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Not a lot of flavour

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

15/I/21 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared @ home, BB: 4/VIII/21 (2021-36) Thanks to ElManana for the trade!

Clear deep orange to light red beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: malty, some berries, sourish impression, wort, some raspberries, grains. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of raspberry jam, fruity, some strawberries, slightly sourish, little bitter, nice and fruity. Aftertaste: bitter touch, quite some citrus, raspberry jam, hoppy, good, nice stuff!

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Delhaize. Hazy red, quickly thinning, off-white head. Aroma of blueberry, blackberry, raspberry jam, wheat, bread, apple peel. Taste has sour blackberry & kiwi, sweet raspberry with bready & jam-like maltiness, a bit wheaty. Tart, fruity finish, lots of berries yet a bit weirdly grassy hoppy too, some retronasal bread. Medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. I get the point but it feels a bit forced.

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bouteille 33cl, de BBP Taproom. BB 30/09/2021.
Couleur rosé/ambre, col fin crémeux blanc-rosé.
Arôme est frais, fort bien fruité, retrouve le côté fruits rouges - jus de fruits rouges pressé, les houblons apportent une bonne note relevée sur les agrumes avec une note fine terreuse.

Palais est léger, fruité retrouve le côté mûre plus que framboise le tout avec un zeste d'agrumes qui donne une belle amertume citron vert et venant des houblons qui passe bien avec un côté un peu plus doux fruité des baies qui arrivent en retrait. ok mais sans plus.

Not that tasty... No balance and lacking character. Maybe when it's 30°c and you're really thirsty.

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

Bottle split at CBC Islington, thanks to Dave, 26/04/17. Hazed golden orange with a decent off white covering. Nose carries punchy tropical fruit notes, light spice, red berry rasp, straw. Taste comprises raspberry pips, light strawberry yoghurt, grains, straw, biscuit. Medium body, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Best Muesli Boost beer I've ever had !

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

’Breakfast-themed’ BBP beer, a multi-grain beer with raspberry, bottle from Dranken De Moor. Gusher: a few seconds after removing the crown cap, foam started creeping out of the bottle neck, and this went on for several minutes more. The result: a towering high, very irregular, rocky, bath foam-like, egg-white head leaving behind thick patches of ’relief’ lacing but collapsing fairly quickly, over a cloudy, deep peach blonde beer with ochre-ish hue and dark bits of dead yeast at the bottom - not the most attractive beer in terms of looks, to be honest. Aroma of raspberry jam and fresh yellow raspberries, gooseberry jam, apple sauce, croissant dough, soggy breakfast cereals indeed, dried banana, sweet white grapes, yellow raisins, jasmin blossom, hay, peach candy, pineapple, tulips, moist white bread. Fizzy, lively onset, lots of fruity esters dancing around, the old familiar banana being present but not overpowering anything, peach, pineapple and starfruit, sweetish with sourish edges, in a sharply carbonated environment, very minerally and a bit numbing; all of this is seeped in a yellow (?) raspberry juiciness, adding sweetishness and retronasal sweet fruit aroma. Body is medium full for a near-6% ABV beer; lightly bready maltiness forms the core, but it quickly becomes quite obvious that other grains are at work here, with a kind of ’deep’, dim spelt sourishness and a lot of soapy, mildly sourish wheat being more forward than the creaminess of the oats or the spiciness of the rye. Esters dance along over this multi-grain basis, with that raspberry juice sweetness persisting at equal force, yet remaining ’credible’ and never becoming cloying at all. Ends juicy and grainy with still that sweet raspberry juice factor lingering about - paired with a deeper situated, bit herbal, mildly spicy hop bitterness and earthy yeast factors. The raspberry is very clear in this one, but in a smooth, sweet, almost perfumey way, without the umami-like tomato effects I expect from a beer with actual raspberries in it; I get the idea of presenting a beer which conceptually is intended to evoke a cereal- and fruit-rich breakfast, but since I hardly take breakfast at all, this idea is a bit lost on me personally. Yet they managed to convey the abstract concept of a muesli bar with bits of candied raspberry quite well, I have to admit - just too bad that once again, I am confronted with hardly welcoming gushing, so once again, this beer fails to convince me of BBP’s technical qualities. They really need to work on this kind of basic issues, even if this bottle was probably a bit too old and I can vividly imagine a beer like this functioning much better when fresh from tap at their pub in the Dansaertstraat - which reminds me that I need to get back there soon to catch up with their endless series of one-off experiments...