31 December 2025. New Year’s Eve tasting - cheers to all!

A: clear golden, small, frothy, white head.
A: grass, hay, apple peel, citrus rind, menthol.
T: sweetish apple & unripe pear, sourish citrus zest, cereal.
F: grassy hops, green fruit, mint.
P: medium body, slick texture, average carbonation.
Good stuff, atypical Belgian brew.

Fles 33cl in Dalfsen. Fruitig, bloemig, bittertonen, grapefruit, cirus, sinaasappel. (13-5-2023).

33cl bottle. A clear dark golden beer with a big off-white head. Aroma of oranges, mild grapefruit, juicy hops. Taste of oranges, juicy hops, grapefruits, moderate bitterness. Good!

Goudkleurig bier met mooie stevige schuimkraag. Smaak is bitterzoet en licht fruitig met iets van citrus, sinaasappel en grapefruit. Degelijk bier.

APA-style beer from this new and ambitious craft beer project in the Antwerp region. Snow white, mousy, stable, slowly opening head on a clear, warm orange-glowing peach blonde beer, misty orange with sediment. Aroma of orange peel, caramel candy, candied lemon, melon, lychee, peanuts, lime zest. Sweetish onset, candied almost, with again melon- and orange-like aspects as well as vague hints of lychee and pear; very light sourish touch, softish carbonation. Smooth caramelly and biscuity maltiness with a slight peanutty edge, oily and slick, leading to a gently but confidently bittering finish of grapefruit, kitchen herbs and orange zest, while the biscuity effect lingers. APAs have long been surpassed by American style IPAs to a large extent and thus never really got the chance to flourish in other countries embracing craft beer culture - including Belgium, where I can count them on the fingers of one hand. This one is therefore an interesting addition to the ever-growing list of Belgian beers even if there is nothing truly 'Belgian' to it; in itself, and compared with APAs I had from the U.S. and other countries, this is a sweet and smooth, but very focused, clean and well-made example. Anything but evident for a starting brewery here in Belgium...

17/VII/20 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared @ home, BB: 9/IV/20 (2020-650) Thanks to Alengrin for the trade!

Clear orange beer, big creamy dense off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: bit malty, grains, caramel, little fruity. MF: ok carbon, medium body. TAste: bit fruity up front, some citrus, soft bitterness, pretty hoppy. Aftertaste: bit herbal, grassy, yeast, caramel, very minty, some citrus, good one!

Thick, very dense off-white head, over cold-hazed orange-amber beer. Sweetish exotic fruit nose, but the thick dense head quickly dampens the aromas, so little aroma remains until after quite some time. Sweet-bitterish, with again lots of fruitesters. The finish is dry, almost chalk-y, and a bit earthy. Melon, passion fruit, citruspeel. Maybe a bit of iron in the head? Very balanced sweet-fruit-hoppy. Good carbonation, light hopoil slickness, lasting flavours. Another very good Mortselarij beer, balanced as few can aspire to achieve, and of course an indestructible head.