5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

18/XII/23 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakkers), shared @ Filip & Anneke’s place, BB: 10/IV/25 (2023-1180)

Clear light yellow blond beer, big aery irregular white head, unstable, falls down quickly. Aroma: very floral, rose petals, Turkish delight, some citrus notes. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: a bit sweet, malty, pretty metallic bitterness, sugary touch. Aftertaste: bit metallic, hay, very bitter, very soapy bitterness, floral.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle vintage 2012. Coffee bean pour with some bubbling foam. Nose: blast of dried plums, some freshness despite the vintage, vanilla. Mouth: initial frizzy carbonation, thin body, the overall is rather bitter.

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Almost clear blond colour, white foam. Nose of citrus, a bit lemony, dry and grassy bitter finish. Good for this style.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

21/XI/23 - 33cl can @ HoReCa Expo 2023 (Gent), BB: 6/IX/24, VF3038 14:42;L4 (2023-1073) Thanks to Erwin, Peter a.o. for sharing today’s beer!

Clear bright ruby red beer, small creamy pink head, unstable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, grains, some strawberry jam, bubble gum. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very fruity, soft sweetness, strawberry jam, soft acidity, nice! Aftertaste: bit sourish, very fruity, lots of red fruits, strawberry jam, actually this is rather nice! Was fearing a lot more sweetness and artificial flavourings.

6.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

21/XI/23 - 33cl can @ HoReCa Expo 2023 (Gent), BB: 24/IV/25, VF3119 08:48L1 (2023-1072) Thanks to Erwin, Peter a.o. for sharing today’s beer!

Clear blond yellow beer, creamy white head, unstable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: banana, a bit yeasty, some vanilla notes, sweet impression, banana flavoured candy. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: little sweet, some alcohol, soft bitterness, lots of bubble gum, sweet touch. Aftertaste: bitter touch, sweet, some vanilla, dried fruits, banana, lots of bubble gum, soft bitterness.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Malmö October tasting at Palace Hall (14/10/2023) - fruity lemony aroma and taste, icing sugar, light dried fruit, malty and yeasty notes, light fruity spiced finish.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Malmö October tasting at Palace Hall (14/10/2023) - toasted and sweet malty with notes of caramel and toffee, spiced warming sweet malty close.

7.4

Yeah it’s very good. Quite nice classic. Smooth round, not too dry, bubblegum phenols. Bierkonig ams

8.8

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

Servida en cáliz, color negro, rojo al trasluz, bonita espuma cremosa y compacta color beige. Rico aroma a malta torrefacta, café, café con leche, pan tostado, nueces, ciruelas. En boca es completa, sedosa, notas torrefactas, crema de café, chocolate, moka, frutos secos, en parte me trae recuerdos a una buena stout...sencillamente deliciosa. Tenia buenas expectativas con esta cerveza, pero no pensaba que fuera a salir por este lado, gratamente sorprendido. Riquisssima

4.3

Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Top-fermented fruit beer with sour cherry and blue honeysuckle berries, a fruit species I have only encountered once before in beer (a Cantillon fruit lambic for that matter) - so this sparked my curiosity when I saw it standing on the shelves of De Wilde in Zele. Thick and frothy, pale off-pinkish, membrane-lacing, stable head, misty deep ruby red robe with dark fuchsia hue. Aroma of strong sour cherry in a ripe and juicy way, Roosvicée, raspberry jam which I think represents the blue honeysuckle, red Haribo candy but not too dominant, dark honey, honey-glazed beetroot, red fruit-flavoured bubblegum, cooked sweet potato, candied strawberries, roses, stewed rhubarb, rubber. Very sweet-fruity onset, sugary but still with a convincing amount of indeed juicy sour cherry and blue honeysuckle (the first remaining subtle and lacking in sourness, the latter adding to a general honey sweetness); lively and minerally carbonation, slick mouthfeel with quite some residual red candy-like sweetness lingering and becoming bothersome - as if candied cherries were used instead of sour cherries. Very little fruit acidity - in fact none at all, playing the sweet card all along, over a slender cereally core providing very little malty flavours. Sweet till the very end, sticking to the teeth and gums in a sugary, red candy-like way; a very vague hint of sourness does lurk in the background, but otherwise nothing in this fruit beer conveys the true nature of sour cherries (or even, indeed, blue honeysuckle berries). Overly sweet and sticky fruit beer in spite of its ambitions - a "ladies' beer" like we used to say - adding very little to the already large pool of rouges and the like; admittedly the blue honeysuckle makes it more interesting than many of its congeners, but if the end effect is the same, what can I say? Another 'beery lemonade', in the end, but admittedly with a certain twist. Not my cup of tea at all, in any case - worse even, about half of it ended up in the drain.