Bottle. Brilliant gold. Huge rocky white head. Nose: pale malts, tomato paste, spicy notes. Lifht to medium body. Taste: on the hoppy side. Much better. Grassy, herbal. Medium bitter. Clean grainy background. Long hoppy ending.

Clear golden colour, white head. Malty aroma, spicy yeast, cloves. Sweet malty flavour, bit spicy. Finish yeast, sweet malts.
(from 33cL bottle @ home)

Clear blond colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have a nice balance of pale malts and dry hop. Considering the alcohol level this would make a decent substitute for a pils.

F: huge, creamy, white, good retention. C: pale gold, clear. A: malty, bit floral, bready, caramel, like lager more than top fermented. T: malty, light grassy bitterness, bit metallic, bready, toast, bit fruity, I don’t even know if it is lager or ale according to taste, light dough, bit oily mouthfeel, very strange, medium body and carbonation, 33cl bottle from Prik & Tik ABC Drinks Leuven.

Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

Levendig helder geel bier meet veel schuim. Smaak is licht btter hoppig en licht zoet met iets van ananas en mout/hop. Goed doordrink bier met fijne smaak.

One of several Baptist beers named after the founder of the Van Steenberge (formerly Bios) brewery and created for the inauguration of the new brewing installation. Steini bottle as usual, from Van Eetvelde in Lokeren. Intricately cobweb-lacing, egg-white, moussy, medium thick head, dissolving slowly in the middle but otherwise well-retaining, over a completely cristal clear, pure yellowish golden blonde beer, clearly filtered. Even thought the label explicitly states that this is top fermented, the aroma is a lot more like an industrial pale lager than a traditionally top-fermented Belgian blonde (making it even worse than expected): that off-putting, cooked laundry-like smell of pasteurization overlies hints of popcorn, butter, damp cloth, soggy breakfast cereals, unripe banana, industrial cheese spread, bubblegum, freshly cut grass, white bread, plastic flowers, green apple. Low in esters, only restrainedly fruity in the onset, apple and unripe green banana hints, sweetish and sourish, with sharpish, minerally carbonation; supple, slick body, pale malt cereally flavour like in a pale lager but a tad thicker, white bread, corn (label says contains barley malt so this is actually a possibility), bit creamy; floral, soft hop bitterness in the end, a tad rooty (even a bit harsh and glueish in this 'naked' and simple environment), but its modest contribution is insufficient to wipe out that damp cloth- and freshly ironed shirt-like odour of pasteurization, which returns retronasally in fully dressed form, with even a melting plastic-like effect, like in some cheap industrial pale lager. Ends softly bittering, with that cereally pale malt graininess lingering a bit, but briefly so. I never liked Van Steenberge's old-fashioned, simplistic and usually rather unrefined beers too much, but this is far from a positive evolution; why in Ninkasi's name did they think making yet another boring, sweetish, overly simple Belgian blonde would enlarge their audience, in order to finance their fancy new brewing equipment? In fact, I am convinced (and have heard this from people who used to work at this brewery!) that this is indeed a lager, perhaps even an alias of Sparta Pils, which would make the farce complete. Shame on you, Van Steenberge, my already low esteem of your range has now reached an all time low. This beer is everything a 21st-century Belgian craft beer should not be.