A new De Ryck beer, now that is something you don't see every day... From tap at Ghitane in Ghent during Gentse Feesten. Thick and frothy, egg-white, papery lacing, stable head on a near-clear, deep and 'metallic' golden blonde beer with slight apricot tinge and lively fizz. Aroma of old potatoes and potato juice, dried apricot, green banana, clear DMS (overcooked white cabbage), cooked beans, freshly cut grass, minerals, wet cardboard, white bread slices. Quite neutral onset, restrained in sweetness with spritzy carbonation; subdued fruitiness of green banana, unripe peach and apple peel, very slick and smooth mouthfeel, 'simplistic' cereally and very lightly bready pale maltiness, grainy and minerally finish with somewhat floral, grassy, straightforward hop bitterishness. This is even more boring than most of their other beers, which rarely excel in originality or boldness to say the least; very clearly intended as an alternative to standard pale lager, from which this blonde ale hardly differs. Way too subdued and neutral to my liking, and the cooked vegetable aspect in the nose ruined it even more for me.

25/07/2019 @home - 33cl bottle from Willems en Zoon, Grobbendonk. Clear blonde, nice white head. Nose is fruity malts, fresh hops. Taste is bitter, malts, fresh hops. Dry bitter ending. Nice new one!