Bottle. Light amber beer with a huge whitish head. Spicy, floral, yeasty aroma with some hay. Spicy/floral, hay flavor with great yeast and slight soap. Lingering noble hop flavor, spice, slight grass, Medium body. Finishes dry. Nice hop profile that I liked more and more as I drank.

Pours bright hazy gold into a tulip. Fluffy white merinque head. Lemon and spice aromas. Lightly carbonated, but spritzy on the tongue. Bitter spice, earth basement and hops from front to back. Lasting hop finish.

2005? Bottle at American Flatbread with Muzzlehatch. Popping the cork yields an odd hops aroma of dill pickles. Not heavy on the vinegar or pickle so much as it is heavy on the dill. Fades to a lighter (but still strong) wet cut grass, light cumin and slight rotting grassiness. Like a mix of Styrian Goldings and Northern Brewer. Deep amber body with a white head, large and creamy, mostly dissipating. Hints of grapefruit rind, notes of sawdust. Flavor is Belgian yeast, pils malt and bitter hops. It has some funk to it, but just gets drowned out in the thick honey-cream malt and sharply bitter hops. Bitter and sweet fight for dominance and in the end, it’s just too much of both for me. Though to be fair, it still seems well-made and perhaps is just having problems with being very young. Not the distinct, but yet refined perfuminess of the DeRankeXX and way too heavy handed on the malt sweetness.

Bottled. Hazy golden in colour with rich, fine head. Flowery aroma. Softly malty with funky yeastiness and medium body. Average bitterness. Like an English bitter made with Flanders yeast...