6.5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Tripel with added potato starch, made exclusively for a ’chip shop’ (frituur) in Beveren of the same name, owned by a beer fan. Loose, thin, off-white head dissolving quickly but this was probably due to the glass; cloudy peach blonde colour with ochre hue and fizzy sparkling piercing through the mist. Adding the deposit resulted in an additional, pale ’cloud’ of milk sinking to the bottom. Aroma of dried apricot, raw potato, dry earth, chicory, white pepper, jute, bitter orange peel, some apple and dried flowers. Mildly estery onset with accents of apricot and green banana, only faintly sweet, with spritzy carbonation and full, smooth, lightly oily mouthfeel; bready, slightly caramelly malts, some spicy phenols at the back, warming ’jenever’-like alcohol and a long, rooty, earthy, drying bitterness, hoppy but also remarkably chicory-like, as in Hof ten Dormaal’s Wit Goud or something alike. Very earthy, rooty beer, the potato starch got a bit lost on me, but I have to admit it paired very well with the French fries...