6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Sample @ Nieuwjaarsreceptie Gentse Biervereniging. Thanks for sharing! Hazy amber colour, white foam. Sweet malty, minerally beer, light metallic notes, little bitterness. No traces of mushrooms detectable.

6.5

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

Imported from my RateBeer account as Du Brabant Shrooms (by Brasserie du Brabant):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

3/II/18 - 75cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent), shared @ Nieuwjaarsreceptie Gentse Biervereniging - BB: I/2020 (2018-77) Thanks to all members for sharing!

Little cloudy blond to orange beer, big creamy white head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: funky, some sulphur, bit dirty, spicy. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sweet, malty, some citrus, fruity touch, actually pretty refreshing. Aftertaste: bitter touch, some yeast, some orange peel, fruity, bit sourish.

6.5

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

Bottle. Etre Gourmet. Hazed, pale gold. Frothy, bubbly head settles to a dense, lasting, glossy number. Nose has spicy, yeasty notes. Some lime. A little earthy. A little bready. Taste is sweet and yeasty. Slightly tart. Mouthfeel is a bit oily and flabby. Sweet and light bitter finish.

6.5

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

retrieved lost rating from LIBF 2017 / Zythos 2017 (not sure where I drank it first ) . The beer itself is quite OK to me, I expected worse since I hate mushrooms, but even though some of the taste is in their, the beer is still managable. OK, but certainly not the best offering of BDB .

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

One of Brabant’s newest experiments, a saison with raw oyster mushrooms added, cheers to Fred (the brewer) for generously sharing this in Leuven. Loose, bubbly but apparently stable, egg-white head on a hazy straw blonde beer with somewhat greenish tinge. Aroma of unripe peach, grass, hard pear, green Granny Smith apple, some vague green olive, raw grains and indeed raw mushrooms, though this aspect reminded me much more of (raw) white ’champignon’ than of the more fleshy, ’foresty’ character of oyster mushroom. Same in the mouth: the mushrooms add a light, crisp umami touch, but much more reminiscent of raw, hard, white button mushroom than of soft, fleshy oyster mushroom; this aspect subtly interferes with an otherwise rather straightforward Belgian blonde, with restrained unripe fruit (pear, peach) notes in the onset, a medium amount of carbonation, a cereally and grainy, perhaps somewhat sharpish middle and a dryish, floral, bit earthy bitterish finish. I like the concept of this beer quite a lot, I think I can count the number of mushroom beers I ever had on the fingers of one hand, but with the very few of them still lingering in my memory, I think it would have been a better idea to use dried mushrooms for a more thorough umami effect, and to apply them not to a grainy Belgian blonde, but to a thick stout or porter, which often have certain umami traits by their very nature - a flavour that would match properly with the umami of dried mushrooms. In any case my first ’fresh mushrooms’ beer so an interesting one to taste for sure. This is not my beer per se, but the effort this brewery puts in coming up with one new idea after another keeps amazing me. I hope that I will be able to keep rating them in the trusted environment of this website, since the brewer has followed Dogfish Head’s example in trying to get the name of his brewery and all ratings removed from this site, following the news that AB InBev has acquired a minority share in Ratebeer.com. Disturbing and unsettling as that announcement may be - I am still trying to wrap my head around it a week later - I don’t think that kind of demand for censorship is the correct answer especially from a craft brewer connecting himself to an international movement that owes a lot to sites like this regardless of AB InBev, but that is another discussion. Note: this rating concerns a young sample; an older one I tasted at GBV's Nieuwjaarsreceptie had a very off-putting smell more reminiscent of rotting mushrooms... I will not take that sample into account, otherwise this rating would have been well below 2.5/5.

6.3

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

750 ml. bottle sampled @ LIBF 2017. Thank you for sharing RB-InBev Belgian crew! Hazy golden, little white head. Nose is BE soap, sparkling water, mineral, white pepper, no oyster mushroom. Empty taste, sparkling. Mineral, fizzy, metallic, green apple, soap, empty. I expected this beer to be either brilliant of awful but it appears too be a mineral, metallic, not very exciting, hollow Belgium. I like the idea but I am starting to feel that mushroom don’t give off a lot of flavour in beer, wonder if raw ones were used, maybe backed ones in the future? Or is that a really awful idea?

6

Gelukkig niet echt serieuze paddenstoelsmaak!.

6

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

Bottle sample @ LIBF’17, thanks to the RB-InBev Belgian crew for the share. Côte à côte avec la versionde Scratch. Dorée, col fin blanc. Arôme met en avant un bouquet levure belge, malté en retrait avec un effet vraiment modéré des champignons, autant le shiitake donne le côté umami, ici au ressent faiblement l’effet terreux. Palais reste belge dans l’usage des levures avec un léger caractère de sucre résiduel, le côté champignon reste assez neutre et développe peu l’aspect terreux que j’attendais, le malt reprend un peu sur la fin, le tout étant finemetn amer - houblons plutôt noble.

5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Pale blond with thin head. Aroma and flavour have a mild malty sweetness. Lacking in depth and intensity.