8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Flaska från Etre. Disig gyllengul vätska med medelhögt krämigt vitt skum. Doft av jäst, gräs och örter. Fin mjuk kropp möter riktigt hartzig, besk, gräsig ädelhumle. Tankarna går till Xx-bitter. Torr och krispig, fruktiga estrar, jäst, ljust bröd. Mycket gott

7.8

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

Pours a hazed yellow. Small white head. Scent is elmegant, earthy, green hops. Taste is sharp, spices, bitter, very fresh. Light and elegant fresh citrussy tones, yet pronounced in intensity. White bread maltyness. Lovely.

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Very good yellowish head, leaving textbook lacerings, fed by well-carbonated golden beer. Dry malts, "beery" aroma, rootspices, shaving foam. Dry, peppery, light bitter flavour, malty, other grains' bread, parsley, white pepper. Light to medium body, very well-carbonated; Not better than its mirror beer. Neither worse.

7.8

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

On tap at the Brasserie de la Senne Zinnebir 20th anniversary at the Taproom, Brussels in the company of Lynn and Barry on Barry's birthday. Pours gold, perhaps a deeper gold with a large white head. This is a nice interpretation, wonderful bitterness, dry, finish, super nice.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

33cl bottle from Etre Gourmet web shop. F: medium, white, good retention. C: pale gold, hazy. A: malty, citrus, bit orange, herbal, funky touch, bit bready, apples peels, spicy touch. T: medium malty base, grapefruits, apples peels, spicy, bit bready, cucumber touch, pineapple, nice balanced long lasting bitterness, medium to high carbonation, quite nice, enjoyed for sure.

6.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Re-thinking Senne’s original Zinnebir, their flagship and pioneering ale, seems like a good enough idea, especially when De Ranke gets involved – that great trailblazer for what would later become the Belgian embodiment of the global craft beer revolution. At BXL Beerfest, thanks Craftmember for sharing. Snow white, cobweb-lacing, moussy, gradually breaking head, misty yellow blonde robe with vague greenish tinge. Aroma of white bread dough, freshly cut grass, green apple peel, clear note of DMS (cooked white cabbage), field flowers, raw horseradish, celery, Conference pear, vague parsley. Crisp, clean onset, not as estery as Zinnebir at all, hinting at green pear and green apple with a vague unripe pineapple note and even an impression of cucumber, quite sharply carbonated with minerally and fizzy effects; smooth white-bready, cereally core, yeasty middle with phenolic and hoppy spiciness reminiscent of celery, parsley, unripe mandarin, lemon zest and grass. A weird and frankly very unpleasant, vomit-like off-note lurks in the background, not to mention the retronasal return of the DMS; does try to set things right in the very end, when fruitiness, maltiness and hops come together nicely. I guess I need to revisit this one from a bottle with a few months of maturity on it, but in this young, tapped form, I was very disappointed, I was not expecting off-flavours from either Senne or Ranke… Clearly collabs are rarely the sum of their parts, in this case I would take any Senne beer or any Ranke beer over this, sorry guys – but as said, these off-flavours are probably not present in the bottled version, so I will certainly go look for one and re-rate this.

8.2

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

33cl @ A spot Im not putting you up on. Pours hazy golden yellow with a thick and smooth white head. A lot of both breweries here. Rustic and rural feel. Yeast, slight esters, flowers, pomelo, grass and citrus. It tastes how I feel blending Taras Boulba with XX bitter would taste. Dry and bitter lasting finish. Excellent.

8

Magus, mõru, kuiv, funky. Hea, mõnusalt kuiv.