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

Süffiger, getreidig herber Beginn. Etwas zu süß, geringe Würzigkeit, etwas zu hohe Karbonisierung. Mittellanger, süßlich hefiger Abgang. 10/9/9/9/10/9

75cl bottle. A almost clear deep golden beer with a off white head. Aroma of moderate sweet malt, some honey. Taste of moderate sweet pale malt, honey, low bitterness, moderate to strong body.

bottle at home.. golden... thin white.. soft herbal grape fruit nose.. Light surgery sweet fruits.. Light floral flowery sweetness

75cl, 7.5%. Danke an Jan fürs Teilen. Smooth honey buckwheat beginning. Herbal smooth, round and very fruity. Malty grainy, very soft with a nice malty honey-dry herbal aftertaste. Great.

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

Bottle @ weekly tasting shared with Joes and Dutchdrebus. Clear golden color, small white head. Smell and taste malts, grainy, a slight tart hint that’s not intended I think, slightly yeasty as well. Not very nice.

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

Bottle @ benzai. Hazy yellow with chunks and a small white head. Smells cheesy, old, moldy. Tastes sweet, malty, sugary. Medium body, medium carbo.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Buckwheat honey beer made for the tenth anniversary of the Antwerps Biercollege, the local Antwerp Zythos club. I don’t think the recipe is as authentically ’Antwerpian’ as the label claims, but we are still far away from the abuse of the word ’authentic’ here in Belgian beerland, I’m afraid. Frothy, creamy, snow white head, thickly lacing but thinning in the middle, over a cloudy peach blonde beer with tiny dead yeast bits everywhere. Aroma shows some form of infection, I get a strong scent of rotting lemon, mouldy bread, old chicken soup and even stale urine, apart from friendlier impressions of peach, grass, orange peel, white grape, young cheese, sourish grains (the buckwheat?), green apple peel and white bread; honey is surprisingly as good as absent. This beer was launched five months ago, I assume the bacterial infection must have been there from the start, but only developed months after bottling. Estery, ’uncontrolledly’ fruity onset, overripe peaches, green apple acetaldehyde, sour berries of which the acidity is further enhanced by the infection, fairly strong carbo especially for a Belgian honey beer - which usually benefit from a more ’quiet’, smooth mouthfeel. Body is effervescent as a result, smooth, a bit coarse in the end; there is a lot of bready maltiness in the middle, as well as basic buckwheat sourishness, but again the honey, which probably has something to do with fermentation going out of control, remains very subdued, as a kind of smooth sweetness all the way at the back and a kind of creamy odour retronasally. Finish is sourishly drying, again that infection, with juicy, sweetish fruitiness of the malts persisting along with the deep buckwheat tartness and the soft bready malts; there is a very faint grassy hop bitterishness hidden somewhere, but even for a honey beer it remains too weak to provide any balance. Needless to say, that off-putting infection smell returns retronasally, and quite strongly so. I can imagine this tasted okay from tap when it was launched in February, but I cannot recommend buying any more bottles of this now, this is a clear failure in terms of fermentation. I have a suspicion the honey was not boiled and therefore caused the infection. And why combine buckwheat with honey in the first place?

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Clear, golden appearance. Malty, cerealy aroma. Flavour is a bit stale. Light acidic, citric sharpness. Feels out of balance and dull.

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

Geel bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is licht bitter en licht zuur met sporen van citroen. Niet echt bijzonder.

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

At a great tasting in Vranovo-Serbia, with markoijelena and cika Boban. Bottle. Thank you Tim. Pours golden cloudy, small white cap. Nose: Dust, stable, rough. Mouth: watery, confusing, malty but boring.