Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draught@Moeder Lambic, Brussels. Yellowish golden colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is fruity, floral, wooden and some toffeeish notes. Flavour is fruity, floral, mildly nectary notes along with some toffee and herbal notes.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Draught (7,3%) @ Lambic Foeder. Rated on 25.06.2015
Aroma has fruit candy, some citrus and mild biscuity tones. Flavour has sweet and soapy citrus, some herbal notes and gooseberry bush. Also gooseberry bush. A wit on the sweet-ish side.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

(bottle) cloudy pale yellow orange colour with a small beige head; aroma of grapefruit, then bit of funk; dry flavour with a long light bitter finish

A hazed dark amber ale with a thin white head. In aroma, nice biscuit malt with grassy hops, honey, light mineral notes, fruity esters, light oxidation. In mouth, sweet fruity malt with light grassy hops, light mineral notes, treacle, light butterscotch, OK. Bottle from brewery, 5 years old.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Draft - Grassy with Belgian fruity esters and spice. Cloudy gold with a rich white head. Creamy with some pithy grapefruit and yeast notes. A bit muddy in flavours

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from the brewery. Cloudy light orangey yellow with a small white head that leaves fine lace. Big grassy nose with some citrus and pepper. Medium sweet malty start with an excellent bitter citrus middle and end and the Belgian yeast providing a lightly spicy character that enhances rather than distracting. Medium slick mouth with soft carbonation and a dry finish. Excellent.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

500mL bottle, sent from wilco (thanks a lot, Mike), pours a cloudy golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is hugely enchanting, with both loads of hops and Belgian yeast -- bringing out loads of piney hops, some tangy citrus notes, Belgian yeast, and floral notes. Flavour is along the same lines, with loads of piney and floral hops, some citrus, and a wonderful Belgian yeasty note that creates a nice tang on the finish. Exceedingly well-structured and immensely drinkable. Belgian IPAs are a tricky style to get right, but Bellwoods totally nailed this. Wonderful.

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle: Poured a deep orangey color ale with a huge foamy head with good retention and some good lacing. Aroma consists of citrus and bitter hops with subtle fruity notes. Taste is also dominated by bitter hoppy notes with some citrus notes with light fruity undertones with a lightly sweet malt backbone. Body is somewhat full with good carbonation. Enjoyable but the Belgian yeast didn’t come out a much as I was expecting.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

(500ml bottle from the brewery) Pours a quite hazy pale orange with a big bubbly white head that leaves a ring and a lot of lace. Aroma pungent/dank/earthy hops, orange and tree fruit from hops/yeast, slight pepper, Belgian yeast character, malt sweetness. On the palate, sweetness from pale and crystal malt plus fruit from yeast/hops at first, tangerine and tree fruit, plus grassy/dank hops. Malt sweetness fades pretty promptly, leaving a fruity core, and that dank herbal hop character leads to a dry, somewhat peppery finish with a bit of Belgian yeast but not much. It’s moderately bitter for an IPA. Mouthfeel is medium-full, carb moderate but lively and fine. The parallels to Cat Lady are unsurprising given the Summit/Simcoe core to this beer as well, but the slightly sweet fruity yeast character differentiates this from its sister beer. Both are great IPAs, and it’s a fine time to be doing bottle runs to Bellwoods...