12 August 2021. At Brouwbar. Cheers to Maarten! Hazy golden, thinning, white head. Aroma of banana, apple peel, plum, biscuit, honey, straw, Taste has sour plum, apple & lemon in a wheaty, bready malt profile, bit funky with spicy notes. Tart, fruity finish, notes of apple, hay & lemon. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Elegant & pleasant.

12 August 2021. At Brouwbar. Cheers to Maarten! Clear golden, thin, foamy, white head. Aroma of starfruit, kiwi, banana, apple, honey, lemongrass. Taste has sweetish apple & pear, sourish starfruit, bready malt & some wheat, touch of honey. Floral hoppy finish, yellow fruit & yeast, very soft alcohol hint (jenever). Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation. Clean & sympathetic.

shared by tderoeck

Bottle provided by Benjamin - many thanks! Hazy ochre, small, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of oxidized melon, strawberry, peach, grape, biscuit, vague lychee, herbal mix, thyme. Taste has sweetish melon, strawberry & tangerine, hint of zesty lime & citrus in a bready malty profile. Bitter, herbal & earthy hoppy finish, touch of grapefruit and crisp citrus (in a dried-out way). Medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. Sure, past its prime, but nice to have tried.

30 June 2021. At Brouwbar. Shared with Anke! Clear amber, stable, foamy, tan head; some lacing. Aroma of herbal cheese, hard mango, biscuit, thyme, grape, peanut, golden raisin, bread crust. Taste has sweetish pear, apple, vague mango (diluted in a way, almost) over a biscuity malty base with herbal & light spicy accents, bit nutty too. Herbal & slightly piney hoppy finish, hard stonefruit & biscuit lingering. Medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. Extremely clean, tight; indeed interesting to think about it as a traditional Pale Ale.

7/VIII/21 - 33cl bottle from the brewery, shared @ home, BB: 27/VII/21 (2021-740)

Clear orange blond beer, small creamy white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: banana, very yeasty, bit malty, grains, little herbal. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very sweet start, ripe banana, fruity, alcohol. Aftertaste: little bitter, yeasty, sweet, lots of alcohol, oxidized, banana peel.

New Brouwbar beer (at the end of July), a remake of one of their first recipes - glad porter came back, albeit in altered form. Medium thick, stable, quite creamy, pale yellowish-beige head on a deep chocolate brown robe, almost black but still with burgundy hue. Aroma of toffee, damp autumn leaves, blueberries, moldy hazelnuts, unsugared yoghurt, hard caramel, rainwater, Ersatz chocolate, brambleberries. Fruity onset in a 'dark' kind of way, prunes and blackberry, elderberry perhaps, medium carbonated with a smooth, slick mouthfeel, remaining low in sweetness but with noticeable lactic-sour undertone; this tart edge continues alongside a hard-nutty, brown bread crust- and chicory-like dark maltiness with a sweetish caramel and biscuit aspect in its core. Herbal, earthy aspects in the finish, as in damp forest floor, moldy hazelnut and that sour milk or yoghurt tartness accentuating it. May be a tad infected, with a slight 'dirtiness' in the end, but seen from a historical perspective, one should not be too skeptical about this: porters were often consumed soured in the 19th century, in varying blends of young and older beer, so a sour streak is as natural to this genre as coriander is to Gose. I do not mind it, in any case, and will probably have this one again during my next Brouwbar visit.

Sour saison (hence 'farmhouse ale', which is much more often associated with sourness than classic 'saison') by Brouwbar, tasted in avant-première at the pub - thanks Jolien! Moussy, snow white, small-bubbled, breaking and opening head on a misty apricot blonde beer with vaguely ochre-ish tinge. Aroma initially showing quite a lot of diacetyl (buttermilk), hovering over impressions of sour white yoghurt, sourdough, green apple, white bread, raw potato juice, peach, something sweaty. Softly but consistently tart in the mouth, peach, green apple and vague grape fruitiness, medium carbonated with minerally accents here and there; yoghurty tartness gently continues over a soft bready body, feeling a bit fluffy rather than severely dried by the sourness - the latter primarily accentuating the fruity character of the beer. Some floral hop notes appear (late) in the end, but bitterness remains mild and it is the diacetyl which comes up retronasally again. Too young, clearly, but I think this brew has the potential to improve with age when the diacetyl has faded as it tends to do; I wonder how this lactic sourness will evolve in the coming weeks, too, so I will probably do a re-rating of this one next time I am at Brouwbar.