absolute gem of a brew.
Jymi’s Rating: 80%
SAMMY SAY’S…
Sammy’s Rating: 82%
MUSE ON BOOZE RATING: 81%
MOB review next weekend: PULP by VERDANT BREWING CO.
Next Sunday the UK Summer will be officially OVER. Done. Finished.
But don’t worry. Before the 9 month sub zero storm arrives we will be bringing you not one but TWO more Gins to conclude #MOBSOG2… what those Gins will be, we don’t know.
