Sample from 33 cl bottle. Clear pale golden colour with a thin white head. Sweet aroma with pear, grasses and earthy notes. Taste is sweet. Medium bodied. Dry, fruity finish. Meh.

Pajiza, blanquecina, de apenas espuma y bastante turbia. El aroma es de levadura con notas ligeramente cítricas. En boca tiene un paso muy fácil muy ligera, floja de gas y de cuerpo, y con un sabor manteniendo lo que anunciaba en el aroma cítrica,Más especiada ahora, y con un tono ligeramente lácteo

750 ml swingtop bottle, as Esperluette Blanche, brewed by Robert Christoph, Ancienne cave coopérative, Route de Rians, 83560 Esparon de Pallières (Var), France. ABV is 5%. Ingredients include sugar, spices and jam/marmalade. Golden colour, moderate to low white head. Strong sweetish aroma of yeast, flowers, honey and mild spices (but not necessarily coriander - this is not your typical witbier). Medium sweet, yeasty and mildly spicy flavour, minimal hops. Could be better.

Bottle, 75cl. It pours a hazy, golden body under a big, creamy white head soon diminished into half a finger height. Some curtains. There’s some fruity sourish notes in the mostly fruity aroma. Pale malts and a yeasty touch too. Yellow apples, grass, some pine cones, canned pineapple and peaches. There’s a faint sourish touch in the flavor too, seems to be intended, or at least not an infection. There’s a light bitterness too, with grass, resiny notes and all the fruityness known from the aroma. Medium body, quite dry, and with a pleasant carbonation level. Long, mostly fruity finish with a little bitterness balancing it off. Overall, I’m not impressed, but it’s sure better than I expected from a pale French microbrewery beer. 141005

Flaske 0,75l fra Vinmonopolet, bestillingsutvalget. Drukket på ølseminar i Tårnrommet 13 Nov 13. Gyldengul. Veldig uklar. Høyt luftig skum som varer. Grei fruktaroma. Litt syrlig. Smaken er einebær. Frisk! Lite variasjon.

Opens with a resounding "PHFT!" that shoots foam in my eyes, but the beer does not gush. Huge white lasting head. Slightly hazy yellow body with light carbonation. Fruity herbal honey aroma with spicy sandalwood and earth notes. Very dry mealy herbal fruity taste with spicy notes. Mid-to-light body. Harsh mealy mouthfeel. Dry, and faintly acidic, metallic wooden aftertaste with fruity spicy notes. This is probably too old, although label says "consume before end 2013", and I recently bought it from Vinmonopolet. Drainpour. Weirdly it does gush slightly when I’m halfway through the glass. (0.75l bottle, wine monopoly web order. Lot no 1303.)

As I carefully ease open the cork, it sprays beer right in my eyes. Because I push the cork back down, a new burst goes off, on my clothes and the chair opposite. In dismay I let the cork go, and unleash a flood partly into the glass, and partly onto the floor. Damn you, Robert Christoph.

By the time I’ve finished cleaning up, the head has collapsed to a small, white layer. Hazy opaque pale yellow body with some darkish particles at the bottom. Spicy sandalwood and ginger aroma with mealy soapy notes. Dryish spicy sandalwood and ginger taste with mealy floral notes. Mid-bodied. Mild, mealy mouthfeel. Dryish gingery spicy soapy aftertaste with floral coriander notes. Interesting and unusual. The first pour was very nice, but later pours had much more sediment, and got heavier and had less flavour. The rating reflects an average. (0.75l bottle, wine monopoly web order.)

750ml swing-top bottle from Vinmonopolet, bestillingsutvalget. A cloud layer to a yellow-gold coloured body. Rocky white head, lasting. Distant smell of coriander spice and sweet apples. Pears and apples in the flavour profile. Dusty hops to a mid-sweet ending. Slightly metallic and a bit thin. Okay, but rather anonymous (shared with friends at the November Grain session, Tromsø 13.11.2013).