Bottle from tderoeck - bedankt! - Dark brown colour. Aroma of toasty grains and red fruit sweetness. Flavour of red fruits that initially quite sweet but finishes with a sharper tang.

Deep burgundy Christmas ale, malty and yeasty with good fruitiness and some roasted bitterness in the finish; the spicy touch of buckwheat also comes through nicely. It’s been a long time since I tasted this, I’ll try to re-rate if it is still produced in the coming winter beer season.

Bottle from Delhaize supermarket . Pours unclear yellow, kinda looks like a white . OK white head fades fast . Smell is overpowering sweet grainyness , in a typical way ( I’d guess thats the Spelt ? ) Very intense smell if you get it instantly , but it quickly fades off . some sweet aspect as well . Taste is sweet, malty, bit buttery, some very faded bitterness . Reminds of a white again, but less spiced . backbone is bitter ( weird how this beer changes ) and a bit dry . easy drinkable . Too high carbo . At 5 percent , this as got a lot of taste . Bio and spelt sound very bad in my ears, so I am even more surprised about how easely I can enjoy this one . Nice work !

Saison-like honey beer for Les 4 Pavés. Very firm, rocky, off-white, sticky, stable head, colour soft peach blonde with yellow hue, hazy. Versatile aroma, unusual, with honey of course, but also caramel, ginger, earth, tomato, dry white wine, hops, lemon, mint. Fruity, sweetish taste, soft mouthfeel, honey subtly dressed over the palate but not too dominant and balanced by a ’wild’ sourishness, spicy yeastiness and dry, hoppy finish. Honey beers should not be cloyingly sweet in spite of what the name suggests, and this is a very fine example in my personal view - as are other Wallonian honey beers like Saint-Monon au Miel or (obviously) Dupont Bière de Miel.

Bouteille 33cl de Biocorner’s Enghien. BB 12/2015. Couleur dorée, col épais blanc crémeux. Arôem est agréable et change un peu des blondes habituelles. Retrouve un citronné prenant et proche d’une petite liqueur notamment de citron vert. Malt reste modéré tant le bouquet fruité citronné est présent, ce qui n’est pas un défaut. Palais offre une belle pointe liquoreuse qui me rappelant une eau de Vilée. Le tout est ponctué par une rondeur sucrée sur bonne consistance en bouche au niveau épaisseur. Petit ajout épicé; coriandre? Collant au lèvre avec ce sucre résiduel et une brève amertume houblonné en toute fin de bouche. Correcte avec un niveau alcool qui se fait bien présent.

Tripel celebrating the Gilles de Binche, a famous carnival tradition. Irregular, yellowish white, coarse head, warm golden blonde colour with orange hue, misty. Aroma of melon, mango, banana, kiwi, orange liqueur, brown sugar, ginger, grass, young cheese, soap. Assertive fruitiness in the mouth, lots of citrus, well-balanced sourishness, rather sharp carbo, supple and slick mouthfeel, light spiciness, hop bitterish finish with some warming alcohol. Nice and well-balanced, like most beers coming from Silenrieux.

One of the first spelt beers in Belgium, a style that should be considered as a variation on witbier. A lot of study seems to have preceded this and since then, quite a number of other breweries have adopted spelt as an optional grain to make beer with. Joseph has a darker colour than a regular witbier, misty, with a tart aroma, doughy, spicy, grassy and floral, and a sourish spelt taste (sharper than wheat sourishness and more ’wild’ in some ways) with subdued fruit, bready malts and grassy hops in the finish. Tasteful thirst-quencher with different character.

Bottle from Sugaya. Pours a cloudy deep orange with a low, fine head. Grainy, fruity nose: orange, light lemon, honey biscuits, stewed stone fruits, minerals. Fruity, biscuity flavor. Nicely tart, orange, apricot, light honey. Rather full and silky. Probably better classified as a tripel, which the label also claims it is, as well as a beer for storing. Tartness works.

Bottle from Sugaya. Very cloudy, pale yellow, fine lacy head. Very interesting nose, spicy grains, lemon, yogurt. Light and airy. Lemony flavor, lactic, slightly spicy. interesting, summery, and nice.