--Bottled at Lars's birthday bash. -- Clear pale golden, small head. Aroma of honey, grass and grain. Sweet with medium body and clean mouthfeel. Honey and grass. Bread. Warming finish with low bitterness.

--Bottled, at Lars's birthday bash. -- Clear pale amber, mid sized head. Aroma of pears, dough and peppery brandy. Sweet with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Sugar, marzipan, saké and grain. Warming mid bitter finish.

Fles 33cl thuis. Caramel, rood fruit, pruim, rozijn, redelijk zoet, licht plakkerig, dried fruits, kandijsuiker. (29-12-2023).

Not bad, a little muddied. But enjoyable over, just a tiny big fuzzzy. Wildeman ams

Dark brown colour, beige foam. Typical Huyghe characteristics. Yeasty, sweet, caramel, some herbal notes. Ok.

New Haeseveld beer, brewed at the site on the border of Ghent and Destelbergen, available there from tap now but undoubtedly this will make its way into bottled form as well. Snow white, creamy, moussy, membrane-like lacing, thick and frothy, clearly wheat-enhanced head on a clear, pure warm orangey-tinged deep golden robe – clearly filtered and therefore looking like a Kristallweizen, intentional or not, so that is how I added it here... Aroma of clove, banana milkshake, banana peel, white bread, industrial honey, glazed pear, peach jam, bubblegum, potato peel. Fruity onset in a weirdly cleanish way, lots of bubblegummy banana ester, hints of ripe pear and pineapple, minerally carbonated with slender, slick body; cereally, sweetish white-bready maltiness, grainy at its edges, with some retronasal clove and slight nutmeg phenols and a mild floral hop bitterish finish, while the minerally effects from strong carbonation and bubblegummy banana candy sweetness continue unabated. Simplistic ‘caricature’ of a Hefeweizen with an industrial feel to it – this reminds me of the many Dutch attempts by larger breweries to recreate this style from the eighties and nineties onwards (think Grolsch Puur Weizen, Brand Weizen and the like): drinkable as an easygoing wheat beer on a summery afternoon, but not even coming close to the ‘natural’ feel, refined phenolic and estery profile and bready yeastiness any decent original Bavarian Hefeweizen has. Redundant in that sense, like the rest of this brewery’s output.

The lighter version of the ‘Ultra Blond’ in Haeseveld’s range – one can already begin to wonder what the point is, but anyway. From tap at the brewery. Frothy, thick, egg-white, lacing head on a lightly hazed, deep and pure yellow-golden beer. Aroma of banana milkshake, bubblegum, candied pineapple, white bread, straw, ‘jenever’ (even ‘perzikjenever’ in this case), glazed pear, potato peel. Sweet, white-sugary onset with pronounced bubblegummy banana ester, hints of ripe pear, pineapple and yellow raisin, medium carbonation, slick mouthfeel; white-bready and cereally core with a thick layer of honeyish or white candi syrup-like residual sweetness on top, slight clove-like phenols in the end along with mild floral hop bitterness and warming, wodka-like alcohol, while that annoying banana-flavoured bubblegum sweetness sticks. Crowd pleaser, cheaply made with adjuncts and way too much residual sweetness, overly simplistic and boozy (though luckily – and logically I suppose – less so than that Ultra Strong one): like all of Haeseveld’s mass-oriented cliché beers, unnecessary at best.

11/VI/22 - on tap @ Haeseveld (Sint-Amandsberg, Gent) (2022-691) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing today’s beers!

Clear orange blond beer, big creamy solid white head, stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: very yeasty, some banana, cloves, pretty malty. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots and lots of bubble gum, more bubble gum, ripe banana, pretty sweet. Aftertaste: a little bitter, banana and oh yeah, more bubble gum, not a big fan of this sweet cloying Weizen...

33cl bottle from Prik & Tik Dranken Marlou. F: big, egg-white, good retention. C: gold, light hazy. A: banana, peach, pear, bit caramel, bready touch. T: full malty base, banana, pear, pineapple, bit bready, medium carbonation, simple but ok for the style, enjoyed.

Clear golden colour with quick fading head. Aroma and flavour have sweet perfumed yellow stone fruits. Sultanas. Bananas. Almost like sherry.