25 October 2025. At “Gentse Biervereniging Kelderschatten” (Baracuna). Cheers to the whole crew!

Peat, bacon, tobacco, peat, peat. Smoked plum, bitter tobacco, smoke & meat. Soft grassy hops, lingering earth & peat. Quite intense, rather one-sided, and a bit too old I fear.

Gents Bier Festival 2023 - Clear golden colour with no head. Amazing aroma with leather, iodine, wood. Thinnish texture. Some sweet malt taste but it falls away quickly and the aroma doesn't carry through.

No head left; clear light copperish beer. Very tarry nose, treated leather, leatherwax. Faintly dried - if not sweet - fruits. Lightly smoked, blank wood, tarr hints. Dried fruit, and getting pine kernels, the smells drifting in a pinewood. Medium bodied, slick, not very carbonated. Nice smoked beer. The nose threatened to be too powerfull, but everything leveled out orally.

17/IX/21 - 75cl bottle @ Nieuwjaarsreceptie Gentse Biervereniging, Hotel Columbo (Gent), BB: XII/2018 (2021-1094) Thanks to Rik for sharing the vintage bottle!

SLOW GUSHER ALERT!
Clear blond to orange beer, small creamy white head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very smoky, peated, whisky notes, bit malty, grains, nice one! MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: smoky start, malty, bit sweet, caramel, grains, peated, nice! Aftertaste: soft bitterness, some overripe banana, bit herbal, malty, grains. Nice one!

Sample @ Nieuwjaarsreceptie Gentse Biervereniging. Thanks for sharing! Hazy amber colour, white foam. Sweet malts, light peaty smokiness appears in the taste. Not bad at all!

At Gentse Biervereniging’s New Year’s reception. Organic Belgian style blonde with thick and frothy, very moussy, snow white, lacing head and hazy straw blonde colour with fierce sparkling pushing upwards. Aroma of unripe peach, pear, dough, apple peel, some soapy coriander seed, white pepper, breakfast cereals, field flowers, light banana. Fruity, estery onset, apple-ish with hints of banana, green gooseberry and pear, supple and medium carbonated body, somewhat creamy in the middle, soft bready and cereally malt sweetishness, some spicy phenols, floral hops and earthy yeast in the finish, very gently bittering. Nothing wrong here technically, but far from inspired, considering the vast amount of similar beers in Belgium (and to a certain extent the ’beery’ part of France, for that matter).

How: Bottle.
Where: Tasting at Björn, 160129.
Appearance: Amber colour with an off-white head.
Aroma: Fruit, malt, some caramel.
Body: Medium body and carbonation-
Flavour: Malt, fruit, caramel.

How: Bottle.
Where: Tasting at Björn, 160129.
Appearance: Golden colour with a white head.
Aroma: Peat, malt, butter, phenol.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Peat, malt, smokey.

Bottled. Cloudy pale amber, small head. Peaty smoky nose. Dry with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Peaty, lightly fruity. Mid bitter finish. Mild and pleasant.