6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Inglorious Brew Stars Amis Fleur #892 (by Inglorious Brew Stars):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5

24/II/17 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte) @ home - BB: 28/IV/18 (2017-198)

Clear orange beer, huge creamy yellowish head, pretty stable, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: some banana, sweet caramel malts, bit fruity. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet malts up front, some caramel, fruity, pretty bitter, more fruits. Aftertaste: soft bitterness, yeast, peach, malty, grains, some grapefruit, bit metallic.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Pours a dark amber brown color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty spicy dark fruit caramel aroma. Sweetish malty spicy caramel and dark fruit flavor. Has a sweetish malty caramel and dark fruit finish.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Commissioned beer named after a dahlia on some local flower contest... Bottle from the Prik & Tik in Zele. Towering high, foamy, frothy, beaten egg-white head, rocky and closed for most of the time, leaving behind an intricate pattern of cobweb-like ’Belgian’ lacing, over a warm ’old gold’ coloured beer with dots of pale yeast floating around everywhere, turning into a more orange-tinged ’ochre’ with sediment added. Aroma of soap, straw, green apple peel, unripe pear, raw pineapple, fresh camomile, banana, gooseberry, clover flowers, wormwood leaves, bitter honey, stewed rhubarb, old dry hay, raw turnip, freshly cut parsley, green plum. Crisp, lively onset, fruity esters with impressions of banana isoamylacetate but not overly so (refraining from the bubblegum effect), green apple acetaldehyde and hints of gooseberry, raw pineapple and unripe pear, more sourish than sweet, with the sourishness accentuated by a sharp, bit exaggerated, very minerally and lightly numbing carbonation, coarsening an otherwise supple, fairly light, lean mouthfeel. This overcarbonated effect keeps hanging around for a long time, but does not distract from a bready, cereally and somewhat grainy malt middle, over which the fruity esters continue in a subdued, elegant way; spicy phenols join in but it is the hops which get the last word, establishing a long, dry, spicy, leafy and rather earthy bitter ending, a tad tonic water-like and very floral (mission accomplished seen the idea behind the beer, but not more floral than any other hoppy Belgian these days), a bit peppery and grassy too. After this, a ’jenever’-ish alcohol effect shows up, but mildly so - though alcohol flavors should remain all but unnoticeable in any beer below 7% ABV. Typical hop-forward ’new’ Belgian blonde, no real IPA in the modern sense of the word, but a ’blonde bitter’ - or even ’Belgian IPA’, to say the same thing in a more contemporary way - fitting in the ’tradition’ foreseen by De Ranke’s XX Bitter back in the nineties and further reinforced by Houblon Chouffe in the first decade of this century. Do not expect New World hop lushness - this is still a rare feature in Belgian brewing, unfortunately - but if you like a decent, well-balanced, well-crafted Belgian bitter blonde, this is your beer. Compare with that Hommelbier Fresh Harvest series, the De Ranke Hop Harvest series or some of Senne’s hoppy blondes and you will be less disappointed than when you expect a ’true’ international - or indeed American - style IPA. Certainly a very well-made and enjoyable ale, but yet another case for recognition of ’Belgian IPA’ as a separate, hybrid style in between Belgian ale (or strong ale) on the one hand and ’IPA’ on the other hand.

6.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

330 ml. bottle @ Beerlovers Bar. Black, little tanned head. Nose is hugely, extremely big on pure plastic peat, plastic peat, lightly vinous, soy sauce, Bunnahabhain dominates everything, the taste is the same. I love Bunnahabhain whiskey but it dominates the flavour far too much here, just ruins it, just harsh peat and nothing else all the way, like the base beer diluted by the whishey, I am not a fan of these kinds of beers where the peated whiskey just dominates everything totally. Taste is just plastic, burning charcoal, peated, bitter chemical, more plastic peat, overly peated, alcohol. Body is thick peated plastic & booze. Not a fan of this.

7

Kandyzowane owoce, karmel, przyprawowosc, nieco kawy czy czeko, ciemnych owocow, slodki, alko najs schowane, srednio ciala, lepkawy, bdb

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Flesje thuis gedeeld met familie. Zwart bier met mooie bruine schuimkraag. Aroma van drop, salmiak, rijpe kersen en kruiden. Ook de smaak is kruidig en dropachtig. Nasmaak is iets hoppig. Lekker bier, vol van smaak.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Pours black, ok foam. Smell is pure peat. Taste is pure peat, some dark makts, intense. All and all, sounds like i’d hate this. Perhaps it’s my pallet evolving towards peat after a, or this is just a better than average kind of peat.