Cloudy amber, offwhite froth. Caramel aroma, light notes of dried fruit? Light hoppy notes. Flavour has hoppy bitterness, caramel, slightly fruity.

Bottle @ White Terror or Northern Alliance against the Bolsheviks, Sønderborg. Pours hazy darkish amber with airy off-white head. Clear aroma of malt and hops, with mild touches of caramel. Bitter, hoppy flavour wi notes of malt and yeast and hints of fruit and grass. Bitter and grassy afteraste. Drinkable but rather weird for the style.

Hazy mahogany, lasting laces. Raisin aroma. Fruity taste, orange and raisin. Medium bitterness.

Flesje gedeeld met Tom, Benzai en Roelzie1986. Amberkleurig, beetje troebel bier. Aroma is hoppig en fruitig. Smaak van hop en caramel. Weinig nasmaak, ietsje bitter.

Shared this bottle with Roelzie, Benzai and Inoven. The beer has a brownish red colour. With little head. The smell and taste are nice.

Bottle shared by TomHendriksen @ random tasting. Slightly hazy orange color, average sized white to off-white head. Smell and taste malts, some hops, decently fruity, moderately bitter. Decent body and carbonation. Ok beer.

Bottle from Van Eetvelde in Lokeren, cooperating with this Finnish brewery ever since they were chosen to distribute their recreation of an 18th-century Belgian beer last year (at first experimentally recreated by the university of Leuven, if my memory doesn’t fail me); apparently this cooperation has resulted in Van Eetvelde now boasting a whole range of Stallhagen beers as the only beer shop in Belgium, an interesting evolution. From an apparently specifically designed 33 cl bottle of which the glass has a colour best described as intermediate between green and brown (a kind of olive colour in other words, something I have not often seen in the fifteen-odd years I’ve been tasting beer). Moussy, medium thick, pale greyish white head retaining well on the edges and in ’islands’ of thin foam in the middle; deep, warm, clear and pure amber colour including its coppery hue, with lively fizz. The aroma instantly makes it clear that we are dealing with an English style IPA here: no lush and exotic American hops here, but impressions of straw, lots of mature abbey cheese, jute bags, (soft) black pepper corns, dry earth, strong ’iron-like’ parsley, toasted bread, walnut, chicken stock cubes, old nutmeg powder, some green banana, dried carrot and, alas, the unmistakable ’cooked’ smell of pasteurization you’ll find in many industrial top-fermented beers, and quite strongly so. Crisp, clean onset, some vague dried apricot sweetishness and deep basic, dull and ’neutral’ sourishness enhanced by fairly strong, minerally carbonation; notably toasted malt body, again only vaguely sweetish but mostly toasted bitter in a straightforward, if not somewhat harsh kind of way, nutty as well, leading to a drying, bittering finish of a fair amount of classic Euro hops, floral, earthy (but in a ’clean’ kind of way), grassy and, above all, very resinous, with retronasal spicy hints - though at that point, that annoying pasteurization odor returns as well; bitterly toasted malts get free passage in the very end, while a cheesy hop flavour lingers along with it. Still ends dry and bittering enough to deserve IPA status, but let’s think about this for a while: in its overall appearance, aroma and taste, this has more than a lot in common with a bottled English bitter (EPA, in other words) from one of the larger British breweries, and I hasten to add that originally, in the 18th and 19th centuries, there was no physical difference between EPA and IPA, not even in levels of hop dosage - so I guess this ’classic pale ale profile’ makes perfect sense here. This is an anachronistic IPA trying to be IPA from way before it was associated with huge doses of ’new’, extremely aromatic hop varieties. Then again: if the aim was to honor the original English IPA, I’m pretty sure those were not pasteurized as the very process itself was not invented yet - and pasteurization is basically what disappointed me in this one. Missed opportunity!

Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty weak grassy hoppy aroma. Fruity malty grassy hoppy citrus flavor. Has a fruity malty weak hoppy finish.

(Bottle at OlutExpo 2015) The beer poured amber and hazy. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had malts, earth and sweetness. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were malts, sweetness, earth, fruitiness an bitterness. Aftertaste was sweet and bitter. A pleasant English style brew.