Pours slightly unclear, warm amberorange. Small white head. prominent scent with tea shining trough, which goes surprisingly well with the dried-fruit aspect of the Barleywine base. Even some fruityness, fresh florality in a way. luxureous scent ! Taste is full, bit sweet - some simple sugars, but the tea makes it so much more complex. Strange bitterness, and a floral/fruity/herbal ending I partially love, but other parts of it i really dislike. A very confusing beer - much more interesting and enjoyable than I thought i'd think about it - disliking all I ever knew that was tea - the tea actually does a good thing here. I love the florality, but the herbal side makes me go to places in my mind I don't particularly love in my beer (pot pourri-side) Still, more than fair attempt of these guys and girl ! might be one of the most - if not the most - surprising beers by them for me. Could use a bit ( or more) body though.

Medium, rather stable pinkish tan head over fully hazy brown beer. Wood, liquorice, sparadrap, leftover chocolate. Dark chocolate, cacaopowder, wood, dry herbs (thyme?). Very dry finish. Good body, alcoholwarming and -thinning, good carbonation. Nowhere vinous?? Decent but nothing to rave about, really. Txs to Stef!

Advent #15...drank it a day late. I hope Jesus wasn't waiting for me

8/XII/22 - 75cl bottle @ home, BB: I/2024, lotnr: SB012022 (2022-1725) Thanks to Ben F. for sharing the bottle!

SLOW GUSHER ALERT!
Clear dark brown to black beer, small aery creamy beige head, little adhesive, no lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of alcohol, ripe banana, something sourish, weird, soft roast, berries. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sourish start, caramel, candy, lots of alcohol, sugary, yeasty, sugary, ripe banana, sourish. Aftertaste: pretty sourish, very yeasty, ripe banana, acidic, caramel, more banana, decent if a little weird.

Helder goudgeel bier met schuim. Smaak is bitterzoet met iets van mango, passievrucht en grapfruit en een houtachtige afdronk.

meug festival 2022

Pours unclear, warm blonde. Small white head. Scent is raw grains, funky yuzu. Taste is mildly acidic, full, malty, yuzu. Easy drinker !

The festival beer of this year’s Meug Tastingfestival in Antwerp, from a trusted Antwerp brewing company; sour IPA (fermented with Lachancea so technically a so-called ‘Philly sour’) flavoured with yuzu, a Japanese kind of citrus fruit. Snow white, irregular and dissolving, loose head on a cloudy straw-yellow blonde beer with ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of indeed lots of yuzu but in a somewhat ‘moldy’ way, yoghurt, mango juice, rainwater, sourdough, apricot flesh, hint of ‘putteke’ (sewer water) which may or may not be related to the tap. Crisp fruity onset, very citric with the yuzu being clear and bright enough, hints of guava and unripe pineapple as well, lively carbonated; supple body, sourdoughy core but the sour aspect – as usual with Lachancea – remains subtle and soft, as a yoghurty lacing clashing a bit with a citrus pith and hoppy bitter note in the end. This yellow-green, sweet-sour, utterly citrusy fruitiness, however, prevails, so that the whole does end as refreshing and elegant as expected. Acceptable enough, but still some ups and downs here, lacking a bit in colour and brightness for a flavoured sour IPA. Maybe fermentation with the old lactic bacteria (and kettle souring) would give an even more crisp, ‘sunny’ effect?