Bottle from Hopduvel.
A: clear golden, small, foamy, off-white head.
A: cooked rice, bread crust, dumplings, field flowers, honey.
T: sweetish pear, honey, flowers, wheat & soap.
F: floral hops, flowery & perfumey notes (cooked rice).
P: light to medium body, slick texture, soft carbonation.
Enjoyable for what it is: a little experiment.

Bottle at ZBF’12, Leuven: Clear blond coloured brew with an sweet start and with tones of citrus, oranges.

Bottle at ZBF’13, Leuven: Hazy yellow brew with fine fruity and some bitter tasting beer.

Bock by Paenhuys created for the birth of the second daughter of the brewer in April 2022; bottle from Fontana in Sint-Niklaas. Very moussy, yellowish pale beige, stable head on a cloudy caramel brown beer with beige-ish edges. Aroma of hard caramel, overheated cinnamon, cooked pear, brown bread dough, nutmeg, beetroot, hint of milk gone sour (lactose apparently having been added for some reason), wet leather, dark green tree leaves. Sweet, fruity onset, ripe pear, medlar and some cherry, medium carbonated with an underlying, dim but lingering sourish element and powdery mouthfeel - possibly the onset of an infection? Dry-caramelly maltiness with brown-bready and vaguely nutty edges, spicy cinnamon indeed but eventually becoming a tad astringent (apart from being totally irrelevant in any Bock) and reinforcing that lightly astringent, sourish undertone; ends earthy, with yeasty 'dirtiness' and earthy hops joining that caramelly base. The added cinnamon is out of place here: I deem it responsible for that infection-like earthiness, powderiness and sourishness running through this beer, and I think a clean Dutch style 'herfstbok' without any spicy or other additions would have been a better choice. This also goes - perhaps to an even stronger extent - for the lactose that was apparently also thrown in. That said: I have not been at this brewery, which was among the closest ones to my former place of residence, since I have been living in Ghent, but I keep good memories of it and I would like to seize this opportunity to full-heartedly congratulate Dave with the birth of Lune!

22/XII/23 - 33cl bottle @ home, BB: 19/III/24, 185 (2023-1190) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!

Pretty cloudy red brown beer, small beige brown head, unstable, falls down quickly. Aroma: soft roast, malty, lots of caramel, chlorine, a bit oxidized, very spicy, star anise, leathery. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: a bit sourish up front, malty, caramel, some chlorine, oxidized, cardboard, a bit weird. Aftertaste: a bit funky, a little sweet, sourish again, soft roast, weird, falls like the beer has gone bad, is spoiled.

Kerstbier Festival. Very dark brown beer with a beige head. Aroma of caramelized dark malt, chocolate, yeast. Taste of spicy and herbal dark malt, caramel, cinnamon.

Bottled@Tuulensuu, Tampere. Deep brown colour, mediumsized off-white head. Aroma is toffee, some nutty, alcoholic and mild spicy tones. Flavour is alcohol, dark dried fruits, some nutty tones with mild toffee and some slight wood.

Pours very intense pink indeed. Medium to medium large, pinkwhite head. Scent is rather mild, bit wheat, bit tea, a touch metallic though. Taste is fairly intense. Full on dryness, mild acidity / astringency from the wheat. Mild on the tea. A whiff of red fruit (raspberry?) Sharp and higher carbonation, enhancing the dryness of the beer. a sunny sipper at a low ABV.

Pours a clear, pale blonde. Small white head. Scent is bit citrussy, bit dank, less outspoken than the regular version. Taste is sharp, bitter, bit 'soapy' feel, but not as negative as that sounds. Citrussy. Decent !

Pours a clear blonde, medium sized white head. Scent is malty, kinda NA like, mild lemongrass. Taste is full, bitter, bit coconut, nicely sharp and refreshing. Less NA like in the taste, quite enjoyable, actually. Perfect beer to start Modeste 2022 with !