Imported from my RateBeer account as Delhaize Ben's Belgian White (Ben Vinken) (by Delhaize):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5

11/XI/15 - 75cl bottle from local Delhaize supermarket @ home - BB: 22/VII/17 (2015-1548)

Little cloudy pale milky white beer, creamy big white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: coriander, citrus, fruity, some banana, bit floral, yeast. MF: lots of carbon, medium to light body. Taste: citrus, bit sourish, lots of coriander, spicy. Aftertaste: dry, bit sourish, orange peel, some citrus, banana, yeast.

Bottle at Kulminator. Hazy golden with a white head. Nothing special with this one. Bread, light grass and some yeast

Bottle shared at home, thanks to kermis for the bottle. Clear dark golden with small off white head. Caramel, quite some tannins, red wine, caramel, quite spicy, light funk and quite some tropical fruit Brett notes. Light sweet and bitter. Under medium bodied with dry feel. Decent.

Clear warm golden colour, white head. Aroma of citrus, zest, white wine. Light sweet flavour, citrus, light fruity. Fruity finish, wood. Interesting experiment, although the differences between the bottles are quite subtle. The least outspoken of the series.
(from 75cL bottle @ Cat’s place. Thanks for sharing, Cat!)

Clear warm golden colour, white head. Aroma of wood, light zest, wood, brett. Light sour sweet flavour, wood, caramel, red fruits. Light astringent. Fruity finish, leather, wood. Interesting experiment, although the differences between the bottles are quite subtle.
(from 75cL bottle @ Cat’s place. Thanks for sharing, Cat!)

Clear warm golden colour, white head. Aroma of light citrus, zest, wood. Light sweet flavour, toast, caramel, red fruits. Light astringent. Fruity finish, wood. Interesting experiment, although the differences between the bottles are quite subtle.
(from 75cL bottle @ Cat’s place. Thanks for sharing, Cat!)

This year’s autumn beer in Ben’s series, sold only at Delhaize supermarkets. Apparently Ben Vinken is trying to go through most of the classic Belgian ale styles, in this case a witbier. Champagne bottle opens with a loud bang, but no gushing. Very thickly and persistently cobweb lacing, ’paperish’, coarse, egg-white head over a straw yellow blonde beer, misty from the start and indeed looking exactly the same as Hoegaarden and all its epigones. Aroma is quite agreeable yet stereotypical: very strong, almost artificial bubblegum sweetness paired with more crisp Granny Smith apples, banana, lavender soap, freshly cut nettles, canned apricot, coriander seed but not as obtrusive as I had feared, hints of mandarin, earth, white bread, clear wheat and fresh grass. Spritzy onset, feeling almost like sparkling mineral water and therefore rather overcarbonated, with a crisp fruitiness of pear, pineapple, ripe gooseberry and the unavoidable, strong, sweet banana. Middle phase seems to continue this banana and bubblegum flavour, with a lean, supple, somewhat oily, only lightly bready maltiness to it along with ’soapy’ wheat as if you’re pouring down some industrially made white bread in liquid form. Finish reveals the eternal coriander of course, rendering a resiny, bittersweet touch as it always does, but it cannot even compete with the bubblegum sweetishness persisting all the way through. Some dried citrus peel fraîcheur appears in the end; hop bitterness is nowhere to be seen, apart from a very vague and purely structural, deeply and very faintly bittering presence as is custom in this style. Coriander lingers as expected, also retronasally and even quite strongly so, but it remains the bubblegum (and banana candy) taste which bothers me the most and overpowers even the wheat character to some extent; this goes for the overcarbonation as well, and I also get a vague hint of subtle plastic-like flavours. I do not like either witbier or the character Ben Vinken too much and tried to stay as objective about this as possible, but I remain unimpressed, certainly if compared to some of the six previous beers he has commissioned at Anders; this is basically another Hoegaarden clone, as there are already too many on the Belgian market especially considering the fact this style is already past its climax commercially, but apparently the ’Belgian bubblegum’ quality has received a certain dominance over the expected and ubiquitous coriander soup effect. What frustrates me the most about this beer style, is that great ’deviations’ have been made (I think of Wallonian ’tarwedubbels’ like Saisis and Honelles), but when it comes to commercial considerations, it is still, in all, the old Hoegaarden standard which reigns, with even a bit less spiciness than usual in this particular case. I expect more from the next Ben’s: a "wood aged" version of last year’s Strong Dark...