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

Can at BBGG. Cloudy orange reddisg and golden. Carrot, tons of tangerine, spices, earthy, cinnamon, cloves, light wheat. Medium sweet and sour. Solid medium bodied.

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

33cl can à Belgian Summer Beer Gathering, merci Klaas. BB 12/2024.
Couleur orange trouble, col épais blanc-cassé.
Arôme sur une sensation de carrot cake – le tout repris par un léger épice de cannelle qui perce en rétro-nasal tout en ayant une ouche citronnée en retrait – léger effet doux résiduel en retrait sans pour cela avoir des marqueurs surfaits de carottes.
Palais est surprenant avec un côté sour plaisant finement citrique et un apport de jus de carotte qui reste conséquent dans le brassin qui confère une sucrosité naturelle à la bière qui est bien mis en contraste avec la base plus ‘sour’. Dernier exemple de bière usant de ce jus de carotte était de Bière à la Ferme et de leur bière Racine. La cannelle est en fin de bouche et offre un autre contraste qui se marie bien au côté ‘sour’.

Hapu ja magus, laktoosine. Joodav.

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

Taster at BXLBeerfest. Orange murky color, small white head. smells fudgy, lactose, carrots, parfumy. Ok smell. Medium body, soft carbonation. tastes of lactose, vanilla, pastryish, peppery, fruit puree. Finishes lightly sour with notes of vanilla, lactose and pastry notes. Ok

6, 5, 5, 4, 5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Can provided by Klaas - many thanks! Hazy orange, thinning, off-white head. Aroma of plum, blood orange, apple (peel), kiwi, biscuit, pumpkin, honey, cinnamon. Taste has sour kiwi, plum & orange flesh in a biscuity, yoghurty malt body, somewhat wheaty but equally citric-lemony; sweetish carrot and spicy cinnamon underneath. Tart finish hinting at carrot cake, apple pie and plum, no hoppiness. Medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. Very creative (and well-made) brew by Totem.

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

29/IV/22 - 33cl can @ home, BB: XII/2024 (2022-449) Thanks to Klaas for sharing the can!

Cloudy orange beer, small aery irregular off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: sweet, lactose, vanilla, nice spiciness, cinnamon, smells like an actual carrot cake. MF: ok carbon, mediu mbody. Taste: nice, good acidity, bitter touch, good sweet-sour balance, cinnamon, vanilla. Aftertaste: spicy, a bit sweet, vanilla notes, lactose, some cinnamon. Very decent!

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

New pastry sour by East Flanders’ top experimentalist Totem, in Evergem north of Ghent; thanks Craftmember for sharing the can. Snow white, thinnish and open, ring-shaped head eventually dissolving all but completely; opaque, pure and intense carrot orange colour with almost rosy tinge, so with the head gone, the whole thing looks exactly like carrot juice. Utterly unusual, but expressive aroma associating with carrot cake right away, along with strong cinnamon and impressions of lemon zest, ripe Cantaloupe, white chocolate, warm apple pie, sour cream, actual carrots (indeed physically used in here), pumpkin pie, honey. Sour onset, hints of redcurrant and unripe mandarin, lively carbonated; a lactose sweetness appears briefly after the initial, pungent sourness, moving forward over a smooth cereally malt core (but very little malt flavour) – straight to its goal, that is evoking a liquid carrot pie experience. There is some earthiness from carrots but the whole stays relatively clean and very juicy, while the cinnamon becomes increasingly strong and starts to even dominate retronasally. Lactose and carrot sweetness go hand in hand with yoghurty lactic sourness till the last drop – as it ought to be in a pastry sour. The concept reminds me a bit of that rhubarb pastry sour Totem made earlier: using a ‘cold’, northern European ingredient and turning it into something exotic and cocktail-like; this one is intense, original, boldly experimental and pungent, you will certainly have to be open-minded (and really love cinnamon and carrot cake), but there is no denying that this is both conceptually and technically very well done so deserving of a high score for me. Even if I know that this one will certainly divide opinions!