Bottle at PBFX. Hazy orange color, small white head. Grassy, fruity aroma. Light-bodied. Peppery, fruity and some watermelon in the flavor. Spicey and bland.

33cl bottle @PBF X. Golden color, thick white head. Perfumy, floral aroma, spicy notes. Flavor has perfumy notes, almonds , sweetness. Generic, one in a thousand.

Commissioned Belgian blonde since 2013, made with four grain species (barley, rye, spelt and wheat) and presented as a semi-organic beer. Creamy, moussy, snow white, quite dense head leaving some irregular lacing but not gushing, over a misty ’old’ golden blonde beer with a suspension of yeast divided throughout the liquid; a more deeply misty, slightly ochre colour appears after adding the deposit. Classic ’Belgian’ aroma of lightly toasted white bread, green apple peel, unripe peach (quite strong actually), quite a lot of soapy wheat increasing as it warms up, tons of freshly cut grass and nettles, hint of banana, green plum, unripe pineapple, touch coriander seed but fortunately not too strong, sourish grains, soft biscuit, chamomille. Fruity onset of unripe peach and apricot, starfruit, redcurrant and again that unripe, raw pineapple accent, fairly strong carbo with minerally ’sourishness’, smooth and slick mouthfeel, spicy yeastiness over a simply pale maltiness, vaguely bready, paired with sourish, lightly spicy and sharpish rye and spelt and the sourish ’soapiness’ of wheat but subduedly so; finish has lingering green apple peel plus lingering sourish grains along with a more ’juicy’ malt breadiness which lends it a little bit of softness - but the overall impression remains a bit astringent, not to say harsh, with a deep, ’bassoon’-like earthy hop bitterishness in the background. The drying coriander spice effect only adds to this astringently dry experience. I don’t think the combination of both rye and spelt did this beer good: the sourish graininess is just too sharp in this one, and the green apple acetaldehyde kept dominating the aroma; the resiny coriander seed effect only makes this worse. Too astringent, too harsh and too estery to be truly enjoyable, in spite of the noble ’European’ hop dosis, which is fair enough in this one and lasts for a long while. I did not enjoy this - Jessenhofke can do better, I remain convinced.

Bottle @ Eco-café, Borgerhout. Brown colour, beige foam. Medium carbonation. Sweet beer with notes of caramel and anise. Bit thin and watery but easy drinkable. Not bad.

Bottle@ Eco-café, Borgerhout. Hazy golden colour, white foam. Disappears quickly. Lively carbonation. Malty with spicy notes. Light sweet, light bitter. Not very well balanced but ok.