A new variant on the original Paalsteen theme, a blonde hopped with Citra promoted as the local beer of Sint-Martens-Latem (Belgium's wealthiest municipality by the way, just west of Ghent) but obviously brewed elsewhere, this is apparently a stronger version hopped with Mosaic - and labelled pale blue rather than dark blue. Found in the Delhaize supermarket at the Watersportbaan in Ghent. Huge, foamy, cauliflower-like, busily cobweb-lacing, large-bubbled yet tightly knit and very firm, snow white head on an initially lightly hazed, warm golden robe with apricot tinge and fine strings of sparkling, turning more orangey and misty with sediment, even 'dark blonde' and cloudy in the very end. Aroma of warm biscuit, Betterfood cookies, lychee, clementine, peach jam, drying chamomile, bread crust, wild parsnip, pear blossoms, banana peel, honey, cooked green peas, clove, wet sand, dried but not fried onion rings. Fruity onset, sweetish but the sweetness is partially suggested by the Mosaic aromas; peach, some banana, some pineapple and apricot esteriness with a fine-structured yet sharpish minerally carbonation effect piercing through; rounded core, bready with even more (yeasty) breadiness as the sediment is added, a tad biscuity in its general effect of honeyish residual sugars residing on top of this soft breadiness. Clove-like phenolic accents mingle with the Mosaic, which in this case provides retronasal elements of lychee, honey pomelo and perhaps guava, but in a restrained, I would almost say 'non-IPA' kind of way - so do not expect that, expect a Belgian tripel of sorts embellished with a fancy New World hop variety behaving earthy and spicy enough to fit in the tripel paradigm. That said, I had the impression that the Citra fitted the regular blonde version even better than the Mosaic fits this stronger version - but it could be the alcohol here, providing a slight wryness in the end, disrupting the play of hops and malts. I had the regular one on several occasions and enjoyed it for what it was; this one does not manage to outshine its predecessor for me, but it is still a well-made and perfectly manageable tripel.