Imported from my RateBeer account as Gaverhopke Gapersdorre (by 't Gaverhopke):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.9/5

29/X/16 - 33cl bottle from a trade @ home, BB: 18/IV/17 (2016-1245) Thanks to Cies for the bottle (I think)!

Pretty cloudy orange beer, huge creamy off-white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: spicy touch, coriander, citrus, very yeasty, bit fruity. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: chemical bitterness, glue, band-aid, unpleasant bitterness, too harsh. Aftertaste: spicy, pretty chemical, very bitter, lots and lots of coriander.

Beer made for the municipality of Geluwe in the south of Western Flanders, nicknamed the "gilwe dorre van Vlaanderen" which - inasmuch as my knowledge of the local dialect suffices - means something like ’the yellow yoke of Flanders’, referring to a poem about an egg yolk written by 19th-century Western Flemish poet Guido Gezelle. Violent gusher, spouting out of the bottle neck even with careful opening - should have been prepared for this, as this is apparently brewed at Gaverhopke, which has released nothing but heavy gushers lately. Thickly, ’papery’ lacing, coarse and irregular, egg-white head over a hazy peach blonde beer with greenish hue and tiny dots of dead yeast throughout, disturbed by sparkles of gas every now and then; adding the deposit leads to a deeply and even somewhat disturbingly ’murky’ look, like some home-made pear or apple juice. Aroma breathes strong isoamylacetate, in other words banana-flavored bubblegum, along with sweetened apple juice, strong raw turnip, stewed rhubarb, fried egg, powder sugar, fermenting pear, yellow plum and overripe peach, chamomille, orange peel, damp earth, cooked carrot, some vanilla but in a ’rough’ kind of way, limoncello, sugared rhubarb, chalk. Sweet onset of banana isoamylacetate paired with hints of red apple, pineapple and apricot but also with a certain ’wild berry sourness’ - even a tad infected at first sight (I wonder why - sigh). There is a certain orange-like fraîcheur, fortunately, but also a very sharp carbonation which numbs the tongue a bit. Bready malt body, supple and thick enough, a bit grainy as well; fruity esters continue on top of this. Very earthy finish, with even a certain retronasal ’earthiness’ of carrot or turnip; mostly malt sweet with ongoing esters, but luckily some earthy, floral, bit grassy hop bitterishness is present as well and provides sufficient dryness; so does a slight ’jenever’-like alcohol warmth, which manages to completely avoid the astringency I detest. I remember the earthy, vaguely sweetish flavor of cooked turnip very well and this beer has a lot of it: in fact, in beer and food pairing, I could even recommend this to accompany such an earthy ’wintery’ dish. The ’Gaverhopke gushing’, as I have began to call it, is obviously its worst flaw, but otherwise this is not all bad; if the commissioners (Geluwe) have the opportunity to transplant this recipe from Gaverhopke to any other brewery that does commissioned brews, I can only recommend them to do so. In all, this remains another redundant and stereotypical Belgian blonde, of course, but not the worst one I had so far and not bothering me with DMS, H2S or other awful off-flavours. Have a point for that - but I also have to take a point off for the gushing.