6.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Smell - weak hops, weak Belgian notes Foam - thin, roast, hops, some alcohol. Medium-sized, white color. Appearance - unique bottle cap with 888 on it, the beer itself is simple, but attention to detail is admirable so I will give extra point, you know alcohol is 8,8 beer says 888, same as bottle cap, its simple and it works. Appearance is hazy orange color, no carbonation. From - snifter Taste - weak Belgian notes, hops, some malt, a bit of caramel. Ok Belgian, but could be better.

7.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

22/II/20 - 33cl bottle, shared @ home, BB: VII/2020 (2020-151)

Clear dark brown beer, big creamy beige head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots and lots of ripe banana, caramel, sweet and sugary impression, smells like cola, weird enough, more banana. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: lots of ripe banana up front, caramel, bit sweet, some chocolate, malty, bitter touch, soft roast. Aftertaste: sweet touch, ripe banana, some dried fruits, quite some chocolate, malty, caramel, rains, more chocolate, mocha.

Paired nicely with a salami, ham and mushroom pizza.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

New beer from Beveren, where microbreweries and 'bierfirma's' alike are united under the Bier Verenigt association; this one is the result of a collaboration between a wine merchant there (Tim Verwilghen) and Pieter De Bock (from the De Bock 'bierfirma' also in Beveren-Waas). Presented as an acacia honey beer, inspired by the construction of a new flower meadow on the grounds of Cortewalle. The place where this beer is actually brewed (Anders! in Limburg) is mentioned neither on the bottle nor on the website, so once again this is a hobby project (or indeed a 'bierfirma' at best) posing as an actual brewery - why do people keep doing that? Just be honest about where you have your beer brewed, how difficult can it be, damn it! Anyway: yellowish egg-white, thick, frothy, irregularly but very tightly lacing, stable head on a slightly misty, somewhat salmon pinkish-tinged pale orange blonde beer with lively sparkling, turning a tad deeper orange and more equally misty with sediment, but remaining vivid and radiant in general looks. Aroma of fresh mandarin, indeed industrial liquid honey, ripe banana, iron pipes, dried camomile flowers, freshly cut red apples, orange juice from a can, dry powder sugar, faint hints of white pepper, chalk and caramel. Sweet onset, spritzy carbonation with minerally effects, impressions of banana, ripe peach, apple and some orange, but rather cleanish; white sugariness cloys a bit to the teeth, while a supple, lean, smooth-edged white-bready and thinly caramelly maltiness fills the middle, accompanied by a very clear metallic effect. Indeed honey-like sweetness retronasally - but in a rather artificial, straightforward, strangely sweet way, far removed from the lovely, delicate and 'genuine' flowery and herbal aromas fermented honey can bring (without sweetness - honey ferments very easily). A mild floral bitterness shows up in the end, but comes from hops alone and has nothing to do with the honey. Ends sweet with this slight hop bitterness hidden within, with a white sugariness and banana and apple aspects lingering. Very clean, easy and commercially oriented Belgian honey beer in the vein of Lefêbvre's evergeen Barbãr, sweet and straightforward and clearly aimed at the masses - but in that respect, technically well done. Honey, however, can do so much more in a beer, and the sweetness seems artificial and sugary here. 'Anders' quality alright, but uninspired - another one trying to commercially ride the wave of the whole present-day beer hype.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Carrefour. Pours clear amber with a lasting, small, foamy, off-white head. Aroma of candied apricot, plum, dried orange peel, honey, biscuit, cake, green tea with sugar. Taste is medium malty sweet, cake & biscuit profile filled with candied fruit, apricot & banana, touch of honey, spices & sugared green tea hint rendering it only a tad bitter. Dryish, herbal hoppy finish, more honey & apricot, some warming fruity jenever-like alcohol. Medium body, oily-syrupy texture, lively carbonation. No masterpiece but could be something of a guilty pleasure.

5

Reasonable

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Dark red beer, small head. Aroma is fruit, red fruit, light citrus. Taste same, light soap, hint of cassis, ok

7.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Solid belgian pale with a clean lean towards malty caramel forward, like a good biere de garde. Clean and a good full body. Online belgian beer factory