6.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Quite good, dense, caramel-tinted head over foxy, darker amber beer. Sweetish, woody, wet grain, caramel, cardboard. Darker green leaves, caramel, watercolour paint; finish has a weird just-not-sourishness, drier. Oxydized malts. Medium bodied, well-carbonated, quite slick. A thirteen to the dozen Belgian. This kind was here already 40 years ago, and it wasn't even exciting then. Txs to Stef!

6

A clear orange golden beer with a white lacing. Aroma of breadish and caramelized malt, toffee. Taste of caramelized malt, bread, toffee, interesting.

4.1

Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Trockener, wenig würziger Beginn. Etwas brotig, wenig bitter, laff. Kein Nachgeschmack. 8/6/6/6/8/6

6.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from somewhere.
A: hazy amber, small, frothy, off-white head.
A: plum, apple, soap, soggy bread, hay.
T: sweetish apple, pear, wheat & bready malts.
F: soft grassy hops, hay, some lemon & soap.
P: medium body, slick texture, average carbonation.
Okay, tad boring.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

33cl bottle from Prik&Tik Kampenhout, Belgium and my brewery #1600 and also my beer #3200 from Belgium. F: big, white, good retention. C: amber, hazy with yeasty flakes. A: malty, bready, citrus, lychee, red apples peels, bit caramel, floral. T: medium malty base, citrus, red apples, peach, banana, spicy, bit hay, yeasty touch, nice balanced bitterness, medium carbonation, good one, enjoyed.

5

Homebrew flavors... Hmmm... Not going to finish this. Bottle conditioning killed the hop flavors.

6.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

4/VII/22 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent), shared @ scouting camp, BB: 6/I/23, lot 2012/P278 (2022-856)

Clear orange beer, big aery irregular yellowish to white head, unstable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: fruity, lots of apples and pears, pretty yeasty smell, a bit metallic. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty, whole grain bread, a bit yeasty, oxidized touch, more yeast, fruity, apples, pretty bitter. Aftertaste: more bitterness, some apple skin, almost tastes like a cider, more yeast, a bit sweet, metallic touch.

7.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

First beer from this new microbrewery in Geraardsbergen southwest of Aalst, with a name referring to the fact that beer in Belgium is sometimes called liquid bread (or indeed 'glazen boterham'), a nod to the shared origins of beer and bread. Very thick, foamy, pillowy, thickly plaster-like lacing, dense, eggshell-white head, hazy peach blonde robe with orange glow - but nothing truly 'amber', contrary to what the front label states. Aroma of dried orange peel, bread crust, old 'beschuit', clove, dried basil, peach, hints of grass, dry hay, field flowers, dust, touch caramel. Moderately fruity onset, sweetish but not too much so, hinting at peach, red apple and a whiff of banana in the background, lively carbonated with minerally side effects adding 'fraîcheur' without being overcarbonated, supple body; smooth bread-crusty and rusk-like maltiness, a tad grainy around the edges, dryish with a floral hop bitterness taking over in the end, making for a dry, spicy, somewhat leafy finish, in which clove-like phenols and remainders of those mild fruity esters play around as well. Something 'dusty' lingers throughout the beer as well, but this does not disturb me, it adds a kind of rustic and rural character to the beer, in an almost saison-esque kind of way. Not too shabby, this first attempt at commercial brewing; accessible and traditionally Belgian alright, but in good way, i.e. well-hopped, dryish and quenching, not overly yeasty and well balanced. Not amber-coloured, though: this is just another Belgian blonde, but a very decent one, with saison-like features. Better than expected, really...