On tap at Hesp. Hazy deep golden colour, white head. Aroma is light sour, fruit acids, malts, old cookies, alcohol. Flavour is light fruity, old cookies, malts, light fruity sourness, hint of citrus, alcoholic finish. Medium bodied.

Amsterdam Pubcrawl 2016, @Hesp, van tap. wazig amber met witte kraag in origineel glas, dat dan weer wel. aroma bevat een licht zuurtje naast wat mout en gist. Smaken van mout, gist, licht zuurtje, koriander, zacht, matig zoet, zwak/matig bitter, matige body, zachte co2. --- Beer merged from original tick of Rex Artus on 15 May 2018 at 16:28 - Score: 6

On tap at Cafe hesp shared. Medium White head. Very hazy light amber pour. A bit herbal. Ok

Tap at Hesp. Clear darker golden with white head. Lots of sweet malts, marzipan, corn, cognac, light spices. Medium sweet and bit over medium bodied. Over medium bodied.

Tap at Hesp during pubcrawl. Hazy pale amber with little grayish head. Sweet malts, anice, spices, marzipan, sugar. Medium sweet and bitter. Under medium body, soft carbonation. Bit sweet and strange spice. --- Beer merged from original tick of Rex Artus on 22 Dec 2017 at 18:28 - Score: 6. Original review text: 3.2

33cl bottle into a Westmalle chalice at home on 5th July 2016. I allowed some sediment to enter the glass, so my golden orange coloured beer had a dull haze to it’s look: on top a full white crown of foam. Orange notes in the nose and sweet fruity taste, some yeast flavours also. The alcohol seems to give the beer a slight burning sensation on the palate: not unpleasant, but unexpected. Liked it.

"Craft beer brewed in Belgium" at Anders, commissioned by Biernatie apparently, though this is not explicitly mentioned on the label. Thick, snow white, moussy head leaving thick patches of lacing on the edge of the glass, colour is a deep, almost amber-like orange blonde with a diffuse haze of yeast divided throughout. Aroma of apricot, damp cloth, rainwater, raw celery, ginger, field flowers, dry cookies, biscuit, dried banana, bell peppers, red apple, dry earth and a lot of dry hay, young ’jenever’, hints of rusty iron and very faint burnt rubber (DMTS?). Crisp, fruity onset, sweetish bubblegum and banana isoamylacetate, soft gooseberry sourishness, sweet apple, peach, quite spritzy carbonation even for the style, yet smooth and supple mouthfeel; a lean, notably caramelly and honeyish malt sweetness underlies this and the soft, slightly soapy wheat flavour is noticeable as well. Spicy phenols are on top of this and return retronasally along with floral and spicy hops, though they have limited bittering effects (though an earthy bitterness does linger around in the back), so the caramelly malt sweetness persists almost undisturbed in the end - almost, because the interfering factor here is ’jenever’-like alcohol, already more or less apparent from the middle as a slightly burning, bit wry presence, increasing in the finish; it leaves a mild astringency on the root of the tongue as well. Clearly the alcohol is not well hidden in this beer, even for a tripel; it is also a bit ’generic’ and Belgian all the way, in that it is not that different from many Van Steenberge, Huyghe or other ’classic’ (read: boring) tripels this country is teeming with. Decent for the style, but nothing more than that and not more so than e.g. Bornem Tripel, Piraat Amber, Tongerlo Tripel or countless other ones in this league - and therefore completely redundant.

33 cl bottle. Pours cloudy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is medium dry and phenolic. Sweet, light fruity. Toasted malt. Lingering light fruity and mild phenoloc finish.