2 February 2019. At Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to tderoeck, 77ships, Rubin77, Jerre, Kevin & Anke! Hazy dark brown-black with a lasting, small, foamy, beige head; some lacing. Aroma of coffee roast, raisin, fondant, black tea, caramel, blackcurrant, toast. Taste is light malty sweet, some caramel & chocolate with a nutty edge, not very outspoken; light roasted bitter middle has toast, 'basic' coffee pad, faint fondant & a tea-like herbal touch. Dryish, herbal hoppy finish, lingering toast, coffee pad & chocolate. Medium body, slick texture, soft carbonation. Unconvincing, too basic, needs finetuning.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Koelschip Saison Lachen - Dryhopping: Goldings (by Stadsbrouwerij 't Koelschip):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.7/5

2/II/19 - sample @ Brugs Bierfestival, BB: n/a - (2019-189) Thanks to the Belgian ratebeer crew for sharing todays' beers!
Pretty cloudy blond beer, small creamy white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: malty, grains, hay, sourish impression again. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit acidic, fruity touch, some spoiled yoghurt, pretty bad. Aftertaste: lemony, acidic, floral touch, soft bitterness, pretty soapy.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Koelschip Saison Lachen - Dryhopping: Pilgrim (by Stadsbrouwerij 't Koelschip):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

2/II/19 - sample @ Brugs Bierfestival, BB: n/a - (2019-187) Thanks to the Belgian ratebeer crew for sharing todays' beers!
Pretty cloudy blond beer, small creamy white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweaty feet, cheesy, bit dirty, some grapefruit, orange peel notes, other citrus. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very soapy, quite some citrus notes, mainly grapefruit, tangerines. Aftertaste: refreshing bitterness, little soapy, soft saline impression, not as obvious as with the Cascade version.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Koelschip Saison Lachen - Dryhopping: Cascade (by Stadsbrouwerij 't Koelschip):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.7/5

2/II/19 - sample @ Brugs Bierfestival, BB: n/a - (2019-186) Thanks to the Belgian ratebeer crew for sharing todays' beers!
Pretty cloudy blond beer, small creamy white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: soapy, bit malty, grains, hay, floral touch. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: pretty sourish, infected? Salt is clearly noticeable, slightly fruity. Aftertaste: more sourish, unpleasant, bit acidic, really thinking about an infection here.

Smokey and sour... Quite nice but needs some more tweaking.

Huge, pale cream to beige head over deep dark cola-coloured beer. Chocolate, roasted, sweet-roasted, slight oxydation, 'hot' fermentation. Sweet, roasted, melanoidin(over)laden. Milkchocolate or chocolate Ersatz (Cadbury's). Very slick to viscous, seems fuller bodied than it probably is. Over-classical dark Belgian. Who still wants this? Thanks to Stef!

20 October 2018. Late birthday dinner at 't Botteltje, Ostend.
Pours clear dark golden with a lasting, small, unstable, frothy, off-white head; irregular lacing. Sweetish aroma of pineapple, banana, peach, white bread, honey, wheat, faint soap, grass, dough. Medium fruity sweet onset with dough-like maltiness, pineapple & (canned) peach; light grassy bitter middle, a bit hoppy with a sourish wheaty touch & a slight metallic effect. Dryish, grassy hoppy finish, lingering dough & pineapple, hint of warming jenever alcohol. Medium body, slick texture, soft carbonation. Not too shabby but nothing special.

Blood orange- and tea-flavoured beer from Ostend’s self-proclaimed city brewery, 75 cl bottle with crown cap bought at the brewery’s shop; bears the same general hangtag as their other bottles, a hangtag mentioning and detailing all their beers, but failing to mention which one is in the actual bottle; the crown cap doesn’t reveal this either so in this case, I actually had to write down the name of the beer at the shop itself, as I would never have been able to retrieve it afterwards if I hadn’t done so. Anyway: no gushing here like the other Koelschip bottle I recently opened, fortunately… Loosely knit, egg-white, initially foaming but very unstable, fizzing away like the ‘head’ on a glass of coke and reduced to a wafer-thin ring in instants, atop a misty, pale orangey-blonde beer with olive greenish tinge. Aroma initially quite lightstruck (the cat pee odour we all know and love from cheap pale lagers in green or colourless bottles), remaining quite pronounced for a while, accompanying notes of water-diluted orange juice, aspirin, soap (maybe the seeds of paradise), apple juice, old bread, cold green tea, cranesbill leaves, wet cardboard, chalk, apricot. Sweet onset, mandarin, peach and light banana notes with a pear-like edge, sourish aspect from the blood orange brings some freshness but a bit of ‘dirtiness’ as well; very soft carb, bit undercarbonated in fact, slick and soapy mouthfeel. A persistent chalky aspect lingers alongside a thinnish bready maltiness, with the blood orange sourishness continuing as well; the finish brings an outspoken, yet not very elegant tea aspect retronasally, in combination with the citrus and the chalky note becoming reminiscent almost of children’s flavoured aspirin or something alike. The lightstruck effect never really goes away and hops, though present in a hayish bitterish form way back in the finish, underachieve and are insufficiently strong to lend the finish enough body – so that it ends a bit thin and watery.