Bottle shared. Murky dark brown with a medium bubbly beige head. Aroma of overripe dark fruits, light veggies, green pepper, yeast, roast, dark chocolate and licorice. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with light carbonation.

33cl bottle. Gusher! Pours hazy pale golden colour with a huge most good lasting white head. Aroma of grainy and herbal malt, yeast, spices. Taste of grainy and herbal malt, spices, yeast, high carbonation.

Hazy colour, white foam. Citrussy, coriander, light tart. Bitter fnish. Medium carbonation.

33cl bottle shared with Kermis. Thin ring white head. Murky amber pour. Slighty sour. Some wine barrel notes. Ok.

Bottle shared. Murky brown with a small tan head. Aroma of red fruits, oxidization, vinous notes, caramel and malt. Flavour is above moderate sweet and light moderate sour. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Bottle from De Hopduvel. Blond colour, white foam. Fruity nose (pineapple, sweet apple), alcholic, bitter hops. well balanced. Nice.

Treated as a Belgian IPA, this was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a burnt hazy orange color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated pretty quickly.
The smell has some sweet grassiness over some sweet Belgian sugars. Nice sour edge underneath, super underneath. Some mellow woodiness.
The taste had a semi-sticky stick edge of the grassiness to the Belgian sugars. Semi-mellow and leading on into the aftertaste with a wet finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation runs fairly light with some sweet grassy to Belgian sweet to sugary-feels hitting my tongue in a somewhat sticky sort of way.
Overall, for a Belgian IPA, I see nothing wrong with it. But its really not hype-worthy. Its just good for what it is. I could do it again if I necessary.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Gaverhopke Zingende Blondine Calvados B.A. (by 't Gaverhopke):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5

29/IV/16 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ Arno's place - BBE: 2018 (2016-448)

Clear orange beer, big creamy irregular off-white head, pretty stable, adhesive. Aroma: sweet, alcohol, yeast, some banana, bit spicy, coriander touch? MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: bit sweet, lots of banana, very fruity, alcohol noticeable, some tannins, soft bitterness. Aftertaste: bit spicy, coriander touch, warming alcohol, bitter, some banana still.

Dark blond with thin head. Aroma is quite bready and also has sweet sugary fruits. Flavour is in general too sweet. Bready malts and a little yeast but lacks any real depth.

Beer made for the municipality of Geluwe in the south of Western Flanders, nicknamed the "gilwe dorre van Vlaanderen" which - inasmuch as my knowledge of the local dialect suffices - means something like ’the yellow yoke of Flanders’, referring to a poem about an egg yolk written by 19th-century Western Flemish poet Guido Gezelle. Violent gusher, spouting out of the bottle neck even with careful opening - should have been prepared for this, as this is apparently brewed at Gaverhopke, which has released nothing but heavy gushers lately. Thickly, ’papery’ lacing, coarse and irregular, egg-white head over a hazy peach blonde beer with greenish hue and tiny dots of dead yeast throughout, disturbed by sparkles of gas every now and then; adding the deposit leads to a deeply and even somewhat disturbingly ’murky’ look, like some home-made pear or apple juice. Aroma breathes strong isoamylacetate, in other words banana-flavored bubblegum, along with sweetened apple juice, strong raw turnip, stewed rhubarb, fried egg, powder sugar, fermenting pear, yellow plum and overripe peach, chamomille, orange peel, damp earth, cooked carrot, some vanilla but in a ’rough’ kind of way, limoncello, sugared rhubarb, chalk. Sweet onset of banana isoamylacetate paired with hints of red apple, pineapple and apricot but also with a certain ’wild berry sourness’ - even a tad infected at first sight (I wonder why - sigh). There is a certain orange-like fraîcheur, fortunately, but also a very sharp carbonation which numbs the tongue a bit. Bready malt body, supple and thick enough, a bit grainy as well; fruity esters continue on top of this. Very earthy finish, with even a certain retronasal ’earthiness’ of carrot or turnip; mostly malt sweet with ongoing esters, but luckily some earthy, floral, bit grassy hop bitterishness is present as well and provides sufficient dryness; so does a slight ’jenever’-like alcohol warmth, which manages to completely avoid the astringency I detest. I remember the earthy, vaguely sweetish flavor of cooked turnip very well and this beer has a lot of it: in fact, in beer and food pairing, I could even recommend this to accompany such an earthy ’wintery’ dish. The ’Gaverhopke gushing’, as I have began to call it, is obviously its worst flaw, but otherwise this is not all bad; if the commissioners (Geluwe) have the opportunity to transplant this recipe from Gaverhopke to any other brewery that does commissioned brews, I can only recommend them to do so. In all, this remains another redundant and stereotypical Belgian blonde, of course, but not the worst one I had so far and not bothering me with DMS, H2S or other awful off-flavours. Have a point for that - but I also have to take a point off for the gushing.