6 June 2019. At Brouwbar, Ghent. Cheers to Ghent beer crew! Pours hazy red with a lasting, very thin, foamy, pink head. Aroma of raspberry, redcurrant, blueberry, unripe strawberry, wheat, sourdough, fruity yoghurt. Taste is light fruity sweet, restrained (unripe) strawberry & raspberry revolving around a sour core of blueberries, blackcurrant, quite wheaty & a bit lemony, with bitter touches of the fruits' seeds, all supported by a yoghurty character. Dryish, tart, fruity finish, berries all over, lingering wheat, yoghurt & a retronasal whiff of bread. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. This feels very fresh & natural; I'd say Brouwbar has proved they can have a go at any style.

Brouwbar's thirtieth official brew, made in collaboration with another small brewer active in Ghent, Jorre Vanhemmens of De Mederie. Berliner Weisse with blueberries, raspberries and blackcurrant, tasted from tap at Brouwbar. Pale pink coloured, foamy, mousy, regularly shaped head, misty fuchsia red robe. Aroma of ripe blueberries, forest fruit yoghurt without sugar, touch cassis but more subtle than the blueberries, raspberries vaguely noticeable but even more subtle, raw rhubarb stems, sourdough, bread crumbs, minerals, lemon flesh, hints of pumice and green garden weed leaves. Lots of fruitiness in the onset, again with that sweet-and-sour, spicy-tinged blueberry element coming on stronger than the blackcurrant and the raspberry, sour but in a relatively soft, straightforward, refreshing way, lively carbonation, supple body. The fruit sourness works well with the deeper, more 'dim' sourishness of the wheat, lactic acidity is sufficient for the style but remains gentle, though all these sour elements combined make for a dry, very quenching overall impression; strong minerally side aspects too, yoghurty effect lingering along with a vague chalky touch (as always in this style). A juicy blueberry sourness remains, with blackcurrant and raspberry, as in the nose, in second and third position. Typical modern 'fruited' Berliner Weisse, in the vein of what Scandinavia and the U.S. have been doing for fifteen-odd years; the raspberry and blackcurrant dosage could have been a bit more generous perhaps, but the blueberry does its job well. Minerally, spritzy, refreshingly sour drink - of the kind many people doubtlessly can chug down gallons of, so this will probably be a hit at the Brouwbar in the upcoming summer.