Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from the brewery.
A: clear ochre, small, foamy, white head.
A: overripe mandarin, orange peel, plum, biscuit.
T: sweetish mandarin, bitter citrus peel, wheat, soap.
F: bitter piney hops, citrus peel, touch of grapefruit.
P: light body, slick texture, soft carbonation.
Not very inviting at first, but sufficiently bitter. Okay.

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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle 33cl. @home poured into a shaker. Hazy pale amber, good soapy off-white head, mostly diminishing, fair lacing. Aroma sweet malt, grain, light lemon, wort, basement. Taste medium sweet and bitter, sharpish, malty, grainy, resinous notes, some pomelo. Medium body, watery to oily texture, soft carbonayion, slick sweetbitter aftertaste, pomelo notes, herbal notes, okay.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Dark blond colour with lasting stable head. Some caramel malt notes. Solid floral bitterness in the aftertaste.

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Musketeers cashing in on the low alcohol hype sweeping the country since several years now, with this 0.3% ABV beer containing lactose and an unspecified 'fruit' - maybe the same fruit extract that went into their milkshake IPA attempt, who knows... Not something I was eager to taste, to be honest, but there you go. Huge, inches thick, densely moussey, cobweb-lacing, beaten egg-white, very firm and stable head towering over a near clear, warm old golden beer with apricot hue and very fine sparkling everywhere. Aroma of freshly cut honey pomelo (I coincidentally ate one last week, hence this overly specific description), brioche bread, mandarin, touch unripe mango, meringue, fresh dough, chalk, pumice, iron (confirmed by the 'hand test'!), dried rosemary, petrichor. Clean, supple onset, sweetish but restrainedly so, with indeed a kind of 'added' fruitiness in a light and artificial, yet non-cloying way - a slight citrusy kind of fruitiness working quite well with the hops, and vague hints of apricot and banana as well; fizzy carbonation, but refinedly so. Slick, bit glueish mouthfeel, not too thin in spite of the near-absence of alcohol, very smooth (no doubt extra 'fullness' and smoothness was added by the lactose), with a soft brioche-bready and dry cookie-ish maltiness under growing hop bitterness, becoming tonic- and grapefruit peel-like in the end, lending extra body to the finish and lasting for a long time. Some of that artificial fruitiness, a bit bubblegummy at this point, survives the hops in the very end, but so does a more annoying chalkiness, which seems to be typical for non-alcoholic beers for some reason. I was expecting worse, to be honest: this is quite tasty and 'beery', all things considered, with a firm bitterness many IPA drinker could potentially enjoy. I can even see myself going for this if for some reason I cannot drink alcohol but do fancy a beer - and I do not normally like non-alcoholic beers, so that says a lot in my case. Could have been much worse.

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

Light hazy blond colour, creamy white foam. Nose of citrus, light sweet malts, medium bitter finish. Ok.

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

Pours slightly unclear , warm blonde to amber. Small white head. Scent is very raw, wort-like. Taste is sharp, raw, wort like. unfermented (green) beer like. Not bad, but not what was expected.

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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Huge yellow head, extremely stable, dense, over fully hazy orange-ochre beer, shards of lace. Intense nose of (yellow) fruit and lupulin. Resins in force, pine, citrus and a hint of caramel, and something as of yoghurt. Taste is resin, cardboard, citruspeel, appleskins. Hint at acidity, again citrussy/orangey in nature. The unavoidable Achilles' heel: the sensation, especially @ swallowing is watery. Very well-carbonated. Very good... for a nablab.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

25/VIII/23 - 33cl bottle @ Press Release; Verbeke Foundation (Stekene), BB: 28/VII/25, lot: 8604230728 (2023-505)

Clear orange beer, big fluffy off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: malty, quite some diacetyl, fruity, yoghurt, peaches, grains, some citrus notes. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: nice bitterness up front, a bit malty, some grapefruit, diacetyl notes, grassy, a little fruity. Aftertaste: bitter, dry, grapefruit, hoppy, more grassy bitterness, spicy and herbal finish, diacetyl.