Bottle@Yesprs - golden pour with small white head. Aroma and taste is fruity and light malty, yeasty, some honey sweetness, not bad.

33 cl bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow, huge white head. Aroma is citrusy, slight grassy. Light herbal, spiced and toasted. Dry, bitter and spiced. Lingering dry to herbal finish.

Amber ale from a new ’beer company’ brewing at Millevertus, apparently. Bottle from Willems. Opening it over the sink proved to be the right decision: heavy gusher, beer streamed out of the bottle upon opening. What I am left with, is a coppery amber coloured beer with a thick fog of yeast bits clouding the entire robe; head is pale yellowish white, lacing, with a dense, creamy texture. Aroma strongly dominated by damp forest floor, otherwise hints of dry hay, hazelnut, soggy bread, earthy turnips, old dried thyme, tea leaves, peanuts, jute, dried orange peel, some faint ’old painted furniture’-like phenols and vague H2S (rotting egg) - clearly (re)fermentation went wrong here. Taste kicks off with dried banana, some redcurrant, red apple peel, medium strong carbo, deep sourish hint even to the point where I am beginning to suspect light bacterial infection, further strengthened by a vague lactic acidity further onwards in the palate. Underneath lies a deeply toasted and nutty, bittersweet malt character. Finishes in lingering malts and heavy ’dirty’ baker’s yeast along with the - subtle but omnipresent - deep sourishness, remaining esters and earthy, leafy, ’dull’ hop bitterness enhancing the toasted character of the malts; a very (overly) bready yeastiness remains. The overall impression is clearly, and I hate to use this word, ’dirty’: this is a mediocre idea badly executed. Sorry, but I do not see the point in this beer at all. I have had worse Wallonian ’ambrées’ than this, in the sense of being even more badly infected, but this is far from enjoyable in this form, I’m afraid.

Coppery with an off-white head that quickly diminishes. Aroma has notes of caramel and light toasty. Flavor is sweet but not cloying, medium maltiness with caramelish and yeasty hints. The final is sweet with some bready notes.

Hazy pale golden color with a white head with good retention and nice lacework. Aroma has notes of citrus hops, light yeast and fruitness. Flavor has a moderate bitterness, very fresh hops with yeasty notes. Final with a slightly sweetness and creamy mouthfeel.

bottle from Maison de la Bière Reims. Golden colour, mid-sized white head. Full-bodied, bitter-sweet overall impression. Citrusy and resiny hops dominate,

bottle from Maison de la Bière Reims. Slightly hazy golden colour, fluffy white head. Malty base with a shy sweetness. Shy aromatic hops. A touch of citrus fruit is present.

More a Belgian-style barley wine, if such a thing exists, than a tripel. Warm, deep orange amber colour, hazy; rich aroma of peach, blood orange, white wine, Grand Marnier, lemon zest, brandy, rose petals, caramel. Very fruity sweet taste, peach with vanilla, caramel malts, smooth, spicy, citrussy, floral hops in the finish, more aromatic than bitter, agreeable warming alcohol. If you don’t look at this as a tripel, it is quite an enjoyable and warming brew.