One of the three first beers by a new microbrewery in my home region of Waasland, the village of Kruibeke to be precise, the other ones being a blond and a dubbel, unsurprisingly. Steinie bottle from Dranken De Moor in Haasdonk, bordering on Kruibeke. Gusher, but more or less manageable if you know how to act. As a result, the glass is immediately filled with an inches thick, egg-white, overly foamy, thickly cobweb-lacing, very densely fluffy and pillowy head, diminishing and thinning slowly over a cloudy, deep peach-hued orange beer, a bit paler at the edges, where very fierce, yet very 'tiny' sparkling can be observed; lacks a bit in 'redness' to be truly amber in the strict sense of the word. Aroma of a lot of sourish and nostril-tickling carbon dioxide at first, making room for impressions of cooked apple, ripe apricot and apricot jam, iron shavings (probably head stabilizer), carrot soup, coriander, dust, ripe banana, sweetbread dough, old ginger powder, dry white pepper, tomato peel, even a touch of vague liquorish (of a phenolic nature). Very fruity-estery onset, lots of ripe banana, peach and ripe apricot, lively carbonated as expected but due to the 'minuteness' of the bubbles not stinging harshly (though souring carbonation effects certainly linger on), very rounded and 'fluffy', soft mouthfeel. Soft doughy breadiness in the middle with ongoing esters and strongly upcoming yeasty-spicy phenols, clove-, mint- and liquorish-like but all vaguely so; lingering honeyish sweetness as well, but then a deep earthy and leafy hop bitterness shows up, bringing balance against this sweetness and leaving behind a late but notable spicy 'quinine' kick on the root of the tongue. Something metallic seems to linger about as well, along with soapy coriander and residual malt sweetness. Bit too yeasty for its own good, but certainly not showing any serious flaws; overly phenolic and estery for sure, but I guess that makes this thoroughly Belgian - indeed these guys seem completely oblivious to the international craft beer trends. Old school Belgian even if brand new, not too bad at all, all things considered.