6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottled@HBF2018. ORangeish amber colour with a mediumsized creamy off-white head. Aroma is floral, fruity, some herbal and mild wooden notes. Nice spicines too. Flavour is yeasty, floral, fruity and some quite tropical fruity tones.

5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Very cloudy blond appearance. Aroma is a little grassy. Flavour is similar. Also quite malty. Why is this a "hoppy pilsener"?

6.5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

One of these new, limitedly produced Brabant craft beers; strong gusher, beer spouted out of the bottle neck upon opening. Very thick and rocky, ’papery’, snow white, lacing head over a hazy golden blonde beer with slightly peachy hue. ’Rural’ aroma of dried flowers, unripe peach, dry earth, baker’s yeast, apple peel, straw, old cheese, clove-like phenols, bread crust, potato peel, dried ground ivy. Restrained fruitiness in the mouth (apple peel, green banana, dried apricot, unripe gooseberry but everything in a very subdued way and neither explicitly sweet nor sourish), soft carbo becoming even flatter as the bottle progresses, clearly the carbon dioxide was not (yet?) ’locked’ into the beer. Middle phase has very bready and grainy, vaguely sweetish malts and a hint of soapy and lightly sourish wheat, as well as a velvety effect from the oats. Finish adds some warming ’jenever’-like alcohol, rather badly hidden actually, as well as an earthy yeastiness and grassy and peppery hop bitterishness. Weird beer, and I do not see how this is an ’imperial’ or any other kind of Pilsener: I assume lager yeast has indeed been used, but maybe at a higher temperature than usual for the style, and perhaps lacking sufficient cold lagering afterwards. This is, in appearance, aroma and taste, actually way closer to a saison... Interesting for sure, but technically far from perfect. I applaud this brewery’s venturing in modern international craft beer styles, but again I have to conclude that even though the ideas are fascinating, they need a lot more technical fine-tuning.

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BierKultuur-weekend

7.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Malt Attacks, Brussels. Hazy gold. Sudsy, dirty white head. Nose has fresh hop. Nectarine. White grape. Tinned peaches. Big hop character. Pale, bready malts. Sweet and grainy. Unmistakable Belgian yeastiness. Taste is oily, hoppy bitter. Background, grainy sweetness. Lots of body. Soft chew. Long, fruity, big hop, chewy bitter finish. Easy pils. Big hop. Nothing to dislike!

7.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Du Brabant Perfect Day (by Brasserie du Brabant):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5

17/I/16 - 75cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker) @ Algemene Vergadering Gentse Biervereniging - BB: XII/2018 (2016-46) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the bottle!

Little cloudy blond beer, aery off-white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: pretty fruity, some caramel, bit of banana, non adhesive. Taste: bit sweet, very fruity, some citrus, caramel, pineapple, bitter, malty. Aftertaste: bit sweet, citrus, grapefruit.

7.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

At Kerstbierfestival 2015. Pours unclear blonde, small white head. Smell is yeasty, bit sweet. touch of ’wort’ . Taste is bitter, nicely ’warm’ by the aspect of what seems to me like unfinished fermentation. This actually taste like wort, a little bit. Very hoppy as well. the result - as it was when served - was, to my idea not finished. i am curious what it will be when the rest of the fermentation has been done. Appart from that, I really liked the taste of it as it was today. there’s Always a chance I’m really off, and this ís fully fermented, which is far from bad with a taste like this.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

On tap at Essen Winterbier festival 2015. Appears hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma of fruity hops, citrus, peach, dough and light biscuit. Flavour is light sweet and moderate bitter. Above light bodied with soft carbonation.

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

75 cl bottle. Pours cloduy yellow to orange with a small white head. Aroma is grassy and toasted malty. Sweet, fruity and toasted. Grassy and toasted malt. Bitter and slight herbal. Dry and bitter finish.