Good dense, slightly yellowish head over deeper golden beer. Caramel nose, condensed or coffee milk, smelling sweetish and lightly toasted. Short metallic bitterish hint, making way for an oxydized, old malts flavour. Sample is indeed slightly aged. Typical caramel sweets, some acidity from the CO². Slick, good carbonation, light body. Even taking into account that the beer is 5 months overdue, this is a lager not deserving the moniker Pils. I Thanks to Stef! /I

A new one in the string of organic beers developed for ecological organisations in Belgium, in this case Vogelbescherming Vlaanderen, and named after the European green woodpecker, a beautiful bird I've seen a few times in my home region as well; part of the profits go to this organisation so I was happy to order this beer at the cantina of the Bourgoyen-Ossemeersen, a nature reserve area at the western edge of the city of Ghent. Strange no one here seems to have stumbled on this before… Paper-lacing, snow white, irregular, bubbly head, misty straw blonde robe with khaki-ish tinge and lively sparkling. Aroma of white bread dough, flour, sweetclover, meadowsweet flowers, halfripe banana, minerals, wet grass, moist cotton cloth. Very fizzy onset, bit numbing even, minerally, light fruity accents from the yeast (this lager is unfiltered, contrary to most other pale lagers in Belgium), slight banana and peach notes even but largely remaining fairly neutral in its base; cereally, white bread pulp-edged maltiness, quite rounded and mellow for the style, very light sulfuric touch from the yeast, before a grassy, dried flower-like hoppiness sets in and provides bitterness which, even though it remains very gentle, scores above average for a Belgian pale lager. Quite a refined and 'full' unfiltered pale lager, almost Kellerbier-like, generously hopped for style and maltier in a full-malt, quite full way. Within the pool of Belgian pale lagers, certainly among the more interesting ones. Well done in a subtle manner.