11/IX/21 - 75cl bottle @ BBGG Summer Edition (Klaas & Liesbeth's place), BB: VIII/2028, lot: 302-210920 (2021-1050) Thanks to kraddel for sharing the bottle!

Clear orange to blond beer, small creamy white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: spicy, yeasty, bit chemical, lemony, funky, meh. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very yeasty, bit soapy, herbal touch, bitter, funky. Aftertaste: more soapy bitterness, a bit weird, a bit unpleasant, very yeasty, bitter, rather soapy, not as well as we had hoped for.

Farmhouse ale from southern France, refermented with Brettanomyces and aged on white wine (Chardonnay) barrels; 75 cl bottles with crown cap, made especially for the BXL Beerfest of this year (even with the event itself having been cancelled). Medium thick, snow white, bit irregular and breaking but generally stable, dot-lacing head on a misty pale straw blonde beer with greenish tinge, deeper apricot blonde and hazy with sediment. Aroma of green apple, Conference pear, indeed Chardonnay as well as prosecco and just plain unfermented white grape impressions, bread crumbs, something chlorine-like, pumice, sweetclover, dried chamomile, some wood but very subtle, dried lime peel, sweat Brett note but also subtle. Crisp onset, spritzy carb, lots of green apple and unripe banana notes, pear, pale malt sweetish core with bread crumb-like edges, drying in the finish with a light touch of tannic wood and much more presence of Chardonnay – even adding an extra wine yeast breadiness, but eventually dominated by a leafy, quinine-like, wormwoody hop bitterness that lingers alongside the Chardonnay effect; some retronasal Brett funkiness is there, but still on the mild, subtle side. This will very likely increase over time so ageing one of these must prove very interesting; in this young form (less than two months), this is a very crisp, elegant, characterful quencher, worthy of a summer beer festival indeed. A lovely surprise.