21/I/20 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared @ home, BB: 16/X/19, bottled: 16/X/18 (2020-69) Thanks to Bierridder_S for the trade!

Food pairing: grilled garlic butter lobster and risotto

Clear deep blond beer, big creamy dense white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: hint of banana, fruity, some peaches. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: nice bitterness, malty, little fruity, hint of banana. Aftertaste: malty, nice bitterness, some citrus, grapefruit, peaches, bit grassy, hay, decent, not great, but that’s probably due to age. My bad. I’ll be mild on scoring this one.

Good pairing result: the bitterness goes well with the buttered lobster and creamy risotto, without being too overpowering for the subtle sweet lobster meat.

Rye pale ale hopped with Simcoe, Amarillo and Chinook by this new bicycling-themed beer company, longneck bottle from a health food store in Ghent. Very thick and frothy, egg-white, membrane-like lacing, stable head, initially clear pale straw blonde robe with pale apricot tinge, misty with sediment. Aroma of green onions, unripe banana, lime blossom, raw potato juice, old 'herbes de Provençe', pear, lemonbalm, white bread slices. Fruity onset, some banana, pear, green melon, touch pineapple, restrained in sweetness; lively carbonation, slick and soapy mouthfeel. White-bready maltiness with lingering 'green-yellow' fruitiness but lots of weedy, moderately zesty hoppiness as well, quite aromatic, with leek-, lime- and lemonbalm-like impressions retronasally, providing a long-lasting, yet not too harsh bitterness in a finish which also exhibits chalky and lingering soapy aspects. The rye has established more soapiness and slickness (almost wheat-like) here than typical 'dull' spiciness, so I probably would never have guessed its presence hadn't I known; modern hopping and a relatively clean profile place this beer in the same stylistic approach and quality level as that BMX IPA I had earlier, but I think adding some more cara malt and upgrading the hop dosage a bit could really improve this beer further. In this form still a very enjoyable, modern quenching ale, with only light Belgian-yeasty aspects (banana ester). Quite nice, but not as nice as the BMX IPA; I heard a white IPA is on its way as well so looking forward to tasting that one too.

33cl bottle from BelgoMarkt organic shop, Ixelles, Brussels. F: big, white, good retention. C: straw to blonde, light hazy. A: malty, orange, mellow fruity, citrus, bit spicy. T: light malty base, citrus, spicy, decent bitterness, dry on the palate, very easy drinkable, medium to high carbonation, good one, enjoyed

11/12/2018 - 33cl bottle @Marcel Bike Cafe. Clear golden, nice white head. Bit to much carbonation. Nose is malts, bitterhops. Taste is malts, bit citrus, bitterhops, bit spicy yeast; Nice one.

Bit too carbonated, homebrew style pale ale, needs still a bit of tweaking. But alot of taste for low alcohol beer. Nice.