Sample at ZBF. blond beer with a small head, aroma is some spice, taste is spice, bitter sweet, hmm not bad but not great

@ ZBF 15. Thnx for sharing, geeks! Pours clear blonde, smell is mildly sweet. Taste is grainy, bit bitter. Much malts in the back. Mildly sweet

25/04/2015 @ ZBF shared with tderoeck, 77ships, PriorL and kraddel. Light golden, small head. Nose is matls, herbs. Taste : citrus, herbal, some sweetness and light bitter

At ZBF 15. Thnx for sharing, everyone ! Pours clear blonde, smell is bit grainy. Taste is bit bitter, sharp, honey aspect. Some grains, bit sweet. OK

Blonde session beer which has been brewed once in 2012 apparently, but now revisited for ZBF, not sure if they intend to continue it afterwards. Yellow blonde, misty with greenish hue, thin snow white head; looks a lot like a witbier, if you ask me. Aroma of gooseberry, green apple peel, some herbs, grass, light honeyish touch and of course the typical ’perfume’ of elderberry blossoms, but also a great deal of DMS (cooked cabbage) overpowering the more subtle and more flattering odours. Supple body, restrained applish and berry-like fruitiness, lightly sweetish with sourish touch, quite strongly carbonated, light malt body, ending in a simple grassy hop bitterishness of medium duration. Totally redundant beer - and I passionately hate the sulphuric smell of DMS.

Top-fermented spring bock - the brewer explained to me that he does not even consider it a Bock himself because it is top-fermented, but I disagreed, in view of the many light Bocks in the Netherlands which are also top-fermented. Anyway, he continued to explain that this is intended as some kind of ’Viking’ beer brewed with rye, oats and garden angelica, also known as ’holy ghoast’, a particularly aromatic herb (and beautiful, majestic plant) I am quite fond of, as it reminds me of my grandmother’s herb garden. Clear ’old gold’ colour, snow white, thick and sticky head; floral aroma, hints of cloves, honey, aromatic herbs (but too subtle) and pear, but I did not manage to pull the angelica out of it with certainty. Soft fruity taste, sweetish, spicy but could have been more ’angelica-forwarded’ for me; I do get a deep, restrained rye sourishness as well as the lovely velvety mouthfeel established by the oats; remains soft and sweetish, with just a subtle hint of herbal hops in the finish, as expected from the style. This beer is clearly about subtlety, a quality which is easily forgotten nowadays among all those more extreme flavours. I, for one, can still appreciate subtlety, and this one achieves it very well. Good example of its particular style, but I did expect more garden angelica!

Another tripel... Hazy golden blonde under an off-white head. Aroma of cedar wood, pink grapefruit but subduedly so, pear, cloves, ’jenever’, orange touch, floral hops; fruity taste, a bit estery but well in place, some yeastiness, drying more and more towards the finish, soft bready malt sweetishness, herbal hop bitterishness in the finish and - more than anything - ’jenever’-like, warming but fortunately not too astringent alcohol. This may be a well-crafted tripel, all things considered, but do we not have enough of those already in Belgium?

Sampled 330 ml. bottle @ ZBF 2015. Hazy orange, little white head. Nose is odd sweet sugar, BE-yeast, cheap white sugar,… Taste is sugar, apple, yeast, esters, pear, near boozy, cheap sugar sweet,.. Run-of-the mill. I debate the need for another beer like this. (Thx! for sharing people!)

Säuerlich trockener Antrunk leichte Herbe. Moderate Fruchtigkeit, die schnell schwächer wird, mild. 11/8/7/7//8

Hell säuerlicher, rund hefiger Antrunk. Mild herb, die Hefigkeit steigt, mildes helles Malz, süffig, rund. 11/11/11/11//11