Bottle at the flat in Sofia - picked up from the health food shop at the Paradise shopping centre. Pours mostly clear yellow-gold with a foamy white head that settles into a lasting cream. Lightly sweet, some lemon peel, pine needles, faint Belgian yeast, straw, citrus pith. Light bodied with massaging carbonation. Pretty clean finish, light dryness, further restrained pithy citrus, lemon peel, subtle grass. Not bad.

Bottled (KSM Kampus, Pori). Hazy yellowish golden colour, small white head. Aroma is spicy, floral, some herbal, earthy and mild grainy tones. Flavour is floral, some fruity, spicy and mild herbal tones.

33cl bottle. A clear golden beer with a white head. Aroma of flowers, pale malt, citrus and belgian yeast. Taste of citrus, flowers, grassy hops, belgian yeast.

Leicht erhöhte Karbonisierung. Mäßig hopfiger Beginn, etwas fruchtig, moderat herb. Konstant bleibend, leicht bitterer Abgang, schnell verschwunden. Süffig. 9/8/8/9/7/8

27/XI/21 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ home, BB: 11/II/22 (2021-1516)

Clear orange blond beer, big creamy yellowish head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, grains, cow fodder, bit yeasty, very rural impression. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very bitter, metallic touch, some citrus, bit grassy, very dry, rather unpleasant bitterness. Aftertaste: medicinal bitterness, malty, grassy hops, grains, cow fodder, meh, way too bitter and nothing else. Practically no aroma hops. Not an IPA at all, and the yuzu is a complete gimmick.

Belgian witbier with a serious twist: instead of Pierre Celis’ old coriander-curàçao combo, this one is flavoured with acerola and lucuma, two exotic fruits you hardly ever find in the supermarket (and in beer – I only remember encountering the first one in a couple of beers before but certainly never the second one). Interesting premise, now let us see what this gives. Thick and snow white, very frothy, papery lacing head on an initially clear ‘old gold’ coloured beer, ‘metallic’ in a sense, turning misty-golden with sediment. Aroma of bread crust, soapy wheat, oxidized apple, banana, something subtly green melon-like which is probably the lucuma, a whiff of dried old orange peel with I suppose represents the acerola, straw, minerals. Fruity onset, quite crisp with sweet banana ester mingling with that melony lucuma touch as well as red apple and pear impressions – but we are far removed from the overt tropical fruitiness I was expecting; lively and minerally carb, supple body, clear soapiness from the wheat and bread-crustiness from the barley. Feels somewhat thin and metallic, though; a herbal kind of bitterishness, supposedly the acerola, does add a bit of ‘body’ to the finish, merging with a long, drying, leafy hop bitterness, much more so than average for a witbier; bready accents and sweet banana ester linger about in the end as well. A postmodern hop-forward interpretation of the old witbier, that is for sure, but the tropical fruit additions remain very, very vague – if you have no idea at all what lucuma and acerola are supposed to taste like, I do not even think you will be able to pick them out at all. Bit metallic too, but otherwise still a quenching, decent beer, generally speaking.

Small, fast receding fine yellowish head over (cold)hazed orangey golden beer. Fruity nose, herbs, fresh-sourish smelling; green fruit & leaves. Bitterish taste, rather than sour. Herbal, even spicy. Faintly peppery. Acidity - aided by the carbonation - arrives at the tonguesides. Bit grainy, wheat. Light body, good carbonation, faint slickness, gradually receding flavours. OK, and as wheatbeer original. Not having eaten either acerola nor lucuma, can't recognise them.

Huge ultra-dense & fine yellow head, very stable and leaving lacerings over fully hazy ochre-orange beer. Very spicy nose with ginger and galanga up front, and with hints of mint and toast. Spicy flavour, spices, but not exaggerated in any way, even if the ginger is almost there. A bit like some spiced teas from alternative foodshops, if still attractive. Some underlying sweetness as from sweet bread or sweet nuts. Quite slick, making it feel better bodied. Good carbonation and long-lasting flavours. True, once the spices gone there's not much left, but I still think this deserves to be tried.

Good, very dense, light yellowish head over hazy orange beer; rings of lace. Roasted peanuts, toast, coloured malts, garden weeds, nettles. Really bitter, hoppy and vegetable, raw vegetables, leaves. Faintly sweeter toasted malts arriving, citruspeel. Quite slick, good carbonation, slightly burning MF, long bitter aftertaste. Not very citrussy despite the yuzu. Kind of hops responsible? Certainly not undeserving.