(sample, bottle) Hazy golden. Huge white head. Spicy, perfume, fruity. Medium body. Some weird taste.

33cl bottle from a trade with JefVerstraete, thanks! A slightly hazy yellow golden beer with a big froothy off-white head. Aroma of fruity hops, sweet malt, citrus. Taste of citrusy and herbal bitter hops, pale malt, yeast, high carbonation.

Bottle 33cl. @home poured into a shaker. Hazy pale golden colour, tall irregular white frothy head, dissipating slowly, patchy lacing. Aroma pale malts, floral hops, stone fruit, jujube, light citrus. Taste medium sweet and bitter, malty, grapefruit, spicy notes. Medium body, oily texture, dry bittersweet aftertaste, some chalky notes, a very solid IPA, very nice.

One of two beers made by this 'bierfirma' created by agriculturist and brewer Nicolas Flammang and aspiring engineer Maxence Deboeck in 2019, brewing at Sainte-Lazare in Mons, 60 km southwest of Waterloo. Huge, egg-white, inches thick, plaster-lacing, pillowy head - impossible to pour this beer in a glass without filling it with foam - on a misty pale straw blonde robe with vague khaki tinge and fierce, champenoise sparkling everywhere. Aroma of fresh wormwood leaf, grass, pumice, dry strawbales, minerals (and stinging carbon dioxide initially - not a surprise), lemon blossom hint (the Citra speaking, delicately), freshly cut green apple, pineapple cubes, soap, sawdust, even white paper. Spritzy onset, dryish, some fruity notes of green banana, Granny Smith apple and unripe pear, light sweetish pineapple touch somewhere, lots of mouth-filling fizz of course - yet less painfully stinging than I was expecting, primarily bringing a lot of minerality; supple base, slender pale malt sweetishness yet nowhere actually sweet, instead rather dry and grainy, under ongoing carbon dioxide effects, minerality and restrained 'green' fruitiness, until a confident, grassy and peppery hop bitterness sets in, lasting medium long but nicely 'filling' the finish which would otherwise have been quite empty. The hop bitterness becomes a tad rooty in the end even, but even if a faint glimpse of citrus peel is noticeable, fails to express itself retronasally 'the American way' - in other words: the sheer personality of the Citra remains understated, with only a faint lemon-zestiness pushing through. Feels like a light Belgian bitter blonde or indeed saison and not really like an actual Anglo-Saxon session IPA, in all, but having said that - and ignoring the overcarbonation - I must admit that it quenches the thirst, has no brewing flaws and remains sleek and clean, more so than I have seen in other attempts at ISA in Belgium made here and there in the past years. Not a bad beer in se, but this is a decent blonde or saison and nowhere a true IPA of any kind - and I am pretty sure their other IPA will match the same description. Oh well, it's a beginning, I guess, we all have to learn, don't we...