25/04/2015 @ ZBF shared with tderoeck, 77ships, PriorL and kraddel. Hazy orange with small head. Aroma : yeast, lightly some fruits. Taste : yeast, a lot of sweetness, some fruits.

Sampled draft @ ZBF 2015. Hazy orange, little head. Nose is yeast, very boring, basic sugar sweet. Taste yeasty, boring, sweet, light weird herbs, dry, light yeasty bitterness,… Sweet & yeasty body. Very boring & unnecessary in my opinion. (Thx! for sharing people!)

330 ml bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 9/18/2010. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy golden orange color with a 1-2 finger dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of lemon, apricot, pear, apple, white grape, light banana, honey, biscuit, light clove, herbal, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of fruity/earthy yeast, hops, and pale malt sweetness; with solid strength. Taste of lemon, apricot, pear, apple, white grape, light banana, honey, biscuit, light clove, herbal, and yeast earthiness. Slight earthy yeast spiciness/hop bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of lemon, apricot, pear, apple, white grape, honey, biscuit, herbal, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a short bit. Good complexity and robustness of fruity/earthy yeast, hops, and pale malt sweetness; with a good malt/yeast balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a smooth, fairly crisp, and slightly slick/bready mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is well hidden with no warming present after the finish. Overall this is a nice and pleasant Belgian pale ale. All around good balance and complexity of fruity/earthy yeast and pale malt flavors; and very smooth to drink. It’s not as bold on yeast flavors as other Belgian pale ales, but still a nicely enjoyable offering.

bottle. Hazy golden with a ahitw head. Grainy malty flavours with a nice fruity touch.

At centraal hotel . Pours rather clear blonde ok white head . Smell is sweet , malts , honey , Taste is sweet malty , bit metallic , some bitterness . Very balanced .

Helder geel bier met schuim. Smaak is licht zoetzuur en neigt naar Geuze en fruitige druiven. Etiket is inmidells gewijzigd. Niet echt bijzonder.

Bottle shared. Pours murky golden with an off white head. Aroma of rubber, butter and infection... Light moderate sweet, bitter and acidic. Spoiled, definitely wrong.

330ml bottle from Vanuxeem. Pours hazy gold with foamy white head. Fresh wit aroma, taste is banana, cloves, vanilla, perfume, spice, honey, lemon, citrus and floral elements. Very refreshing and flavoursome wit.

Belgoobeer’s first, a special witbier with spelt and oats and classically spiced with coriander and curaçao; re-rating as I had this beer once when it first came onto the market, but wondered how it has evolved since then now that (since February of this year) it is brewed in Van Aerts’ own brewery in St.-Pieters-Leeuw. Pours a hazy, peachy ’old gold’ colour with quiet fizz, under a moussy, dense but not very thick, yet decently lacing, eggshell-white head. Aroma of unripe redcurrant, white bread dough, red apple peel, banana, dry hay, breakfast cereals, sourish grains, green kiwi, raw rhubarb (acetaldehyde), coriander but not too overpowering, lemon peel hint, Conférence pear, dried lemonbalm, soapy wheat, vague accents of stale sweat, moist straw. Crisp onset, spritzy carb, fruity esters reminiscent of starfruit, green apple, redcurrant, unripe pineapple and some banana but not too much, bit minerally with a very light salty edge, gentle but unmistakable lemon peel sourishness which works quite refreshing in this case; pleasantly bready middle phase, sourishly grainy, sweetish, with a soft fringe probably due to the oats, supple, bit minerally due to a fairly strong carbonation; honeyish malt sweetness plays with the deep and ’deaf’ spelt sourishness, quite interesting. Finishes in more sourish graininess with additional, more ’high-tuned’ lemony sourishness, very refreshing, along with somewhat resiny coriander ’bittersweetness’ but very mildly so; dryish, with a certain leafy and earthy, ’structural’ hoppiness and clear bready yeastiness to it. Appetizing little beer, makes me feel I have not spent enough attention to Van Aerts’ creations lately; this is quite pleasant, it feels ’natural’, has no obvious flaws, is not ’overcoriandered’ like many other Belgian-style wheat beers and it quenches the thirst in an elegant, tasty manner. Better, more solid and more refreshing than I remember it from the original Binchoise-made version, so my rating goes up a bit.