Another of these Fulltime Hops beers, this one apparently honouring the brave "Old Belgians" who stood up against the Roman conquerors two thousand years ago. Soberly stylized label says "just power, metal and malts"... Thin, off-white head leaving a rim of finely structured mousse on the edge of the glass and a thin veil over part of the liquid’s surface, but no lacing and not retaining well, eventually almost completely vanishing. Colour is brownish orange, looking completely murky and soupy from the start - in all, the glass looks as if I just poured some artisanal pear juice in it. Yeast is everywhere, also in the flavour; aroma is dominated by very bready yeastiness. I get impressions of soggy sandwiches, white bread dough, dried orange peel, raw and unsugared apple juice, baker’s yeast, wet cardboard, caramel, dry earth, dry tea leaves, fairly strong floral hops (chamomille), apricot, some light spicy phenols - neither overly inviting nor truly off-putting. Taste is similar: estery fruitiness at first but not too sweet, hints of dried stonefruit, some red apple, hints of gooseberry and orange with an earthy hoppiness already noticeable in the onset; medium to soft carbo, very bready middle phase consisting of a ’fluffy’ layer of lightly caramelly and bready malts superseded by a strong amount of bready yeastiness, a bit powdery as a result, with phenolic spiciness around it. Ends in a drying, deep, earthy, dried autumn-leaves-like hop bitterness with pleasant floral notes. This ’noble’ hoppiness is what more or less saves this for me, after those unattractive looks and overly bready onset; it shows certain qualities which could be identified as ’Belgian IPA’, if such a style would be recognized here. I feared the worst based on how the yeast is thickly spread throughout the liquid, but the phenols are not too strong and in terms of pure flavour, this is still well drinkable. I do think there is still quite some work to be done here, however!