Called Wag at the taproom. A slurpy beer, well balanced. Not really one thing or another. Hop aroma with some malt. Good on a hot day. Lingering finish.

Tap at OBF 2017. Pours hazy gold with a white head. Strong thyme aroma. Med body. Flavor seems to be lots of thyme, but apparently it’s a complex herb thing instead. Pretty tasty and lots of fun. Really good drink.

Tap at the beer hall. Pours copper with a beige head. Aroma is lots of citrus and a bit of roasty malt. Med body. Flavor is citrus with a little tropical and slightly roasty caramel. Fruity and bitter. Lots of hop. Good stuff.

Draught. Amber with white head. Light lacing. Aroma is grassy and light. Light bodied, good for a hot day. Swift leaving finish. Not all that aromatic.

Tremendous build-up of yellowish, dense foam, leaving lots of lace over hazy orange beer. Very cheesy hops, bit of citrus(peel), pine. Some caramel in the background. Bitter-piney flavour, spruce or other conifer. Resiny as few. Very light cheesiness remaining in the flavour. Wry, dry-out effect. Medium bodied, very carbonated. If the intention was to give an impression from the Oregon pinewoods, mission accomplished. But a bit more drinkability might have turned out beneficial.

My first Lucky Labrador beer, gaining my sympathy for the label alone since I love both animals and porters, but what a disappointment when I opened the bomber: beer spouted out of the bottle neck, so I quickly had to grab my tasting glass in order to catch as much of it as possible - and frankly, it is the first time I experience violent gushing from an American porter... Needless to say, the head was towering high, coarse and very irregularly shaped, inflating in a few minutes to a frothy, rocky, light beige layer of foam, leaving thick patches of lacing. The beer itself had a very dark but translucent burgundy colour with ruby hue, lightly hazy in appearance - and while I was observing this, a ’tube’ of foam of a few inches long was still creeping out of the bottle and every time I tried to pour more beer into my glass, I had to cope with an enormous amount of head formation. Aroma of overripe figs, unsugared apple sauce, blackberries, quite a lot of ’haemoglobin’ iron, caramel, FFF (freshly fermented farmland), coffee grounds, soggy or even somewhat mouldy brown bread, old dusty milk chocolate bars, dried nettles, fermenting grass, liquorish, brown sugar, green banana, autumn leaves, cappuccino mix, ginger powder, clove-like phenols. Deep but unmistakable sourishness of blackberries or fermenting fruit mingled with fig and pear sweetness opens the palate, with a softish to medium carbonation, minerals here and there; supple, caramelly and very nutty malt bittersweetness (more bitter than sweet) ensues, rather light, thinnish and dryish with a metallic ’zing’ to it and with the fruity esters and some phenols on top; a tad of coffee grounds-like roasted bitterness appears in the end, aided by a dash of herbal, earthy hops providing a more ’vivid’, spicy bitterness, interfering too much with the malts. Ends dry, toasted and nutty with the herbal, rather dull but bittering hops continuing, juicy, but as expected, off-balance and with misplaced spicy phenols retronasally; the finishing drought is reinforced by the sourish undertone accompanying the palate from beginning to end, and clearly resulting from onsetting infection, which I also hold responsible for the extreme gushing. I was expecting a much cleaner beer considering its ’geozythological’ background, but what I got, was something much more reminiscent of a well-intended but technically flawed ’new Belgian micro brewery’ attempt at porter or even Belgian dubbel, too estery, but most of all, clearly infected. Though the basic flavour profile is acceptable for the style it pretends to be (plain brown porter), the infection clearly decreased the quality enormously - with points off for the unexpected strong gushing as a result. This does not motivate me to purchase more from this brewery, I’m afraid.

65cl Bottle from drankgigant.nl. Age unknown. Gusher. Murky orange colour, off-white head. Aroma of yeast, plastic, orange, herbal stuff. Flavour is medium sweet, bitter, yeasty, plastic, some citrus, bitter finish. Light to medium bodied. Not very good (anymore?).

Keg at LL Hawthorne, 26/05/13. Clear blonde with a thin white covering. Nose is pale malt, cereals, touch of cirrus grassy, rather thin. Taste comprises more pale malt, grassy vibes, cereals crackers, grain, light lemon drizzle. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. So so.