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

Pours cloudy blonde. Smell is spicy, quite intense but no overkill.

Taste js full, spicy ( bit to high for me ). Malty. Bit bitter. Decent !

keg at beer lovers antwerp... thin white lacing.. soft sharp funk nose.... soft funk.. sweet fruits... light herbal.. floral interesting.. bitter flowers

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

Keg at beerlovers. Pours deep orange, nose is caramel, citrus, floral, taste is sweet orange, floral.

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

Another hobby brewer going commercial with a predictable formula (Belgian blonde), named Weyn after the man itself, which ironically is pronounced the same as 'wine' in Dutch. An Antwerpian beer, but brewed at BeerSelect in Ghent - and not making a secret out of it, fortunately. Thick and frothy, snow white, busily cobweb-lacing, pillowy and firm head on a hazy peach blonde beer with 'dirty orange' tinge. Aroma of halfripe peach, apple peel, soggy old bread, raw carrot, mugwort leaf, minerals, old cloth, damp straw, iron pipes (indeed iron - confirmed by the old 'hand test'), moldy dead tree leaves, old dry orange peel. Crisp onset, sweetish fruity esters varying between peach, red apple and light banana, sharply carbonated with strong minerally effect and adding a light sourish touch; soft, bit 'fluffy' mouthfeel sharpened by this carbon dioxide but softening down further on. Bread-pulp-ish malts, cereally and ever so lightly caramelised, sweetish with some residual sugars on top, acquiring spicy notes in the way of clove and coriander (the latter probably actually used here) which in their turn make way for a floral, eventually slightly rooty hop bitterness, balancing out the estery, malty and residual sweetness - but not entirely so. The iron effect from the nose is still there, but much more subtly so than I was expecting - luckily. Your typical run-of-the-mill Belgian blonde ale, nothing more, nothing less - more or less correctly made from a technical point of view (aside from that iron) but totally forgettable. With a name like Weyn, I think more creativity could have been displayed - why not make it more challenging and seek inspiration in the Italian grape ales, for example? Then again, there is apparently a wood aged version of this as well and who knows, if I ever come across it, I may grab one from the shelf just to see what wood does to this utterly trivial, but drinkable Belgian style 'blondje'.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Huge, lightly yellowish head, reasonably stable, leaving some shards of lace over unclear amberish orange beer. Very herbal nose, artichoke, wormwood, aspirin and a lot of sulphury components, ending in rotting vegetable matter. Bitter vergetabl/herbal - again wormwood. Rather woody as well, chewed-out liquorice stick; but always bitter. Chicory, vegetable oil; again a bit of sulphur but thankfully no more rotting veggies. Aftertaste yields indeed a bit alcoholsweetness. Rather well-bodied, almost chewy, and ending very dry, almost dry-out effect, astringent. Try to drink without too long sniffing - the nose ends disastrous. The rest, is quite OK.