33 cl. bottle procured from Delhaize. Consumed @ home. BBF 310/09/2016 (another BBF that seems far too long for me). Poured into my Mikkeller Teku glass. Pours hazy dark orange with a big egg-white head, consisting of large bubbles. Nose is freshly baked baked and lovely mellow USA C-hops, lots of fruity citrus. Taste is doughy upfront with a touch too big yeast presence, tad yeast cake with a smidgeon of fish guts yeast feel to it, C-hops feel rather mineral here with a dash of mineral lemonade and light Borjomi (more mineral qualities, I know but that is what I am picking up on), finish is cake-like yeast, faint almost mould touch to it, murky C-hops. Body is a tad yeasty but not too heavy. Beer like this are a nice evolution I feel in the Belgian landscape but I feel like a lot of these beers including this one haven’t been fine-tuned yet, you can feel where they were going with this but they didn’t quite get there. Only a handful breweries can pull them off. I wonder if beers like this are a result of trying to appeal to mainstream Belgian sensibilities or the breweries not being there quite yet in either appreciation or craftsmanship. I do feel like trying to please the mainstream & too old fashioned thinking might have a lot to do with that going by some comments I have read made by some Belgian brewers.

Bottle from Delhaize. Nice amber colour, creamy white foam. Medium carbonation. Nose of citrus, peach and tropical fruit. Malty with yeasty notes. Bitter finish. Not very easy drinkable. Good.