Mild apfeliger Beginn. Wässrig, steigende Süße, süffig. Natürlich, milder roter Apfel. Etwas langweilig. 5/7/8/8/7/7

Bottle from an Albert Heijn supermarket. Any beer that recommends "try ice cold with a wedge of orange or lime" elicits nothing but suspicion in me, but here we go: thinnish, off-white, lightly lacing head quickly reduced to a moussy rim and some wafer thin ’islands’ in the middle but eventually all but disappearing, over an ’old gold’ coloured robe with warmer pale orangey hue. Aroma of bath foam, lemonade (Fanta!), industrial cider, ginger ale, lemon-scented hand soap, varnish, some vague hints of caramel, mojito (without the alcohol), mandarin peel, breakfast cereals, molten glue. Cloyingly sweet onset, lots of Fanta flavour including that awful ascorbid acid providing ’industrial’ sourishness, tons of residual ’white’ sugar sticking to the mouth cavity, light mouthfeel, slick and smooth but very soapy, if not unpleasantly glueish as well, with initially fizzy carbo calming down afterwards; very thin cereally malt middle, malt extracts, conducting that lemonade sweetness and artificial sourishness to a finish in which the sweetness decreases and is eventually replaced by a notably ginger ale-like, ethereal spiciness, adding a kind of wryness of bitter dried grapefruit peel and thereby blocking the initial sweetness, but feeling just as artificial. A shampoo- or lemon soap-like scent rises up retronasally, adding insult to injury; ends wry, with a vaguely grassy hop bitter touch but much more chemical bitterness (effervescent tablets) which is anything but pleasant. I get the idea now of serving this thing ice cold with a wedge of orange: tasted at near room temperature, as I always do with any beer, makes this barely drinkable, way too sweet at first and too - chemically - wry in the end, with close to nothing in between. The previous two beers I had from this DB Breweries-owned brewer were anything but great but this one blatantly beats them: this is an abomination, seemingly fancy as a refreshing ’summer ale’ to the unsuspecting Albert Heijn shopper, but in reality, this is a cheap concoction aiming to mimick lemonade in a beery - i.e. alcoholic - way. Reminds me a bit of Bertinchamps Pamplemousse if I have to come up with a Belgian equivalent, but way thinner, much more chemical, sweeter and soapier. This beer is an offense, Albert Heijn should stop importing this industrial nonsense and reserve the space on their shelves for the many wonders of the present-day Dutch craft beer revolution. This one misses the train completely as far as I’m concerned, very artificial, very unpleasant and, frankly, close to undrinkable. This drinks like bath foam-scented lemonade. Avoid at all cost - have a mediocre ’saison imitation’ or the most mundane of IPAs instead if you’re craving for a light and crisp, ’summery’ beer. This one will only make you more thirsty due to the sticky mouthfeel, like some cheap cola or other industrial soda pop will. Way worse than feared!

Bottle at Markthalle Neun. Clear pale yellow color, white coca cola head. Areoma of sweet lemon candy. Taste is sweet lemon candy. No beery characteristics whatsoever.

330ml bottle into pint glass. Interesting sweet ginger nose, reminds me of S.E. Asia for some reason. Pale amber beer, no head, a few bubbles. Zingy mouthfeel, weak malt lager taste. Finish is plasticine and fake grape. It’s horrible.