6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Hazy blond colour with big fluffy head. Aroma and flavour are slightly metallic. The white wine notes are definitely there. Sweeter elements if a Saison are in the background throughout. Interesting. Perhaps a bit safe.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Hazy light orange color, small off-white head. Smell and taste malts, most, grapes, yeasty, lightly citruspeel and citruspeel tart-bitter. Decent to medium body and medium carbonation. Quite alright albeit not my style. 7-3-7-3-15

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

DUST saison with wine most, hopped with Nelson Sauvin. Thanks Loick for sharing the bottle at this lovely rooftop tasting event! Cobweb-lacing, snow white, medium thick, mousy head, misty peach blonde robe with ochre-ish tinge. Aropma of ripe purple gooseberries, rosé champagne, sweetened cider, ripe pear, chewing gum, dust, bread crust, peach. Fruity onset, hints of sweet ripe gooseberries, green kiwi and red apple, spritzy carbonation with minerally side effects, soft bready maltiness with a bread crust-like aspect to it, quickly drowning in the wine most part, turning very sweet white wine- and even spumante-like in the end, with a lot of apple, kiwi and obviously white grape effects lingering about, the fruitiness accentuated by well-measured, purely aromatic Nelson Sauvin. Its hop bitterness, however, is dearly missed. Sweet white wine mixed with a simple Belgian blonde beer, too sweet for me personally so I cannot say I thoroughly enjoyed this one, but admittedly it was a clever move to combine this recipe with Nelson Sauvin so extra point for originality.

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle picked up from Dranken Geers, Oostakker nr Gent, Belgium and consumed at home listening to Snapped Ankles -Stunning Luxury and cooking Beef, Hook Norton Double Stout and Oyster Mushroom Pies. Pours hazy dark gold with a white head. I've just had a grape beer (Portugese) and commented on the fact that these beers are not really my cup of tea and then what do I do, yep, I go and pour myself another. This is better, but still not really doing it for me, could do with being sweeter. As the name suggests this is grapey but unusually for a chardonnay I pick up gooseberry, it's tangy and a little zappy. Ok.

6.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Good light-yellowish head over hazy ochre beer with a pinkish sheen. Unripe fruit or vegetables, yeast byproducts, bananapeel. Lightly sourish, bit wry, grains, and again this unripe flavour, rhubarb. Some pale malts, no sweetness. Again yeast byproducts. Light astringency. Quite slick, medium bodied, good carbonation. Strange, near off-flavours. Not convincing, also because it has no vinous characteristics as promised by the Chardonnay.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Imported from my RateBeer account as DUST Isaak Nelson (by Brouwerij Hof Ten Dormaal):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5

15/III/19 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ home, BB: X/2020 - (2019-382)
Little cloudy beige to orange beer, big creamy irregular white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: fruity, banana peel, pretty oxidized, CO2, malty. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish, fruity, sweet, lots of grapes, soft bitterness, some grapefruit, citrus notes. Aftertaste: little bitter, more fruity, soft bitterness, pretty complex, best one of all.

6.8

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

330 ml. bottle @ Spéciale Belge Taproom. Orange collapsing soapy white head. Nose smells like cheap soapy white wine and basic sweeter cider with low funk. Taste is very soapy sweet cheap white wine soap, cider, very soap, sweet cheap white & cider, lacing some carbonation and bit neither here nor there, interesting attempt but not really there.

7

Sour bitterness or bitter sourness? Anyway it's well balanced and interesting. Normally I don't like hoppy sours... but this is tasty!