Odd. It's not undrinkable, but not sure it's works.

Bottle shared at home - Dark brown with a small beige ringed head. Dark dried fruity and sweet malty with some caramel and fudge, some singed brown sugar, medium body, sweet malty finish. Decent Belgian strong.

Hazy IPA with lactose, made by Anders for the Zythos Bierfestival apparently; 75 cl bottle with crown cap, bottled in mid-April to already seven months old at the time when I got it. Very thick, egg-white, frothy, papery lacing, stable head over a hazy yellowish ‘old gold’ robe with no visible sparkling. Aroma of bath foam, lemon-scented hand soap, cheese spread, fried apples, green banana, cold camomile tea, baking soda, Chinese chrysanthemum tea, green pear, ginger powder. Fruity onset, banana, apricot, touch of lychee, rather sweet with medium carb and soft, fluffy mouthfeel, very doughy – white bready with the expected lactose creaminess, though less so than is often the case in these ‘milkshake IPAs’ (and that to me is not a bad thing at all, to be honest). Bitter flowers and wormwood in the finish along with old citrus peel- and lightly cheesy retronasal hop aromas, but the luscious New World ‘tropicalness’ promised on the label lags far behind – if it is even there at all. What is there to a high extent, is an overall soapiness making it less pleasant in terms of mouthfeel. Too much emphasis on hop bitterness and not nearly enough on tropical ‘new’ hop aromatics, though admittedly seven months is clearly too old for this type of beer anyway, so I will not be too harsh on it. Still, in this form, this is drinkable enough without delivering what it promises, the label made me dream of expressive mango, tropical citrus and passionfruit scents, but I got near to none of those, alas.

Halloween versie. Op het etiket : Anglium Ashes. Fijne citrussmaak.

Thick dense darker yellow head, quite stable,over deep red-shot dark brown beer. Speculaasherbs, milkchocolate, dark malts, lots of melanoidins, plywood. Yeasty flavour, sweetish. Faint chocolate & woody notes, bit of liquorice and indeed lots of melanoidins. Finish has the peculiar kind of acidity one gets often in the aftertaste of black chocolate. Medium bodied, quite slick, good carbonation. Stereotypical. At least it's quite drinkable.

Very huge & dense yellowish head, fed by fine carbonation in a verdigris-tinted copper beer, veiled. Roasted/toasted, 'hot' nose, garden weeds, bit of fatty acids and other yeast offshoots, soupy. Even faraway coriander. Even more soupy in taste, again coriander impression; unripe vegetables, soured pumpkin. Faint backthroat acidity, probably linked to the fatty acids. Sweetness as from grains, seeds, kept too long in the mouth. Slick, bit oily feel, enlightened by the CO²/acidity. Very good carbonation. Something is not right here.