Gewoon Speciaal

Collaboration between Brunn and Stanium, two Beveren-based microbreweries that are actually not more than one street away from each other; intended for the Special Olympics and actually a blend of a Stanium brew and a Brunn brew, both following the same recipe... Medium thick, egg-white, mousy head lacing in shreds over a cloudy ochre-tinged apricot blonde beer. Aroma of banana, elderblossom (that meaty-floral combo, even if no elderblossom was used here), brown soap, soggy brioche bread, honey, cloves, dried orange peel, liquorice candy note, vague hints of chicken broth and damp cloth. Sweet onset, banana ester mingled with ripe pear and peach aspects, cooked apple, clear residual honeyish sweetness covering the whole, quite softly carbonated, with a white-bready, fluffy, brioche-like malt core. Clove, liquorice and dried citrus peel spiciness in the end, next to a softish floral hop bitter touch and lingering yeasty breadiness. Spicy blonde, not bad in terms of sheer flavour, but feeling a tad 'dirty' and overly yeasty.