Bottle at home, darker orange beer, large to huge gushing head. Aroma is hops, malt, sweet, lactose, yeast. Taste is the same, yeast, fizzy, lactose, malt, hops. Not bad

Bottle at home. Aroma is dark malt, cocoa, powdery chocolate, caramel, liquorice, touch of roast and a hint of hops in the finish. Flavour is medium sweet with a little hoppy bitterness in the finish. Body is above medium. Flavour is fairly sweet, lots of powdery chocolate, nice Belgian Imperial Stout.

Thank god not to much vanilla.
Unclear golden pour and a fine head.
Fine intensity in the aroma.
Not to sweet and an ok acidity.
Tad rich carbonation level.
Mild vanilla, fruity, citric and some yeast in the flavor
[Bottle at Dr Beer in Antwerpen, Belgium]

Brewery #2990

31/XII/24 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: n/a (nothing printed on the label where it should have been) (2024-1360)

FULL BLOWN GUSHER ALERT!
Clear dark brown to black beer, big aery irregular beige brown head, unstable, dissipates rather quickly. Aroma: all CO2 up front, some coffee, deep dark roast. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: deep roast, chocolate notes, a bit sourish, infected probably, spicy, bitter, funky, a bit chemical, more coffee, dry. Aftertaste: chocolate, coffee, very bitter, roasted, charcoal, meh. Not even a hint of vanilla could be detected... Did they add vanilla beans without boiling them first, or putting them in wodka to get an extract off of them?

Künstlich vanilliger Beginn, Alkohol, erhöhte Karbonisierung. Etwas trocken, leicht bitter, hefig. Mittellanger Abgang. 10/8/8/7/6/7

Collaboration brew involving four breweries from the Meetjesland region and two 'zythologists' (both of which are involved in blending projects), in which part of the malt has been replaced by 'toat', the local dialect for... potatoes. Violent gusher, so keep a glass (very) nearby. The result is a glass-filling foam formation, settling into an off-white, fluffy, cobweb-lacing, firm head over a hazy peach blonde robe with 'dirty' orangey glow. Aroma initially marred by sharply piercing carbon dioxide but when this settles, I get old potatoes (I kid you not: this is the first thing I wrote down before I even knew it actually contained potatoes), dried orange peel, raw carrots, coriander seed, cooked turnip, dry lemon thyme, mandarin, peanuts, dust, dry earth. Sweetish, estery onset, peach, red apple and some banana, with a sourish edge sharpened by overcarbonation even for a Belgian blonde; bready core, soggy sandwiches with cooked carrot and potato notes (again: I did not know about the potatoes before I wrote that down), under a predictable flavouring of coriander seed and old dried orange peel, with lingering black radish and turnip elements in the finish (those damned potatoes again), hopped with a leafy bitterness and eventually heated by 'jenever'-like alcohol. Dustiness and starch linger beyond all this, in a very earthy, 'dirty' way. No less than six experienced beer people participated in this and this earthy, unbalanced, gushing and unpleasant concoction is the best they could come up with? Seriously? Go to the 't Patatje 'frituur' in Beveren-Waas, guys, it is not far away in the neighbouring Waasland region, and ask the sympathetic manager if he still has his house beer 'Patatje' brewed by Paenhuys: though by no means a masterpiece either, it conveys the whole 'potato beer' concept a lot more accurately, tastily and correctly than the whole bunch of you managed to do!

2/XI/24 - 33cl bottle @ home, BB: II/2025, lot: 202304 (2024-1172)

GUSHER ALERT!
Clear orange beer, huge fizzy aery yellowish beige head, pretty stable, a bit adhesive, leaving some patches of lacing in the glass. Aroma: sweet impression, yeasty, banana, spicy, a bit medicinal impression, coriander. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: spicy, herbal, yeast, bitter, some autolyse, unpleasant. Aftertaste: bitter, earthy, malty, bitter touch, unpleasant, a bit chemical, sourish, lemony, meh.