Bottle @ home. Clear, deep golden body under a big white head. Aroma has malt, spicy yeast and a floral touch with hint of citric fruits. Taste is sweet, pale malt, with spicy yeast, flowers, citric fruit and some white sugar without ending too sweet. Medium body, same aftertaste. A nice, tasty and refreshing Belgium blonde.

33cl bottle at HBF 2023. Poured amber in color. Dense head. Somewhat roasted malty aroma with lots of dried fruits, almondy notes and sweetness.

330ml bottle @ HBF 2023. Sweet and malty with some figs, prunes, earthiness and warming alcohol, hints of hoppiness

Bottle 0.33l at HBF2023, Helsinki. Color is cloudy Brown with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Ripe fruits, some berries, caramel, malts...

Bottle from Geers. Hazy dark brown, small, off-white head. Aroma of dried red apple, red grape, prune, pear, cognac, liquorice, wood, toffee. Taste has sweet raisin, prune & red apple over a toffee-ish malt base with bitter notes of spices & orange peel. Herbal hoppy finish, slightly grapefruity, spicy, woody; warming cognac-like alcohol in the very end. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation. Must have been an older bottle; matured quite nicely.

33cl bottle. A clear yellow golden beer with a white head. Aroma of rotten fruits, some banana, yeast. Taste of strong banana, rotten banana, herbs, yeast.

Süffiger, hefig-alkoholischer Beginn mit pappigem Beiton. Ansteigende Süße, mild herb, angenehm hopfig. Fruchtig hefiger und auch herber Abgang. 9/7/8/7/6/8

The third beer in this 'Kortrijkse' range, unsurprisingly a tripel; bottle from the Carrefour Hypermarket in the Oude Bareel quarter on the border of Oostakker and Sint-Amandsberg. Very thick and foamy, frothy, busily cobweb-lacing, off-white, pillowy head resting stable on an initially crystal clear, warm metallic 'old golden' robe with beautiful deep golden glow, misty with sediment but still displaying lots of lively sparkling. Aroma of old bread, coriander seed, cold potato mash, damp straw, cooked turnip, dust, hay, dried thyme, unripe peach, 'oude jenever', subtle whiffs of iron, brown soap, old dried tarragon and chicken soup (the latter probably hinting at beginning oxidation). Crisp onset, relatively low in sweetness for this style, with only some apple peel and unripe peach notes, as well as a faint whiff of banana peel; fizzy carbonation, a tad stingy even for a tripel, but rounded and full mouthfeel, if plagued by an ever so slight metallic accent. Bready and cracker-like maltiness with a very faint peanutty edge, under spicy phenols (clove, tarragon, thyme) and actual spicing (coriander), before a floral and grassy hop bitterness comes along to make a drying appearance, matched with an equally increasing, gin-like alcohol warmth, which somehow manages not to interfere with the main flavours too much - even if its presence can be literally felt early on. Perhaps a tad too boozy, but I do appreciate the outspoken, earthy, old school hoppiness here, as well as the lack of residual sugars which annoys me in so many other tripels. Have a point for that alone.

33cl bottle. A clear dark amber beer with a beige head. Aroma of dried fruits, some raisins, strong malt. Taste of strong caramelized malt, booze, dried fruits, raisins.