5.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5.5

A slightly hazy golden yellow beer with a white head. Aroma of herbs, berries, vegetables, yeast.

4.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Heller, mild hefiger Beginn, schwacher Körper. Helles Malz, wenig würzig, kurzer Abgang, langweilig. 9/6/8/7/8/7

7

--- Beer merged from original tick of Tornado 67 Fris Blond Bier on 20 Jun 2020 at 18:40 - Score: 8. Original review text: First to check in!

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5

24 February 2019. Wieze Bierfestival - cheers to Meeki, Ama Deke & the lovely Anke! Clear orange-amber with a lasting, thin, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of cookie dough, cinnamon, candied banana, plum, apricot, dark honey, peach, butterscotch. Taste is light to medium malty sweet, cookie dough filled with honey & caramel but not overly sugary, minor notes of (dark) fruit (raisin, plum), vague banana; light spicy bitter middle brings aniseed, pepper, cookie spices & nutty accents. Dryish, faintly herbal hoppy finish, more plum & honey, vague cabbage-like note. Medium body, slick texture, lively carbonation (too much effectively). Well-balanced and tasty, too bad about the palate.

5.5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle @ home. Unclear hazy orange color, full sized bubbly white to off-white head that diminishes quickly. Aroma is malts, sweet floral. Flavor is malts, again floral, sweet, notes of artificial banana candy sweets. No hops there imo, at least not many. Not totally unpleasant though, just pretty sweet and not my thing.

7

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

New commissioned Anders beer, this one intended to commemorate the tornado that struck the Flemish town of Malle in 1967; tornadoes are such a rare phenomenon in Belgium that apparently festivities are held there to commemorate the event and the combination of "Belgium" and "festivities" almost automatically leads to some or other new beer. In this case, the people that initiated it seeked to recreate a style of beer that was popular in Belgium in 1967 - and ended up with an old school EPA (English pale ale), like the Bass and Whitbread ones that were drunk in huge quantities back then; it is apparently brewed with four barley varieties and also four hop varieties. Medium thick, moussy, somewhat loosely knit but nonetheless stable, off-white, opening head over a hazy ochre-tinged, deeply peach blonde, near-amber beer. Aroma of fresh oranges, honey, canned peaches, quite prominent diacetyl (buttermilk - sample is probably too young), ginger powder, tulips and other sweet flowers, yellow raspberries, (unsalted) peanuts, cloves, pear, pineapple, banana, caramel. Fruity onset, banana and peach notes soaked in a notable, bright sweet orange-like flavour, light pineapple-like sourish accent too, strong and very notably minerally carbonation (bit overcarbonated in fact), even with a faint metallic note to it. Supple, smooth, caramelly and lightly nutty malt body, cereally, with the diacetyl subtly returning retronasally alongside spicy phenols and that orange-like, refreshing effect; mildly peppery, floral hop bitterness, some lingering bready yeastiness too. Feels quite vibrant and crisp, a bit rounder, yeastier and sweeter than the classic EPA this is trying to refer to; in fact much more interesting than that, as a 21st-century 'update' of this all but obsolete style. Other than the diacetyl, no obvious flaws here either (Anders being quite trustworthy in that respect to begin with, of course) so I must admit that this was considerably more interesting than I was expecting.

6.5

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

Pours rather dark amber. rather stable, good white creamy head. Smell is rich in fruityness (orange-type fruits) as well as some esthers ( trigered by Belgian Yeast ) . Taste is very yeastforward, bomb of esthers. Behind it all a certain dryness ( fermented Sugar, would be my guess ) and a very moderate bitterness. OK. Very mediocer beer. Carbo is to the high side, body is average.

7.8

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

Fles 33cc @ Café-restaurant Bolks Heike. Mooi donker roodbruin bier met stevige schuimkraag. Smaak is bitter hoppig en krachtig met iets van fruit, pruimen, kers en abrikoos. Erg goed.