Bottle shared with the fellas at Nuitnigenough - Brussels. Pours amber-brown with a frothy, off-white head. Nice tangy berries in here, some moderate leather notes, funk. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Finishes with further berry tang, fruit leather, low bitterness, rounded funk, nips of brown bread. Fun.

Sampled @ Pre Borefts Tasting 2018. A almost clear amber beer with a small off-white head. Aroma of caramelish malt, intense bitter hops, flowers, citrus.

Bottle shared at pre-Borefts tasting. Bit hazy dark brown with beige head. Light funk, very herbal, soft roast, soapy hops, cola, more herbal funk, earthy. Light sweet and bitter. Almost medium bodied. Nice!

Borefts pre tasting, 2018. Poured a hazy dark amber with a thin broken white head. The aroma is nutty malt, The flavour is moderate bitter with a crisp light, watery, mineral, dry woody hop bitter palate. Medium to light bodied with average carbonation.

Pre-Borefts tasting. 75cl Bottle. Brown colour, beige head. Aroma of tobacco, toffee, light nutty, dry cocoa powder. Flavour is light to medium sweet, malty, hay, tobacco, toffee, nuts, bitter, dry. Light bodied. Should've come earlier during the tasting.

8 3 7 3 15Bottle at Kim Jong Un Buurtcentrum Pre-Borefts ‘18, Zaandam. Brown with a tan head. Aroma of brett funk, malt, overripe dark fruits and caramel. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Thnx to Bart and David. Pours amberbrown. White, creamy, stable head. Smell is sharp, mild brett, hints of oak. Very subtile. Taste is sharp, brett, oak. Medium body. tad bitter, mild intensity. Good mouthfeel. OK

Highly profiled new Senne beer in collaboration with an American craft brewer, 75 cl bottle shared with Goedele, Siska and Seppe. Apparently intended as an 'old ale' in the English, 19th century sense of the word - a goal they tried to achieve by aging a brown ale on wood and refermenting it with Brettanomyces. Quite a strong gusher, leaving behind a thick, foamy, cobweb-lacing, pale yellowish 'ecru', moussy head on a misty, ruddy burgundy brown beer with ochre-ish edges. Aroma has a vague whiff of manure initially, but this (luckily) fades quickly after which the nose is treated with impressions of dried plums, old dusty wooden cupboards, fig juice, light banana, sweetish red wine, sherry, gooseberries, dried rosemary, sour redcurrant, nectarine, sourdough, glue, caramel. Estery, crisply fruity onset, plum, pear and redcurrant notes, tart with a sweeter core; softly fizzing carbonation, supple and smooth, bit resinous mouthfeel. Lovely bready basis with caramelly sweet and at the same time softly bitterish toasty edges, dried by a wine- and sherry-ish, soft and mellow tartness; bit vinous finish with a late dash of earthy hop bitterishness, lots of lingering fermenting fruit esters (no doubt coming from the Brett) and a lovely, if not overly outspoken 'dusty' woodiness. Yet another lovely Senne beer in which the English old ale tradition meets Flemish 'oud bruin' - once again, as the brewers justly point out, since the latter is indeed historically influenced by the former. I'd love to see how this evolves with extended cellaring.