Bottle at De Paas. Geen andere aantekeningen op dit moment. Backlog from 2012/01/17. --- Beer merged from original tick of Oud Zottegems Bier on 08 Jul 2015 at 23:12 - Score: 6. Original review text: 2012/01/17 :-)

*Old rating from 2012, 6.2%. Fruchtig-mildes Bier, nette belgische Hefe, leicht herb, frisch.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Crombé Oud Zottegems Bier (by Brouwerij Crombé):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.1/5

22/II/15 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker) @ home - BB: 6/V/16 (2015-236)

Clear orange beer, small creamy yellowish head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very malty, bit fruity, grains, hay, some banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty start, caramel, bit sourish, sweet, grassy, bit metallic. Aftertaste: malty, sweet, bit of banana, metallic again.

Another of the delightfully old-fashioned Crombé beers continued by Strubbe, after a regional Zottegem tradition. Thick, moussy, yellowish white, stable head, deep peach blonde colour with amber hue, misty. Aroma shows fruitiness, maltiness and hoppiness, with impressions of melon, pear, orange, flowers, caramel, cheese, almond and cognac. Fresh fruity taste, sweetish with a - deliberate - sourishness as well as spicy yeastiness, well balanced finish, soft, grassy but not really bitter. Actually quite complex and to my opinion a bit underestimated - but I hasten to add that this rating concerns bottles still brewed by Crombé themselves, need to revisit this to see if the Strubbe rendition honours the original (and I have the impression it doesn’t, considering more recent ratings of this beer are quite consistently on the low side...).

330ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Clear pale gold, thin white head. Aromas of Belgian yeast, light spice, wheat and something lagery. Taste is light sweet, no real bitterness. Finishes clean. Ok.

Bottle at De Paas. Pours clear golden with an off white head. Aroma of yeast, citrus, grapes and grass. Loads of grapes. It’s almost like I’m sniffing an old Champaigne that’s been kept too long and shouldn’t be. Arrrgh, scary flashbacks to New Years Eve and the chaos that ensued. Oh this was a bad choice today. Wtf

Bottle @ home shared with Dutchdrebus and Thompson. Clear orange-golden color, small to medium sized white head. Smell malts, some grains, lightly hay. Taste malts, lightly hay, lightly grains, lightly bitter, a hint of fruitpeel. Medium body and carbonation.

Bottle @benzai. Clear golden yellow to orange colour with a small white head. Smells malts, grains, barnyard, corn. Tastes malty, grains.. Pretty regular, easyli drinkable beer. Nothing wrong with it, nothing extraordinairy. Medium body, great carbo.

Draft @ La Porte Noire, Bruxelles. Orangée avec mousse crémeuse blanc cassé. Arôme a une certaine aigreur, j’aurai cru à une version plus simple de la Rodenbach. Note boisée aec une fine aigreur, léger note fleurie de houblon et de malt pils.En bouche, une bière légère, petite note aigre et fruitée, aspect de paille qui fine en aigre-doux