33 cL bottle. Pours hazy golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is dry and caramelish malty. Dry malty and cigric. Sour and light citrusy. Citric and bitter finish.

Commissioned beer for a sports club (quite ironically I would say, especially at this ABV...). Medium thick, dense but quickly opening, off-white head over a light orange blonde beer with vivid sparkling and a suspension of darker yeast bits divided equally throughout the liquid; adding the deposit gives it a cloudy appearance, but still warm orange. Aroma of unripe pineapple, sourdough, freshly cut red apples, lime zest, dried lemon peel, redcurrant, white bread, hints of goat cheese, wet hay, peach, nettles, dried ginger, white peppercorns, cumin seed and something sweaty. Crisp fruity onset, bit estery, lots of sourish berries, fresh apple, citrus fraîcheur, spritzy carbo, light and supple mouthfeel, grainy and lightly bready basis with ’weedy’ and spicy notes, some or other spice seed has been added, but I cannot figure out which one. A peppery, leafy, spicy hop bitterness shows up early, already in the middle phase, and gets stronger in the finish, assuring a long, dry, bittering ending, with an earthy and somewhat peachy yeasty flavour as well. Would have been better if it were a bit more clean, but at least it is hoppy enough with sufficient bitterness and does not show too many off-flavours, so in all, an enjoyable blonde. Reminds me a bit of their Congébier (latest version), but hoppier and better. Yet, seeing some of the other reviews here, I apparently have reason to be glad my bottle was not infected...

Bottle at home I was seduced by the bottle for unknown reasons. Hazes orange with big sudsy slightly annoying head. Nose is booted hops light citrus. Tastes of mandarin orange, pine needles, yeast, peach, florals, and bread. Heavy bitterness semi sweet finish. Slightly oily palate.

Pours rather clear blonde, OK white foam. Smell is grainy and mildly sweet. Not very intense though. Taste is unique... a bit clinical. Bit bitter. The Yeast has something overripe to it.

Bottle from Willems, with attractive, glossy label (like a ladies’ glossy magazine, I hesitate to add). This is ’beer sommelier’ Sofie Vanrafelghem’s new beer, pouring a misty peach blonde, very ’milky’ and cloudy with deposit, with a great deal of protein flakes at the bottom, under a medium thick and moussy, but eventually opening and disappearing, egg-white head. Aroma of persimmon, rotting pear, sourdough, banana, rosewater, raspberries, scrambled eggs, sewer water (H2S), overripe peach, buttermilk, FFF (freshly fermented farmland), coriander but not too much, burnt rubber, milk and chicken soup gone sour, wet paper, overripe peach and rotting grass. Estery taste, sweetish, peach, pineapple, hints of banana and overripe starfruit with a ’basic’ sourish accent to it probably hauling from mild infection, soft and smooth mouthfeel, bit powdery with soft carbo and somewhat ’glueish’ as well, probably established by subtle use of coriander seed; slick bready malt sweetishness buried under a massive amount of yeastiness, spicy and drying a bit, working its way to a rather disappointing finish of lingering malt sweetness, big yeastiness, sourishly drying but subtly so, low hop bitterness in spite of the label promising Cascade and others; the coriander seed ’resin’ also lingers. Alcohol is also slightly noticeable, which should not be the case in a beer of slightly-above-medium strength. Honeyish, or perhaps even aspartame-like sweetness remains as well, as my esteemed colleague below already observed. Weird, unbalanced and clearly flawed in looks and aroma - something has gone wrong here. If they can solve these technical errors, I guess this may, at best, become a quaffable Belgian blonde, but reaching even this level of mediocrity is apparently a bit too much for now. Sorry Sofie, as much as I appreciate what you are doing and as much as I would like to see educated young women appreciating beer more than they usually do now, this is clearly a failure which should have been corrected before being launched onto the market. Being a feminist, I am confident women can do a lot better than this when it comes to brewing beer...

Bonito color miel. Espuma efervescente. Agria en aroma y en sabor. Choca al principio. Disgusta. Pero el trago siguiente mejora y el siguiente mas. Mejora el inicio lo suficiente para aprobar.