03/03/2017 draught @ Moeder Lambic Fontainas. Dark brown with nice mocha head. Nose is roasted malts, chocolate, mocha. Taste is mocha, chocolate, caramel, hops. Easye drinkin with a nice taste.

From tap. Pours hazy dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted dark malty. Breadish, liqourice and roasted dark malty. Bitter and roasted finish. Roasted dark malty finish.

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

Tap. Hazy orange color with white head. Aroma is grapefruit, earthy, peppery, some tropical fruits. Taste is grapefruit, pineapple, spicy and a bit earthy again, caramel, grassy. Distinctly bitter finish. Oily mouthfeel. Good stuff.

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.

Next to L’Ermitage and Beerstorming, another new Brussels craft brewing project with interesting ideas; this is their first and so far best known beer, tasted from tap at Moeder Lambic Fontainas. Lacing, creamy, stable, completely closed, snow white head residing over a lightly hazy, peachy orange blonde beer with lively fizz. Dank and at first not very inviting ’old urine’-like hoppiness in the nose, fortunately gradually unveiling a more flattering character of passion fruit, yellow kiwi flesh, warm toast, wet hay, fermenting apples, overripe gooseberry, old orange juice, biscuit. Lively fruity onset, hints of mango, passion fruit and green banana, definitely non-Belgian with a typical APA profile, though an estery aspect remains present; smooth and slick mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Pleasantly caramelly and subtly toasted maltiness, under a growing hop character yielding retronasal hay, mango and passion fruit aspects as well as establishing a resinous, but soft bitterness, stretching over a long distance in a mild and gentle way, as is to be expected from an APA. There are still not many examples of this style in Belgium so comparison with other Belgian APAs seems a bit pointless, but in any case this is a modern, 21st-century, quenching session beer. I preferred this over Ermitage’s Lanterne - that other new and modern style Brussels pale ale - tasted right next to it. In any case it’s exciting to observe how Brussels is gradually gaining an own identity with these internationally oriented beers, cleverly positioned next to the more traditional Belgian style ales in places like Moeder Lambic and others.

Draft at Moeder Lambic Original. Very hazy orange with a white head. Aroma of pineapple upfront with citrus, tropical fruits and resinous hops. Flavour is light sweet and above moderate bitter. Light to light medium bodied with soft carbonation.

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.

From tap. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is peachy and mild passion fruity. Bitter, fruity, floral. Lingering hoppy, fruity. Bitter and crisp floral to fruity far finish. Solid bitter.