33cl bottle. A clear dark golden beer with a big off white head. Aroma of yuzu, flowers, pale malt. Taste of yuzu tea, peach, flowers, pale malt. Moderate bitterness.

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 5

Bottle shared at Kingsday Tasting 2022. Clear yellow golden color, white to off-white head. Aroma is perfume, floral, soapy. Flavor is similar but a little less bad. Still quite soapy but a little more floral I'd say. Way too high carbonated.

Zeer sterke lychee smaak.

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

Elfique's take on the IPA idiom, advertized as a refreshening quencher. Inches thick, very foamy and rocky, membrane-lacing, egg-white, stable head on a cloudy peach blonde beer with deep orangey glow, turning a bit 'dirty' with the sediment added. Quite expressive, constantly shifting aroma, initially dominated by sharp carbon dioxide, but then opening up to impressions of lychee, strawberry, ripe peach, sweet potato, overripe green melon, white bread, raw turnip, pear juice, soggy peanuts, fresh rosemary, soap, damp hay, field flowers, dried mint leaves, wormwood, freshly grated ginger. Very fruity onset, estery and hoppy, with aspects of melon, lychee, pear and light strawberry, sweetish but pierced by early signs of hop bitterness; medium carbonated, soft and bit fluffy mouthfeel. Bready, bread-crusty and very lightly peanutty malt base, acquiring herbal elements (rosemary, white nettle, lavender, even vague water mint) along with a West-Coast-ish citrusiness (grapefruit), muffled a bit by yeasty esters and phenols, but depositing a very long, rooty, quinine- and citrus pith-like bitterness in the finish, where some minerally accents appear as well. Typical 'Belgian IPA' (compare with e.g. Plukker's All Inclusive series, Troubadour Magma or De Ranke's Hop Harvests), something I can certainly appreciate even if the balance between hop brightness and yeasty earthiness is admittedly a very difficult one to achieve; this is a tasty example of that style, expressive with an ever-changing aroma that never gets boring, but I can understand that many beer geeks will find it too 'Belgian-yeasty'. Their loss.

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Nous sommes loin d'une IPA elfique, peut-être une IPA de gnome. Bière brouillonne, sur un cocktail aromatique qui manque d'harmonie et une amertume bien trop herbacée et quelque peu agressive, nous sommes très loin d'une IPA aboutie. En verre nous sommes un blond voilé, une effervescence marquée (trop) avec de fines bulles donnant naissance à une mousse blanche abondante. Le nez, peu engageant, est sur une alliance d'herbes, de plastique, d'agrumes, de jasmin et de rose. L'attaque est très brouillonne portée par une amertume herbacée, de la rose et du jasmin. L'effervescence, trop poussée, n'aide pas à stabiliser les arômes. La deuxième est un peu plus intéressante, avec des arômes de framboise et de rose agréables, mais gâchés par une amertume herbacée trop présente. L'arrière bouche et le final, court sont sur une amertume agressive, toujours herbacée avec citron et pamplemousse. L'alcool à 6% est quelconque. Pas féerique cette elfique.

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

33cl bottle from Carrefour @ Cours St Michel in Brussels. F: big, white, good retention. C: deep gold, very light hazy. A: malty, peach, floral, fruity, bit caramel, bit candy. T: sweet candy malty, fruity, orange, caramel, grapefruits, old bread, decent bitterness, ok, drinkable but not for the style, enjoyed.