Bxlbeerfest. Pours yellow. Aroma is fruity, citric, orsnges. Flavor is sweet and bitter, citrus, sugar. Finish is citric bitter. Feels light but not watery. Overall: very good.

From tap. Pours hazy yellow, small white head. Aroma is grassy and slight citrusy. Bitter, citrusy. Grassy, citrusy. Crisp hoppy. Bitter. Dry and crisp hoppy finish.

Tap at BXL festival. It hazy clear light straw with big white head. Soft grass, bitter herbs, very dry malts, lime peel, soft chalk. Light sweet and under medium bitter. Under medium bodied with dry feel. Not bad.

330 ml. bottle. 2017 Vintage. Bottle #1797 of 2440. Aged in 3 Years Belgian Owl Barrels (sic.) Yeah that is weirdly worded. Belgian Blond Strong Ale Aged in Belgian Whisky barrels of the by bar mos t notable distiller of the very few in Belgium. Lienne is a still rather new Wallonian brewery that takes inspiration from the craft beer movement unlike far too many Wallonian breweries and tries to do something else. Results vary but improvement & care seems to be the order of the day. Clear golden beer, fine rising bubbles, quite a solid vaguely off-white head, creamy. Nose is weird overly cooked vegetables with strong BE esters oddly mixed with vanilla boozy whisky sweetness, almost seems to indicate that they went for the lesser batch on barrels rout or something else lesser transpired, total warning. Taste is sadly disappointing as well, cooked vegetables, cabbages, green apple, finish is cheap watery whisky and banana,… Carbonation is too soft, makes it seem a bit watery. Whatever transpired here, base beer seems far too poor and the barrel doesn’t help and the barrel doesn’t come across optimal, whisky feels weak and almost cheap dare I say. I was quite optimistic here & accepted the higher price point, the previous BA beer that I had from them was very neat “Lienne / Mi-Orge Mi-Houblon Série à L’Encre Noire - Batch #2 (Armagnac)”. This is below standard. Did I have a bad bottle given the previous ratings?

Bottle @ Ratebeer Odense Summer Gathering, 2017. Pours Black with a small head. Wood, armagnac, roast, chocolate. Vinous and slick. Woody and Dry. Warming alcohol.

RB Odense Summer Gathering 2017. Black with a small off-white head. Aroma of licorice, vanilla, dried fruit and a little vineous booze. Sweet roasted flavour with hints of vanilla and dried fruit

Bottle. Pours a hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty woody aroma. Sweetish fruity malty spicy woody flavor with hints of caramel. Has a fruity malty spicy woody yeasty finish.

06/2017 @home - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck. Clear yellow with medium white head. Nose is malty, sour touch, alcohol. Taste is malty, sweet, banana, some vanilla, alcohol, missing some barrel.

F: huge, tan, good retention. C: dark brown, hazy, opaque. A: malt, hint of chocolate, dark bread, vegetal, caramel, a bit yeasty, fruity. T: malty, fruity, light fruity sourness, dark cherries, caramel, not very sweet, hint of vinous, a bit of coffee, medium body, medium carbonation, not bad, enjoyed, 33cl bottle from Match supermarket in Woluwe shopping centre in Brussels.