Collaboration brew involving four breweries from the Meetjesland region and two 'zythologists' (both of which are involved in blending projects), in which part of the malt has been replaced by 'toat', the local dialect for... potatoes. Violent gusher, so keep a glass (very) nearby. The result is a glass-filling foam formation, settling into an off-white, fluffy, cobweb-lacing, firm head over a hazy peach blonde robe with 'dirty' orangey glow. Aroma initially marred by sharply piercing carbon dioxide but when this settles, I get old potatoes (I kid you not: this is the first thing I wrote down before I even knew it actually contained potatoes), dried orange peel, raw carrots, coriander seed, cooked turnip, dry lemon thyme, mandarin, peanuts, dust, dry earth. Sweetish, estery onset, peach, red apple and some banana, with a sourish edge sharpened by overcarbonation even for a Belgian blonde; bready core, soggy sandwiches with cooked carrot and potato notes (again: I did not know about the potatoes before I wrote that down), under a predictable flavouring of coriander seed and old dried orange peel, with lingering black radish and turnip elements in the finish (those damned potatoes again), hopped with a leafy bitterness and eventually heated by 'jenever'-like alcohol. Dustiness and starch linger beyond all this, in a very earthy, 'dirty' way. No less than six experienced beer people participated in this and this earthy, unbalanced, gushing and unpleasant concoction is the best they could come up with? Seriously? Go to the 't Patatje 'frituur' in Beveren-Waas, guys, it is not far away in the neighbouring Waasland region, and ask the sympathetic manager if he still has his house beer 'Patatje' brewed by Paenhuys: though by no means a masterpiece either, it conveys the whole 'potato beer' concept a lot more accurately, tastily and correctly than the whole bunch of you managed to do!

2/XI/24 - 33cl bottle @ home, BB: II/2025, lot: 202304 (2024-1172)

GUSHER ALERT!
Clear orange beer, huge fizzy aery yellowish beige head, pretty stable, a bit adhesive, leaving some patches of lacing in the glass. Aroma: sweet impression, yeasty, banana, spicy, a bit medicinal impression, coriander. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: spicy, herbal, yeast, bitter, some autolyse, unpleasant. Aftertaste: bitter, earthy, malty, bitter touch, unpleasant, a bit chemical, sourish, lemony, meh.