On tap at La Tireuse. Pours a clear amber with a slight gold hue and white head that dissipates to the edges and laces slightly. Aroma has Belgian yeast and bread with some sweet fruits underlying. Flavor has flora and sweet grains with some light fruit and a bit of Belgian yeast underlying.

Dark reddish amber, beige foam. Light sweet, some caramel, malty, dry, a bit nutty, easy drinkable. Ok.

Unbelgisch unsüss, trotzdem fruchtig, zwetschgig

5/VI/22 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ Akke’s place, BB: 22/II/24 (2022-662)

Clear reddish to deep amber beer, creamy big irregular beige head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, some caramel, grains, hay, some banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very malty, lots of caramel, grains, bitter, more caramel malts. Aftertaste: a bit fruity, very spicy, dry, a bit soapy, very bitter, herbal and malty finish.

Amber ale by Lupulus, deep in the Ardennes and evolved from the (to me much more exciting) Trois Fourquets brewery, originally a side project of Achouffe, in a sense. Very thick, rocky, foamy, off-white, densely creamy head towering inches thick over an initially clear, very purely amber coloured beer with ruddy-orange hue, turning a tad more 'rusty' and misty when the sediment is added. Aroma of roasted peanuts, industrial toast, tea bags, iron (probably from head stabilizer in this case - as confirmed by the old 'hand test'), nutmeg, dried apple slices, walnut skin, hard caramel without the sweetness, brown soap, rosehip, dust. Crisp, clean onset, lots of minerally carbonation, low in sweetness and even lower in fruitiness (some dried apple and persimmon perhaps but very volatile); peanutty, hard-caramelly and toasty maltiness, a very pure 'amber' malt profile indeed, dryish and mildly bitterish, with this bitter aspect enhanced by hops in the finish, taking on a leafy, slightly spicy character; something metallic 'zings' along too, accompanied by a vague spicy aspect (nutmeg). The hops have a consistently bittering effect, matching the overall -relative - dryness of this beer. Clean, rounded, malt-forward amber beer, in all - clean enough to resemble a German Märzen, but in essence, and in spite of its 'modern' intentions (implicitly pointing at American style amber ale), this is a stronger version of the old 'spéciale belge', a genre of 20th-century Belgian amber beer threatened with extinction these days. Too metallic, 'pumped up' in its head formation and retention and probably not very interesting for either the traditional Belgian beer drinker who has long forgotten spéciale belge or the postmodern craft beer hipster for whom this beer would be incomprehensibly unexciting, but I think there have been worse attempts at bringing the old Belgian amber beer style back to life recently.

Pours unclear amber. Small white head. Scent is weak, mild bread. Taste is malty, rey bread. Very full, rather intense. Mild caramel - but not overly sweet. Well balanced !

Tap at ponte pub. Cloudy amber color creamy offwhite head, lacing. Aroma of smooth roasted malta, biscuit, cake, caramel, candy fruity, oats. Taste well balanced by citrusy tones, grass, leaves. Silky smooth texture, smooth finish,floral. medium body, very soft carbonation. Nice flowery and smooth.

Gylden klar med høyt beige skum. Lukter syltetøy og karamell. Lett. Noe bitter brent karamell, stenfrukt, druer og sitrus i smak. Middels lang