Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bouteille 33cl, BB 11/06/2021, lot# HE/002-003.
Jamais je n'aurai imaginé Blaugies faire une collab pour une 'sour peach' - comme quoi, tout est possible.
Couleur dorée, blonde présentant un léger voile, le col est fin blanc retombant vite.
Arôme est fin fruité sur la pêche avec une note citrique qui perce en rétro-nasal et est accompagnée par des effluves de grains - malts dont pas mal de pils. Rétro un peu houblonné et repris de suite par les effluves de pêche.
Palais est léger marqué de suite par ce côté pils et froment - qui doivent être le côté hennuyer de Blaugies.
Le caractère pêche reste plutôt discret tout comme l'acidité. Cependant, le fruité est rehaussé par un caractère assez, voire trop, haut en effervescence qui le fait revenir en avant en toute fin de bouche.
Fini est sec marqué avec une acidité fruitée-citrique.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at home. What an interesting collab choice ! I never heard anyone doing a collab with Omer, and Fullers also seems to be looked at as 'Old School', but perhaps belong a bit more in the craft / Collab world. But still ! Very happy to see a Mild Ale. I've only drank very few, still. In between all the 'ooh look I made an IPA / Stout/ Sour ( insert lactose, adjuncts etc anno 2021 ) , we've returned to the point we were trying to fight in the first place - everyone making the same thing. It used to be Tripel / Dubbel things in BE, but now we're truly original by making another IPA... like anyone else. So yeah, pretty psyched to find a unique set of names, making a unique style of beer that deserves much more love !

Pours Extremely foamy ( bit of a gusher, too, but not extreme ) . Dark brown, slightly tanned head. Scent is roasty, cocoa, dark ( not black) malts, minor hoppy touch. Taste is full, fairly creamy. Soft roastyness, minor (hidden) dry, almost 'ashy' aspect, but not as sharp. Pillowy foam matches the silky body, an accomplishement at only 4%. Very mild bitterness. The maltyness has the biggest part here, no real fermentation-driven flavors. Easy drinkable, yet full in both body and intensity. Great to drink a low ABV beer that's not just about hops. More of this, please !

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Geers. Cloudy black, small, foamy, beige head. Aroma of toast, walnut, chocolate powder, grapefruit peel, fig, blood orange, tobacco, coffee roast. Taste has sweetish prune, fig, citrus flesh, a bit zesty, almost sourish berry-like, chocolatey-toasty malty body then with a nutty edge, bitter roasted coffee middle adding earthy aspect. Earthy hoppy, almost grapefruity, finish, more dark chocolate, coffee roast & orange peel. Medium body, creamy texture, soft carbonation. Nicely rounded & hoppy, more Stout than Porter in my book but it's all fluid nowadays.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Keg at Beer Merchants Tap, Hackney Wick. Pours lightly hazed pale orange golden with a white head. Aroma: grains, rye bread, citrus, light pine. Taste: light to moderate sweet & light bitter, grains, rye, chalky-ish. Thin to medium body with ample-ish carbonation.

@ 2018

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

Dark brown color and a off-white head. Sweet & dark Schokolade..rather dryish.

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

New Nola, rather a project than a beer name, created for International Woman's Day by female beer people at Siphon; whereas the first Nola from last year was a Hefeweizen, this second one has taken the form of a porter. Very slow gusher, producing an inches thick, very foamy, rocky, cobweb-lacing, pale greyish beige head - in fact head formation is so enthusiastic in this one that it is difficult to pour it without having a glass that consists largely of foam; near-clear, very dark chocolate brown robe, as good as black, with mahogany edges. Aroma of black coffee grounds, burnt toast, roasted hazelnuts, bitter black chocolate, salmiak, wet leather, touch charcoal, dried elderberries, hints of rosehips, blood, pine resin, fried onion, bayleaf, iron, minerals and a refreshing whiff of orange peel (from the New World hops). Dried-fruity, restrainedly sweetish onset, hints of dried figs and dried blueberries, sourish undertone enhanced by very sharp, painfully numbing overcarbonation; very toasty-bitter, burnt currant- and roasted nut-like middle with a somewhat smoky touch, further evolving into heavy roasted coffeeish bitterness in the end, sharpened by a pungent, peppery, piney and leafy hop bitterness. That soft, 'dull' sourishness underneath lasts till the end, but the bitterness is omnipresent in the finish, obliterating whatever subtle traces of sweetness that were present to begin with. Very roasty, hoppy, pungent black beer - in fact much more a dry stout than a true porter, but since this is a debate on the gender of angels, as they say in Flemish... Pleasant and correct for what it is, as said a more rounded nuttiness and a touch less roasted bitterness would have befit the 'American porter' premise better and the overcarbonation is also an element to be dealt with, but I certainly enjoyed this one nonetheless.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Rotsaert, Zedelgem, Belgium. A black coloured pour with a thin beige head on top. Rich, malty, chocolate, coffee aroma and taste. Slightly bitter, didn't detect oysters in there, good quality stout from Siphon.