Like a tripel karmeliet, except with less body

Bottle shared with Adamnowek and tderoeck. Many thanks, Tim! Hazy amber colour, white foam. Medium carbonation. Light citrussy, some notes of hay and grass. Light sweetness, some bitterness. Ok.

Belgian blonde from this Hoboken-based beer company, bottle from Wijnegemse Drankenhal. Thinnish but stable, egg-white head quickly reduced to a moussy rim around the glass and a single, wafer thin veil in the middle; initially clear, warm, pure ’old gold’ robe with some quiet sparkling here and there; pouring the sediment into the glass, I get a very diffuse haze of minute yeast bits, eventually rendering the beer completely hazy (though not in a messy, cloudy way). Rather weak aroma of damp kitchen towels, sweetbread, spinach, soggy cereals, straw, chicken corn, some iron, apple peel, bread crust. Fairly neutral onset, very low in fruitiness (is this a lager?), some apple- and pear-like hints, sweetish but in a very subdued way, with a sourish graininess underneath; minerally hints, medium to lightly fizzy carbonation, supple and smooth body. Cereal sweetish middle with sourish grainy edges, a tad metallic and just a little bit oily; ends in ongoing graininess paired with a mild, herbal and grassy hop bitterish touch, but not much else happens. This is suspiciously pale lager-like, with a rather neutral, (too) easygoing profile, very grainy and cereally with that damp cloth-like odour I am used to encounter in industrial lagers. I cannot but conclude that the aim was to make something ’pils’-like, as simple and easy as possible, and if that was the intention: mission accomplished. Not impressed, but seen in standard pale lager context, there is worse on the market - if this is indeed bottom fermented, which I strongly suspect, it deserves to be classified as a premium lager. For once I am disappointed that this is not an ordinary Belgian top-fermented blonde ale, actually...

Bottle. Somewhat clear yellow golden color, medium sized white to off-white head. Smell and taste malts, some bitter. Believe me I’ve tried but I didn’t get anything else. Ok, couldn’t Smell a lot because of heavy hay fever, but this beer is very bland. No real flaws but quite boring.

Pours clear blonde, small white head. Smell is malty, sweet, bit bitter. Taste is malty, sharp bitter touch from the yeastyness that is also present, especialy towards the aftertaste. Ok body, and a rather high carbo. Yeasty aftertaste. OK beer