Smell- weak, hops. Foam- malty, weak hops, some bitter notes, bit acidic tones. Small white head. Appearance- generic black bottle cap, simple label. From - tea cup Taste- weak hops, malt, Belgian yeast. Nothing special, but drinkable.

Older rating from notes. Smell- very malty, weak belgian yeast, caramel. Foam - weak malt, roast, caramel, Belgian, acidic tones. Appearance- generic bottle cap, simple label, like tophat. From - bottle Taste - malty, Belgian yeast, caramel, weak acidic tones, bit alcoholic in a way. Average, but definitely not bad.

33 cl. bottle @ home, gift from Dennis and Patries.
Hazy amber with a big white head. Caramel aroma with some banana and peach and a very light roasted note. Sweet taste with a bitter finish ending on sour. Prickly carbonation. Interesting beer.

Bottle from Spar, Ostend. Clear orange, stable, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of apple sauce (and lots of it), carrot, pear, apricot, white pepper, solvent, ginger, banana. Taste has sweet apple sauce (again), pear & unripe banana over a bready-doughy malty base with phenolic spicy accents in the back. Floral hoppy finish, estery ripe fruits, warming wodka alcohol (feeling a bit out of place). Medium body, oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Ironically, it'll be hard to remember '14-'18 if you drink too many of these Remembrance Beers. Feels uninspired unless you're up for some apple sauce.

Many thanks for this Tabernacle beer to Jacek Wigier (wineofdreams@gmail.com) Piwo ma spora piane srednio trwala, srednia tez jest metnosc, typowe belgijskie Blonde Ale z zaznaczona subtelna nie za mocna goryczka. Dobre, pijalne i lekkie, a na pewno nie tak ciezkie jak muzyka Metalowa i nie tylko z Kanady:)

Medium off-white head, fast gone over cloudy amberish ochre beer. Sourish, volatile sulphur, meaty esters, coloured malts, vegetables. Malts, coloured malts and herb, spices.... for? Serious sweetness is malty but also honeyish. No acidity in the mouth, but quite some yeast esters. Quite burning MF, with more carbonation than visible. Some alcoholthinning, making it too sweet by half for a 'tripel', and too thin for a barley wine. Meeeehh. Gives the impression of adjuncts added to cover other things. Thanks to Barbara & Tim!

Newish (April of this year) Eutropius beer made in honour of the former owner of Petit Paris, a restaurant in Kortrijk; apparently using Icelandic smoked salt, which is a first for me in beer... Thick and frothy, yellowish egg-white, pillowy, membrane-lacing, stable head on an initially completely clear, deep 'old gold' beer with 'metallic' orange tinge and lively sparkling, turning into a misty orange-peach with sediment. Aroma of green banana, freshly cut cucumber, carbon dioxide effect, white bread crust, dried apricot, unripe peach, touch of hard caramel but without the sweetness, straw bales, old crackers, hint of sugar-free chewing gum - but hardly any smokiness, apart from a very faint background whiff of cigarette tobacco, perhaps. Softish and hardly exciting onset, fruity in a restrained way, unripe peach and a touch of green apple mixed with a vague green banana effect, restrained in sweetness, with lively carbonation that nevertheless softens significantly after a while, not interfering with the flavour; soft, lean body, a tad metallic at the edges with ongoing fruity and minerally aspects but all softly and subduedly so, while a bready maltiness develops with a very, very thin peanutty edge. I guess the minerally aspects at the sides represent the Icelandic smoked salt, but apart from a minerality that is only very slightly above average for a Belgian blonde, I get no smokiness and very little saltiness, though the latter aspect is certainly there. Ends fruity and hop bitter in a floral, leafy, quite long-lasting, bit tonic water- or quinine-like way so at least we have that; clove-like spicy phenols and very restrained unripe banana fruitiness linger over a cleanly bready malt residue in the finish. The hop bitterness, which is quite outspoken here for a blonde, is by far the best part of this beer - everything else is cliché and rather pale in terms of character. Granted, there is a very slight saltiness in the background, both in the nose and in the mouth, but hadn't I known better, I could just as well have ascribed that to the brewing water they use... What is the point of using some fancy Icelandic smoked salt if you do not have the guts to come up with either outspoken saltiness or smokiness? Easygoing blonde, this one, but admittedly more hop bitter than average for this segment so have a point for that.