6.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bit fluffy, dirty-white head, slowly receding over veiled greenish golden beer. Bit of diary nose, wey; sweetish malts, herbs/spices, and yeast features. Very spicy taste: root spices, bitterish over a sweet malt underbuild. Quite perfumey, near truffle, aromatic herbs, wheat, thai rice. Spritzy carbonation, lots of wheatslickness, light to medium bodied. Pleasantly original. The label blurb, OTOH, is a lot of b*ll*cks. 6/4/7/3/14 Bottle @ Dranken Goegebuer, Knesselare

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25% rijst.

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle @ home. Up front: a weird pale lager imo. Unclear pale yellow color, small white head. Smell and taste malts, quite hoppy in fact, quite refreshing and finishing with a nice bitterness. Quite pleasant.

6.4

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5

Rice lager hopped with Sorachi Ace, bottle from Wijnegemse Drankenhal. Interesting to taste this after Homo Beerectus 03: Hop Hanker by Oude Maalderij, which makes use of the same hop variety, which is famous throughout the world in the global craft beer movement but still very rarely applied in Belgium. Gusher but manageably so; tightly cobweb-lacing, off-white head, leaving an irregular but visually attractive rim of foam around the glass and some ’dots’ in the middle, over a lightly hazy, straw blonde beer with lemon yellow hue. Aroma of damp kitchen cloth, cooked rice indeed in a way very similar to industrial Asian rice lagers, lime juice (the Sorachi Ace without a doubt), lemon candy even, baking powder, sourdough, soap, minerals, margarine, hard green apple. Crisp, fairly clean onset, very fizzy carbonation, almost soda-like, adding sourishness and a lot of minerally flavours to an otherwise practically ester-free environment; fairly thinnish, cereally malt base, rounded and indeed with this vaguely sourish and sharpish grainy aspect of rice as you’ll find in any Asian pale lager. The hops come up right after that, with a zesty, spicy bitterness, drying and balancing out the grainy sweetishness and the rice flavour, with some lemon peel and dried herb aromas retronasally - yet not so much of the delicate ’withering dill’ I tend to associate with a proper use of Sorachi Ace. This hop variety has been applied notably better in the otherwise totally different Hop Hanker, but that said, this beer is still a lot better than what I expected based on the premise (rice lager in Belgium, really?) and the bullshit story on the label. Quite a crisp, refreshing, pleasant beer actually, better than that other Bossuw? beer I had earlier this year, and certainly interesting within a Belgian perspective. I bet it matches well with fish dishes, too.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Pours unclear, light yellow. medium sized head, but not very sable. Much visial carbo. Smell is bit malty ( pale malts ) with a crisp, floral hoppy undertone. Taste is Surprisingly bitter. Very clear sorachi - in contradiction to the scent- with it’s typical creamy, yoghurty, coconutty aroma’s. Bit grassy. The bitterness is perceived higher than most sorachi beers i’ve had. Sorachi is one of the hardest hops to balance in a beer, and I feel the higher bitterness did help here. Unfortunately, the carboonation is too high and the body too thin, making it a wattery-feeling beer. this doesn’t really pair that well to me with the creamy taste you get from the sorachi. Nevertheless, it’s a very decent attempt, and will be a unique beer thats quite drinkable to many.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Bossuwé Betty B. (by Bossuwé Brewing):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5

22/VI/17 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ home - BB: 7/V/20 (2017-935)

Pretty cloudy pale yellowish to pale beige beer, huge rocking foamy white head, very stable, adhesive, some lacing in the glass. Aroma: fruity notes up front, then bit malty, grains, some citrus, lychee. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: citrus up front, bit sourish even, then a lot of bitter hops, some kiwi, very dry, spicy touch, little sweet. Aftertaste: some grapefruit, banana peel, yeast, more citrus, some marzipan, bitter finish, bit bready, more yeast.

7.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle from Geers. Hazy yellow colour, lots of creamy foam. Citrussy nose, wheat, yeasty. Taste is bitter, yeasty, tart notes (wheat). Easy drinkable. Good summer beer.