(Thx!) 330 ml. bottle sampled @ “2de Bierproeffestival van De Dijleschuimers”. Near clear golden with no head. Nose is fish guts yeast, candy, saop, very boring BE sweetness. Nose is oddly & extremely overly sweet candy with boring BE fish guts, not too pleasant and zero depth, touch chemical sweetness. Bland & oily Belgian. Something a bit off-putting here but largely a very boring Belgian at best despite the Champagne yeast, Oak aging & dry hopping. Not sure what to think here, is this marketing? Fail attempt? Is this just not to my taste? Odd. Looking at the ingredients I would be inclined to say, here we have a new Belgian brewery trying to do something new but having tasted it, that is sadly not the case here.

At ’bierweekend de lambiekstoempers ’ . Pours fuzzy yellow / orange. Smell is a bit hoppy, to the sweet side. Tastes a bit unfermented though, you clearly taste some Wort-like sweetness. mildly bitter, some hoparoma. Doesn’t feel like its supposed to taste like this...

Ambitious (and quite expensive) first beer from this new micro brewery in Waterloo, dry-hopped, oak-aged and refermented with champagne yeast. Creamy, dense, stable, yellowish white head, cloudy peach blonde colour. Aroma has a certain complexity, with hints of pineapple, biscuit, medium dry sherry, cava, pickled gherkins, citrus peel, flowers, faint woody notes and, alas, some H2S (sewer water). Refined sweetness in the onset, some candied and dried fruits with a sourish edge, smooth and somewhat vinous mouthfeel, juicy and soft caramelly malt sweetness, bit honeyish, yeasty finish with lingering sourishness, champagne yeast manifesting itself but in a more sherry-like flavour than actual sparkling wine, a tad woody with aromatic, but not deeply bittering hoppiness. A bit weird, a bit infected and a bit too expensive for what it is, but it seems to have potential enough to keep me interested in other things this brewery may come up with in the future.