7.3

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

One of several beers by one of those countless young microbrewers in the province of Liège these days, established by three hobby brewers developing recipes in their own nanobrewery in the city of Liège but then commercially executed at Minne. Intentions are to have a fully operational own microbrewery one day. Hopped with white-fruity Hallertau Blanc and 'tropical' Trident. Thick and moussy, snow white, creamy, cobweb-lacing, pilowy head resting stable on a misty pale straw blonde beer with greenish tinge and vivid visible sparkling. Aroma of dried lemon peel and lemonbalm, unripe melon, green banana, oatmeal porridge, wholegrain bread pulp, raw black radish, dry straw, old dried ginger, whole cream, wormwood, gypsum, grass. Crisp onset, sweetish pale maltiness right on with little fruitiness except from the hops, light sourish undertone accentuated by lively but not overly harsh carbonation; very smooth cereally and grainy middle with velvety edges from the oats, sweetish with some green banana and unripe pear notes but quickly bittered by the hops, depositing a long, leafy, wormwoody and grapefruit pith-like bitterness as well as adding retronasal impressions of field flowers, unripe melon, vague grape skin, straw, lemonbalm leaf and white pepper. Very decent 'postmodern' lager, an IPL in fact, but I was not expecting anything too shabby coming from Minne's kettles anyway; smooth, sleek and crisp, though the hop varieties applied here could have brought a more tropical character - which is what I am missing a bit here - so that the whole now feels much more like a (present-day) Central European Pilsener. Quite enjoyable for a small-scale lager, in any case.