6.2

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

33cl bottle from Drink Factory in Mons. F: big, white, good retention. C: orange gold, hazy. A: grapefruits, orange, pineapple, fruity, bit caramel. T: medium malty base, light orange, grapefruits, vaguely tropical fruits, higher carbonation, decent bitterness, ok for Belgian IPA may be but for me lack some more fruity character.

6.2

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

33cl bottle from Drink Factory in Mons. F: medium, pale pink white, good retention. C: red, hazy. A: light cherries, bit red berries, bit raspberries. T: light malty base, artificial cherries, bit red berries, high bit disturbing carbonation, ok another cherries beer but nothing memorable at all.

4.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

MMXIX version Gushing to huge amberish cream head; veiled copper-brown beer. Shoepolish, solvent, soap, dark malts and a distinct boiled meat aroma. Liquorice, kaliesjesap , bit spicy malts, and again this boiled meat, watered-down stoofvlees, meaty esterish hint. Light body for its ABV, slick, and manages to hide its ABV completely - making me wonder... Gawdhelpus... the kaliesjesap we used to make when very young. Thanks to Stef!

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kerstbierfestival essen 2019

6.9

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

Bottle, thanks poech! Murky darker tan body, white head. Big, heavy flowery aroma, some bergamot, earthy notes. Soft taste, smooth, leanly citric, creamy, chamomile, sweetish, pleasant. Okay beer.

6.1

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

Bottle. Light hazy colour, white foam. Some malty sweetness, medium bitter finish, some citrus. Ok.

7.3

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

10/06/2019 @home - bottle from a trade with jerre; Clear dark yellow, big sticky white head. Nose is malts, floral, bitterness. Taste is malts, spice, dry, yeast, soft bitter ending. Fresh!

7

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

Bouteille 33cl, BB 04/07/2020. Ça bouge du côté de Charleroi. Dorée, col blanc crémeux épais. Arôme offre un bouquet épicé et herbacé avec un bouquet de thym fortement bien plaisant. Frais avec des notes de pelures d'oranges. Petit effet pâtissier niveau levure en rétro. Palais est fin virant de suite sur un effet épicé et herbacé très plaisant de thym avec une belle rondeur de bouche sur la fin - le tout vire vers un côté sucre résiduel et épicé de coriandre et effet orangette presque bonbon Napoléon + mandarine. Alcool revient sur la fin. Plaisamment surpris par cette nouvelle brasserie - à voir les autres bières.

6.4

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Porter from a 75 cl bottle with hangtag, brewed by a new company in Charleroi which apparently is more than just a brewery, but promotes other artisanal products like bread and coffee. Interesting concept, and nice to see a new beer producer opt for a porter rather than some classic Belgian beer style. Slow gusher, but manageable. Very thick and rocky, towering high, pale greyish beige, lightly lacing, stable head over a cloudy chestnut brown beer, very dark - almost near-black - but still translucent, with mahogany-bronze hue. Aroma of dried plums, tree leaves fermenting on a wet forest floor in autumn, damp clay, soggy toast, moldy acorn shells, coffee grounds, old nutmeg powder, dried elderberries, walnut, red apple, baker's yeast, baked banana, old crumbling cheese, caramel. Dried fruits in the onset, fig- and dried banana slice-like sweetishness but not overly estery and balanced by a deep, blackberry juice-like sourishness which even grows further on in the mouth, eventually feeling a bit infected; very fizzy carbonation, too sharp for a porter. Butterscotch- and walnut-like, eventually toasted maltiness, only restrainedly sweetish, more bitter especially in the finish; the infected sourness accent lasts till the end, where it meets a very earthy, phenolic, 'dirty' yeastiness as well as an earthy and very herbal, tea-ish hop bitterness. The premise here is interesting and decent enough, but clearly this beer needs to be cleaned up, seems lightly infected, too phenolic and way too 'dirty yeasty' for a porter. Still enjoyable enough, though.