Bottle from Mok coffee bar in Leuven @ RBBSG 2015. Hazy amber colour, almost no aroma. Lively carbonation Very weak and watery. Bit malt, bit sweet. Some notes of caramel. Coffee? Nothing special.

Aperitif beer from De Vlier from a 75 cl bottle. Unusual, but innovative concept: mixed fermentation (i.e. adding Lactobacillus plus refermentation with champagne yeast), mixed grain composition and added elderberry syrup... Fascinating, curious to dive into this one. Pours a rustic, deep old gold colour with pinkish hue, lightly hazy, under a loudly crackling, loose, champagne-like, off-white head leaving a stable rim on the edge of the glass, but otherwise dissolving quickly. In the end and after adding the deposit, there is no head left at all and the liquid has become murky, looking quite like some home-made apple or pear juice. Aroma has lots of things going on: eldeberry blossom indeed, acacia honey, pear juice impression again, unsweetened yoghurt, canned apricot, pineapple, wilted cut flowers, raspberry, lemon peel, white lambrusco, quite a lot of whisky-like alcohol and ’animalistic’ odours of freshly fermented farmland, horse stable and even stale sweat - weird, and it took me a while to get used to it and I could not really decide whether it attracted me or not, it was more fascination than attraction per se. Crisp, candy sweet onset with vivid but refined, very lambrusco-like carbonation; sweet grapes, strawberry, overripe nectarine, some banana sweetness and a fresh orange peel-like acidity make for a lively onset in which quite a lot happens. This party of sweet fruits and champagne-like fizz goes on throughout the palate, there is some lactic acidity somewhere but only restrainedly so (though this may increase with age), as well as a sweet honeyish basic taste, likely representing the elderberry syrup; a dull wheat sourishness is there too. Finish brings a touch of floral hops but not really bittering; the ending is dryish, a bit prosecco-like, with a dash of liqueurish alcohol warmth, even slightly burning, but the sweetness continues - too long for my taste, actually, even cloying a bit. Citrussy acidity also lingers on and brings some balance for this basic syrupy sweetness; the animalistic odours return retronasally. Sweet and sour as well as complexely fermented, this is a fairly complex and very unusual champagne beer indeed; I do not mind the bacterial effects in the nose too much, but I do find it too sugary and the alcohol is not too well hidden and it is clear that the different flavours do not work together all too well. Interesting, though, and I can easily see how this brew divides opinions... I cannot say I sincerely enjoyed it, but I am glad I tasted this experiment.

Imported from my RateBeer account as De Vlier Mok Ale (by Brouwerij De Vlier):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

4/VII/15 - 75cl bottle @ RBBSG IV - BB: 24/IX/18 (2015-840) Thanks to JefVerstraete for sharing the bottle!

Clear orange beer, creamy yellow head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: very sweet, fruity, sugary, some spices, banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: spicy start, some coffee, not much though, green vegetables, bit yeasty. Aftertaste: sugary, spices, coriander touch, little bitter, fruity, some citrus, alcohol noticeable.

Well, a belgian fruit beer. pours a hazy pink. bottle conditioned 3 finger pink head. smells like a wheat beer with fruit syrup added.The taste, well, it’s not that bad. sweet, soda like with raspberry fake syrup. it’s still a good mouthfeel and certainly a nice summer beer. then again, it’s belgian so 8% is a low degrees for fruit :)

Bottle. Clear golden liquid with medium white head. Aroma of pears, lemon, grain, wheat, earth and light apple skin. Taste is very light sweet and light to medium sour with notes of lemon, apple and grain. Light to medium bodied with medium to high carbonation. Pretty good. Reminds me of a semi-brut sparkling wine.