6

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

[9/19/15] Draught at the brewery in Oostvleteren. Hazy yellow. Aroma of graininess, some peach, yeast, a bit of hay. Slightly tart flavor with graininess, peach. Light-bodied.

5.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

KRS140315. Golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is citrus, malt, peaches. Flavour is citrus, malt, hop, peaches, yeast, floral. Thin body. Ordinary beer.

6.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Marked as 2.9%. Nose is heavy on the goldings, slight funk and cellar, herbal and floral hop notes. Taste is light as you might expect, with lemon, hint of sour funkyness, apricot, white grape, herbal hops and a very dry peach note. Mouthfeel is thin. It’s strange seeing a beer like this from Struise, and it’s better than some of the reviews suggest. It’s a pleasing, light beer for summer lunch. These beers fail by often being too sweet. This is pleasingly dry.

5

BierKultuur overdrachtscantus

5.5

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

Bottle shared at THT. Pours cloudy dull yellow orange with a very short lived off white head. Aroma of light peach, light spring blossom, citrus and general light fruitiness. Flavour is light to light moderate sweet and light moderate bitter. Thin watery bodied with very soft carbonation.

5.5

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

botttle shared at THT May 2015. No head. Very cloudy blond pour. Very watery. Very subtle peach taste.

6.5

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

Low-alcohol fruit beer with pale yellow blonde colour, hazy with little sparkling but cloudy and almost witbier-like with deposit, under a thin and quickly breaking, off-white head. Saison-like and definitely ’fruited’ aroma of lime, barnyard, wet hay, stale sweat, dried lemon peel, sourish grains, pineapple, mango, passionfruit, manzanilla, tulips and wild flowers, artisanal cider, shampoo, and finally peach indeed but could be purely from esters - if I didn’t know actual peaches have been applied here, I would probably never have detected them (which is not necessarily a bad thing - I’m not the greatest fan of sweet fruit beers to begin with). Refinedly sweet onset, feeling very ’natural’, with fruity esters (mango, passion fruit, starfruit) adding up to a basic fruit presence of ripe peach, sweet with a lemony sourish touch, minerally carbo but not too ’agressive’, refreshing, slick mouthfeel with somewhat oily feel to it, bit yeasty, pale malt sweetness underlying the persisting fruit flavour (both the sweet and the sour), dryish, yeasty finish, bit powdery even, obviously thin body seen its low ABV, some subtle herbal hop bitterishness in the background. This is actually very refreshing, I can imagine enjoying this cold on a summer day; there is a funky saison-like aspect to it, and it sure feels natural and artisanal. The actual fruit provides more ’vivid’ fruit acidity than sweetness, which makes it all the more refreshing. Interesting, though I have to admit this still belongs to the lesser Struise brews I had so far.