75cl bottle @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie, July 20. Brought by me. Bought at Bierhalle Deconinck. Misty gold appearance, good frothy white head. Globules of yeast pouring out at the end. Lovely fresh floral nose, Brett-forward and Orval like. Lambic seems to be reigned in nicely with floral, perfumed notes and a farmhouse funk feel. Moderately sweet. Really nice fresh sipper.

Bottle at THT July. Hazy light yellow golden with white head. Soft gooseberries, wheat, coriander, light peppery, soft grassy, dry flowery, lemon peel. Medium sour, lighr sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with a bit dry finish and sparkly carbonation. OK.

Bottle shared at Castlegate. It pours lightly hazy orangey white head. The aroma is musty, funky, zingy, damp wood, barnyard, old dirty orange, tangerine, lactic, barnyard, granny smith apple and bircher museli. The taste is crisp, dry, creamy, lactic, musty, funk, apricot, peachy, barnyard, floral, zingy, minerals, earth, floury bread, wet grass and spice with a drying finish. Medium body and fine, foamy carbonation. Fresh, funky and zingy. Decent.

Pours unclear blonde, medium white head. Smell is funky, brett, wood, mild tartness, bit fruity. Taste is subtile, mild lactic acid, brett, barrel. OK, a bit one-dimentional on the brett to me.

'Versnijbier' of a witbier (that I have never encountered anywhere) and Lindemans lambic, 75 cl bottle with cork from Bierhalle Deconinck. Egg-white, irregularly edged, bubbly, loosely knit but still mousy head on a misty straw blonde beer with pale greenish tinge, turning more 'milky' and beige-tinged with sediment. Aroma clearly reveals clean and noble Lindemans lambic with a less strong presence of the witbier: crushed green gooseberries, lemon peel, unripe green plums, sourdough, green apple, dusty earth, hay, stewed rhubarb, banana, apricot, grass. Crisp, fruity onset, quite fizzy carbonation as in a geuze but somewhat less 'enthusiastically' so, softly sour, green apple, light lemon, gooseberry but also sweeter banana and peach aspects probably from that 'Toots', white bready and cereally malt body, supple, dried by ongoing soft and crisp fruity sourness; hayish touch, grass silage, light wheaty soapiness and a bit of lambic funkiness but in a subdued way. Lingering fruity aspects, light and cleanly earthy, late hop bitter touch. Quite lambic-forward 'coupagebier', easily drinkable and refreshing, but it is hard not to compare with actual lambic this way (especially Lindemans Cuvée René) and in doing so, one could wonder what is the point of this 'dilution' - the witbier does not seem to do much more than to soften an otherwise perfectly fine and crisp lambic. Would surely drink again, though.

Bottle at Bierpasse Weekend 2019-06-28 Antwerp AR: sour tart, gossberries AP: hazy coppery, wee white head F: Belgian yeasty, wee tart, rhubarb, some minerals