Burn Down Los Angeles

Fast gone light-yellowish head over faintly veiled ochre-golden beer. Fruity nose, oranges, but also liqueurish, Grand Marnier with most of the sugar gone. Later the aroma becomes cheesy, as in old running cheese. Much more citrus in the taste, fresh herbs and other grains; nice light acidic flavour. Light MF, feels a lot better carbonated than it looks. Bit slick, almost no aftertaste. Gets better whilst drinking. Thanks to Stef!

1 February 2020. At Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke, Kevin, Niels & Cynthia! Hazy orange, stable, foamy, white head; lots of lacing. Aroma of bacon, cooked ham, wheat, yeast, breadcrust, old apple. Taste has sweetish apple, pear, banana interwoven with wheaty, yeasty, spicy, even weird smoky notes. Dryish finish, tart & wheaty with lingering mandarin, herbal tea & smoke. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. I had no prior knowledge about this one but God knows what the intended 'mélange' was here.

Blood orange- and tea-flavoured beer from Ostend’s self-proclaimed city brewery, 75 cl bottle with crown cap bought at the brewery’s shop; bears the same general hangtag as their other bottles, a hangtag mentioning and detailing all their beers, but failing to mention which one is in the actual bottle; the crown cap doesn’t reveal this either so in this case, I actually had to write down the name of the beer at the shop itself, as I would never have been able to retrieve it afterwards if I hadn’t done so. Anyway: no gushing here like the other Koelschip bottle I recently opened, fortunately… Loosely knit, egg-white, initially foaming but very unstable, fizzing away like the ‘head’ on a glass of coke and reduced to a wafer-thin ring in instants, atop a misty, pale orangey-blonde beer with olive greenish tinge. Aroma initially quite lightstruck (the cat pee odour we all know and love from cheap pale lagers in green or colourless bottles), remaining quite pronounced for a while, accompanying notes of water-diluted orange juice, aspirin, soap (maybe the seeds of paradise), apple juice, old bread, cold green tea, cranesbill leaves, wet cardboard, chalk, apricot. Sweet onset, mandarin, peach and light banana notes with a pear-like edge, sourish aspect from the blood orange brings some freshness but a bit of ‘dirtiness’ as well; very soft carb, bit undercarbonated in fact, slick and soapy mouthfeel. A persistent chalky aspect lingers alongside a thinnish bready maltiness, with the blood orange sourishness continuing as well; the finish brings an outspoken, yet not very elegant tea aspect retronasally, in combination with the citrus and the chalky note becoming reminiscent almost of children’s flavoured aspirin or something alike. The lightstruck effect never really goes away and hops, though present in a hayish bitterish form way back in the finish, underachieve and are insufficiently strong to lend the finish enough body – so that it ends a bit thin and watery.