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Blonde ale commissioned by a touristically exploited farm in Keiem near Diksmuide; small quantities for local use are brewed 'in situ' but the commercial quantities are produced by Fort Lapin, so I will leave it to the admins whether this Uytkant project needs to be recognized as an actual new brewery with its own entry here or not. Steinie bottle from De Centrale in Diksmuide. Egg-white, mousy, quite regular, frothy, stable head, lightly hazy 'metallic' orange-hued peach blonde robe with swirling strings of sparkling rising up here and there, shifting to a misty deeper orange-peach with sediment. Aroma of dry cookies, 'honingwafels', soggy sandwiches, peach, wet iron pipes, freshly cut red apples, old dried roses, banana mush, cold French fries, white sugar, cut flowers, powder sugar, something very vaguely sulfuric (freshly struck match). Fruity onset but cleanly so, banana ester mixed with sweet apple, ripe pear and light peach notes, lively but not too 'agressive' carbonation, smooth, full, even somewhat glueish mouthfeel; clear residual sugariness leaves a honeyish layer of sweetness on top of a slick, cereally, dry cookie-like and very lightly caramelly malt body with clear metallic edges. This honeyish sweetness cloys a bit in the end, unobstructed by confident hoppiness: the hops remain a floral, faintly grassy background note, but fail to exert the bitterness this beer needs more than anything. Warming, somewhat brandy-ish alcohol is noticeable too, in this case accentuating the sweetness, but it should not be noticeable at all at a mere 7% ABV. Typical Fort Lapin affair: unrefined, designed for the larger oblivious masses and too sweet, lacking depth, nobility and character even for being intended as an accessible blonde (or tripel - let's say that the transition between both is situated at exactly this ABV). Characterless, uninspired, overly sweet and 'easy' crowd pleaser, not my cup of tea.

Gulbrun klar med høyt beige skum. Lukter belgisk gjør, blomster, noe metallisk og korn. Fyldig. Maltig. Karamell, hvete, alkohol og gjær.

Bottle. Blonde, hazy. Citrus in the aroma. Malty alcoholic flavor with a restricted floral hopbitterness. Citrus. Decent.

Bottle. Dark brown color. Cloudy. maltaroma, dusty with confit cherry. Hint of brandy. Malty sweet, roasty alcoholic flavor. Hints of confit cherry and porto. Powerful beer.

Bottle. Pale amber color. caramel and floral hops in the aroma. Caramelly sweetish flavor with a hint of pear. Sticky. Not really exciting, but a decent beer.

Amberr colour, sparkling, small head. Aroma is intensive toast, some redcurrant and ripe peach, some dough, a bit of herbal hops. Medium sweetness. Creamy texture. Original, good.

Slightly irregular, very dense & fine cream-coloured head, stable, and fed by finely carbonated hazy, dull-amber beer. Toasted malts, arachide, fatty acids, chocolate, rootspices. Sourish & bitter, again lots of chocolate, as in the finish there's still quite some restsugars. The sourish edge goes again towards fatty acids. On top of that, the rest is unidimensional. There might be some coriander there, but anyway overpowered by the chocolate notes. Good carbonation, adding some extra acidity; very slick, but not much more than medium bodied. No. Definitely a no.