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Several brewers in both Belgium and the Netherlands are experimenting with food waste for ethical and environmental reasons, mostly with old bread; the Wilde Brouwers in Merelbeke near Ghent have of course an entire history of recycling waste, having attracted media attention some years ago by creating beer from recycled urine, so this one, the latest addition to their range, comes as no surprise. Thanks Jonathan! Mousy, pale yellowish beige, slowly dissipating but generally stable, medium sized head on a misty dark chocolate brown beer with ruddy-bronze hue. Aroma of dried fig, caramel, dried (indeed 'old') brown bread, dried apple peel, old nut shells, minerals, dust, old raisins. Dryish onset, fruity with aspects of fig and red apple, quite stinging carbonation, sourish undertone; bit resinous, hard-caramelly and indeed brown-bready body, ending in a dusty yeasty character, a tad 'dirty' (old nut shells) in the end even, remaining low in hop bitterness apart from a late earthy bitter note. The 'old bread' aspect is almost painfully clear in this one, but it is still an enjoyable, distinct and interesting beer with a rather unusual profile. I'm not completely convinced, though.

17/03/2019 @home - 33cl bottle shared by tderoeck. Clear blonde, medium white head. Nose is malts, yeast, bit spice. Taste is malts, bit yeast, bit hops, bit floral, medium bitter ending, some honey when warming up.

Imported from my RateBeer account as De Wilde Brouwers Flora 3.5 (by De Wilde Brouwers):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5

17/III/19 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent), shared @ the Beerknight's castle, BB: 30/XI/19 - (2019-389)
Clear blond to orange beer, big aery creamy white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: fruity, some peaches, banana, some sulphur, sourish impression. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sweet, very malty, bit sourish, fruity, soft bitterness. Aftertaste: hoppy, bitter, herbal, soft acidity, very decent lager!

One of the latest beers by Wilde Brouwers near Ghent, an organic pale lager (with Certisys logo) below the average ABV - so a 'session lager', in a sense. Old school 'export' bottle (33 cl) from an organic food store in Ghent, stumbled upon this by coincidence and strangely - despite living in Ghent - haven't encountered it anywhere else so far. Very thick, egg-white, very dense and mousy, paper-lacing, very regular head towering over a lightly hazy, ochre-ish straw blonde beer, shifting to a cloudy, deeper 'dirty'-peachy blonde with sediment. Aroma of moist old bread, sourdough even, pumice, potato juice, field flowers (camomile), grass, cooked turnip, dry earth, vague unripe pear, hard green banana, minerals, clay, sourish old sweat-like note, light background DMS (sulfuric cooked vegetables). Spritzy onset, very vividly carbonated, very minerally (bit calcium-like even) and notably souring, with very light fruity notes (green banana, unripe pear), doughy malt body, cereally with a sourish edge, quite 'fluffy' thanks to being unfiltered, bready, with the yeast adding some extra breadiness in the finish, where minerally side flavours linger alongside an indeed floral, if otherwise unconspicuous and bit hayish hop bitterness. This hoppiness lasts medium long, quite pleasant really, with traces of breadiness accompanying it. Some vague off-flavours here and there - possibly related to this bottle not having been stored properly as well - but otherwise a fine, rounded, bready and sufficiently hoppy pale lager; the organic aspect is a plus for people interested in this concept, but more interestingly for the beer geek, is the fact that the yeast that has remained inside, adds a 'fluffy' breadiness and extra flavours in a way similar to German Kellerbier, albeit less refined and a bit more roughly so. Still, a very decent alternative to bland, filtered and pasteurized industrial pale lager, that much is certain. Reminds me a bit of that Picus pilsener I encountered at the Bourgoyen last summer (Ghent's natural reserve).

Sampled at Zythos Beer Festival 2018. Bright amber color tan head with solid lacing. Aroma of burnt caramel and butterscotch. Taste is tart toasted caramel with a bitter finish

New Belgian amber beer by this ambitious Ghentian brewing project, sampled at Goeste; apparently made in collaboration with a bakery and brewed with remains of organic bread. Thin, bit loosely bound, moussy, fizzy, yellowish off-white, opening head on a lightly hazy, coppery amber coloured beer. Aroma of candied orange peel, soggy peanuts, sweetbread, red apple, dried strawberry, candied fig, brown bread crust, gingerbread, coriander seed. Rather 'cleanly' fruity onset, sweetish with ripe pear and red apple notes, dried banana and fig, sourish side note, medium carb, slick and bit resinous mouthfeel. Minerally side effects accompany a smooth, nutty and caramelly malt sweetish backbone with mildly toasty bitterish edges; ends with an earthy, bit leafy hop bitter note and spicy, coriander-ish notes, a bit earthy in the end with lingering residual sweetness, though not too cloying. Not an unpleasant amber beer at all, in any case surpassing the quality levels of their previous beers in my opinion in the absence of sulfuric off-flavours, but a tad too sweet - could do with less residual sugariness and perhaps a somewhat more confident toasted bitterness.

Sampled at zbf 2018. Thnx for sharing, everyone! Pours unclear, darker amber. Small white head. Smell is mild coffee like, tad tart even. Taste is sharp. Yeasty. Sweet, malty (pale malts) OK.

28/04/2018 – 10cl glass shared with an international ratebeer crew @ZBF2018 Brown colour. Nose is malts, bit nuts, herbal. Taste is bit sweet malty, caramel, bread, nice moufhfeel. Nice aftertaste. Interesting.

Mild alkoholischer, süffig herber Beginn. Spritzig, trocken bitter, laffer Hintergrund. Okay. 10/8/8/8//8