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Pours hazy brown with no head. The weak aroma contains some yeast, caramel, roasted malt and, strangely, Coca-Cola. It tastes medium sweet, like soda, with no bitterness to speak of, only a vague hint of yeast in the background. Thin texture, soft to flat carbonation. It is what it is.

F: thin, brownish, quick gone. C: dark brown, clear. A: cola, brown sugar, hint of molasses. T: malt, brown sugar, cola, hint of chocolate, very watery, thin body, normal carbonation, thirst quencher as well, 0,33l bottle from Delhaize @ Schaerbeek in Brussels.

Dark brown with quick fading fizzy head. Very sweet. Caramel. Brown sugar. Cola. Shandy.

Botle Pours clear, dark brown . No head to speak of . Smell is sweet, sugar and canesugar . Taste is sweet, sugary , with hints of earhtyness extracted from the canesugar . Aftertaste is plain filthy with arteficial sweeteners ( asparthaan ? ) . The way I remember it being , before I drank beer I tasted this and did not like it . WAY to sweet ... Even at 1 ABV , this is not worth getting alcohol in my blood from .

If you would ask any (preferably middle- or old-aged) Belgian which table beers they know, this will usually be the only answer they can come up with. It carries the name of the Piedboeuf brewery in Jupille, the fusion of which with Artois in Leuven eventually lead to Interbrew, now AB InBev; I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the oldest beer in their range which is still continued. Strangely, that is, because after all, table beers are a glory from the past, so there cannot be any significant profit in this - and profit is what AB InBev is all about, after all. Anyway: a very dark burgundy, clear beer with loose but stable and sticky, light beige head and a weak aroma of moist brown bread, cocoa, cola, very clear iron, candi syrup, aspartame, false notes of rotting grass and industrial caramel. Taste is sweet, brown sugar with something chocolatey and caramelly but in an ’added’, industrial kind of way, not feeling very ’natural’, medium carbonation, thinnish mouthfeel though this effect is a bit masked by the sugar, unnatural and somewhat chalky aspartame, metallic too, with a short and sweet, but not too cloying, aspartame-, coke- and butterscotch-like finish with low, but still noticeable hop bitterishness. Clearly an industrial standard lager of low ABV coloured and enhanced with industrial caramel - and who knows what more. In all: a typical table beer alright, but an industrial InBev interpretation of the style; relates to the artisanal brown table beers still made by some family brewers like the Leffe beers relate to artisanal abbey beers. One of the lesser interpretations of an otherwise underestimated and disappearing beer style.