0.33 l bottle shared with Ambasada. Zagreb. Thanks, Zec! Hazy golden, small off-white head. Funky peppery notes, vegetable, spices, also citrus. Dusty. Leave it awhile and nice zesty notes appear. Flavour is malty, some sweetness, funky, fruity, ripe pear. Spices. Spakling. Brett just beginning to work. Not dry (yet).

Bottled 330ml. -at Ambasada Zagreb. Golden coloured, medium sized white head, lively carbonation, yeasty and mild bretty nose. Yeasty, citrusy, fruity, slightly bretty and heavy carbonation with bitterish finish.

Bottle. Pours clear pale golden with stable white head. Clear aroma of Brett, with touches of malt and hops. Bretty flavour with notes of hops and citrus and touches of malt and fruit (apricot?). Lingering, bretty and hoppy aftertaste with citric touches and funky hints. Decent.

Bottle, 6.6%. Good citric Brett aroma. Almost clear yellow colour. Good stable white head. The flavour is citric and funky with a nice and mild lemony finish. Creamy carbonation. A good example of a Brett beer.

Old Lefebvre, still run by the same family that started it back in 1876, has sensed the winds of change sweeping beer culture in the past years, coming up with this Brett-fermented 'wild ale' last year, now - with different label than the one depicted here - filed under an 'Unplugged' program, meaning that more such experiments are meant to follow. Thick and foamy, beaten egg-white, very moussy, thickly plaster-like lacing, stable head remaining thick and dense for a long time, on a cloudy straw blonde beer with ochre-golden tinge and fine strings of sparkling here and there around the edges. Aroma indeed very Brett-forward, classical 'horseblanket', stale urine, sourdough, armpit sweat, freshly cut grass, dried chamomile, gypsum, soap, stewed leek, green apple, dusty attic with lots of very old books and newspapers, old cardboard (but in a dusty, non-oxidative way), cloves, hay. Very spritzy onset, lots of stingy carbonation distracting from the real flavour, adding minerality and sourishness, through an estery effect of unripe apricot, green apple and hard pear but remaining very low in sweetness; supple, dry middle, somewhat wheat-soapy, bread-crusty, bit flour- and old cereals-like, with that dusty 'old newspaper' effect coming up along with phenolic notes (clove) and very obvious retronasal Brettanomyces funkiness (again, 'horseblanket' and urine); the Brett adds a kind of fruity juiciness in the end, but also additional dryness, which works well with a long, 'deep', earthy, rooty hop bitterness. Ends funky, dusty, bitter and bready, just the way I like it in a beer fermented with Brettanomyces but omitting bacteria (so a 'wild ale', as it is often informally called); Orval is never far away in this specific 'subclass' of beers and I always feel inclined to compare them with that unique and monumental trappist example, but I guess it is better in this case to leave Orval for what it is and see this beer as an innovation of the usually very conservative Lefebvre range in its own right. I like it, for the simple reason that I like Brett beers a lot - as clearly it is the Brett that takes all of the credit here, this would have been a pretty standard witbier otherwise. Let us wait and see what this Unplugged program has in store for us further on...

Bouteille 33cl, Carrefour Ixelles, BB 21/04/2022.
Dorée, col épais crémeux blanc.
Arôme met bien en avant les effluves de brett - le tout procure de belles notes fruitées oscillant à la fois sur les agrumes et un léger tropical. Pointe de léger 'rubber burnt' mais sans être mauvais.
Palais est de suite sur un caractère brett marqué, cela donne presque un léger côté barrique - raisin blanc, Chardonnay mais aussi du tropical. En fin de bouche je retrouve ce côté un peu aigre-acidulé du fruit de la passion qui s'entremêle à des notes de fruits à noyaux.
Sur la fin, je note une belle rondeur de malts et le caractère un peu belge qui ressort.

Une belle surprise, Lefebvre se met doucement à la page avec de nouvelles offres - merci aux jeunes de la famille Lefebvre.

33cl bottle from Carrefour market @ in Tervuren near Brussels. F: big, white, long lasting. C: blonde, hazy. A: malty, spicy, brett, bit old urine, light fruity, funky. T: medium malty base, funky, light fruity, spicy, brett, bit cannabis, dry on the palate, medium to high carbonation, BBF: 21/04/2022 so I suppose to be cca 10 months old, very nice, enjoyed for sure.

1/I/21 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ home, BB: 21/IV/22 (2021-2)

Clear pale blond beer, big creamy pillowy dense off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: spicy, funky, hay, brett notes, slightly woody, dry and dusty impression. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: bit of artificial brett, soapy, pretty bitter, floral touch, bitter. Aftertaste: more bitterness, soapy, dry, artificial brett, some tannins, wood notes, bit resinous, some grapefruit.

Bottle from LDW. Light hazy blond colour, white foam. Lively carbonation. Nose of brett, funk, citrus. Taste is rather bitter, dry and grassy with funky notes. A bit strange and not very well balanced.