10/VII/21 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ Anniek and Martijn’s place, BB: X/2021 (2021-604)

Clear orange blond beer, big creamy dense off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: herbal, somewhat fruity, citrus, malty grains. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: some citrus, tropical fruits, nice bitterness, bit grassy, good stuff. Aftertaste: some sweet malts, nice bitterness, fruity, juicy, dry finish, good one!

Bottle. Clear amber body under a small brown head. Strong and god aroma of Bourbon, dry fruit and bouillon. Taste is strong as well and quite alcoholic (in a god way) with Bourbon, sweet malt, dry fruit, wood and hint of biscuit. Fine body and long lasting aftertaste. Nice, but a bit boozy.

6% ABV. Golden colour with no head. Interesting aroma and flavour as there's sweeter elements of candy and caramel but also a little roasted, slightly smokey coffee too.

Bloemige hoptoets.

Bottle.Amber colour with small white head.Aroma is fruity of pineapple but also some herbs flavour and nice hops nots medium body and smooth finish.

One of the two new Préaris Grand Cru variants of 2020 (the other one being a brandy version), aged on jenever barrels. Pale greyish off-white, creamy, quickly thinning and opening head leaving flat grey veils in the middle of a hazy deep chestnut brown beer with ochre-ish edges. Aroma of hard caramel, chestnut, indeed 'old' jenever, sugared tea, soggy brown bread, medlar, black pepper, stewed plum, cooked apple, pear syrup, autumn leaves, dry madera, dry earth, clove, nutmeg, bayleaf but also strong solventy aspects of nail polish remover and wood glue. Sweet-fruity onset, cooked apple and plum, softish carb, rounded mouthfeel; smooth caramelly malt core, brown-bready, bit thinned by alcohol, accompanied by woodiness (though quite subtly so in this case), clove-like phenols, returning solvent effects, a herbal hop bitter note (even juniper berry- and nutmeg-like) and, of course, a sharp, heating 'oude jenever' effect - a drink I hate, by the way - which makes for a rather wry finish, even if the residual brown-sugary sweetness of the base beer manages to mitigate some of this. Jenever will never be my cup of tea, I guess - and of the handful of jenever barrel aged beers that are in existence now, only Minne's My Chipie managed to convince me. This one, alas, is solventy and wry, rather unpleasant effects which adversely affect an otherwise great quad. I reckon the brandy version is a lot better...

Hazy blond colour, white foam. Rather sweet, some notes of sweet malts, some banana. Very light bitter. Well balanced. Good export.