6.8

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

Bottle shared by Joes. Murky yellowish color, huge sized white head that lasts for a long while. Smell and taste malts, saisonish, a bit sourish but maybe also a distant caramel hint. Hmm ok. 7-3-7-3-14.

5

Bruistablet, zepig, floraal, gistig.

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Lichtbruin bier met schuim. Smaak is bitter hoppig en licht kruidig en heel licht zuur met iets van koriander en citrus. Echt goed wat mij betreft.

5.8

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Bottle at home. Murky brownish amber with big white bubbly head. Sweet malts, hay, grassy hop pellets, light caramel, light licorice. Moderate sweet and quite bitter, light sourness. Under medium body and soft carbonation. Very grassy and not much else.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Draught at MEUG in Antwerp. Foamy and very thick, very densely lacing, egg-white head over a cloudy peach blonde beer with almost amber hue. Aroma of strong iron shavings at first, but when warming up, opening aspects of grapefruit peel, bread crust, parsley, apricot, white pepper, wormwood, apple peel. Crisp, fruity onset, dried peach and apple peel notes, very restrained in sweetness and bittering early on with a fizzy body. Bread crust-like malt middle with metallic edges, leading to a long, dry, spicy, wormwoody hop bitter finish with retronasal grapefruit peel aromatics to it; some lingering bready yeastiness. Since the intention here was a dry-hopped saison, I probably would not have minded a bit more residual sweetness and estery yeast effects, but as a modern, Anglo-Saxon inspired quencher, this performs very well, just too bad for that iron aspect of it.

6.8

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

330 ml. bottle. Purchased @ ALBO. Bottled on 9/11/2017. Quite dark orange, quite hazy solid thick off-white creamy head. Nose is nice orange peel, grapefruit peel, grass, dried white grape hop, it is rather malty but with a nice New World hop profile. Taste is notably different from the smell, more raw malt, spent grain, clearly BE strange low fizzy body, bitter dried orange peel, hay, body takes it down there is lesser murky muddy almost wild yeast finish which is not my thing. Pleasant nose, more interesting than most but the murky muddy yeast finish & bit strange body takes it down for me. Seems like an interesting attempt to bridge Belgian & New World brewing tradition.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Thnx to Jo ! Pours dark , unclear amber. Bit of a brown shine throughout the color. Head is low to Medium low, with Medium low stability. Bit frothy, white in color.Medium lacing. Aroma is medium low in intensity, shows some toasty features from the malts. Very mild grassy notes from the hop. Not much aromatic hops though, leaning more towards a non-dry hopped beer. Clean fermentation profile. Taste is Medium to medium high bitterness, mild grassy features from the hops. Toasty malts at medium intensity, providing a backbone for the bitterness of the hops. Fermentation profile shows some phenols, at medium low intensity, but no perceivable esthers. Aftertaste is long lasting, of medium high intensity, and shows woody notes ( perhaps from the hops? ) as well as a strong bitterness. Medium mouthfeel, Medium-high carbonation. Personally I would have prefered a more malty base, to provide more mouthfeel, and compete more against the carbonation and bitterness. No detected off-flavors.