750ml bottle. Tart, earthy and slightly funky with hints of grassy hops, malts and farmyardy notes. Quite sour and lambicy, IPA notes are quite subtle.

Pours clear blonde, small to no white head. Scent is full, saison yeast shines trough. Medium hop character. Mild lambic funk. Taste is full, malty, saison yeast takes the lead. Tad sweet finish. funky, nice, but not very lambic forward.

75cl @ Ratebeer Odense Christmas Get Together, 2022. Pours Hazy Golden with a small White head. Marmelade hops with funk beneath. Touch of Wood, vanilla and grapefruit. Dry and funky hoppy finish.

Juleafslutning i Ratebeer, Odense. December 2022 hos Mads. Hazy golden with a lasting white head. Aroma of citrus hops with a funky touch. Sweetish and tart citrus fruity flavour with light funk.

Flaska från Etre BXL-pack 2022. IPA möter lambic och blir en syrlig IPA med mycket citrus. Krispig, pigg, frisk och lättdrucken. Gott

One of the beers from this year’s BXL Beerfest pack, a ‘versnijbier’ blending BBP’s brand new lambic experiment with the much more familiar Delta IPA (even for sale in certain supermarkets); throwing two beers together seems like a lazy way to create a new one but is of course far from unusual in Belgium, and does produce interesting results more often than not. Snow white, thin and open, dissolving head, initially clear peach blonde robe turning misty and deeper pale-orangey further on. Both dank and estery aroma of moldy lemons, green apple, sourdough, withering grass, unripe nectarine, water from a jar of pickled gherkins, sweat, wet leather, dust. Very crisp onset, lots of sour green apple and gooseberry with even a lemony edge, lively carbonated; bready core under drying lactic and green-fruity sourness, sour ale more than actual lambic perhaps but refreshing even when the hoppy aspect from the Delta sets in, providing retronasal aromas of withering dill, grass and old dried lemon peel, along with a bitter element which nevertheless remains subordinate to the lambic sourness. Some vague woody, dusty, sweaty and leathery notes too. Crisp throughout, easily drinkable if sour ales and lambics are your thing, with the lambic clearly ‘eating’ the Delta whole – from the latter, only distorted and weedy traces of hoppiness seem to remain. I wonder what this would be like after a year of cellaring – probably more lambic complexity and even less hops, but I will not be able to verify as this was my only bottle… In all, very enjoyable.

75cl bottle (bottled MAR 2022, BBF: MAR 2027) from Etre Gourmet web shop. F: medium, off-white, quick gone. C: deep gold, light hazy. A: funky, gooseberries, peach, woody, old lemon, bit caramel, herbal hoppy touch from dry hop. T: medium malty base, gooseberries, old lemon, funky, woody, bit brett, peach touch, decent bitterness, green apples, bit orange, medium carbonation, very nice as I expected, refreshing.