Old bottle @Bir&Fud Bottega (Rome). Ambrata/bruna, schiuma avorio leggera. Al naso note di caramello, frutta candida, sciroppo d'acero, spezie. In bocca è dolce, delicatamente speziata, monotona. Corpo medio, carbonazione medio-leggera. Ha retto abbastanza bene, ma risulta alquanto anonima.

Clear blond body. White creamy head. Lightly hoppy flavour. Heavily bitter, lightly sweet.

Hazy golden body. Rich creamy head. Aroma of hops. Relatively bitter. Well balanced.

Bottle, with a corporate label by Vanhoucke "Blummecke", I reckon it is just a relabel, many thanks to Max. Unclear golden color with white head. Aroma is honey, apple, light vanilla, custard, belgian yeast. Taste is vanilla, honey, red apples. Thick oily mouthfeel with high carbonation. Very sweet.

Beer made for the release of a book about Belgian pubs, very likely an alias, though I am unsure as to what the mother beer could be so I hesitantly decided to add it here anyway. Bottle from Streekproductencentrum in Halle. Medium thick, yellowish egg-white, moussy, regular, hardly lacing but well-retaining head on an immediately misty, warm apricot blonde beer with straw-ochre tinge and lively, but thin strings of sparkling here and there. Aroma of dried peaches, cooked carrot, potato juice, straw, dusty old coriander seed, camomile, earth, dried out orange peel, red apple, bread crust and a - fortunately very vague - whiff of something 'stinky' and sulfuric, but not so much that it ruins the entire aroma. Spritzy onset, sharply carbonated, stinging and minerally, souring; fruity notes of peach, apple and a dash of banana, quite restrained in sweetness. Supple, cereally, bit bready maltiness, eventually soaked in 'dusty-spicy and soapy coriander seed and a note of curaçao (dried bitter orange peel), with some lingering fruitiness; ends bready, a bit earthy and fruity, with the orange peel effect lingering on the tongue, paired with quite prominent, earthy, leafy hop bitterness, sticking a bit to the throat after swallowing. Could be a hoppier version of Hubert; in any case: acceptable Belgian style blonde, a bit more hop bitter than average and in that sense far from the worst I had in this range. But, as is all too often the case, this is again one of those beers where the 'story' and back label are more complicated and lengthy than the beer itself...

Bottle thnx to the brewers. Pours darker blonde / amber. Small white head. Smell is rich, malty, Belgian style yeast ( esters and phenols, but mostly esters ), and soms spice-forward hops ( mildly ) . Taste is far more phenolix than estery, on the virge of too much, just not crossing it. A good malty base, providing a decent mouthfeel. Carbonation is rather low (for a Belgian style beer ) , which is great to me. Mild sweetness, mild bitterness. Mostly spicy due to the phenols. Decent beer.