Magus, mõru, nisu, alkohol, humal, veits flät maitselt kuidagi. Miski asi kõrvetab suus, humal? Lõpp on pikk kuivus/mõrudus ja põletus. Ok õlu, aga ootasin enamat, kuna hopfen weisse on üks mu lemmik stiile kui on hästi tehtud...

33cl can, BB 19/05/2022.
Dorée léger voile, col épais crémeux tenace blanc.
Arôme est fin malté, sur une lignée belge au niveau de la levure - les houblons donnent une belle fraicheur - finement fruité et fleuri restant sur une approche belge voire allemande noble.

Palais est crisp et frais - classique belge oscillant sur malt pils, léger caramel pâle, houblonné noble - petite touche terreuse et fleurie. Petite touche un peu groseille verte. Effervescence modérée - petite note un peu feuille sèche - fin mentholé.

Another one from this brand new (2020) microbrewery in Schaerbeek (Brussels), Brasserie de la Mule, primarily dedicated to introducing German style beers to the Belgian market - but in this case deviating from that premise and offering a good old saison. Towering high, foamy, egg-white, busily cobweb-lacing, very frothy and stable head on an initially clear, pale straw blonde beer with deeper golden tinge and almost champagne-like, fierce sparkling throughout; misty with sediment. Aroma of halfripe banana, unsugared chewing gum, white bread, fresh chamomile and sweetclover blossoming, Conference pear, honey, white soap (the wheat talking), cooked parsnip, hints of moist cinnamon powder, lilies and plaster. Very crisp onset, sharply carbonated, stinging and distracting from the flavour a bit with lots of minerality; underneath sits a restrainedly sweetish fruitiness of green banana and unripe pear but not the array of esters one would expect from a saison. Supple, smooth body, pale malt sweetishness, quite grainy but with a softening white-bready core, dry and well-attenuated, with this unripe fruitiness on top alongside some phenolic spiciness and subtly sourish wheatiness below; a chalky and soapy note lingers in the finish, overruled by a very confident, leafy, quinine-like hop bitterness offering retronasal floral and grassy effects too - and accentuating the already dry character of this beer. Basically a very dry blonde, lacking a bit in Belgian yeast fruitiness and spiciness to truly qualify as a saison, but in any case very quenching and technically well executed. If this kind of sleekness and 'minimalism' reaches the Kölsch, the Alt and the Helles this brewery has planned for their next creations, then I'm in.

One of several beers by a new microbrewery (an actual brewery this time) in Schaarbeek, municipality of Brussels. Apparently the last brewery there (Roelants) closed in the sixties and Joël Galy, the driving force behind Mule, thought the time was right to reinstate the local brewing traditions - with primarily German style beers, unusual for a craft brewer in Belgium, though there is a saison too, as well as plans to work with lambic in the future. 'Brugse kant'-like lacing, medium thick, moussy, off-white, gradually breaking but generally stable head on a cloudy peach blonde beer with ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of banana mash as indeed befits a Hefeweizen, orange cake, wet wheat flour, ripe peach, a dash of apricot jam, cooked pear, dry cookies (Betterfood), soggy biscuit, moist white pepper, clove, grass. Fruity onset, some banana but less so than I was expecting based on the nose, aspects of apricot, apple and vague pineapple, spritzy carbonation with minerally effects, a bit stingy at first but calming down quickly; soft, bready and slightly biscuity malts with a clear sourish wheat streak, under ongoing fruity esters and spicy phenols (clove, even pepper). Minerally side notes linger, until a strong, leafy, even somewhat wormwoody and quinine-like hop bitterness appears, drying the finish in a spicy, pungent way. Meanwhile the banana ester and clove phenol do their work retronasally, reminding you of the fact that you are still drinking a Hefeweizen - albeit a very atypical one, with a much stronger hop bitterness than is normal for this style. If anything, I guess this should be called a Hopfenweizen, because I do not expect this amount of hops in a standard Hefeweizen, which is kind of what I was hoping for. It also lacks softness and smoothness for a true Hefeweizen, but these are minor criticisms: other Belgian microbreweries have tried it, and they all came up with wheat beers that I would not convincedly qualify as Weissbiere. I guess it is still the Bavarians that master their own indigenous style the best, but there is no denying that this Mule interpretation is a very solid beer without any flaws, and that alone is quite an accomplishment for a microbrewery of less than a year old. Their focus on German styles fascinates me, too: let us see what they make of Kölsch, Alt or Münchener Helles, as these are apparently scheduled as well...

33cl can, BB 11/05/2022 achetée chez Cave Coop, Ixelles.
Dorée paille claire, col fin blanc.
Arôme est fin sur de fines effluves fruitées et fleuries et délicates du houblon - ce dernier est clairement sur de l'allemand. Retrouve un léger grains quik offre une note de concassé en rétro-nasal - malt pils. Le parfum qui se dégage est plaisant quoique classique.
Palais est classique - caractère lager oscillant sur un style allemand avec une sécheresse latente de grains - pils, ponctué par un houblonné noble avec une touche un peu terreuse, un fleuri plaisant sur une petite touche épicée. Retrouve une amertume plaisante avec une petite pointe rappelant le vin blanc/raisin - Riesling. Fini 'clean' et 'crisp' via la levure - bonne atténuation.

Pours unclear blonde to orange, small white head. Scent is banana, strong phenolic side (clove) . Fairly thick, intense. Taste is full, creamy, banana, tad sweet. Mild hoppyness (which is high for the style) . Very fun maltyness ! creamy, phenolic more in balance compared to the scent. Medium thick body, medium to medium high carbo. I enjoy the sweeter touch here!

Pours slightly hazed blonde. Small white head. Scent is sharp, crispy malts. Taste is sharp, bitter. The malts are surprisingly creamy and crisp. Way bettter than the scent made me expect. Medium body, medium high carbo. Very clean. Lovely drinkable lager, bit Helles-like.

33cl can, no BB. Première bière de cette brasserie nouvelle brasserie Schaerbeekoise qui se dédie aux styles allemands. Reste à espérer qu'il ne cédera pas sous la pression des IPA.
Couleur est blonde pâle trouble, col épais crémeux.
Arôme donne directement le bouquet classique allemande, de bons esters bien fruités - cloying, touche de banane et un léger rétro houblonné apportant de fines effluves de Hallertau (je suppose, le classique des Hefe) finement fleuri.
Palais est épais, un peu faiblard en effervescence mais correcte. Le tout est chargé en malt pils - froment- bready. Rondeur de bouche avec un léger côté amer-acidulé qui arrive en fin de bouche qui se combine avec un léger biscuité. Peut-être diminuer un chouia l'acide lactique qui ressort un peu trop en fin de bouche et enlève un peu de la rondeur 'pain' et grains.

De loin, la meilleure Hefe brassée à Bruxelles voire sur le pays - style clairement abandonné au profit de myriade d'ipa au lactose et purées de fruits.