Bottle at Gollem. pours unclear blonde, small white head. Smell is mildly hopped, fruity, style of NZ hops. Taste is soft, bit sharp carbo. Grainy, in a perfumy way. Very soft, mellow hops.

z0.33l bottle in moscow. pours a hazy pale amber with a frothy steady head. mild aroma of belgian yeast, funk, candy. flavour of tea, bread, yeast, candy, alcohol. didn?t get the promised lapsang souchong phenols.

Bottle from struise beershop. Very high pressure in the bottle, causing minor leak, and a worried drinker ( being me ) After getting home, cooling the beer, there was still a lot of pressure upon opening the bottle. Glad it stayed safe and well, yet this might be a good tip for people that want to try this - drink it ASAP, don’t ship it or carry it around. Pours hazy blonde, as it should, with a very big white head. Smell is juicy hops, but not overly intense. Fairly malty, and yeasty. Taste is very carbonated, mild hoppy aroma, Belgian-like yeast ( which just doesn’t fir the style at all ! ) but a nice malty back ( creamy ) mild touch of bitterness, according to style. overall, this needed a different yeast, and - according to style - no refermentation in the bottle. This simply makes the beer to yeasty ( in this case overcarbonated as well ) and out-does the hoppyness we’ve all come to expect when you see the name NEIPA . a decent brew though, which I can consume with pleasure, even though it doesn’t meet the style criterea

No head but some ochre rim over black beer. Sweet, alcoholic nose, with sweat, meat, vanilla, oak. Meaty esters obvious, alcoholsweetness, human sweat. Well-bodied, slick, alcoholheat. Feels a bit thin for what it is supposed to be. Not much sherry either. 7/4/7/3/15

Aus der Flasche am 2017-02 getrunken. Ein mit Kaffee gebrautes Quardruple was dazu noch gehopft daher kommt. Nein das ist nicht so meins. Wobei es sicher gut gemacht ist.

16th July 2017
Very hazy gold beer, huge cream colour head, massive! Bretty nose and mild floral fruit. Palate is airy and fairly dry, decent carbonation. Light malts, a trace of sweetness. Floral fruits, little peach. Mild bretty savoury edge. Smooth dry finish. Not too bad, but last time I looked New England IPA were not bretty, so more of a Belgian IPA.

F: huge, almost white, good retention. C: pale gold, hazy. A: malty, grassy, bit of floral, fruity, bit of spicy, yeast. T: malty, peppery, fruity, orange peels, herbal, citrus, dry on the palate, medium body, medium carbonation, very good balanced, enjoyed, Belgium tick #1100, 33cl bottle from Carrefour market – St. Michel @ Etterbeek, Brussels.

Murky brown body. Nose of alcohol, caramel, chocolate, vanilla, ... Heavily sweet, lightly bitter flavour. Aged touch.

Andy De Wilde is working on a whole string of fruit and vegetable beers now and this is one of them, made with wheat and raspberries (though strangely, the latter have been forgotten in the ingredients list on the label). Nicely ’papery’ lacing, thick and sticky, snow white, moussy head with good retention, over a beautifully pinkish-tinged, deep and warm ruddy amber coloured, initially cristal clear beer, more deeply fuchsia and hazy with sediment. Aroma of fresh red raspberries and raspberry jam, honey, sweet cherry tomatoes, soap, raw rhubarb, redcurrant, sweet and freshly cut red apples, raspberry and lemon cookies, caramel candy, bread crumbs. Fruity, spritzy onset, a bit soda-like even in general feel - but not nearly as sweet, with sweetness seemingly coming mostly from the actual raspberries and paired with a mild sourness also from the fruit; beneath linger subtler impressions of apple, banana and apricot enhancing the ’fructose sweetness’. Sharp and very fizzy, minerally carbonation on the other hand accentuates the sour effect but it is still the sweetness which prevails. Light, supple, bit soapy mouthfeel, soapy wheat underneath and very clearly so, with a light touch of bready barley; meanwhile the light, delicate, refinedly sweet raspberry flavour continues all the way to a more dryish finish, no cloying residual sugariness here though the fructose does linger; a vague earthy touch echoes the presence of hops and even delivers a very subtle end bitterness, providing an important structural element. The soapiness also remains behind and, like in some other of Préaris’ new fruit and vegetable creations, is a bit too emphatic for me. Elegant little fruit beer though: feels honest and genuine, with that typical sweet tomato-like accent betraying the use of actual raspberries (juice in this case, no doubt) and an almost frail, delicate profile, sweet but not in an ’added’ sugary way and matched with a light malt body. Reminds me a bit of old school ’krieks’ based on Belgian ales but in a cleaner manner, and with raspberries replacing the cherries. Not my preferred style of beer personally, but within its concept, this is clearly very cleverly made.

At the brewery, as Préaris Rode Biet Tarwebier. Seems more innovative than it is, considering beetroot has often been used in the past to add extra ’rouge’ to top-fermented ’kriekenbieren’, but Andy is working on a whole range of new vegetable- and fruit beers so this could be the start of something interesting with great culinary potential. Bright snow white, moussy, more or less stable head over a beautifully coloured, equally hazy orangey-pinkish, coral beer, never seen a colour this warm and bright before in a beer, but my memory could fail me at this moment. Aroma of indeed beetroot but in a ’cleaned’, almost glazed kind of way, along with impressions of soap, watermelon, pink grapefruit juice without the bitterness, raw carrots, bath foam, white bread dough, some caramel candy somewhere. Clean fruity onset, something watermelon-like again, green unripe banana and raw pineapple, fizzy carbo, sweetish with a souring edge - both bringing each other to perfect balance. Smooth yet very soapy (wheat beer!) mouthfeel, very wheaty with a grainy edge, while that clean, glazed beetroot factor oversees everything, being very much present yet not tastelessly intrusive, finish dryish and way less ’dirty’ than I had expected - a weird kind of ’clean earthiness’ doubtlessly coming from the beetroot again, nicely matched with a spicy hop bitterish touch. Very quenching beer, and though this type of beers with added spices, vegetables or other non-beery ingredients will never be my personal cup of tea, there is no denying that this experiment has been made with caution, a strong feeling for taste and technical perfection. I can imagine this appealing to a larger audience. Very summery too, despite the fact that beet- and other roots may seem more ’wintery’ from a gastronomical perspective. I am really looking forward to that new, ’über-orange’ carrot beer now - Andy was kind enough to hand me a sip of the unfinished version - which I believe can become a hit if carried out correctly. I must go back to this tiny brewery in August to find out what has become of it, and of other vegetable beers that are still brooding in Andy’s mind. Interesting!