6.3

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

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

0.75 l bottle from ''t Biermenneke', best before end of 2024. Hazy, luscious orange with a large, foamy, stable, off-white head. Sweetish, sourish, slightly fruity and gently funky aroma of hay, grains, sour cherry and light horse blanket. Gently sweet, moderately sour, slightly yeasty, rather fruity and moderately funky taste of grains, hay, sour cherry, rubber, iron and a touch of horse blanket, followed by a short, gently tart, moderately woody-dry finish. Medium body, fairly effervescent mouthfeel, very lively carbonation. Not a big fan of this brewery, the rubber-like flavours regularly put me off. However, it works in this one, probably due to the cherries. Decent beer for sure.

4

They forgot to add the cherries... In a bad base beer... Down the drain.

6.9

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

Somehow missed ticking this one when I’ve had it before. Near clear amber brown with a short lived off white head. Aroma of peppery yeast, herbs, cherries lightly present but maybe less so as the bottle is older. Light to moderate sour and bitter. Light medium bodied with high carbonation.

4.8

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Pours clear pink amber. Small white head. Smell is phenolic ( plastic) mild sherry, u fresh maltyness. Not that great. Taste is sharp, plastic. Highly carbonated. Malts, metallic touch. Chlorophenolic. Not great, not good, not even acceptable.

5.9

Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Danke an kermis. Mild fruchtiger Beginn, der von einem trockenen, etwas pfeffrigen Aroma begleitet wird. Etwas getreidig, geringe Würzigkeit. Im Mittelteil steigt die Fruchtigkeit leicht an, die Intensität sinkt leider. Mittellanger Abgang. 8/10/8/8/7/8

6

From BXL 2020 Pack. Dry and quite forward barley malts with some sweet red fruit, raw nuts kind of bitter/dry feel, leathery and bitter with light sweet cherries and a peppery yeasty edge. Medium body with very active carbonation.

6.6

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Contrary to what is the case with all those American-inspired (and actual American) craft breweries churning out new beers all the time, a new beer by old saison specialist Blaugies is something you do not see every day. This cherry beer, basically a Saison d’Epéautre variant with added cherry juice, has a very specific ‘raison d’être’, though, as it was created for the BXL Beerfest 2020 – which obviously never took place due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Mousy, snow white, thinnish head with some thin ‘veils’ in the middle but not much more, misty amberish orange robe (far less ‘red’ than one would expect from a ‘kriekenbier’), turning more ‘dirty’ brownish with sediment. Aroma of sweet cherries but proportionally (very) subtly so and embedded in other impressions of ripe peach, damp straw, chewing gum without the sugar, linden blossom, cheese rind, rosé wine, red apple, honey, apricot, banana peel. Sweetishly fruity onset, cherry juice factor indeed but again to a notably low degree; it adds fruity juiciness and sweetness, mingling with the beer’s intrinsic red apple, peach and light banana notes, but the actual cherry flavour remains relatively subdued. Quite fizzy carb, smooth and slick mouthfeel; sandwich- and cereal-like malt sweetishness with bubblegummy edges, retaining lots of fruitiness till the end, still with indeed sweet cherry but almost equally string red apple, peach and even strawberry. Phenolic spicy aspects (clove, thyme) too as well as bready yeastiness and a floral hop bitter note, but the fruitiness remains the key element. Not an unpleasant fruit beer per se, but far less cherry-forward than almost any other Belgian cherry beer (in whichever style and to whichever degree of ‘naturalness’) I ever had… Weird, a bit “noch mossel noch vis” as the Flemish saying goes, one could wonder what the point of this beer was – other than being obliged to create something new for the BXL Beerfest in a relatively easy and not too expensive way. Blaugies has much more ad much better to offer in their regular range than this special one-off.

5

Az tak zle jak zle jak mowia nie jest. Faktycznie odswiezaczopowietrzne, ale owocowo, w uscie polslodko, jakies wisniojerzyny... dziwne niezbyt dobre