On tap. Pours a very dark copper color with full foamy head. Aromas of grass, sweetened raisins and bready malts. Flavors of earthy malts and dry caramel with a little fruitiness.

25cl bottle from Carrefour market Boortmeerbeek.
F: medium, tan, quick gone.
C: coppery, light hazy, there is E150c Caramel ammoniacal colorant!
A: malty, caramel, bready, fruity traces.
T: medium malty base, mostly caramel bready, some bitterness, honey touch, medium carbonation, quite commercial all together, drinkable and boring.

Bottle from a local bottle shop. Aroma is sweet brown malt with red fruits, caramel, dried fruits. Flavour is medium sweet and light bitter. Body is medium. Not bad, but not exciting either and a bit too sweet.

Tap at Bonte Koe, Leiden: Clear red coloured brew with an acceptable sweet bitter taste with hints of caramel, sweet red fruits and lemon.

Bottle 25cl. @ome poured into a shaker. Clear pale amber colour, good moussy off-white head, good retention, light lacing. Aroma sweet malt, caramel, honey, apricot notes. Taste meddium sweet and light bitter, malty, some apricot, candy sugar, kinda bland. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation, malty sweetbitter aftertaste, sugary, grainy, metallic notes, okay.

Tap at FOB, Rimini, Italy. Pours red amber, clear, with fine whitish foam. Aroma is malty/caramel. Body and carbonation are average. Taste is quite sweet, on the excessive side. Final is average.

Fles gedeeld met Roelzie. Het is een amberkleurig bier met een volle beige schuim. Hey heeft een aroma van rozijnen en rood fruit. De smaak is moutig, bloemig en ebt snel weg.

Irish red (in itself a 'fake' classic European beer genre invented by the French in the seventies) by Wilderen, arguably the most 'commercially oriented' brewery in the province of Limburg, ignoring the huge volumes of bland pale lager churned out by Martens; at Café René in Hasselt, advertising itself as a beer-oriented café but in fact offering little more than industrial macro beers, if quite a lot of them. Dense, creamy, egg-white, stable head, misty warm pale amber robe with orangey tinge. Aroma of sugared cashew nuts, industrial honey, white sugar, canned peaches, a whiff of iron and hints of mandarin, melon, plaster and bubblegum. Very slick, sweet onset, pear, melon and apricot notes without any 'real' esteriness, fizzily carbonated with smooth, lean mouthfeel; honeyish sugariness hovers over a sleek cereally malt body with vague peanutty and far less vague bubblegummy edges, while the carbonation continues to add strong minerally effects. Something vaguely metallic lingers along, honeyish and peanutty sweetness continue unabated while hops remain very low, offering hardly any bitterness at all. Creamy, sleek, thin, simple and sweet, very bland even for a style which I consider to be inherently bland - see what Dok Brewing Company in Ghent did with this style, mister Janssen, and learn from it. This is very mass-oriented, possibly trying to compete with Kilkenny even though not many Belgian consumers are familiar with Irish red - so perhaps I should give a point for chosing an unlikely beer style to throw your mass-marketing ambitions at me.

Super clean crystal clear red. Liquid yeast driven esters dominate this beer, and it is nice and low bitter as the style ought to be. Zest ams (3.7 feb 2022) Merry beermas advent, lowered