Bottle from Pede Drinks, Houtem. Hazy amber colour, white foam. Nose is citrussy with fruity notes, some banana also. Light bitter finish. Yeasty. Not very bad.

From tap. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is citrusy fruity. Sweet malty, caramelish. Toasted. Overripe fruity. Slight citrusy too. Medium dry and malt dense finish.

Dark blond with lasting head. Aroma and flavour are fairly sweet. The alcohol adds a certain dryness. Nice yeasty aftertaste.

Beoordeling van 6 januari 2017: 4,3,5,3,9. Flesje gedeeld door Benzai en gedronken met TomHendriksen. Geel-oranjeachtig,licht troebel bier met weinig schuim. Aroma is zuur. Smaak is kruidig en zuur. Nasmaak is iets bitter. Herziening op 3 januari 2020: Aroma is fruitig, de smaak is licht moutig de nasmaak is nog steeds iets bitter.

Bottle @ home shared with Inoven and TomHendriksen. Clear golden color, average sized off-white head. Smell and taste malts, a bit sweetish, herbs or spices. Meh.

Fles gedeeld door Benzai, geprobeerd met Inoven. Het is een goudgeel bier, weinig schuim. Het heeft een wat zure smaak, beetje citroen achtig.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Enigma Tamera (by Enigma Belgian Brewery):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

10/XII/16 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent), shared with Erwin @ home - BB: 16/III/18 (2016-1457)

Clear orange beer, small creamy irregular off-white head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: banana, malty, some peaches, sweet, caramel. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity start, some citrus, bit spicy, very bitter, yeasty touch, grassy, peach. Aftertaste: bitter, spicy, ginger touch, bitter, some caramel malts, bit sourish.

Tripel hopped with an American hop variety (Citra, if I’m not mistaken), brewed at Boelens for a new beer company called Enigma, which is situated in Heusden-Zolder. Bottle from Wijnegemse Drankenhal. Medium thick, moussy, off-white head leaving some lacing here and there, dissolving in the middle to a maze of thin foam but retaining well on the edge; initially almost clear, deep and warm old gold colour with orange hue and strings of vivid fizz rising up from the bottom, perturbing a very diffuse haze of yeast bits, which form a deeper orange, cloudy appearance when the sediment is added. Aroma of moldy orange peel, blood orange juice, green banana, dried weeds, watermelon, jute, old toast, lots of clove-like and eventually even slightly medicinal phenols (old aspirine), peach, old ’jenever’, bitter herbs, soap, caramel, yellow plum, straw, old cloth, kiwi. Lively fruity onset, orange freshness combined with sweet banana, peach and pineapple and sourish gooseberry, green apple and grape peel, sweetish with a souring edge further accentuated by a spritzy, fizzy carbonation, perhaps a tad overcarbonated even for a tripel; the sweetness itself is also enhanced by residual white candi sugar. Smooth, supple and somewhat soapy mouthfeel, fruitiness persisting over a backbone of lightly caramelly and somewhat bready malt sweetness with a sharper grainy touch to it; spicy phenols are apparent early on and only grow in intensity, initially adding clove-like spiciness but eventually descending into band aid and other medicinal effects retronasally. The Citra adds a vivid orange aroma at the back but it has clearly faded already - being notoriously fragile and I have no idea how long this bottle had been standing in the shop; hop bitterness remains subtle and gentle, a bit spicy but surely not enough to erase the caramelly and somewhat honeyish sweetness. Warming alcohol in the tail, with a somewhat gin-like effect, as well as some yeast bitterness. By itself not a bad beer: a technically correct tripel pimped with a fancy American hop variety, bright and vividly fruity in both appearance and taste, but the Belgian yeast effects clearly stand in the way of the delicate Citra properties - especially phenols, which are way too strong here even if you consider this to be ’just’ a tripel. Actual hop bitterness could have been more pronounced; I think pushing this beer more explicitly in an IPA direction would only make it shine even brighter. For now: another sweet Belgian tripel of which there are too many already here, but in that particular subsegment, not the worst I had so far. Expected more... I do like the label, though, and will certainly give the Ragnarok they are developing now, a chance as well.

Bottle shared thanks to kermso. Lovely label of a psychedelic bathing lady, plus points for that. Slight hazy golden with small white head. Some grassy hops, some grapefruit, lemon, light tropical fruits, sweet malts and light bread. Bit of spicy yeast. Medium sweet with long lasting herbal bitterness and very light citrus tartness. Medium bodied with quite boozy finish.

Bottle shared. Hazy dark golden with an off white head. Aroma of herbs, grassy notes, yeast, caramel, light citrus, light fruits and light malt. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a light touch of sourness. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.