7

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

THT February. Brewver down. Soft and dry. Quite decent. Some green hops.

7.1

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Pours bit unclezr blonde. Small white head. Smell is sharp, hoppy, citrussy, dry. T Intense. Taste is sharp, intense bitter, mild peach, not very citrussy, actually. Malty, very mild sweetness ( candy necklace). Very decent for sure, yet perhaps à bit too sharp.

7

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

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

33cl can. A slightly hazy yellow golden beer with a white head. Aroma of citrus hops, pine and tangerine. Taste of dry grassy bitter hops, tangerine, easy to drink.

7.8

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

Can from Geers. Blond colour, white foam. Grassy, citrussy, lots of tropical fruit, bitter finish. Well balanced Session IPA.

7

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

The third beer in the - in Ghent at least - commercially successful L'Arogante series, a 'summer' version of the original at 'session' ABV level. 'Farm fresh' can from Bierhalle Deconinck, a mere fifteen days old now. Thick and frothy, large-bubbled, lightly lacing, snow white head, slowly thinning and opening over an initially cristal clear, straw blonde beer with greenish tinge and refined, but 'enthusiastic' visible sparkling, turning only lightly hazy with sediment. Aroma of ripe banana, old grapefruit peel, green onion or even fresh leek, white bread, grass, freshly cut green pear, straw, dried out lemon zest, overripe shallot, hints of plaster, minerals, jute bags. Crisp, cleanish onset, some banana ester with a mild bubblegummy effect (as in the original, full-alcoholic version really) but not too sweet or overly dominant, side notes of green pear, unripe melon, Granny Smith apple; sweetness remains restrained even when a cereally, slender but mouth-filling, smooth maltiness sets in, no doubt further smoothened by the applied oats, relatively gently carbonated for this style and carrying the green fruit and mild banana aspects onwards to a bitter finish, rooty and leafy, with bitter weedy, grapefruit peel- and drying white pepper-like aspects to it. The cereally aspect of the malts supports this drying, peppery end bitterness well, but it is the hops that get the last word, quenching the thirst adequately - not unnecessarily so in the first stage of what is apparently to become the most severe heatwave Belgium has ever seen. Not an unpleasant beer at all, about as much a session IPA as the regular version is an IPA: hop bitter for sure, but also very Belgian and hop bitter more in a rooty, weedy, earthy, old school way than in a fragrant, citrusy New World way, which is what I tend to expect from the session IPA style. Then again, the can does nowhere explicitly mention the IPA moniker at all, so I guess the intention was to present 'just' a hoppy Belgian blonde at 'modern' session ABV level and in that sense, this is successful enough. Does indeed taste about the same as the old familiar blonde L'Arogante - I even doubt if I would be able to tell them apart in a blind tasting, ignoring that this one evidently feels a bit thinner (yet still very 'full' for less than 4% ABV), is a bit less fruity and looks paler; mission accomplished, I'd say, though I would have preferred an entirely new and truly New World hops flavour altogether to be added to the Arogante range, just to see what these Ghentish guys are really capable of.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as L'Arogante Session Edition (by L'Arogante bvba):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5

19/VII/19 - 33cl can @ several occasions during the Gentse Feesten, BB: 9/VII/20 - (2019-1065)
Clear pale yellow beer, big creamy white head, stable, adhesive. Aroma: nice and fruity, bit malty, grassy, citrus. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: nice bitterness, lots of citrus, tropical fruits, bit grassy, more bitterness. Aftertaste: very bitter, bit grassy, citrus, nice one, good session ale!

Paired with several Korean food dishes.