Bottle, as Vermeersen Een Gewiekt Lammegentje. Color: Clear golden, white head. Aroma: Grainy. Taste: Malty, grainy, light hints of butter. Moderate sweet, very light hopbitterness. Medium body, average carbonation. Mwah...

Bottle 25cl. @home poured into a shaker. Clear pale amber, good moussy white head, half-way lasting, fair lacing. Aroma sweet malt, grain, yeast, hay. Taste medium sweet and light bitter, malty, grain, yeast, diacetyl notes. Medium body, creamy texture, average carbonation, semi-dry sweetbitter aftertaste, okay.

Crispy, light malty aroma. Big and long tan head, dark brown to rugby color. Medium sweet, a little acidity, light bitterness. Medium body, creamy texture, long aftertaste.

Golden colour with light haze and fluffy head. Really nice refreshing beer. Solid hop bitterness. Malty base.

Slow gushing to very huge, lightly yellowish head over veiled yellow beer, furiously bubbling. Some lace. Quite spicy nose, grains and herbs. Diary, coriander, fake citrus. Much the same in the mouth: dull, almost oppressive herbs & spices. Peppery malts, clove. Quite creamy MF, yet rather on the overcarbonated side; medium bodied. Tripel version of... somewhere halfway Weizen and wit. Yet: dull.

‘Pilsener’ by this old brewery in Hulst, Zeeland, which I have visited on several occasions when I still lived close to the Belgo-Dutch border; this bottle comes from the Plus supermarket in Breskens, though. Snow white, membrane-lacing, large-bubbled, moussy, slowly dissipating head; initially clear pale straw blonde robe (very pale in fact) with visible sparkling, turning misty and a tad deeper golden blonde further on. Aroma of wet leftover dough, damp straw, withering grass, wet white paper, raw potato juice, minerals and something vaguely sweaty. Neutral onset, fizzy and minerally carb; slender, grainy body with somewhat sourish undertone which persists till the end, with a ‘wet towel’-like effect thinly draped over a feeble and simple cereally core. Floral hops add mild but adequate end bitterness, a bit grassy in the end, while these sweaty and sourish aspects persist, preventing the beer from becoming truly refreshing – and exactly that, in my humble opinion, is what plagues it. Nevertheless it does have a genuine and ‘pure’ kind of feel to it, which I can certainly appreciate, in comparison with the mass-marketed ‘macro lagers’.

Bottled (as Halve Maan Java Triple). Hazy orange colour with a mediumsizedfoamy white head. Aroma is citrus, some leather, yeast, zest and overall quite sweet. Flavour is citrus, some bitter grassy and herbal notes, mild lemongrass along with some slight spiciness.