Dunkler, hefig malziger Beginn. Die Hefigkeit ist prägend, weich herb, süffig, mittellanger, eher getreidiger Abgang. 10/8/9/8//8

Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2018, Day 2. A slightly hazy golden beer with a small white head. Aroma of yeasty yellow fruits, citrus, yellow fruits. Taste of yeasty mild sweet fruits, pale malt, some banana.

04/02/2018 - small glass shared with tderoeck, 77ships and rubin77 @BAB, Bruges. Straw yellow with creamy head. Nose is grainy, bit citrus, coriander. Taste is grains, coriander, white bread, hint of citrus. Refreshing.

Imported from my RateBeer account as d'Oude Maalderij Pekker (by d'Oude Maalderij):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.7/5

4/II/18 - sample @ Brugs Bierfestival - BB: n/a (2018-107) Thanks to 77ships, Rubin77 and Bierridder_S for sharing today's beers!

Little hazy dark blond beer, creamy off-white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: fruity, lots and lots of overripe banana, sweetish impression. MF: soft carbon, medium to light body. Taste: lots of overripe banana, bit sweet, some yeast, spicy, coriander notes? Aftertaste: yeast, spicy, bit messy, more banana peel.

New beer by d'Oude Maalderij, a standard Belgian blonde commissioned by 'brouwerij' Rosseel in honour of the city of Izegem, which has a historical tradition of pitch production ('pekken'), hence the name. Bottle from the Beer Shop in Kontich. Medium thick, off-white, regularly shaped, lightly lacing head, thickly moussy around the edge but dissolving slowly in the middle, over an initially very lightly hazy, warm orange blonde beer with ochre-ish tinge which becomes more outspoken with sediment (as the beer turns cloudy). Aroma is unfortunately ruined by a truckload of off-putting DMS (sulfuric, overcooked green cabbage), overwhelming much more elegant impressions of pineapple, orange peel, dusty old coriander seed, bread crust, red apple, camomile, hard butterscotch candy, banana but also leek soup and pumpkin flesh. Fruity onset, bit estery, hinting at sweeter peach and banana alongside apple peel and unripe pear, lightly sourish in a 'natural', neutral way; carbonation is medium, mouthfeel soft and slick. Mild bread crust-like maltiness in the middle, cereally with sharper grainy edges, while the fruit aspects subtly linger and some spicy phenols show up in the end; the DMS returns retronasally, but luckily less agressively so than expected based on the nose. Ends mildly phenolic, malty and generously hop bitter, in a rooty, floral, leafy way, with the spicy bitterness lingering for quite a long time, quenching the thirst; quite a lot of dry-sweet-spicy coriander seed as well, coupled with a refreshing dried orange peel aspect. Easygoing, accessible, ordinary, coriandered Belgian blonde with more hop bitterness (and less banana) than average but otherwise clearly a commissioned beer directed at the average Belgian beer consumer; I would have given this a significantly higher score for its well-placed juiciness, spiciness and hoppiness, if it weren't for that strong presence of DMS, something I thoroughly dislike and is relatively easy to avoid, especially by a crafty, creative brewer like this one, sorry Jef!