Bottle at home. Pours deep orange amber, nose is woody, tangerine, candi sugar, fig, caramel, taste is sweet toffee, citrus, woody. 7/8/7/7/7

One of the three 'Juste' beers commissioned by fair trade organisation Oxfam, following the Belgian 'triangle' of blonde, dubbel and tripel, but containing exotic ingredients obviously harvested under fair trade conditions - Bolivian quinoa in this case. Bottle at Lekker Gec, a vegetarian and Oxfam-connected restaurant right across Ghent's St. Pieters train station. Medium sized, irregular, cobweb-lacing, snow white head slowly breaking over an initially clear, yellow-golden robe with lively sparkling, turning misty with sediment. Aroma of oxidized green apple slices, coriander seed, potato peel, clove, cooked white beans but this could be the quinoa, damp straw, withering green kale, unripe apricot, leek soup going spoiled, dry gherkin. Fruity onset, not overly sweet though with hints of green banana and unripe apricot, something very thinly honeyish but also an impression of raw gherkin somehow, lively carbonated with smooth, supple, lean body - seemingly made more slick by the quinoa and otherwise typically pale-malty and a bit grainy. The quinoa also adds a dim, underlying, basic kind of sourishness. Retronasal vegetable soup impressions along with coriander and floral hops, the latter providing a grassy, soft bitter note draped over lingering graininess and some warming, 'jenever'-ish alcohol which remains altogether well hidden. The quinoa does not do much - other than bringing a kind of sourish graininess which I do not think does the recipe any good as well as somewhat off-beat herbal accents which are at least unnecessary, but okay, I get the idea... Very average, but enjoyable enough, mostly because it manages to avoid the residual sugar-sweetness one gets in so many other tripels in Belgium.

Small, if very stable snowwhite head over clear copperish metallic golden beer. Rather neutral nose, white candi sugar, alcohol, boozy aroma. Sweet-ish, boozy, alcohol, white candi sugar, whitebread, caramel, slightly scorched sugar, rum, sultanas. "Hot" malty, boozy with alcoholheat, but feeling empty. Rum is a dangerous to age beer in - and certainly lighter coloured beer. Hercule would have been a much better candidate for these barrels. Txs to Stef!

Cloudy pale gold with a small white head. Pale malt, stone fruits, spicy yeast, perfume esters, some hop. Medium dry. Light plus hop bitterness. OK.