Bottle from Geers, Oostakker. Pours clear dark golden with a very thin, foamy, off-white head. Aroma of lots of bread, oak chips, herbs, mandarin, gooseberry, honey, vanilla, vague cooked rice. Taste has sour gooseberry, starfruit & yellow apple, sweetish mandarin & a wheaty-rice-like body, thick bready malts with a herbal bitterness building. Dryish, tart, earth-herbal hoppy finish, more pronounced oak & wood, sour fruit & lots of bread returning retronasally. Medium body, oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Unusual winter beer but a very pleasant surprise.

Sour ale with passionfruit, brewed with oats and rice (!), from De Leite, the originally quite traditional West-Flemish brewery that gained considerable momentum when they discovered sour ales were their true strength. Thick and mousy, frothy, snow white, slowly breaking but generally very stable head, cloudy apricot blonde robe with warm orangey glow. Bright and elegant bouquet of indeed a lot of actual passionfruit (maracuja), lots of oak-produced 'vanilla', yellow kiwi, gooseberries, strawberry wine, freshly cut raw rhubarb, moist wood, cider, unripe peach, mandarin, white wine, minerals, lemon zest. Spritzy, fruity onset, dominated by aromatic, sweet and sour passionfruit as expected, hints of kiwi, pineapple and white grape too, fizzy and minerally carbonation, supple but relatively 'full' body. A (typically Leite) thin and gentle, but refreshingly citric lactic sourness runs through a lean, supple white-bready maltiness with a sweetish, probably rice-induced edge to it as well as 'velvety' oats, carrying the passionfruit to a bright, tropically-tinged, very fruity finish adorned with retronasal vanilla from the oak, a light-footed tannic woodiness adding some dryness and complexity and very light bready yeasty notes here and there. Soaked in tropical, summery passionfruit, this is as good as De Leite gets for me: perfectly finetuned, gracious, brightly summery and refreshing as well as sufficiently complex, and completely free of any of the off-flavours described in some of the ratings below. De Leite sure knows its sours and this internationally coloured 'elaboration' on the basic theme frankly came very unexpected to me. Very well done.

Hazy amber colour, white foam. Lots of passion fruit, tartness, some lemon. Nice and refreshing.