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

Another blonde commissioned by a hobby brewer (this time from Opwijk in Flemish Brabant) and executed by BeerSelect, designed specifically to facilitate this kind of hobbybrewers-testing-the-market formula. The brewer, a young fellow named Fozzie De Clerck, has been tinkering with this recipe since 2015 but the beer only became commercially available in 2021. Snow white, creamy, thick and even-bubbled, stable head on a misty ochre- to beige-tinged straw blonde beer with lively sparkling, turning cloudy and even more beige with sediment. Aroma of raw turnip, soggy cereals, DMS (overcooked broccoli), old bread, raw potato, banana peel, dried thyme, cumin cheese, linseed and something soapy. Sweetish onset, some ripe apricot, banana and pear, fizzy carbonation, vague sourish undertone and frankly a tad ‘dirty’; slick cereally, doughy and old-bready middle with slight soapiness and sourishness probably pointing at wheat (as does the witbier-like glass), with only light residual sugars and some herbal effects retronasally (dried and old thyme and fenugreek) next to a soft floral hop bitterness. Banana ester and DMS linger a bit. Weird, earthy, spicy-phenolic, slick blonde with certain witbier-like features, marred by some unappealing off-flavours. Not a great success for me, this needs a lot of further finetuning.