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6/IX/25 - 75cl bottle @ Alengrin’s place, BB: 4/II/25, L250.351 14:42:20 (2025-861) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!

Clear orange blond to yellow beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, dissipates quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: very oxidized, dry, orange peel, quite some alcohol, spicy, piny, some yeast, brett notes. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter start, earthy, some tannins, pretty fruity, lots of peaches, a bit hoppy bitterness. Aftertaste: oxidised, earthy, fruity, citrus, pretty acidic, grapefruit notes, nice one!

The new blonde (or rather: amber coloured) follow-up to the classic dark Duivelsbier, originally a kind of strong faro and in any case a beer with a long history - so I guess this one can be said to have at least a pedigree. Steinie bottle from Streekproductencentrum Halle, shared with Craftmember. Thick, egg-white, stable, frothy, slowly opening head on an initially clear, deep orangey-golden robe with amber glow, misty with sediment. Rather weak aroma of indeed clear Brettanomyces but in a somewhat onedimensional way, horseblanket, old leather, damp straw, urine (stronger warming up), bitter honey, crackers, unsalted peanuts, dried dandelion leaves. Dry-fruity onset, very clean and quite straightforward for this kind of beer actually, hinting at persimmon, dried apricot and tamarillo but very vaguely so, low in sweetness with soft carb and smooth, if a tad fluffy mouthfeel. Bread-crusty, peanutty, cracker-ish slick 'amber maltiness', with gently but surely drying wild yeast, refraining itself from the complex funkiness I was hoping for, instead delivering just the basic, laboratory-grown Brett effects of horseblanket and urine - unmistakable, but a bit, well, meagre. Hop bitterness is floral, mellow and short-lived, so it too falls short in adding complexity, though I imagine it has been kept low deliberately; the finish thus ends with a thin amber maltiness and rather quickly fading, monotonous Brett effects. Very sleek and clean - way too much so, in fact, like a kind of baby Orval, or a wild ale for beginners... Who knows what more extended cellaring can do here, but in this relatively fresh form, the Brett - the only dominant player - should have been more complex and positioned against other elements. In this form, it feels a bit like a one-trick pony, but it has been very long since I had its original dark predecessor, maybe a comparison of both could be interesting.

PBF XV. Hazy pale orange colour, small white head. Aroma is floral, some funky tones quite rich cabonation. Flavour is floral, funky, citrusy and some wooden tones. Citrusy and funky tones.

Golden colour, small white head. Sourish, herbal, a bit funky, tart apple in the nose. Light-bodied. Sparkling carbonation. Green apple, funky notes, sourness, "green elements", minerally, apricot. Drinkability is very good in this one. PBF XV.

Bottled at PBF. Purple with small pink head. Mild funk and lots of earthy, balsamic cherries. Tart with medium body and clean, rounded mouthfeel. Prickly carbonation. Balsamic Schaarbeekse cherries dominate, only slight horse blanket. Mild stale hop bitterness. Not very complex.