#Wanderlust - an interesting taste experiment. My palette doesn’t know if it’s a filter coffee or a pale ale

Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2017. A hazy deep golden beer with a small off-white head. Aroma of vanilla, dry grassy hops. Taste of Coffee, dry hops, vanilla. Interesting.

Draught @ Van Moll Brewpub. Clear golden color, medium sized white to off-white head. Smell and taste lightly malts, heavy coffee and espresso with coffee and espresso bitter. One dimensional. Nicely done but I guess this is only done because they can do it. Not something I'd drink much of. Well executed but it's a "drink once and that's it" beer imo.

17 /09 /2017 - draught glass shared with 77ships and tderoeck@Hedonis Ambachtsfest. Clear golden small lacing. Nose is clear coffee, herbal. Taste is malts, herbal, coffee, dry ending. Weird, not complex but nice however.

One of BBP's recent experiments, an APA-style beer aromatized with coffee. Lacing, snow white, moussy head, hazy orangey blonde robe. Aroma indeed reveals coffee, as in dry coffee powder, piercing through the basic beer's character of orange zest, pistachio nuts, dried mango, biscuit, sweet stewed onions. Spritzy onset, a tad overcarbonated perhaps, but pleasantly fruity and clean, with hints of raw pineapple, dried mango and green banana, restrainedly sweetish with a soft sourish edge; slick body with noticeable 'oat velvetiness', a bit creamy, lightly nutty and bit biscuity malt background. The coffee opens up in the end, with a retronasal whiff of coffee powder embedded in aromatically hoppy aspects of citrus peel and zest; bitterness is soft but effective. Interesting and very pleasant, not over the top in its coffee addition but still very recognizable as a coffee beer; not the first Anglo-Saxon, 'newly' hopped pale ale with coffee I had (I remember a Mikkeller beer with a very similar profile), but very certainly the first in Belgium, adding something specific and enjoyable to the wide array of Belgian beer flavours. I love this - and I have the impression BBP is silently getting better with each brew they launch, but that is probably subjective.

Bouteille 33cl de BBP, BB 06/2019. Léger doré/orange, col fin blanc-cassé. Arôme au nez bien marqué au niveau du café avec de belles effluves d'espresso, touche de houblons et fines agrumes percent en rétro-nasal. Palais est plaisant avec un artifice malté bien dosé mettant bien en avant le côté café le tout en balance des houblons qui confèrent une subtile amertume. Qcq traces de c-hops avec un ajout Citra-Simcoe, retrouve un malté effet cara-pâle et une pointe de fruité en toute fin.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Brussels Beer Project #EXP 0038 (by Brussels Beer Project):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5

17/IX/17 - on tap @ Hedonis Ambachtsfest (Gent) - BB: n/a (2017-1531) Thanks to 77ships and Bierridder_S for sharing today's beers!

Clear orange beer, aery irregular white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots and lots of coffee, roasted, weird, bit fruity, some orange peel. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots and lots of coffee up front, bit of tropical fruits, orange peel, soft bitterness, bit sourish. Aftertaste: hoppy, bitter, more coffee, some tropical fruits, touch of mango.

Pours uncmear darker blonde. Good creamy head. Smell is coffee, not to intense. T is coffee, but no overkill. Not bad.

Keg at Brussels Beer Project, Brussels, Belgium. A hazy golden/orange coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Coffee, hazlenut aroma. Tastes of coffee, hazlenuts, slight sweetness. Very easy to drink, nice one.

Thanks! Sampled draft @ BBP. Orange creamy white head. Nose is massive grainy filter coffee, herbal. Taste is grainy coffee ground & huge filter coffee, little base,.. Body is likewise, very silly & simple but rather nice & fun.