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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottle from Eve's bottle club. Duvel glass @home. Two months in storage, three weeks in the fridge. Settled, but still a bit hazed. Duvel bubbles, dull light gold body. Boisterous but soft melon nose. Dry pear skin, wet leaves, powder, the softest hint of funk. Taste is very earthy, more than I'd like (it lingers too). Marigolds. Big, bitter, homegrown past picking season lettuce in July sort of bite; stems. Old wood. Old leather jacket fumes. Good acid & overall sharpness. Perfectly bubbly, harsh residual boozy flavor & medicinal bitter backbone. Not my typical perry. Needs time to cool off. Okay.