Bottle at Noord-Hollandse Bierfestival, Alkmaar: Hazy orange colored brew with an sweet bitter taste, hints of oranges and spices.

33cl bottle from a trade with Douberd, many thanks! Gusher!! Pours hazy dark golden colour with a huge most good lating off-white head. Aroma of spicy hops, some fruits, herbs. Taste of spicy malt, herbs, mild bitter hops, okay!

Bottle @ weekly tasting shared with Dutchdrebus and Joes. Murky yellow color with some yeast residu floating in there, medium sized white to off-white head. Smell and taste malts, sweetish, some yeast, a hint of orangepeel. Medium body, firm a bit annoying carbonation.

Bottle @ joes. Slightly hazy yellow colour with a small white head. Smells sperziebonen. Tastes sweet, malts, loads of herbs. Thin to medium body, soft carbo.

Bottle from a Deen supermarket. Medium thick but quickly thinning, egg-white, moussy head retaining well on the edges and in an ’island’ of thin foam in the middle, over a hazy orangey golden beer with notably strong fizz rising up from the bottom of the glass. Aroma of banana, white pepper, dried ginger powder, wet cardboard, old ’jenever’, old mouldy orange, tomato, toasted white bread, withering flowers, fairly strong glueish phenols, cooked potato, mustard seed, coriander, grass. Fruity onset of banana, peach and redcurrant, sweetish and sourish with the expected strong (but still ’finely’ tingling) fizz, citrus peel freshness, supple honeyish and caramelly malt sweetness with a nutty edge, hint of cardboard above as well as spicy yeastiness, dryish in the end with peppery and floral hop character, mildly bittering, and the inevitable glow of rather coarse, gin-like alcohol, adorned with remainders of the phenolic spiciness and assisting the hops in drying the finish; an oily ’film’ of boring coriander bittersweet spiciness remains as well. Alcohol could have been better hidden even for a tripel (becomes even rather tiresome after a while), coriander should be a lot more subtle and malt body could have been thicker and ’fuller’; not very clean either, the phenolic part should be played down a bit. All things considered, this is a very ’Belgian’ but at the same time very average, not to say boring tripel. Lacks inspiration and refinement.

Bottle from Deen Supermarket, Landsmeer Nr Amsterdam Netherlands Consumed at home Saturday 10th October 2015. Very lively on the pour, a huge big foamy clean white head. The nose has a hint of chemical taint (not much) but what there is makes my nostrils flare and I cannot pick up much else. It’s sweet and malty (spicy also) in the mouth and isn’t giving any indication that it is 9%, the abv is well hidden. Fruity with a little sweet citrus (spicy again) On the plus side this is a jolly drinkable beer, it’s really not bad at all, however conversely it is also just a little bit forgettable. A5 A4 T6 P3 Ov13 3.1

33cl Bottle from Deen. Hazy golden orange colour, white head. Aroma of yeast, orange, old beer, alcohol, nail polish remover, some sweet fruits. Flavour is medium sweet, alcoholic, yeasty, light fruity, some orange peel, light spicy, light bitter and alcoholic finish with some varnish. Medium bodied. Drinkable, but not great.