Bottle @benzai. Clear golden to amber colour with a small white head. Smells herbs, not much. Tastes sweet, malts, herbs. Nothing out of the ordinary. Bit like an imperial pilsener. Medium body, soft carbo.

Dégustation aux portes ouvertes 16.4.2016. Cuivrée virant sur ambré, col blanc-cassé. Arôme offre un bouquet malté, grillé moyen avec une fine douceur en rétro-nasal annonçant un léger côté vanillé. L’infusion d’angélique ajoute - si tel est le cas - un côté herbacé voire de génépi. Le tout reste un peu noble niveau houblon. Palais est très belge surtout au niveau levure. Belle douceur de vanille avec un fruité rappelant l’écorce d’orange et une fine note épicée sur la fin, rappelant la coriandre. Angélique ajoute un profil discret mais en ligne avec ma deScription arôme. Le tout tend à garder un profil brouillon avec un grains offrant une note ’bready’. Le tout se termine sur une pointe grillée et collante - sucre résiduel?

Dégustation aux journées portes ouvertes 16.04.2016. Orangée brumeuse, pas mal de sédiments, et bien entendu on m’a donné tout le fond. Col blanc moyen. Arôme est légèrement fruité, sur un rétro houblonné assez noble, le côté cuberdon semble apporter une once de fruité rouge et une sorte de sucre résiduel en rétro-nasal avec un fleuri modéré mais qui peu devenir un peu encombrant sur toute une bouteille. Palais est malté, levure bien présente style belge, certaine douceur perdure sans pour cela devenir trop dominante. Mon verre avait bcp trop de levure, retrouve un style usant de malt pils, cara, rondeur sur la fin pour une amertume noble finement amer et un léger grains farineux sur la fin.

At Kerstbierfestival 2015. Pours unclear brown, small white head. Smell is bit sweet, taste is drinkable, bit sweet, malty, mild chocolate / earthy notes. decent MF and carbo. Alright ! re-rate At Kerstbierfestival 2016 , thnx for sharing everyone ! got some caramel notes, as well as very mild metallic notes, bit plastic even. Far from totally bad, but it did make me change my 3.5 ( personal score for average beer ) a bit lower.

75 cl bottle. Pours hazy amber with a small tan head. Aroma is phenolic and toasted malty. Toasted dark malty and roasted breadish. Bitter and toasted dark malty. Smooth fruity and roasted finish.

Bottle sampled. Pours murky brown with a ring tan head. Aroma of veggies, caramel, toffee, sweet overripe dark fruit and malt. Flavour is over moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Dark brown colour. Aroma has lots of brown sugar. Flavour is sweet with banana, and dried fruits.

Bottle straight from the brewery, thanks Marie! A lot of gas escapes upon opening, but there is no gushing (contrary to the other ones). Medium thick and moussy, cream white head retaining on the edges, lacing well and leaving a thin veil over a misty mahogany-hued amber coloured beer, becoming all cloudy and (too) soupy as the bottle progresses into the glass. Sweet aroma in which the candied and stewed fruit smell of ’sirop de Liège’, a regional product made from pears and dates, is the first thing I encounter (I used it sometimes to make beef stew and grew up with it, so this smell is unmistakable to me); stewed pears, candied dates and brown sugar are all recognisable. Apart from this, I get an almost saison-like yeastiness, with impressions of peach, weeds, hay, coriander seed, bubblegum, field flowers, banana, apple peel, brown bread, blue plum, and then of course, there are the off-flavours: glue, rubber at some point but fading away again, some ’freshly fermented farmland’ and a hint of fried egg (maybe H2S in a very subdued way?); in all, sweet, estery and very ’Belgian’ with a kind of ’muddy dirtiness’ to it, but unfortunately not flawless. Fruity, sweet onset with initially high but refined, almost cava-like effervescence, spritzy and light on the tongue in first instance but fading to almost nothing in the end of the bottle, with a deep basic sourishness and citrus peel freshness trying to counter it. Spicy yeasty notes play on a bready, somewhat caramelly malt sweet basis, with a smooth, lean mouthfeel, less ’heavy’ than expected from a beer of this ABV. Finish has a weak echo of herbal, ’deep’ earthy hop bitterishness (only very mildly so and incapable of balancing the sweetness), still tingling, minerally carbo, persisting malt sweetness, a certain resiny bittersweet coriander effect, fruity yeastiness making it a bit ’dirty’, the sweetness of the Liège pear syrup even sticking a little bit to the throat and, after all of this, a glow of warming alcohol, but not becoming astringent anywhere. Seems like a saison sweetened (and darkened) with the Liège syrup, perhaps a bit too sweet for my personal taste and lacking the body it would have got if actual dark malts would have been used, which in this case would probably have been a better option. Has the ’untidiness’ of many a Wallonian artisanal beer, but this does not bother me at all, it’s just part of the style, in a way; the aroma has too much rubber and menure odours to be truly distinctive in a positive way, but the flavour is acceptable for me and I managed to more or less enjoy this. And then, of course, there is still the label: I can imagine opinions will vary on this, but as for me, I can appreciate their recurrent theme of burlesque, scantily clad ladies.

75cl bottle sample, thanks Tderoeck. Ambrée, col blanc. Arôme au bouquet farineux, rappelant la noix, léger rétro caramélisé et finement épicé. Palais est malté, caramel, pâle, pointe amertume houblonnée restant noble, sucre brun en fin de bouche apportant ce côté liquoreux/sirop. Pointe épicée de coriandre voire de cannelle. Ok mais assez décevant, j’attendais plus de l’ajout de sirop de Liège.