6.8

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

Bottle sample @ BIRA BIRA beer festival #1. Dorée sur léger trouble, col épais blanc. Arôme au bouquet fruité, finement herbacé, note d'orange, rétro grains pils assez marqué. Palais est léger, pils tout le long, petite pointe sèche en fin de bouche, fruité tirant sur le noble mais avec un fruité plaisant arrivant sur une pointe mandarine avec un soupçon d'amertume.

6.3

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

Imported from my RateBeer account as Siphon Lieve (by Siphon Brewing):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.1/5

28/IV/19 - sample @ Zythos Bierfestival 2019 (Leuven), BB: n/a - (2019-617) Thanks to nathanvc, 77ships & Anke for sharing today's beers!
Little cloudy pale yellow beer, small creamy white head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: malty, grains, bit spicy, banana, malty. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: banana, pretty bitter, spicy. Aftertaste: bitter, grassy, yeast, bit metallic, dry and bitter finish. Decent.

7.2

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

Bottle from De Hopduvel. Hazy yellow colour, white creamy foam. Light malty, some bready notes.Citrussy, very bitter and dry finish.

7

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

Bottle picked up from Dranken vande Woude, Pervidje Dixmuide, Belgie and consumed at home, Attenkirchen, Bavaria, Saturday 13th April whilst making Homemade Pork Pies from the BBC Good Food website, a Lamb Biryani from Made in India cookbook and a Thomasina Miers Picadillo, (Mexican Chilli) and listening to Beak album >>>. Pours hazy gold, with a large white head. Really dry and quite a furry bitterness, fruity, but leaves a linger dry finish.

6.5

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

05/04/2019 - draught taster @Barboteur. Cloudy yellow, medium white head. Nose is hay, wet grass, taste is malts, bit yeast, dry, easy drinking;

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Kölsch-inspired craft beer, one of Siphon's newest to date, hopped with Citra and Mandarina Bavaria (which are definitely non-traditional for Kölsch) and named after the Lieve, a medieval canal that runs from Damme (where the brewery is situated) to Ghent (where I live and where I am writing this review) - I guess it is the Lieve that brought this beer to me... Anyway, back to business, before I go all lyrical: medium sized, egg-white, mousy, disparately breaking head leaving a complicated pattern of flat 'islands' in the middle and an intricate 'Brugse kant'-like lacing around the edge; lightly hazy straw blonde robe with vaguely ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of wet straw, old potatoes, a strong sulfuric aspect (freshly struck match), cold French fries, cooked root parsley, bread crust, jute, moist white pepper, vague hints of salsify, deseeded flax, cream, gruel, bitter medicine. Crisp onset, lively carbonated but not in a harshly numbing way, very minerally though with the announced vague estery notes indeed present (superficially hinting at pear, green banana and apricot), very subtly sweetish in its core with a sourish undertone enhanced by the carbonation; slick white-bready and grainy body, tad soapy here and there, leading straight to a very firmly bitter finish, very rooty and tonic water-like, peppery and drying, with a somewhat crude bitterness that sticks to the root of the tongue for a long time, obliterating any delicate maltiness that was present in the first place, but leaving behind a pleasantly dry effect that is very quenching. Only the second or third attempt at Kölsch - a protected name, by the way - made in Belgium to my knowledge so an oddity to begin with, but this genre remains a very difficult one to execute properly; more perhaps than many other traditional European beer styles, Kölsch is all about balance and restraint, and the amount of hop bitterness thrown in here simply doesn't work in the Kölsch concept if you ask me, resulting in harsh hop astringency the malts are too delicate to bear. Other than that, the pungent sulfuric 'stench' (excusez le mot) in the nose, possibly DMTS, kept bothering me all the way through as well. Well-intended and an interesting idea for sure, but could have been executed better, I think...

4

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