6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Lichtbruin troebel bier met schuim. Smaak is bitter hoppig en kruidig met iets van overrijp fruit, wat vijgen en peer. Fijn bier met een licht bitterzoete afdronk.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Fles 33cl. Fruitig, peer, overrijp fruit, suikers, bloemig, redelijk koolzuur, lichte bittertonen, wat muf, licht droog, wat caramel. (22-12-2023).

6

Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

6

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

02/09/2019 @home - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck. Clear blonde, medium head. Nose is malty, thin fruity. Taste is malts, bit fruity, bit grassy. OK.

5.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Imported from my RateBeer account as d'Oude Maalderij The Mash (by d'Oude Maalderij):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5

10/VI/19 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ home, BB: 1/IV/19 - (2019-844)
Clear orange beer, big creamy white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: little floral, fruity, some sulphur, apples, little dirty, bit malty, spicy. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter start, fruity, some sulphur, little dirty, spicy bitterness, rather unpleasant. Aftertaste: bitter, bit grassy, spicy, little metallic, unpleasant bitterness, some kardamom.

6.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Brand new session beer bij d'Oude Maalderij, first batch (MASH001), bottled on April 1st, 2019 - but no April Fool's trick and a very seriously intended 'pale lager replacement' beer celebrating the new name of the brewery's café, which is indeed called The Mash since it started serving - classically Flemish themed - food. Medium thick, regular, egg-white, only very lightly lacing but creamy and stable, closed head fed by strong and swirling sparkling underneath, raging through a beautifully pure and initially clear, 'old gold'-hued beer, shifting to a misty, slightly deeper apricot blonde with sediment. Aroma of banana mush and even banana milkshake, cooked pear, bread crust, raw potato, straw, iron shavings, brown soap, cranesbill leaves, grass, bubblegum, background DMS note (overcooked cauliflower), wet clay, tulips, something chlorine-like (swimming pool). Cleanly fruity onset, banana ester as expected based on the nose but somewhat less dominating than feared, still a bit bubblegummy with side notes of young apple and halfripe pear, restrainedly sweetish, medium carbonation with minerally side flavours, soft and fluffy mouthfeel, bready and cereally malt body with sharpish grainy sides but a soft doughy 'core', bittered by a leafy, grassy and floral hoppiness that lingers quite long at the back, in a noble, slightly quinine-like way; some end soapiness, minerally touches and soft lingering breadiness too, along with that trace of banana ester. Retronasally, the hops produce nice 'mown lawn' and bitter field herb impressions. Too bad for that hint at DMS, something Oude Maalderij often suffers from and something I am overly sensitive to, but otherwise this is a fine 'bitter blonde', drying, elegant and soft, while very quenching as well. If the cuisine served at The Mash (I have yet to visit the place in its new shape and form) is indeed inspired by what was commonly served in Flanders in, say, the mid-twentieth century, then this surely is a good companion to those rather unassuming flavours dominated by cooked potatoes and cooked vegetables, I presume. Serves its purpose well, no doubt.