Hazy golden color with white head. Aroma is sweet fruits, some yeasts, some grassiness. Taste is dough and malts, nice sweet fruits (apricots, peaches). High carbonation, but also an oily mouthfeel. Good enough.

Sampled 330 ml. bottle @ ZBF 2016. (Thank you for sharing RB people!) Dark brown, little tanned head. Nose is sweet leaves, low cacao powder, improving it a bit, basic candy & brown sugar. Taste is a bit empty, herbal, licorice, cloves, sugar, bit empty, tad dull, low cacao powder, saves it a bit for me. Better than expected, nothing great but some mild redeeming qualities.

Sampled @ ZBF 2016 (Thank you for sharing RB people!) Lightly hazy citrus off-white. Nose is massive yeast, herbal, stale white bread, sugar, yeast dominates totally, whatever hop I get here is green & vegetable. Taste is massive dull plaster yeast, big moldy yeast, sugar, dough, not really getting any hop here at all. Yeasty plaster body. Whatever hop there was here is totally lost in the dull plaster yeast. Not a fan at all, going my rating, it seems like I like this one even less than the regular one.

Trübes dunkel goldgelbes Bier mit einer mittelgroßen weißen Schaumkrone. Geruch würzig malzig, hefig, Citrusfrüchte. Geschmack würzig malzig, sehr hopfig bitter, grasig, hefig.

A commissioned Kroontje beer - my expectations are low. Medium thick, pale yellowish white, more or less stable head leaving no lacing, over an initially cristal clear, orangey ’old gold’ coloured beer with quiet fizz, becoming more hazy and amberish with deposit. Aroma of sugared but artisanal apple juice, overripe peach, banana, steamed broccoli or even iron-like spinach, damp earth, cooked potato, clear DMTS (burning rubber), rotting grass, some caramel, turnip, sour and unripe gooseberry and a lot of it, toasted white bread, raw rhubarb, lemon rind, pineapple. Very fruity and estery onset, sweet and sour, with hints of overripe gooseberry and dito pineapple, green plum and some banana but less strongly than expected based on the aroma, in all more sour than sweet which may be the onset of an infection; spritzy, somewhat minerally carbonation detracting a bit from the real flavor. Light but ’filling’, somewhat grainy, lightly bready and very lightly toasted maltiness, low in sweetness but with some ’deeper’ souring grain qualities (which really should not be there), while the esters continue. Finish is almost a mere continuation of this with an earthy yeast presence (especially as the bottle progresses) but otherwise retains the malt graininess and the light but - meanwhile - unmistakable souring infection effect, even slightly drying. Hops remain limited to a weak earthy, lightly bittering presence at the back but fail to save the day; and like my esteemed colleague below writes, there is something wryly chemical at the back which makes things even worse, though this is fairly ’artisanally’ made (whatever that may mean!). No gusher, but I am convinced that if I had kept this longer in my cellar, it would have gushed big time as the onsetting infection grows on it. Technically a bit flawed and conceptually boring: this brewery still has a lot to learn. This is a mere tick and nothing more. Sorry Jo, this doesn’t do it for me, I’m afraid...

33cl bottle shared with Kermis. Thin off white head. Very hazy amber pour. Slightly sour. Not great

33cl bottle shared with Kermis & JMGreenUK. Thin white head. Very hazy blond pour. Slightly sour aftertaste