6.9

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

Beer made for an art platform that temporarily collaborates with the Vooruit arts centre in Ghent - so available from tap at the Vooruit Café there. Thick and creamy, cobweb-lacing, egg-white head, misty peach blonde robe with ochre-ish edges. Aroma of peach, chewing gum, banana, drying orange peel, white bread, moist white pepper, baking soda, dried wormwood leaves, sweet potato mash. Sweetish and sourish, fruity onset, sharply carbonated, peach, apple and banana notes, supple mouthfeel, white-bready and lightly caramelly maltiness with ongoing fruity aspects as well as upcoming phenolic spicy notes, quickly countered by a very confident, rooty, leafy, dry citrus peel-like, spicy, long-lasting hop bitterness, releasing citrus peel notes retronasally as well. Belgian blonde with IPA ambitions, probably just Waaslander with amplified and americanized hopping, but just because of that, far from Boelens' worst effort and one I'd happily revisit next time I'm at the Vooruit's café.