6.9

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

The other beer from this new Brussels commissioner, apparently flavoured with "passion berries", which I believe is a tropical species of edible nightshade. Never saw that turn up in a beer so far so this is at least conceptually more interesting than their witbier. Thick, yellowish white, membraneous lacing, moussy head over cloudy peach blonde beer with ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of ripe apricots, cream, dough, ripe melon or pepino (the passion berries, I think), banana, soggy white bread and something very vaguely 'greenish' (as in green tomato or something - no doubt it's the passion berries again). Sweetish fruity onset, banana, melon, starfruit, peach, light sourish edge, fizzy and quite sharpish carbonation, slick bready and bit peanutty malt body, fruitiness lingering in a softly sweetish way - those passion berries seem to add more subtle and lightly exotic fruitiness than actual outspoken fruit flavour or acidity - ending with a mild herbal hop bitterishness, bready yeastiness and a lingering fruitiness. Much better than their other beer or at least much more original, with the passion berries adding subtle complexity rather than in-your-face fruitiness. Likeable enough.