10 June 2023. At 15de Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke, mom, dad, et al.

A: hazy yellow, stable, frothy, white head.
A: milk going sour, wheat, lemon zest, cereal.
T: sourish apple, wheat, lemon, milk.
F: soft grassy hops, wheat, white bread, lemon.
P: medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation.
Pretty enjoyable example.

Sampled @ Zythos Beer Festival 2022. A hazy yellow golden beer with a white lacing. Aroma of wheat malt, elderflower. Taste of herbal wheat malt, banana, herbs, high carbonation.

Moderat hefiger Beginn, weich, etwas Holunderblüte. Spritzig, die erhöhte Karbonisierung stört allerdings. Trockener, bitter-kräutriger Abgang. 10/9/5/9//9

Witbier by these guys in Gistel (though they apparently prefer to avoid the term ‘witbier’ as such) flavoured with elderblossom; 75 cl bottle from the brewery, shared with Goedele. Very thickly pillowy, bath foam-like (wheat-enhanced), egg-white, irregularly edged, paper-lacing, even-bubbled head, misty yellow-glowing apricot blonde robe with disparate strings of sparkling. Aroma indeed very much dominated by flowery elderblossom, which also produces this seitan- or cooked turkey-like meaty aspect it usually offers – but its sheer floweriness, in a very herbal way, is absolutely dominant here; other impressions include moist white pepper, white bread, freshly cut green apples, margarine, white soap or even baking soda, unripe pear, chalk, banana peel. Fruity onset, banana ester mingled with impressions of pear, cherimoya and kiwi, but nowhere too sweet; very fizzy carbonation, slick and soapy body, with the inherent soapiness from the wheat strongly amplified by the elderblossom. A dim wheat sourishness accompanies an otherwise bready core, heavily perfumed by this huge dosage of flowery elderblossom – flowery and, again, vaguely meaty. Underneath develops a leafy, bit rooty hop bitterness, lingering about in a much more obvious and persistent way than would usually be the case in a witbier. Ends very soapy – a bit much so for me, but I must admit that – like the other Bère beers I had – this is actually well-crafted for such a small (literally) garage installation. This makes me very curious for the last Bère I have waiting in my collection.