bottle. Hazy yellow pour, with a medium white head. Aroma is all cereals, with hints of dried grass. mouth feel is flat, carb is the same. Finish is lightly bitter, semi sweet, light fruit, light cereals. Boring.

Pours hazy golden with a quickly thinning white head. Aroma of citrus, yeast, freshly cut yellow apple, pear, banana, hay, wheat. Taste has sweetish apple & pear, sour wheat & citrus in a yeasty, bready profile, touch of bitter hay & herbs. Dryish, grassy hoppy finish, more unripe fruit & subtle spices. Medium body, slick texture, lively carbonation. Not bad per se but too often these organic beers are still too carbonated & spiced.

(bottle) clear, bright yellow colour with a tall white head; aroma of grain, flowers; balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish

Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Light malty and hoppy and yeasty aroma. Light bitter flavor. Short light bitter finish. Oily palate. A little boring.

Levendig geel bier met veel schuim. Smaak is licht zoet en licht kruidig met iets van appel, abrikoos en honing. Best goed.

Bottle. Color: Clear golden, white head. Aroma: Sweetish malty, yeast, hints of perfume. Taste: Over medium sweet, malty, grain, yeast. Moderate bitterness, mostly at finish. Lightly herbal and fruity. Medium body, average carbonation. Bit sticky mouthfeel. Ok, but just not my style I think. A bit too sweet, like a lot of other Blonds.

Bottle from Bierhalle, Melle. Hazy golden colour, white foam. Bit weak and watery, light citrussy, hoppy bitter. Nothing special.

Bottle. Aroma of yeast, spicey herbs and malt. Taste has yeast ester, orange, herbs and malt. Not bad.

F: thin, white, not long lasting. C: blonde yellow, hazy. A: malty, grainy, bit grassy, peppery, orange peels, bit yeasty. T: watery malty, grassy, bit spicy, dry on the palate, green banana, vaguely fruity, bit bready, medium body and bit higher carbonation, for “organic” version not bad, 33cl bottle from Delhaize Oostende Hazegras.

One of several light - lager-mimicking - organic ales by this new, active brewery, bottle from Fontana in Sint-Niklaas. Opens with quite a lot of pressure under the crown cap, smoke coming out of the bottle neck. Very thick, foamy, egg-white, very moussy, big lacing head remaining closed for a long time, sustained by fierce sparkling in a warm, pure golden blonde beer with vague greenish tinge, clear but with a suspension of tiny yeast dots throughout, turning equally misty and a little bit deeper ochre-tinged with sediment. Aroma initially 'lightstruck' (cat pee-like mercaptans) as if it were a pale lager from a green or colourless bottle, but once this fades, less obnoxious impressions show up, including old white bread crust, grass and fresh green garden weeds, old dusty straw, dried grapefruit peel, green apple, cucumber peel, hints of unripe green plum, cold Chinese chrysanthemum tea, old paper, sawdust, plastic. Spritzy onset, lots of minerally carbonation yet not unpleasantly stinging, sweetish undertone but restrained in fruitiness, a note of green apple and unripe banana with a sourish accent reinforced by the lively carbonation; supple, vaguely glueish, plaster-like mouthfeel, pale malt sweetish body, white bread crust edge with a bit more breadiness in the finish due to the yeast. The finish is a bit plastic-y like a standard pale lager would be, but has a less unpleasant quality in the form of floral, bit leafy, subtly quinine-ish hop bitterness that lasts for quite a while. A tad fruitier, more bready and definitely much hoppier than the standardized industrial pale lagers this beer seeks to replace and in that sense preferable over those, but from a Belgian ale viewpoint, all but obsolete. Like the quinoa beer that was launched alongside this one (haven't had the others yet), this too deliberately tries to mimick pale lager - something I never got very excited about. Added points for the pleasant and confident hop bitterness in the finish, though.