75 cl bottle. Pours hazy brown with a small tan head. Aroma is phenolic and toasted malty. Overripe fruity. Toasted malty and breadish. Caramelish and breadish. Toasted and slight phenolic finish.

From a 75 cl bottle bought at Belgiuminabox. Quite strong gushing, but manageable. Loosely structured, coarse, off-white head only retaining on the edge of the glass (apart from a wafer-thin ’island’ in the middle) but vanishing after several minutes; initially clear golden blonde robe with lively fizz, turning a hazy peach blonde as more of the bottle is added. Aroma of canned apricot, candied banana, white pepper, lemon, wet hay, powder sugar, sweet white wine, coriander seed, orange peel, strong ripe gooseberry, sourdough, soapy wheat, cider, mojito, chalk, overripe kiwi, some urine. Estery onset, very sweet apple- and even strongly cider-like with further flavours of gooseberry, sweet white grape, pineapple and some banana, clearly overcarbonated even for the style, honeyish and caramelly malt sweetness in the middle with an additional, tiring white candi sugar sweetness on top and unmistakable wheat ’soapiness’ below, lean and on the thin side; the sweetness, though not too cloying, remains in the end, as the hops department is restricted to a certain grassy and floral quality lacking in bittering power but leaving some bittering grape peel accents; tingling carbo even hits the back of the mouth, impairing drinkability. A chalky powder sugar sweetness remains, together with curaçao sourishness, adding a welcome refreshing effect; a bittersweet coating of coriander ’soapiness’ is there too, but not too obnoxious. Weird beer: I will respect ’brewer’s intent’ here, but if this is to be judged as a saison, I have many objections: too sweet, too wheaty, not hoppy or refreshing enough. In fact, this seems much closer to a witbier (i.e. the sweeter side of the style’s range) than to what I expect from a saison - mind the spices used too in this context! Overcarbonation combined with an unstable head - even in terms of appearance, it is clear something went wrong here. Looks and even smells like fermented and spiced green apple juice in the end... Hard to pour down, too sweet, overcarbonated, poor from a technical point of view and certainly not a saison no matter how this ’style’ is defined, this is not a great success, that much is clear.

From a 75 cl bottle bought at Belgiuminabox. Heavy gusher, beer poured out of the neck upon opening. Loose, irregular, fairly stable, off-white head over a hazy, warm orangey ’old gold’ blonde beer. Aroma of soaked bread, soapy wheat, wet hay, grape peel, dried flowers, mouldy orange, lemon zest, breakfast cereals, apple juice, sourdough, hint of chlorine, thyme. Taste fruity, very applish, pineapple, hint banana, orange, soft carbo, deep sourish graininess, bready barley sweetishness, supple and a bit oily, floral hop bitter ending, gentle and a bit grassy. Decent, I can imagine this being a good summer quencher.

Imported from my RateBeer account as De Vlier Hagelandse Parel Brut Nature (by Brouwerij De Vlier):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5

11/XII/15 - 75cl bottle from Willems (Grobbendonk) @ my dad's birthday party - BB: 28/I/18 (2015-1707) Thanks to Beerlover_Ben for picking this one up for me!

Clear pale whitish to a yellow beige fluid, no head. Aroma: apples, apple juice, bit sourish, funky touch. MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity start, pretty sour, some apple skin, green sour apples. Aftertaste: alcohol, some tannins, fruity, bit sour, apple skin, pretty dry finish. Well done!

Haze blond body. White creamy head. Lightly smokey aroma. Smokey bitter flavour. Well balanced.

Bottle at the Belgiuminabox open warehouse. Pours very dqrk chocolaty brown, towards black. Big white head. Smell is not so intense. Somewhat sweet, hints of roastyness. Light body. Roqsty, mildly sweet MF. Tqstes like a weakened stout . Rather high carbo. Easy drinking. I’s call this a session stout if it were not 8 abv... Alcohol is very hidden, but its just way to wattery to be 8 %

Sampled from bottle @ RBBSG 2015. Very hazy dark orange color, medium sized white to off-white head. Smell and taste malts, a hint of sweetness, hardly anything else. Drinkable but a bit boring really. Fizzy carbonation as well. Meh.