La Schweitzer

Flaska från No Science webshop. Disig bärnstensfärgad vätska med medelhögt vitt skum. Örtig och lätt parfymerad doft. Lavendel, tvål, röda äpplen, kardemumma och kanel. Lätt syrlig, smak som doften men där finns också en skogig torrhet av mossa och te som växer i eftersmaken som är torr och träig. Udda och kul utan att riktigt lyfta.

Bouteille 33cl, BB 17/12/2021.
Dorée-orangée, col blanc voire blanc-cassé.
Arôme présente de suite un côté belge blonde - en rétro de fines notes épicées se font présentes rappelant les baies de genévrier avec une petite douceur miel en rétro-nasal. Ce dernier garde un côté un peu vieille bière sous l'apport de cardamome qui est de suite suivi par les effluves de miel.
Palais est sur une approche belge classique, retrouve une petite onctuosité plaisante de miel avec un fini modéré de pomme.
Fini sur un malt pâle, pils - amertume reste dans un côté terreux/neutre avec une petite sécheresse de fin de bouche. Le tout garde une pétillance en bas de gorge qui renforce l'effet d'amertume et de grains - pils.
Facile à boire, classique. Un petit plus pour mettre en avant l'histoire des quartiers sur les étiquettes et avoir un impact desdits quartiers dans la recette - ici, les anciens vergers du quartier Schweitzer.

27/09/2019 @home - 33cl bottle from Le Comptoir Belge. Cloudy amber, medium white head. Nose is malts, honey, ripe apple. Taste is a bit wattery, malts, bit fruits, honey. Drinkable but less outspoken than their other beers I already tasted.

One of the first Bières de Quartiers beers, a blonde with apple and honey, brewed at Valduc. Very mousy, medium thick, off-white, membrane-lacing, quite large-bubbled and slowly dissipating and opening head, initially near-clear, 'metallic' orange blonde beer with amberish tinge and strings of sparkling here and there, turning misty and deeper amberish with sediment (like an old school 'spéciale belge'), eventually even unattractively murky. Rather distinct aroma of red apple, soggy bread crust, banana peel, raw cinnamon, brown soap, acrylic clothing or even rubber (DMTS?), clear cardamom (remarkably lavender perfume-like in this case), cold tea, green earthy moss, diluted orange water (probably linked to the honey). Sweetish onset, fruity but on the 'clean' side with notes of (obviously in this case) red apple but also some peach and banana peel, sourish touch, vividly fizzing carbonation (almost numbing a bit), slick and rather soapy, slender mouthfeel. Soapy, smooth caramelly maltiness with slight peanutty edge, some breadiness and yeastiness near the end with quite some cardamom spiciness, cinnamon-, lavender- and even somewhat liquorish-like, with the honey depositing a floral aspect that blends well with the floral qualities of the hops; these hops execute a medium long, eventually somewhat rooty bitterness, but the cardamom spicy aspect keep lingering along with it, turning very soapy again in the tail. The apple adds a light crispness and apple aroma, the honey - and we all know how varied a honey character can be - in this case adds a flowery aspect blending with the pronounced cardamom, but is in any case rather strong. Weird little beer indeed but not unpleasant, have an extra point for originality in a landscape dominated by tripels and blondes.

33cl bottle from Belgomarkt in Brussels. F: thin, white, quick gone. C: murky amber with red hue against the light hazy. A: malty, fruity, bit honey, herbal, bit spicy, apples touch. T: malty, sweet fruity, honey, bit orange, bit spicy, quite watery yet with no big flaws only very simple to me, medium body and bit lower carbonation, drinkable.