@ 2018

@ 2018

@ 2018

@ 2018

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

23/VIII/20 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared @ holidays (France), BB: 26/IX/21 (2020-816) Thanks to Wim VL for the trade!

Clear dark brown to black beer, big dense beige head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: nice roast, some swimming pool, milk chocolate, coffee. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: soft sweetness, good roast, pretty bitter, grains, malty, hay, cow fodder. Aftertaste: grains, sweet touch, caramel notes, hoppy, bit resinous, good bitter roast, sort of a black IPA, this concept!

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

1/VIII/20 - 33cl bottle from Au Village Gourmand (Dinant), shared @ my parents’ place, BB: 6/II/22 (2020-705)

Pretty clear yellowish beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly, bit adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, some citrus, ripe banana, bit spicy, oxidized, malty, some almonds. MF: lively carbon, medium to light body. Taste: oxidized, bit sourish, almond cookies, soft bitterness, sweet notes, ripe banana, malty. Aftertaste: grains, slightly sourish, bit lemony, soft bitterness, bit grassy, some coriander, more almonds, oxidized, bit spicy.

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

(bottle) hazy, bright orange amber colour with a small white head; aroma of smoke, peat; assertive, balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

One of several Fée beers by Valduc, longneck bottle with synthetic sticker depicting a fairy that is half male and half female apparently, generally looking modern (if a bit kitschy) but weirdly failing to show a formal ingredients list... Opens with a lot of pressure (and a sharp hissing sound), followed by slow gushing, but perfectly manageable if you keep an eye on it. Loose-bubbled, irregular, shred-lacing, coarse, off-white, quickly opening head (the structure of a typical 'gusher head' if you see what I mean), misty golden blonde with near-pinkish-tinged apricot hue but turning into an ugly, muddy, opaque ochre with sediment. Lightly herbal yet otherwise rather neutral aroma of freshly cut green apples, white bread, dried kitchen herbs (thyme, perhaps), grass, old crumbled cookies, green pear, hints of ground pistachio nuts, melting plastic, strong 4-vinyl-guaiacol (spicy and even slightly 'chemical' phenols), echo of lemon-scented handsoap. Fizzy, crisp onset, fruity in a rather subdued and 'pale green' kind of way, unripe banana, green pear, freshly cut apple, sweetish with a slight sourish edge, very minerally, stingy carbonation, slick cereally and lightly bready malt sweetish middle with a soapy and grainy note (spelt?), minerally and 'green-fruity' notes follow, floral hop bitter finish but gently so with those weird and strong, spicy and somewhat 'medicinal' phenolic effect returning retronasally. Rubbery, grassy and herbal accents trail behind. Weird little beer, intended to please both men and women apparently - which in itself is kind of sexist if you ask me - but it hardly pleases me in any case; much too phenolic, in a not very flattering way, and overcarbonated. Apart from that, departing from a rather uninspired premise as well... Not impressed at all, but still drinkable enough.

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

33cl bottle from (9,5%) Carrefour Market Cours St. Michel in Brussels. F: bit, tan, good retention. C: dark brown, hazy. A: malty, chocolate, caramel, herbal, bit nutty, spoiled bread. T: malty, chocolate, bit earthy, caramel, bit smoked, spoiled grainy, leaves, medium dry on the palate, medium body and carbonation, bit warming alcohol, bit messy all together not very good for me, drinkable but nothing I would like to buy again.

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

33cl bottle from Carrefour Market Cours St. Michel in Brussels. F: big, white, almost good retention. C: pale gold, hazy. A: malty, vaguely citrus, bit orange, spicy, bit floral. T: medium malty base, orange, spicy, grassy, dry on the palate, bit earthy, ok nothing really special yet without flaws, bit higher carbonation, enjoyed.