5.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle 0,33ltr: Clear golden colored brew with an dry bitter taste with herbal notes, missed the sharpness of the juniper.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled@Tuulensuu, Tampere. Goldeny orange colour with a small white foamy head. Aroma is fruity, yeasty, some juniper and mild herbal tones. Flavour is juniper, some sweet malts, mild yeasty tones with a wee bit of earth to it as well.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Pinkish golden color. Malty, floral notes and juniper in the aroma. Thinnish. Citrus and juniper in the flavor. Soft floral notes. Not unpleasant.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

0,33 flaske (bb. 140619) fra mitt en gang så velfylte, men nå nesten ikke-eksisterende lager av gode øl fra Belgisk Bryg i Emdrup Mosevej: klar gylden med ok skum. Duft og smak av citrus, einerbær, nyper og hvite rips. Mild bitterhed i afslutningen.

5.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle 33 cl. Golden color, slightly misty, white foam. Aroma: malt and juniper, a little pear, light spiciness. Taste: slightly fruity, a lot of juniper, coniferous, balance is lost.

6.6

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle. Clear golden pour with a perfectly lacing white frothy head. Aroma: sweet malts, lollipop, spices, juniper giving strange minty/earthy/dusty notes. Tastes mostly like alredy mentioned. Initially sweet, drier ending. Light bitternes. The body is dense enough. Still odd.

7

Duidelijke aanwezigheid van de jeneverbes. Frisse smaak en goed doordrinkbaar.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

F: thin, white, quick gone. C: gold, hazy. A: malt, some pepper, gingerbread, light sugary, herbal, juniper. T: in the taste is juniper much more noticeable, herbal, light green banana, pear, citrus, perfume, medium body, good carbonation, interesting and for me also tasty beer, bottled 20/02/2014, BB: 20/02/2017, 0,33l bottle from Prik&Tik Kampenhout.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Belgian blonde spiced with juniper berries. Irregular, moussy, snow white, stable head on top of a hazy yellow golden beer with ’old gold’ hue and a ’mist’ of yeast throughout. Aroma indeed carries a lot of unmistakable juniper berry (reminiscent of ’oude jenever’), next to impressions of raw celery or even lettuce, straw, banana, green apple (acetaldehyde), white bread, field flowers, vague nutmeg somewhere, unripe pear. Fruity onset, estery with hints of pear, green banana and unripe apricot but in all fairly ’clean’, subtly sweetish with a sourish edge, softish carbonation, lean and supple body, bit grainy middle with bready maltiness at its core, before the juniper berries take over and yield an aromatic retronasal spiciness which cannot be mistaken for anything else - almost like green cypress needles. Restrained ’green’ banana sweetishness and bready malt sweetishness continue underneath and a dash of floral, slightly spicy hops add late but effective bitterness. Not being a fan of juniper berries and having experienced exaggerated spiciness in some other Kempisch Vuur beers, I was dreading this one a bit, to be honest, but it turns out okay: if you must make a Belgian blonde ale with spices, then at least make sure it is technically flawless, and that is exactly what has been achieved here. I will never be fond of juniper aromas but other than that, this is a decent beer and delivers exactly what it claims. And fortunately it has no real jenever flavor other than the juniper berry effect, because I sincerely hate jenever.