Tap. Hazy pale golden color with white head. Aroma is tropical fruits, blueberries. Taste is blueberries, oniony, biscuity, lactose, juicy. Silky mouthfeel with fine-bubbled carbonation. I like!

Sampled @ Zythos Bier Festival 2018. A murky pale yellow beer. Aroma of dry grassy hops, Lactose. Taste of dry citrusy hops, yellow fruits, lactose, long bitter finish.

Hazy yellow colour with fluffy head. Aroma and flavour have a lot of bittersweet tropical fruits. Aftertaste has a lot of citrus pith.

The third Mokkebier, a dubbel brewed at Pirlot. Steinie bottle from De Vidts in Sint-Niklaas. Very thick, frothy, foamy, yellow-tinged egg-white, thickly papery lacing, stable head over an initially clear, mahogany brown beer with vermillion hue, turning misty with sediment. Aroma of melting caramel, dried prunes, soapy coriander, very clear and way too strong, head stabilizing iron (the 'hand test' says it all), dry tree branches, vague chewing gum, unripe pear, walnut, brown bread crust, old coffee grounds, dried thyme, field flowers, dust, straw. Restrainedly sweetish onset with sourish edge, accentuated by quite sharp, even lightly numbing, fizzy carbonation, supple mouthfeel, hints of dried prunes, slight baked banana and unripe peach but subdued in its esteriness; medium thick, bread crust-, cereal- and hard butterscotch-like malt body with a very vague bitter chocolatey touch to it as well as far less vague, even obtrusive iron as described in the nose; toasty bitterish tail, retaining its caramelly sweetish character but adding a floral, lightly peppery hop note, the bittering powers of which remain limited. Most of the 'end bitterness' keeps coming from toasted malts, with a dash of hoppy spiciness thrown in as well as the obligatory coriander effect (spicy-sweet soapiness). The metallic effect lingers, flanking the 'caramelliness' and toastiness, softly bittering but remaining sweetish too. Bitterness is slightly more strong in the end than sweetness, lasting for a while, with even a very late (after swallowing) coffee-like flavour to it, convincing enough to make me wonder if a pinch of coffee hasn't been added. Decent as such, apart from that iron addition, which has been used by Belgian breweries all too often in the past - but Pirlot apparently still does it. Dryish dubbel, probably taking Westmalle Dubbel as an example, but feeling more metallic than that. Acceptable but I think this is a bit of a step backwards compared with Mokke Blond and Mokke Ros. I've encountered more enchanting brunettes...

Cloudy amber, huge offwhite fluffy head. Caramely aroma, smooth ripe stonefruit. Sweet, caramely and fruity flavour.

Tasted at Bierproeverij Nieuw-Namen, a small but interesting beer festival held each year in April at less than a mile from where I grew up. One of the new additions to this Anglium range, a Belgian dubbel with – atypically for this style in the classic sense – emphasis on hoppiness. Thick, creamy, dense, frothy, egg-white, lacing head over a hazy copper-tinged bronze coloured beer. Aroma of toasted peanuts, dried orange peel, dandelion leaves, white pepper, brown honey, green beans, peaches, hard butterscotch candy, mandarin. Fruity onset, estery in a cleanish way, sweetish with notes of peach and dried banana, red apple note, spritzy carb, bit resinous mouthfeel. Caramelly and lightly toasty malt body with residual honeyish sweetishness but in a noble, restrained kind of way, moving forward to a floral, rooty and citrus peel-like hop bitter finish, in which a subtle yet recognisable hint of the used Mosaic pops up; ends with lingering caramel and toasty maltness as well as rooty hop bitterness, well in balance with each other. This brand basically continues Belgian beer traditions and updates them in a subtle way by making use of foreign innovations, in this case New World hops – not the most exciting approach perhaps even within Belgium, but this beer for sure is technically well-executed, tasty and in perfect balance, while at the same time challenging the old dubbel style a bit by increasing hop bitterness. I quite liked this one.

Huge, very lightly yellowish head, dense, bit irregular and stable over hazy dark orange beer. Creamy nose, bit lactic, even near-weyish. Very faintly peppery aroma. Taste is more outspokenly spicy. Dry spices, very slight piquancy. Whiff as from coriander, but then it changes into another herv, difficult to pin down. Bit bready at each new sip, too. Spices are most marked in the long finish cum aftertaste. Even more dry impression. Good carbonation, medium bodied. Not bad, but... one gets the feeling that there might have been more ample fireworks, but couldn't get out. Pity. 6/4/6/3/13