Bottle. Pours golden with a big white head. Taste of hay and orange zest. Balanced.

Fresh & fruity nose. Hazy pale amber colour, small foamy white head, diminishing slowly, good lacing. Aroma peach, orange, pear, pale malts, leaves, herbs. Taste medium sweet and bitter, fruity, herbal, light malty, with long duration. Dry bitter finish, herbal notes all the way with a piney touch, medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation, fresh, clean and special.

Bottle at home. Hazy golden with slightly of white head. Light peach, lots of dried herbs, leaves, grass, German hops, light malts with some biscuits and nuts. Under medium bitter. Under medium bodied with quite some carbonation and very dry finish. Nice hoppy beer, though the hops used are not really working together somehow.

Bottle 75cl. Semi hazy golden with a huge white fluffy head, lots of lacings. Aroma is naturally herby, grainy, grassy, citrus, medium yeast. Taste is light to medium malty, yeasty, light sugar, dryness with a delicate bitterness in the finish. Light to medium body, soft carbo. Natural and simplistic, naked - well executed.

Blond colour. Aroma and flavour have a bit of grass and yeast. Flavour also has a touch of orange zest. Thin and not very flavoursome.

Atypical Belgian Christmas ale in being a 5% pale quencher. Medium thick, cobweb-lacing, egg-white, moussy head retaining very well, over a deep and warm orangey golden coloured beer with vivid sparkling, lightly hazy. Rather weak aroma of unripe peach, freshly cut grass, toasted bread, white pepper, red apple, damp earth, dried ginger, dry hay, old cookies, field flowers, raw turnip and a faint hint of raw white cabbage (in the non-DMS way). Spritzy, crisp onset, unripe gooseberry, apple peel, unripe stonefruit, softly sourish but low in sweetness, with some hop bitterness already (subtly) announcing itself; carbo is strongish but not overly so, mouthfeel is light and supple, with a straightforward, dryish bready maltiness, somewhat grainy too, only supporting as a background structure serving the hops, which grow in intensity towards the end and eventually dry the finish almost completely, in a very noble ’Euro’ kind of way - earthy, peppery, floral and deeply bittering, tonic water-like, stretching very deep into the throat. A good thirst quencher in the ’Belgian bitter blonde’ tradition and the first one in that style I meet which is labelled a Christmas beer (but I may have forgotten a few meanwhile). I like this, but it is Christmas Eve after all, and I must admit I was more hoping for a classic Belgian Christmas ale, strong, dark, sweet, yeasty and heavily coriandered... Very decent hop forward beer for sure, but I can imagine some people may be disappointed to establish this has nothing to do with the stereotypical Belgian Christmas ale tradition.

33cl bottle in ’Beers of Yesteryear’ Brugge in Dec 2015. Poured a slightly hazy golden colour with a thin white head. The nose was firstly light malts, some citrus notes followed with a spicy, piny hop undertone. The taste was not of Christmas spices though, some herbal traces but more like a tampered with hoppy and bitter Pilsner. I did enjoy it, just not expecting what it actually tasted like.

33cl Bottle from Prik&Tik Baelus. Slightly hazy golden colour, white head. Aroma of hops, light herbal, light malts, dust, hay. Flavour is light sweet, light floral, grain, pilsner, Belgian hops, bitter finish. Light bodied. Quite bland.

KRS 070215. Deep golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, hop, grapefruit, spices. Flavour is fruit, hop, grapefruit, spices, pine, malt, grass. Ordinary beer.

33 cl bottle. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is fruity and toasted malty. Bitter, fruity. Dry. Toasted malty and bitter. Dry far finish.