Bottle. Hazy orange color with white head. Aroma is fruity hops, herbal, bready. Taste is bready, hoppy, earthy. Silky mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Ok.

Bottle. Hazy golden color with white head. Aroma is hoppy, fruity, gummibears, estery, Belgian yeast. Taste is the same. Oily mouthfeel with low carbonation. Decent!

Sampled @ Zythos Bier Festival 2018. A hazy golden beer with a small white head. Aroma of wheat, orange fruits, tangerine. Taste of zest, mild orange fruits, wheat, mild bitter finish.

Hazy blond. Aroma and flavour have plenty of citrusy notes. Some sweet lemony notes in the finish.

Hazy amber. Aroma and flavour have some sweet malts, slightly toasted. Floral hop bitterness.

Imported from my RateBeer account as du Clocher Philomène Florale (by Brasserie du Clocher):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5

28/IV/18 - shared @ Zythos Bierfestival 2018 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2018-554) Thanks to the ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!

Pretty cloudy blond beer, creamy yellowish head, unstable, falls down, bit adhesive. Aroma: banana peel, malty, soapy. MF: lively carbon, medium to light body. Taste: bit sourish, fruity, malty, grains, soapy. Aftertaste: bit floral, yeast, soapy touch.

Imported from my RateBeer account as du Clocher Philomène Hoptim Ale (by Brasserie du Clocher):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5

28/IV/18 - shared @ Zythos Bierfestival 2018 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2018-552) Thanks to the ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!

Little cloudy orange to amber beer, creamy beige head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: bit malty, floral, fruity touch. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish, fruity, caramel malts, bit sweet. Aftertaste: bitter, bit yeasty, metallic touch.

From a bottle bought online somewhere. Clocher's first, a classic Belgian blonde with thick and frothy, eggshell-white, large-bubbled but tightly knit, stable, hardly lacing head, slowly thinning over a hazy straw blonde beer with deeper peachy tinge. Very vegetable-like aroma of cooked salsify, hot leek soup, onion jam, stewed parsnip, banana, raw pineapple, pear, sourdough, curdled milk or even vague rancid butter, rotting ginger root, cold camomile tea, withering tulips, coriander, soggy old bags and - unfortunately - a late but unmistakable whiff of DMS (overcooked cauliflower) which just won't go away. Why is it that so many Belgian ales suffer from that horrible DMS odour? Cook your wort long enough guys, and make an effort to cool it down as quickly as possible afterwards! Fruity-estery onset, hugely overcarbonated with an almost painfully stinging mineral effect, covering impressions of only very vaguely sweetish green apple, unripe pear and raw pineapple, sourishness surrounding this basic fruit sweetishness, mouthfeel suffering from the overcarbonation. Slim, supple cereally middle, grainy with a thin bready edge, dryish, especially in the finish where a floral, grassy and 'green' herbal hop bitterishness manifests itself, providing confident yet still - from an international perspective at least - somewhat restrained bitterness as well as retronasal hints at camomile or other field flowers and straw; some background peachy sweetness lingers after swallowing. At the same time noble and (post)modern in its hop character, clearly floral indeed, but unfortunately plagued by late yet inevitable overcooked vegetable notes, as announced by the aroma, and this effect completely overwhelms the delicate floral potential that probably was once present in this brew. DMS really is an issue with this new Namur brewery for me; this particular beer is probably a bit too old already, as it makes a rather 'outworn' impression already. Probably significantly better when young from tap, but in this form: floral alright, sure, but the vegetable character (and not in a good way, if that were even possible) is much heavier here than the delicate wild flower notes provided by the hops. Guys, maybe it could help to have a look at what Brussels is doing in terms of graciously hoppy, light, elegant, internationally oriented ales - I really think you can learn from Ermitage, No Science and a few others. In this form, Mrs. Florale clearly has honorable intentions, but she has no idea how to handle hops, I'm afraid...

Draught at Diesters Bierfestival. Amber ale from one of these new Wallonian micro breweries, with very thick and frothy, coarse but tightly knit and very stable, cobweb-lacing, egg-white head and hazy amberish 'dark' peach blonde robe. Aroma of peaches, wet straw, moist white pepper, dried banana, old hazelnuts, ginger powder, old toast, dried field flowers, red apple peel, raw turnips and - in warming up - some vague DMS (overcooked green cabbage), alas. Fruity, mildly estery onset, hints of peach and banana but restrained in sweetness, some old apple peel notes, sourish touch, very sharply carbonated, a bit numbing. Smooth, bready and lightly caramelly, pleasantly rounded malt body with nutty features, finishing with retronasal spicy phenols but also a very confident, leafy, peppery and earthy, drying hop bitterness (even at 30 IBU), floral and rooty, even a tad tonic water-ish in the end. Powdery - if not 'starchy' - yeastiness shows up at the end too, fruitiness lingers a bit, alcohol remains perfectly hidden. Your classic Wallonian 'ambrée' again, but less sweet and a tad 'cleaner' than usual in this specific segment; firmly hopped, which seems to be well-balanced with the yeasty fruit notes and the malt sweetness and lasts for a while. Decent, better than expected really, but too bad for the light DMS hint in the nose.

Pours dark unclear amber, huge white head. Smell is rather malty, bit caramelly, some yeast (esthers ) . Taste is full yeasty (esthers) bitter ( I guess that was kinda what the beer is about ) some caramel-maltyness, bit toasty. Not really a fan as the esthers are to straight-forward and don't fir the 'style' they were inspired by, nor does it work in the endresult beer.