7.5

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

Bouteille 33cl, Färm Pl Jourdan, BB 11/08/2022, bottled 11/08/2020.
Dorée, col épais et tenace crémeux/soyeux blanc.
Arôme est plaisant et met bien en avant les houblons - effluves convaincantes sur les agrumes - pamplemousse, citron vert, léger tropical avec un rétro-nasal rappelant le boisé de pin sur une pointe finement épicée.
Palais est bien houblonné retrouve un petite côté huileux - herbacé presque botanique avec une petite touche subtile rappelant le chêne fleuri du Pacific Gem. Je retrouve aussi une approche plus classique du Citra avec son apport sur les agrumes dont un bel effet de pamplemousse rose.

7.4

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

Bouteille 33cl, Färm Pl Jourdan, BB 02/09/2022, bottled 02/09/2020.
Nouvelle brasserie bruxelloise misant sur l'organique et un symbolique étiquette sur les vélos.
Dorée paille claire, col fin crémeux blanc.
Arôme est plaisant sur le fruité - agrumes, pamplemousse et petit effet de raisin blanc, pointe herbacée. Léger grains.
Palais est léger, crisp et sec marqué de site au niveau du grains - froment. Retrouve un caractère marqué de houblons apportant des notes d'agrumes. Impression un peu de pils sur la fin, citronnée qui revient à la charge - pomelo.
Classique plutôt bien ficelée à seulement 3.8%.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

7.1

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

Hazy straw yellow colour, small mousy white head, mostly diminising, fair lacing. Aroma pale malt, lemon, grapefruit, green fruit, grass. Taste medium sweet and light sourish, light bitter touch, wheat, lemon, grapefruit, spicy notes. Light body, watery texture, soft carbonation, sweet and sourish aftertaste, light wryish bitter notes. Peculiar brew, a kind of crossover of a witbier and an IPA, good thirst quencher, very nice.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

The latest addition to date to this Brussels-based “Drink Drink” brand of organic beers; bottle from an organic shop in Ghent. Snow white, mousy, medium thick, stable head on an initially clear, pale straw blonde beer with lots of enthusiastic sparkling, turning misty with sediment. Aroma of dried field flowers, freshly cut grass, white bread crumbs, green apple, straw, withering cucumber, dried out lime peel, dust. Fruity onset but in a restrained and cleanish way, aspects of hard pear, unripe banana and some green apple as well as a vague unripe melon note, sweetish and sourish; fizzy carb, smooth and soapy mouthfeel, the soapiness evidently coming from the wheat. Slick white-bready, cereally and continuously wheat-soapy middle with a clear streak of soft wheat sourishness and dried flower and vague old citrus peel hop aromas, elegant but nowhere New World-like contrary to what I was expecting; ends bready, softly but effectively bitter and wheat-soapy, with green fruit and light spicy yeasty notes lingering. An elegant summer quencher, in all, but I would never classify this as a white IPA in the Anglo-Saxon sense of the word: this is essentially a wheat beer (more or less) the Belgian way influenced by that recent surge of low alcohol beers. Light, in fact even a bit too light for me, even on a summer day…

7.8

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

16/VII/20 - 33cl bottle from BioPlanet supermarket (Gent), shared @ home, BB: 27/IV/22, bottled: 27/IV/20 (2020-639)

Pretty clear bright yellow beer, big foamy thick head, stable, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of grass, some marijuana, bit yeasty, hint of citrus, slightly fruity, grapefruit maybe, but where are those Centennial, Nelson and Citra hops? Not enough hops? Bad quality hops? MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish, like you would expect from a white/wheat IPA, lemony, citrus, good bitterness, hint of grapefruit. Aftertaste: soft acidity, bit grassy, some grains, wheat, decent, could’ve been a De La Senne beer, but not fruity nor bitter enough for an IPA if you ask me.

6

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

Bottle. Orange amber pour. Aroma of yeast, grassy bitter hop, grapefruit and malt. Taste has sweet grapefruit, grassy citrus, malt, yeast, bitter orange and a little caramel. Solid, it's very Belgian and yeasty, bit like a hoppy blonde.

6.9

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

Bottle. Golden pour. Aroma of grassy hop, grainy malt, grapefruit, orange and dry yeast. Taste has soft juicy grapefruit, grainy malt, grassy bitter hop, dry yeast, citrus and a little pine. Fine Belgian pale ale, the bitter hops work well with the yeast.

7.5

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

21/I/20 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared @ home, BB: 16/X/19, bottled: 16/X/18 (2020-69) Thanks to Bierridder_S for the trade!

Food pairing: grilled garlic butter lobster and risotto

Clear deep blond beer, big creamy dense white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: hint of banana, fruity, some peaches. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: nice bitterness, malty, little fruity, hint of banana. Aftertaste: malty, nice bitterness, some citrus, grapefruit, peaches, bit grassy, hay, decent, not great, but that’s probably due to age. My bad. I’ll be mild on scoring this one.

Good pairing result: the bitterness goes well with the buttered lobster and creamy risotto, without being too overpowering for the subtle sweet lobster meat.