New Haeseveld beer, brewed at the site on the border of Ghent and Destelbergen, available there from tap now but undoubtedly this will make its way into bottled form as well. Snow white, creamy, moussy, membrane-like lacing, thick and frothy, clearly wheat-enhanced head on a clear, pure warm orangey-tinged deep golden robe – clearly filtered and therefore looking like a Kristallweizen, intentional or not, so that is how I added it here... Aroma of clove, banana milkshake, banana peel, white bread, industrial honey, glazed pear, peach jam, bubblegum, potato peel. Fruity onset in a weirdly cleanish way, lots of bubblegummy banana ester, hints of ripe pear and pineapple, minerally carbonated with slender, slick body; cereally, sweetish white-bready maltiness, grainy at its edges, with some retronasal clove and slight nutmeg phenols and a mild floral hop bitterish finish, while the minerally effects from strong carbonation and bubblegummy banana candy sweetness continue unabated. Simplistic ‘caricature’ of a Hefeweizen with an industrial feel to it – this reminds me of the many Dutch attempts by larger breweries to recreate this style from the eighties and nineties onwards (think Grolsch Puur Weizen, Brand Weizen and the like): drinkable as an easygoing wheat beer on a summery afternoon, but not even coming close to the ‘natural’ feel, refined phenolic and estery profile and bready yeastiness any decent original Bavarian Hefeweizen has. Redundant in that sense, like the rest of this brewery’s output.

11/VI/22 - on tap @ Haeseveld (Sint-Amandsberg, Gent) (2022-691) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing today’s beers!

Clear orange blond beer, big creamy solid white head, stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: very yeasty, some banana, cloves, pretty malty. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots and lots of bubble gum, more bubble gum, ripe banana, pretty sweet. Aftertaste: a little bitter, banana and oh yeah, more bubble gum, not a big fan of this sweet cloying Weizen...