Bottle straight from the brewery, thanks to Craftmember. Medium thick, moussy, pale greyish white head retaining fairly well, colour is a pure, deep, warm orangey amber, lightly hazy with deposit. Aroma of freshly baked brown bread, dried orange peel and even a touch of marmelade, deep-fried potatoes, cake, chestnuts, dried apricot, straw, earth, artisanal honey, hints of fragrant field flowers, oude ’jenever’ but no sign of the DMS I encountered in most of his other beers. Dried fruits in the onset, with a restrained sweetness of apricot and mandarin, well balanced with a basic, background sourishness; carbo is medium. Bready and lightly nutty malt body, soft and supple, sweetish with a gentle bittersweet toasted edge to it somewhere at the back; breadiness increases towards the finish, which combines earthy yeastiness with an equally earthy, leafy, mildly spicy hop bitterness. Last impression is of a juicy, bready, pleasant maltiness along with a dash of ’jenever’-like alcohol which should have been better hidden for a 6% ABV beer, but does not really disturb otherwise. This is somewhat of a pleasant surprise actually: there is a refined honeyish sweetness in the nose and in the mouth, it behaves gentle and quite well-balanced. Nothing spectacular in any way, just a very decent quencher, but to me, this is a lot closer to a refermented Belgian ambrée than to an EPA, which is apparently the style category stated above...