Bottle from Brussels Beer Box. One of these postmodern, decidedly non-Belgian micro breweries that have followed BBP's shining example in Brussels - this time presenting an English style bitter, at least according to this site, because none of this is to be found on the label; if true, this is only the third Belgian attempt at a thoroughly English beer style I have encountered so far. Membranously lacing, egg-white, very moussy and dense head, irregularly shaped and quickly dissipating in the middle, but very well-retaining around the edge: immediately misty peach blonde robe with ochre-ish hue, becoming all (too) milky and murky with sediment. Aroma of lemon blossom, stale old lime juice, hand soap, gasoline, green apples, buttercups, soggy white bread, sulfuric egg yolk, minerals, hints of chalk, unripe banana, butter (diacetyl, most likely), raw cauliflower, parsnip, wet paper. Fruity onset in a very clean, indeed English kind of way, hinting at hard green pear, unripe peach and green banana, restrainedly sweetish, tad sourish, straightforward but enlivened by mineral-flavouring, yet still not harsh, medium-dosed carbonation; supple, bit soapy mouthfeel, feeling fuller than the mere 3% ABV would suggest. Cereally and white bready maltiness in the middle, rounded with soapy assocations, like industrial white bread made soggy with water; lemon rind-like hoppy aspect appear early on, but remain patient till the very end to deposit their bitterness on the tongue's surface - in a gentle, soft, mild way, with very floral (buttercups again!) impressions retronasally. All the while, a buttery diacetyl flavour persists, as well as an egg yolk-like sulfuric aspect; the hops retain their spicy bittering powers, but as said, remain mild and gentle. Ends buttery, bittering and mildly aromatic, but above all very quenching. Very correct and technically flawless, ultra-modern, un-Belgian and 'internationalized' session ale, the very type of beer these new Brussels micro breweries focus on - this one fits very well into what I have recently come to expect from the Brussels avant-garde. As for style: generally feels more like a 'grisette' or something along those lines, with English golden ale influences - but it has little to do with the proud tradition of cask-conditioned English bitters. That said, I am drinking this from a bottle, so if anything, a beer intended this way should reach consumers from a traditional English cask system. Which is all but non-existent in Belgium - hence the complete pointlessness of creating such a beer in this country... Still, style considerations aside, a pleasant enough, trendy and up-to-date session ale I could probably drink all night when going out in our much-maligned capital.

Yellow body with white low head. Heavily bitter. Nicely balanced bitter flavour. Good for low alcohol beer.

(Draught at Chez Moeder Lambic Fontainas, Brussels, 17 May 2017) Golden colour with dense, white head. Fruity, slightly malty nose with bread, grass and citrus. Malty, hoppy taste with notes of bread, grain, citrus, grass, hints of yeast and a fresh citric bitterness in the finish. Light body, quite dry. On the thin side, but fresh, tasty and highly drinkable. Nice one.

On tap at Moeder Lambic Original. Pours hazy yellow, medium white head. Fruity, malty, some citrus, light to moderate hoppiness, bitterness in finish. Light bodied.

Draft at Moeder Lambic. Slightly hazy bright yellow color fluffy white head. Dusty hay aroma. Taste is peppery straw. Easy drinking.

17/12/2016 @home - 33cl bottle from Malt Attacks. Hazy light yellow with small white head. Nose is floral hops, some malts, fruits. Taste is first some malts, fruity hops, sometimes harsh.

From tap. Pours cloudy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is slight toasted malt. Slight grassy. Mild citrusy, crisp hoppy. Bitter and grassy. Mild malt base. Medium dry. Slight floral. Bitetr and crisp grassy finish.

On Tap @Moeder Lambic Fontainas, Bruselas 06/12/16 Color amarillo, sabor frutal, malta, lupulo, cuerpo medio.

Cask (!) sampled @ Vini Birre Ribelli 2016. Very milky, few white bubbles. Nose is weird green vegetable hop, far too green, grassy, weeds, strange, overly raw & green. Watery body. Very bitter grass, overly heavy weeds, grass, interesting but too much & it doesn’t really work with the watery body. If only it had a bit more body or less green vegetable hops. Interesting but not a success for me.

Pours rather clear blonde. Smell is very pure, natural hop scent. Taste is really bitter . Some hoparoma. Not bad at all.