Bottle at Hoppzak. Bottle with a lot of wear on the label. Slight hazy golden, big white head. Sweet malts, very floral, yoghurt, grassy bitter hops, marzipan, apricots, alcohol, orange zest, sage. Medium sweet, medium bitter, light sour. Medium bodied.

7/I/22 - 75cl bottle @ Wim VL’s place, BB: IV/2024 (2022-36) Thanks to Meeki for sharing the bottle!

Clear orange beer, big aery to creamy off-white yellowish head, stable, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of CO2, fruity, lots of orange peel, pretty oxidized, sweaty feet, funky, herbal, cheesy touch. MF: lively carbon, medium to full body. Taste: bit sweet, herbal, nice bitterness, bit fruity, spicy. Aftertaste: spicy, herbal, fruity, oxidized, alcohol, dry, grassy, spicy, alcohol.

Potpourri van kruiden. Wat alcohol zoetheid.

Bottle at Wodan tasting. Yellow to light orangy color, huge sized off-white head. Smell and taste lightly malts, "onkruid", tart-bitter a bit. Hmm okay.

New spring beer by this acclaimed brewery on Belgian soil surrounded by the Netherlands, a kind of 'lentetripel', so a strong blonde spring beer with herbs, along the same lines as e.g. Basanina's Lentenon or Glazen Toren's Lentebier. The herb in question here is woodruff, also known from Luxemburg's Maitrank and other spring beverages. From a 75 cl bottle shared by Craftmember, cheers! Thick and moussy, egg-white, irregularly edged and opening head on a misty pale orangey peach blonde beer. Aroma of honey, peach, sweet woodruff indeed (in a 'dried' form), orange, gin, red apple, biscuit, Cape gooseberry, sweetclover, pineapple, chamomile tea. Fruity-estery onset, peachy with hints of red apple, pineapple and light banana, medium carb, supple body - feeling lighter than expected in relation to its ABV; bit glueish though, possibly from the oils in the woodruff. Soft bready, lightly caramelized and even somewhat biscuity maltiness, sweet honeyish and flowery aspects from the woodruff and residual sugars, floral hoppiness remaining quite light in bitterness but still adding a mildly drying effect. Gin-like alcohol warmth in the end as well, a bit too obviously so for me even, but the woodruff does add a refreshing, spring-like, blossomy and frivolous effect I can certainly appreciate.