Bottle. Color: Reddish amber, beige head. Aroma: Malty, candy sugar. Taste: Herbal (gale?) malty, candy sugar, fudge hints. Medium sweet, moderate bitterness. Smooth mouthfeel. Medium body, just below average carbonation. Sticky mouthfeel.

Fles gekregen van Inoven, geprobeerd met LiekevdV. Het is een helder roodbruin bier met een volle beige schuim. Het heeft een kruidige geur. De smaak is kruidig, dropachtig en fruitig.

Flesje thuis gedronken. Roodbruin helder bier met stevig beige schuim. Aroma is kruidig. De smaak is zoet, kruidig en ook fruitig. De kruidige smaak blijft even hangen.

F: big, tan, long lasting. C: dark coppery, hazy. A: malty, mellow fruity, bit bready, caramel, touch of tropical fruits. T: malty, fruity, bit bready, dark cherries, banana, caramel, weak herbal bitterness, medium to full body, lower carbonation, 33cl bottle from Dolma Magasin Bio in Brussels.

F: big, creamy, snow-white, good retention. C: blonde to pale gold, bit hazy. A: light malty, sour fruity, lemon water, herbal. T: sour fruity, lemon, herbal, dry on the palate, very refreshing bit puckering, light body and soft carbonation, not bad at all yet not for the style, 33cl bottle from Dolma Magasin Bio in Brussels.

A new one in the string of organic beers developed for ecological organisations in Belgium, in this case Vogelbescherming Vlaanderen, and named after the European green woodpecker, a beautiful bird I've seen a few times in my home region as well; part of the profits go to this organisation so I was happy to order this beer at the cantina of the Bourgoyen-Ossemeersen, a nature reserve area at the western edge of the city of Ghent. Strange no one here seems to have stumbled on this before… Paper-lacing, snow white, irregular, bubbly head, misty straw blonde robe with khaki-ish tinge and lively sparkling. Aroma of white bread dough, flour, sweetclover, meadowsweet flowers, halfripe banana, minerals, wet grass, moist cotton cloth. Very fizzy onset, bit numbing even, minerally, light fruity accents from the yeast (this lager is unfiltered, contrary to most other pale lagers in Belgium), slight banana and peach notes even but largely remaining fairly neutral in its base; cereally, white bread pulp-edged maltiness, quite rounded and mellow for the style, very light sulfuric touch from the yeast, before a grassy, dried flower-like hoppiness sets in and provides bitterness which, even though it remains very gentle, scores above average for a Belgian pale lager. Quite a refined and 'full' unfiltered pale lager, almost Kellerbier-like, generously hopped for style and maltier in a full-malt, quite full way. Within the pool of Belgian pale lagers, certainly among the more interesting ones. Well done in a subtle manner.

Pours hazy blonde, small white head is consistant. Smell is tart, wheat, dry, almost like a berliner weisse. Taste is tart, sharp, very dry, lemon-like sourness and astigency, even lemon-ish taste. some wheat, which finishes very nicely in the aftertaste. pretty sharp and dry. Not a bad beer at all, and certainly different. A bit to dry for my personal liking though.