From cask at Proeflokaal Arendsnest, Amsterdam, 29.03.19 Golden. Foamy white head. Acid aroma and taste of factory brett. Acid and astringent mouthfeel. Lacking complexity, Nice try.

Bottle @ home. Hazy orange colour with a large white head. Smells sweet, malts, some herbs, slightly (overripe) fruits. Tastes sweet, herbs, yeasty. A bit dry, way to much carbo, unbalanced.

Towering, dense, light-yellowish head, leaving lace over fully hazy yellow-orange beer. Creamy nose, gassy, bit oppressive. Pale malts dominate, some herbal hops. Pale malts, sweetish, bit burning MF, CO² acidity. Petit Beurrre cookies, herbal again. Alcohol not completely hidden, yeast-filled, creamy feel from the stable head; bit viscous. Average. If this is the Grand Cru version, I'm not really curious about the standard version. If that exists. 6/4/6/3/13

F: big, tanned, average retention. C: dark brown, hazy, opaque. A: malty, dark fruits, caramel, bit chocolate, dark cherries, cocoa, BE yeast. T: malty, dried fruits, chocolate, caramel, bit dark cherries, medium dry on the palate, medium to full body, medium carbonation, good balanced, enjoyed, sample from 0,33l bottle @ second day ZBF 2018.

Zythos 2018. Hazy chestnut with a small off-white head. Aroma of toffee and caramel with dried fruit and a yeasty touch. Aroma of toffee, dried fruit and yeast with notable alcohol.

F: huge, bit tan, good retention. C: dark amber to brown, hazy. A: malty, fruity, strawberries, red berries, banana, sweet apricot, toffee, bit apple. T: malty, fruity, coriander, red fruits, banana, spicy, bit grassy, dry on the palate, well attenuated but feels more on the sweet side yet somehow it works, enjoyed, medium to full body, high carbonation, but 6€ for small bottle bit too much, 33cl bottle from Prik&Tik Kampenhout near Leuven.

Blonde "from Wommelgem", so the label claims; bottle from Wijnegemse Drankenhal. Strong gusher, with foam (and beer) streaming out of the neck upon opening, causing me to lose about 1/5. Medium thick, egg-white, moussy head is left, quickly dissipating over the surface of an immediately misty, pale orange-hued peach blonde beer. Aroma of green cabbage, cooked Brussels sprouts (DMS) as well, spoiling chicory soup, sourdough, apple peel, clove-ish phenols, soggy white bread, raw shallot, cooked carrots, cold camomile tea having been heated over and over again, withering lettuce, old potato mash, unripe peach, banana peel, pumpkin soup, some overripe tomato and very old salty abbey cheese even, hints of dry powder sugar, wet tree leaves, dry and very old cigarettes and rotting pineapple. Estery onset, banana peel and peach, sourish green apple, some unripe peach, restrained in sweetness with a sourishness insipidly reinforced by sharp and numbing overcarbonation; soggy white bread- and lightly damp peanut-tinged, but also somewhat soapy malt body with superficial but ongoing infectious-like sourishness on top. Ends very earthy and quite 'dirty', with notes of bready yeastiness, crude spicy phenols and soggy bread-like maltiness, only very mildly bittered by a dash of earthy, floral hops, providing insufficient bitterness to add another level at the end - or to lend the finish any body whatsoever. Ends fairly watery and messy - and with this much of infection effects going on, down the drain as well. This is an utter mess of a beer: teeming with off-flavours (most notably DMS), infected, gushing, simply earthy and dirty in taste. Feels like some Belgian loner concocted their first creation in their kitchen - this should not have hit the market in this form, it seems as if everything that could possibly go wrong, has effectively gone wrong. An uncontrollable, amateuristic, boring and superficial mess of a beer - it's a good thing the original brewer of the brand, the late mister Beirens, does not have to endure this ridiculously amateuristic attempt at generic, bland Belgian blonde. This is wrong on so many levels... Rest in peace, mister Beirens, and forgive the harsh words I am going to utter now: shame on you, Varenbroek. You guys have done (a bit) better than this!

Bottle from LDW, Eke. Hazy yellow colour, creamy white foam. Nose of citrus, peach. Taste is very weak, watery and dull. Bitter and grassy. But the price! €5,5 for such a mediocre beer is a shame.