7.5

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

Bottle picked up at Dranken Geers, Oostakker nr Ghent, Belgium and consumed at the Camping Seespitz campsite Friday 16th August after a 25 mile return cycle trip to Kufstein. Pours dark conker brown with an off white heading towards beige head. I note that there is mention of pecan and it does have a distinct nuttiness. Soft in the mouth a little sweetness, this is very good yet again from Atrium.

5.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Donkerbruin bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is licht bitter en licht zoet met iets van noten, chocolade en koffie. Mondgevoel is iets te waterig naar mijn mening.

5

Zboze, karmel, cukier, orzechy, niewiele ciala, jakis hint kawy, no jak dla mnie to slabo i plasko acz dopije bezproblemowo

6.3

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

Bouteille 33cl, BB 06/2019. Lot# 004/2018. Brune sur ambre, pas de col. Arôme offre un nez fin sur un malt caramel et finement grillé en rétro-nasal. Retrouve un bouquet levure qui confère une petite note végétale 'spoiled' . Ajout de pécan en retrait pour une base levure qui enlève à ce côté brown ale à l'américaine. Palais est léger malté caramel, grillé avec une petite touche de noisette-pécan, effervescence est assez faible enlevant pas mal de complexité de la noix de pécan, d'autant plus que l'effet de levure est un peu trop marqué et qui donne un caractère épicé sur la fin. Amertume fine perce sur la fin apportant une petite note fruitée-agrumes. Ok, mais approximatif sur l'exécution finale, brouillonne sur une levure trop

6

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

33cl bottle from Malting Pot bottle shop in Brussels. F: thin, pale tanned, quick diminishing. C: dark brown to black, hazy, opaque. A: chocolate, cocoa, dark bready, bit nutty, red apples peels. T: light malty backbone, simple cocoa, watery milk chocolate, bit tannins, dark bready, banana, caramel, light to medium body, medium carbonation, lack some more complexity yet ok for me if not very good.

6

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

Hazy amber brown colour, small frothy beige head, mostly diminishing. Aroma toasted malt, cocoa, nutty and earthy notes. Taste medium sweet and light bitter, malty, caramel tones, liquorice, light treacle, apple syrup. Short mild sweetbitter aftertaste, herbal notes, medium body, watery texture, average carbonation, lacks backbone, only decent. Carya is the scientific name of the tree producing the pecan nut.

5.9

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

One of several beers by this new Walloon microbrewery that seems to deliberately choose for a modern, non-traditionally Belgian approach, therefore quite quickly being adopted by the more internationally oriented craft beer geeks in this country. Bottle from Être Gourmet, this Carya is apparently a “brown ale à la noix de pecan”, with the beer’s name referring to the scientific name of the pecan tree. Mousy, creamy, regular, pale mocha-beige, quickly thinning and opening head, cloudy nut brown robe with khaki-ish tinge, but generally looking quite murky and muddy, not very attractive visually. Adding nuts and other plant materials rather often creates fermentation issues, infections and the like, so the aroma has a deep yeasty earthiness to it I honestly wasn’t too surprised about: moldy old nut shells, damp forest floor, moss, dried old plums, blackberry, red apple, salsify root, mud, soggy old bread. Estery fruity onset, apple, fig and some banana with a sourish blackberry aspect that feels rather ‘dirty’, medium to softly carbonated; slick nutty malt body, nut shells soaked in muddy pool water but with a redeeming, sweetish caramelly side to it as well as a dim bitterish toasty edge. Ends a tad astringent due to tannins from the nuts, along with a very ‘muddy’, dirty earthiness and bready yeasty effects, over a mildly bittering herbal hop note. More a ‘dirty dubbel’ than a brown ale in the true, Anglo-Saxon sense of the word, with the pecan nuts – even if interesting conceptually – having added more unpleasant ‘dirtiness’ than delicious nuttiness, I cannot say that my first encounter with this brewery is a very positive one, alas.