Imported from my RateBeer account as L'Ermitage / Breakside Ménage à Trois (by Nanobrasserie de l'Ermitage):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 9/20, MyTotalScore: 2.7/5

25/XII/17 - 33cl bottle from a trade @ home - BB: 1/XI/18 (2017-2235) Thanks to Bierridder_S for the trade!

Pretty cloudy amber beige to red brown beer, big irregular creamy beige head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: pretty floral, soapy, candy, lavender, pretty weird... MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very soapy bitterness up front, weird, harsh bitterness, slightly fruity. Aftertaste: medicinal, way too bitter, soapy, bit floral...

Bottle at home from Malt Attacks, 23rd December 17. Pours straw colour, no head. Aroma is jasmin, yeast and citrus. Taste is tangerine, satsuma, light floral, jasmin for sure, some bitterness. A pleasure to drink, good one.

Bottle from Brussels Beer Box - and since it is bottled, I assume my rating belongs here, as the other variations seem to exist only from tap; no hop varieties are mentioned here, sadly. Tightly 'membranously' lacing, eggshell-white, very moussy, bit irregular head, closed but showing a few gaps after several minutes, yet generally very stable; immediately hazy warm ochre-tinged 'old gold' coloured beer with peachy hue. Quite 'dank' aroma, impressions of grapefruit peel, lemon rind, rainwater, white bread dough, hay, onion slices sweating in hot arachide oil, hot French fries even, brown soap or even bath foam somewhere, green olives, dry bread crust, grey-green wormwood leaves, lots of white pepper, old cucumber, cloth, hint of sundried tomatoes. Crisp, fruity onset, only very vaguely sweetish with sourish edges, unripe green banana, hints of hard Conférence pear and unripe melon, medium carbonated with minerally effects nonetheless, slick and slightly 'creamy' mouthfeel, feeling relatively full for a beer below 5% ABV. Bit doughy middle, soapy wheatiness very apparent, soft fresh white bread slices adding the barley factor, lean and soft, quickly making room for a very spicy hoppy finish, aromatic, a tad 'green', with retronasal hints of grapefruit, onions and frying oil; ends in a 'modern', IPA-inspired hop bitterness, with that wheaty soapiness still lingering, yet dry and oily. Powdery yeast notes remain as long as the spicy, eventually very peppery and grapefruity hop bitterness. After Senne's pioneering work and BBP's decidedly non-Belgian approach, a bunch of small, entrepreneurial micro breweries have popped up in Brussels and this one, still very young, sits in the core of this new Brussels elan. These guys' enthusiasm is obvious enough and in spite of the very traditionally Belgian-sounding name of their company, their beers are all but Belgian in style, opting for cleaner yeast profiles and, above all, a generous dosage of American style hopping. This particular one is a good example of Ermitage's range: there is nothing even remotely reminiscent of the old Belgian witbier standard here, this is indeed an American style wheat ale 'pur sang', the originally hopped-up American craft interpretation of German Weissbier - but meanwhile having evolved into a craft beer style in its own right. A style I don't think I have seen so far in Belgium - have a point for that. Perhaps the hops are a bit over the top here, as I still expect more emphasis on the refreshing, smooth and rounded, bready qualities of the wheat in any kind of wheat ale including the American style - this is better interpreted as a "white IPA", including a lot of dankness, which I think the average Belgian consumer would struggle with. For those familiar with this American approach and seen in an international context: quite alright, this one, uncompromizing and pleasantly peppery and drying - in other words: containing a whole lot of flavour for its modest ABV. "Session white IPA" sums this up best, I think - with no link to Belgian ale traditions whatsoever. Nice, but due to the uninformative label, I am still left a bit unsatisfied: which hops went in here? I could make an educated guess...

Bottle from Malt Attacks, 22nd December 17. Pours black. Aroma is hoppy, citrus, cocoa. Taste is bitter, citrus, cocoa, chocolate, bitter hop tingle. Lovely.

Pours very dark brown, nearly black. Small, medium low stability, creamy mocha head. Smell is roasted, rye, bit burnt, mild roasty bitterness. Taste is intensely roasty, mild rye, sharp burnt flavors, inhencing the perception of dark chocolate and pure coffee. Medium thick mf, medium to medium high carbo. Mild roasty bitterness. Decent.

Draft glass @ CML Fontainas. Clear golden, creamy white head. Nose is doughy sweet gelatine candy apricot candy, flowers, near cloying pastry. Taste is soap, candy, doughy, cheap stone fruit gelatine candy & white sugar & a sticky weird way, candy bears, nope,… What tea did they use, white? Not my thing.

330ml bottle from Tilt, Brum. Pours a murky orange, thin white head. Aroma has a pleasant fruity milky sweetness. Taste picks things up nicely with a soft fruity complexion, light grapefruit bitterness, light wheat, some nice passion fruity moments.