Pours black, clear, no head. Smell is rather dry, mild oak. Taste is full, roasty, intense, tad dry. Armagnac is there, but very low in intensity.

Pours black, lightly tanned head. Smell is full, dry, oak. bit glue. Taste is full, roasty, mild red wine. Oak, bit tanninic. Bit dry.

Pours unclear blonde, small white head. Smell is ginger, tad tart, lemon like, sweaty. Taste is sharp, ginger, intense. Dry, tad tart. very overcarbonated. not bad though !

Pours rather clear blonde, small white head. Smell is weak. taste is surprisingly full, malty, spice ( jasmin ) . Tad sweet. Hints of tartness. not sour though, more like a wheat tartness. i asked the brewer, but suposingly, there's no wheat in here, so not sure how I got that aspect...

Small head, fast gone; unclear very fine pearling orange beer. Soapy nose with ginger, buttermilk, spices, herbs. Citrus(peel), nice in fact. Sourish, very spicy, again limepeel, ginger. Agreable acidity, nowhere disturbing. Spritzy carbonation, long-lasting flavour & acidity. Nice, and original. I just find the ginger a tad too strong in presence.

1/X/19 - 33cl bottle from Gents Bierfestival @ Greet's Canadian Dinner Party (Gentbrugge), BB: VIII/2021 - (2019-1697) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the bottle!

Bit cloudy blond to orange beer, big creamy beige head, unstable, falls down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: malty, grains, hay, very yeasty, sweetish impression, some cow fodder. MF: very lively carbon, medium to light body. Taste: very malty, grains, very yeasty, weird, bit chemical, spicy, little dirty. Aftertaste: sugary, malty, grains, metallic touch, cow fodder, slightly fruity.

Another recent Préaris 'boutique beer' (now with colourful labels), apparently a kind of saison flavoured with a touch of apple so technically a fruit beer as well, I suppose. Steinie bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck in Vichte. Bubbly, rather irregular, off-white, rather loose head, dissipating quickly till reduced to a (very) thin ring an some flat shreds in the middle; initially clear, warm 'old gold' robe with pale tangerine-orange hue and a few thin strings of small bubbles rising up from the bottom of the glass, turning misty and deeper peachy-hued with sediment (and, in the very end, even some tiny, dark dots near the bottom, likely proteins but perphaps remainders of the apples as well). Aroma of old apple cake, wrinkled old apple peel and even stewed red apples, warm butter or butter cookies, ripe pear, some light damp straw, cold camomile tea, cooked sweet potatoes, sweetclover flowers, dough, pineapple touch. Some banana and pineapple esters in the onset, fruity and crisp with indeed this sour-and-sweet, slightly cider-like apple presence, a little bit astringent on the edges even, fizzy carbonation with pronounced minerally effects, smooth body, feeling lighter than 6% ABV; smooth cereally malt sweetishness with ongoing sweet and lightly sour fruitiness carried towards a quenching, mildly bittering finish with a subtle yet elegant dosage of floral hoppiness. Fruitiness remains key here till the last drop, in a crisp apple-like way indeed, but feeling completely natural and nowhere overdone; light breadiness and floral hop bitterness linger alongside this 'genuine' apple fruitiness. Some light spicy phenols (clove) appear retronasally as well. Dryish in the end (in that sense 'saison' indeed) - less sweet than I was expecting from an apple beer, in any case, with a crisp, light-footed, very quenching character, this is about what I was expecting; no off-flavours or other slips in quality, but perhaps a bit too light to weigh in on Préaris' all-in-all impressive range of beers. Still, a very appropriate one for what is probably going to be this year's last truly summery weekend...