On tap at BeerMerchants tap.cloudy orange gold colour lasting white head. some cereal character. quite light but fairly drinkable. but of spice. yes I rather liked it. very easy drinking wheat ale.

bottled on 5/3/19 chiara torbida buona schiuma piuttosto abbondante buona persistenza cereale leggere speziato nota citrica secca discreto amaro

New Senne beer, a wheat beer brewed without the classic Belgian coriander and made more hoppy than is traditionally the case in a Belgian witbier, making it more akin to American style wheat ale; brewed in collaboration with a pub called Het Goudblommeke In Papier, to celebrate the famous Flemish painter Pieter Breughel, who was nicknamed ‘Pier den Drol’ and died 450 years ago. Initially towering high, very foamy, eggshell-white, plaster-lacing head, thinning slowly over a lightly hazy yellow blonde beer with olive-greenish tinge and very strong champagne-like sparkling everywhere, shifting to a cloudy, deeper ochre-ish blonde with sediment added. Aroma of Granny Smith apple, green banana, pumice, fresh lime, white bread slices, lemon zest, starfruit, withering lettuce, straw, gypsum. Crisp half-sweet ‘green’ fruity onset, unripe banana, green apple, starfruit, green melon, with spritzy carbonation and ‘dim’ sourish wheatiness with a soapy character as well; soft, bready barley malt effect too but the wheat prevails, gypsum- and lemon peel-like accents, dry and zesty hop bitter finish, spicy, with the soapiness of the wheat and the green fruit effects lingering. Pleasantly zesty but not overpowering in its hop aromatics like a true American wheat ale would be, so indeed, as brewer Yvan De Baets describes it, a ‘modernized’ version of a Belgian witbier – and with Senne’s rather purist view, unspiced. Very easily drinkable and very quenching, typical Senne approach in its dry yeastiness and earthy, noble hoppiness with a subtly modern aromatic twist – this is very well done and I’m sure Breughel would have appreciated it had it existed in his day.

05/06/2019 - draught glass @GIST, Brussels. Hazy golden, medium white head. Nose has lots of wheat, yeast, bit lemon. Taste is wheat, lemon, yeast, bit spice. OK but nothing special.

Imported from my RateBeer account as De la Senne Pier den Drol (by Brasserie de la Senne):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

3/VI/19 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: 5/XII/19, bottled: 5/III/19 - (2019-811)
Clear pale yellow beer, big creamy white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: malty, grains, hay, cow fodder, hint of citrus, bit grassy. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter, bit spicy, some banana, citrus touch, grains, hay, bit sweetish. Aftertaste: spicy, lots of malts, grains, cow fodder, spicy, herbal.

Explosive carbonation in hazy pineapplejuice-coloured beer to good white head. Wheat very obvious, wheat acidity suggested in the nose, soft milky-lactic-yoghurt, but nice. Chalk, wheat, diary - sums it up nicely. Bit of bananaester, if somewhat gently sourish. Very spritzy carbonation, wheatslickness, light to medium bodied. I'm sure Breughel den Ouden would have approved.

Balanced!

33cl bottle (5,2%, bottled 05/03/2019, BBF: 05/12/2019) from SWAFFF! 2019 Brussels Craft Beer Festival. F: big, white, good retention. C: blonde, hazy. A: malty, mellow fruity, bit citrus, floral, yeasty, wheat. T: light malty, wheat, bit yeasty, citrus, floral, dry on the palate, bit spicy, bit herbal, medium body and carbonation, quite nice, enjoyed.

Draft @ BIRA BIRA beer festival #1. Dorée fin paille, col blanc. Arôme offre un bouquet classique DLS, petite amertume noble houblon en rétro apportant une effluve finement fleurie avec un effet levure DLS en signature. Palais est léger, amertume fine, note bien fleurie, citronné, fruité modéré presque de légers esters et fini léger grains.