#all-citra

Scandi doubles

They like their hops, up in the northern latitudes of Europe. By way of demonstration, today I've got three beers from three different Nordic brewers, all in the double IPA style. The first is by a new brewery to me, Friends Co. of Helsingborg in Sweden. It's called All Citra DDH IPA , expanding on that by telling us there's 20g per litre of the titular American hop. There's also an instruction to "roll and flip the can to mix well before use" (I didn't), so this is a beer unashamed of its cloudiness, and is indeed a quite opaque eggy yellow. It smells nicely zesty, rather than the vanilla-laden sweetness I feared. The flavour does open sweetly, with soft ripe peach and a burst of pineapple juice. A very faint pithy bitterness follows this, though the tropical aspect never quite fades out, and bounces all the way back in the finish. I was on the lookout for grittiness, but there's none, thankfully, and it's quite full and warming, despite its mere 7% ABV. Vanilla custard is late, but a