Bottle kindly shared by Rubin77, many thanks. Amber color with medium beige head. Aroma of caramel, fruits, light acetone. Taste, coffee, caramel, fruits, dried fruits.

Bottle kindly shared by Rubin77 at a tasting in his flat. Easy drinking, well attenuated, well hopped with citrusy resiny hops. Dry moreish finish. Good one.

Bottle kindly shared by Rubin77, many thanks. Golden color with medium white head. Aroma of soapy, citrus hops. Citrus hoppy taste with perfumed malt, spices. Medium long bitter finish. Good.

F: thin, off-white, quick diminishing. C: deep gold, hazy. A: malty, estery fruity, overripe banana, yeasty, hint of alcohol. T: malt, alcohol, overripe banana, yeasty, white sugar, peach, lingering fruitiness, medium body, good carbonation, good drinkable but too sweet and not complex at all, 0,33l bottle from Poperinge Beerfestival 2016.

The fourth edition in this series by this hop farm and brewer, this time with two hop varieties (half Goldings and half WGV) and therefore the ’single’ in the front label has been overprinted with the word ’double’. Strange nobody has entered this yet, but then production was limited to 1914 bottles. From a 75 cl bottle with crown cork. Irregularly lacing, yellowish white, moussy, dense, frothy and stable head over an initially clear, deep amberish orange coloured beer with quiet fizz. Thoroughly Belgian but pleasant aroma of freshly toasted bread, dried grass, pineapple, dried bitter herbs, jute, banana, wormwood, burnt sugar, old hazelnuts, roasted peanuts, bitter grape peel, earth, dried tea leaves, field flowers, raw carrot, horseradish, white pepper, soap, dried red berries, old cloves. Juicy, fruity onset, sweetish and sourish both well in balance, with hints of banana, peach and redcurrant, softish carbo, bittering effects noticeable from the start; spicy clove-like phenols appear early on as well. Supple, smooth and slick malty middle, a tad caramelly, nutty and dryish with grainy and toasted bitterish edges, leading to an earthy finish of mild but effective, very ’English’ noble hop bitterness, herbal, peppery and leafy, drying the throat with a near tonic water-like bitterness and releasing dry floral aromas retronasally mingling with the relatively high amount of spicy phenols; juicy nutty maltiness and lightly bready yeast effects go down with it. Like the others in this yearly series (not sure if they did one in 2016 yet), this is a very Belgian amber ale indeed, but with a twist of ’English style bitter’ to it due to the starring role of the English noble hops - resulting in an overall effect that is probably halfway between (artisanal and unfiltered) ’spéciale belge’ and classic, old school English pale ale, two obsolete styles closely which are historically and technically closely connected to each other. Pleasant enough and in all, a modest yet clever way for Joris Cambie to demonstrate the qualities of the hops he cultivates.

Imported from my RateBeer account as De Plukker Vernint (by De Plukker):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

11/VII/16 - 75cl bottle from a trade @ home - BB: VI/2017 (2016-751) Thanks to Paulien for bringing me the bottle!

Little cloudy blond beer, big irregular creamy white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very malty, grains, cow fodder, bit sweet, some almonds. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter start, malty, sweet grains, bit grassy, some banana. Aftertaste: bit spicy, yeast, some banana, bit chemical bitterness.

Orange beer, small head. Aroma is yeast, fruit, flowers. Taste is the same. ok

Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020