Opaque amber brown colour, small frothy off-white head, mostly diminishing. Aroma roasted malt, caramel, dark fruit, brown sugar, Haagse hopjes. Taste light heavy sweet and medium bitter, malty, toffee, fruity, liquorice, coffee, coffee candy, spicy notes. Toasted sweetbitter aftertaste, caramel, coffee, chocolate, medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation, very good.

Hazy pale golden colour, fair loose fizzy white head, mostly diminishing. Aroma wheat, yeast, lemon, coriander, floral hops, earthy notes. Taste medium sweet, light sour and slightly bitter, wheat, citrus, coriander. Sweetbitter and light sour aftertaste, spicy and mineral notes, light orange peel, medium body, watery to oily texture, soft carbonation. Interesting and atypical witbier, very nice.

Dubbel with hazelnuts by Paenhuys, one of their new, more experimental beers; apparently the addition of the nuts has brought an infection to the beer so they quite cleverly sold this as an 'oud bruin' at Modeste... Pale yellowish 'ecru', stable, moussy, shred-lacing head over hazy burgundy-hued chestnut brown robe. Unusual aroma: grape jam, passionfruit, orange candy, sourdough, soggy brown bread, pear, hazelnut 'petits fours', damp tree leaves, raw red cabbage. Sweet ripe blue plums, maracuja, pear and sourish brambleberry in the onset, fizzy carb, supple bready maltiness with nutty flavours indeed clearly present; dim sourishness persisting, leading to a background 'dirtiness' and earthiness in the end, with ongoing grapey and passionfruity effects and low in hoppiness. Very idiosyncratic to say the least, apparently obliviousness to international beer style tendencies still leads to these very individual, if not downright weird beers in largely inward-looking Belgium and this is a good example; for me and for my companion beer taster, however, the flavours did fall well together, but I can imagine this beer dividing opinions. Surprising, really, perhaps Paenhuys' most interesting creation to date, but I wonder how they'll manage to repeat this subtle infection effect if they want to produce it a second time - should that be the intention...

New Paenhuys experiment - they're trying to experiment quite a lot lately - but actually simply a dry-hopped version of Zwarte Zjef, their deliberately 'compromized' stout which consequently isn't a stout. Anyway: draught only, with no intentions for bottling so far, tasted at Modeste. Thick and creamy, lacing, pale greyish beige head, dark and misty brownish burgundy robe with red wine hue. Aroma of melting caramel, fudge, treacle, pear syrup, herbes de Provence, old dried grapefruit peel, cherry tree resin, bread pulp, dried field flowers. Sweet, soft, rounded onset, ripe and dried plums, pear, fig, soft carb, creamy and fluffy mouthfeel, toffeeish and brown-bready malt body, floral and mildly spicy hop bitterness in the end but subtle, with caramelly malt sweetness dominating and highlighted by a dash of warming, gin-like alcohol in the end. In itself a perfectly enjoyable beer as far as I'm concerned, but Paenhuys, now that a younger generation is gradually taking over, should seize that opportunity to make a thorough study of non-Belgian beer styles: this is as much a black IPA - or IPA in any sense of the word - as Westmalle Dubbel is. Clearly dry-hopping a stout - which in this case is not even a real stout - is a cheap shortcut and cannot create a true black IPA...

Sampled draft @ Modeste 2018. Dark brown, dull very soapy with chocolate, stale heavy soap, muted, spoiled fruit, emptier than ABV would suggest, disappointing.

Thank you! Sampled bottled @ Modeste 2018. Dark red amber, little head. Nose is dull empty, metallic, rotting fruit,..; Dull, thin, basic rotting, fruit, basic gum, zero sourness oddly,… Thin, dull, no sour? Poor.

Bottle @ home. Unclear yellow color, virtually no head. Smell and taste malts, a bit floral, a slight distant hint of orangepeel, quite sweet. Overall quite decent though. Finished the bottle with ease and would drink this again.

Flaska från belgiuminabox. Drygt två år gammal. Mahognyfärdag med en krämig skumpuck ovanpå. Potent med värmande alkohol, torkad frukt, sött mörkt bröd, lite anis, choklad och honung. Men också en jästton som är lite kärv och lite mycket alkohol som slår igenom. Ok+

A dark yellow beer, a head is small and blond. Aroma has fruitness, perry, some earthyness and sourness. Taste has furitness, hint of earthyness. Medium bodied, almost without carbonation. Heavy and joyless.

Imported from my RateBeer account as 't Paenhuys Witte Mie (by 't Paenhuys):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5

1/VIII/18 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent), shared @ my parent's place - BB: see cap, nothing on the cap though... (2018-941)

Clear gold yellow beer, big irregular fizzy white head, little stable, falls down quickly. Aroma: soapy, lots of coriander, some citrus, bit floral. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: pretty sourish start, wheat, floral, citrus, soapy bitterness. Aftertaste: bit acidic, soapy, coriander, citrus, some orange peel, pretty dry finish, bit fruity still.