Dark golden color, white frothy head with short retention. Aroma has malty notes with marzipan hints. Flavor is light sweet, notes of cookies, alcohol is highly present, unbalanced. Light bitterness in the final, alcoholic mouthfeel.

5th November 2016
High Wycombe House Warming. Thanks to Leighton. As ’Printemps’. Almost clear gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Smooth palate, semi dry. Soft pale malts. Smooth floral. Mild citrus. Floral tangy finish. Fine.

Bottle at RBWG Grand Tasting. Pours a clear yellow with medium frothy white head that lasts. The aroma is wheat, spice, grass. Medium body, wheat, dough, pepper, metallic finish, ok.

Bière de garde from a 75 cl bottle at Velootje in Ghent. Very thick and rocky, egg-white, fluffy, thickly cobweb-lacing head over a misty pale amber coloured beer with peachy orange hue, cloudy with sediment. Aroma suffers from lightstruck effect (ammonia - green bottle!), covering more flattering hints of dried apricot, straw, jute, white pepper, apple peel, clove-like phenols, toasted bread, old cake, sourdough, parsley, unripe plums, pear, green tomatoes. Mildly fruity onset, peach, vague banana and sourish redcurrant, fizzy carbo - bit overcarbonated in fact, but otherwise smooth and lean mouthfeel. Grainy, lightly nutty and somewhat caramelly malt core, a touch toasted bitter in the end, matching with grassy and peppery hop bitterishness, a tad earthy, dryish and yeasty with fruity esters lingering in the back of the mouth. Decent enough, too bad for that lightstruck smell but after this fades away, this is an enjoyable albeit very stereotypical French ale.

Bottle at The High WyCum tasting, Chez Bois, thanks to LKS 05/11/16. Light haze on a golden blonde pour with moderate off white covering. Nose is bready, straw, lemon drizzle, straw. Taste comprises toasted grains, lemon drizzle, straw, light bread, farmyard light. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close. Average.

Bottle shared at the hi wy cum. Tasting, 5/11/2016. A pale golden yellow coloured pour with a a fine white head. Aroma is peppermint, light subdued, slightly oxidised. Pale grains. Flavour is composed of pale straw grains, vanilla, cereal grains. Orange. Flavour is composed of semi sweet grains, saison, peppermint, pale grains, little oxidisaed. Palate is light grainy, highish carbonation, crisp.

Bottle shared in High Wicombe - picked up online. Pours clear gold with a creamy, white head. The nose has some dry dough, wheat, yeast, faint citrus, straw, cereal grains. Light sweet flavour with simple doughy wheat, some impressions of tangerine, melon. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Sweet in the finish, with more melon, tangerine, wheat flakes. Basic but enjoyable.

75cl bottle shared with my Belgian father in law Eric as he happily sang the old war song that this beer is named after. Pours clear gold, thin white head. Aroma is soft farmhouse grains. Taste is smooth floral hops with a curious lightly sticky caramel sweetness, almost honey-like. I guess this could be the buckwheat? Interesting with some additional gueuze-like floral notes, but not convinced by the sweet aspects.

Keyaki fall 2016. Wheat on the nose with light apricot and stone fruit notes. Light and easy drinking with some peppery yeast notes. --- Beer merged from original tick of L'Angelus on 18 Sep 2016 at 14:17 - Score: 5