5/X/19 - 33cl bottle from the brewer @ Amabieris tasting (Gentse Biervereniging), BB: 1/VI/21 - (2019-1715) Thanks to Ama Deke for the beer selection!

Slightly cloudy blond to light orange beer, with a pink shine to it. No head. Aroma: fruity, bit of a sweet impression, some honey, floral notes. MF: soft carbon, medium to light body. Taste: very acidic, bitter, dry, some tannins, slightly fruity, metallic touch. Aftertaste: little bitter, super acidic, soft fruitiness, more bitterness, lemon juice, a little too bitter to my liking, for a sour fruit beer.

5/X/19 - 33cl bottle from the brewer @ Amabieris tasting (Gentse Biervereniging), BB: 1/VI/21 - (2019-1714) Thanks to Ama Deke for the beer selection!

Clear pale blond to light yellow beer, small to no head, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty fruity, some citrus, lemony, passion fruits, funky touch, nice! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice acidity, lemon juice, soft bitterness, very fruity, orange peel. Aftertaste: nice acidity, bit metallic, fruity notes, lovely clean acidity, some raspberries, really well done, love it!

17 August 2019. At Gents Bierfestival X. Cheers to Anke, Kevin & the crew! Clear pale golden, no head. Aroma of gooseberry, starfruit, kiwi, lemon, lime, tangerine, spruce, garden herbs. Taste is light to medium fruity sour, lemony notes supplemented by unripe mandarin & gooseberry, yeasty & wheaty character supporting bitter pepper, grass, herbs, faint sweetish apple in the back. Dry, tart, fruity finish, some grassy hops, lots of wheat, yeast & herbs lingering, medicinal almost. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Very remarkable twist to a BW, enjoyable. 5 October 2019. At Amabieris Tasting. Cheers to Ama Deke & Ghent beer crew! From the bottle. More apparent basil in the aroma, but in an old, bit 'wet' manner. Mint, lemon, soap, detergent perhaps (wc-blokjes, dixit Ama). Taste is still quite solid, with a stronger herbal quality in the middle & into the finish. Less enjoyable now, but I'll keep the original rating.

Straw blond with quite fizzy, foamy head. Aroma does have some basil and is a little metallic too. Lightly tart. Decent body for a Beliner Weisse. Finish has basil and Ouzo (aniseed).

Experimental, basil-flavoured Berliner Weisse by this somewhat underexposed yet fascinating Ghent ‘bierfirma’, thanks to the brewer for offering the last bottle available at Gents Bierfestival, shared with my girlfriend Goedele. Snow white, medium thick, irregularly lacing, opening head on a pale straw blonde, misty robe with somewhat greenish tinge. Aroma of raw gherkins, chalk, sour yoghurt, indeed basil but in a ‘withered’ and preserved kind of way rather than in-your-face fresh basil leaves, green apples, lemon peel, piccalilly. Crisp onset with green apple, raw ‘courgette’ and pumpkin impressions, fizzy carbonation, soapy wheat body dried by yoghurty lactic sourness though not too sharply so; chalky aspect in the finish (as is so often the case in this style) with a lot of basil retronasally, but again in a ‘distorted’ kind of way, dried and / or withered and combined with other flavours lending it another ‘colour’ than what you normally get from fresh basil (and what you get in e.g. Lindemans’ Spontanbasil, to name another basil beer); lingering, very refreshing lemony sourness in the end, low hop bitterness (only ‘structural’). Well-composed, highly interesting beer: in its base, this is indeed an accomplished and typical Berliner Weisse, but the basil adds a very expressive, somewhat mysterious herbal quality to it that I have never encountered in a sour before. I came to understand that this is one of several Berliner Weisse experiments from Laatste Drinker so if they all follow this pattern, then cheers Jerôme, bring them on!

Imported from my RateBeer account as De Laatste Drinker Reinickendorf (by De Laatste Drinker):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5

18/VIII/19 - on tap @ Gents Bierfestival, BB: n/a - (2019-1295)
Clear pale yellowish beer, no head. Aroma: bit oxidized, orange peel, fruity, bit dirty, floral. MF: soft carbon, medium to light body. Taste: bit watery, malty, grains, hay. Aftertaste: some grapefruit, bitter touch, orange peel, metallic, soft bitterness, more metallic, nice.

No head; clear pale golden beer. Very herbal/pharmaceutical, lavender, cypress. More of the same, lavender, rosemary, garden herbs, some restsugars. Quite slik but light. Rather low carbonation. It's no surprise that I can't find any basil in the flavours. Basil often seems to disappear, giving hints of other herbs.

Compliqué de trouver une ligne directrice à cette bière qui part dans tous les sens avec de surcroit un équilibre médiocre. Pas réellement emballant donc. En verre nous sommes sur un blond orangé trouble, une effervescence poussée avec de très fines bulles et une mousse blanc cassé de 5 mm. Le nez est sur les fruits jaunes (pêche, abricot, ananas), une pointe de citron et du caramel. Peu enthousiasmant. La dégustation est dans la lignée. On n’y retrouve pas contre des épices à un niveau assez élevé mais ne s'intégrant pas à l'ensemble. A l'attaque on retrouve alors les arômes présents au nez sur une base un peu trop douce et légèrement acidulée. L'alcool couvert pas le sucre se ressent également en sous-jacent. Mais ce n'est qu'en seconde bouche que celui-ci s'affirme réellement faisant plus que ses 8,5%. L’arrière-bouche est en 2 temps, une première douce sur le caramel puis avec un alcool au maximum de sa forme. La troisième bouche voit les épices mettre le turbo, girofle en tête, sans que l'on s'y attende et sans que cela ne soit opportun. Le final, d'une bonne longueur, est plus stable mais pas réellement intéressante. Un grand foutoire.

27 January 2019. At Goeste Festival, Ghent. Shared with Anke! Pours hazy brown with a lasting, unstable, frothy, tan head. Aroma of cookie dough, 'amaretti' indeed, almond, red jam, red apple, cake, butterscotch, candied orange. Taste is light to medium malty sweet, quite caramelly with a hint of cookie dough/amaretti, but subtle; light to medium herbal bitterness has tea, nutty touch of almond, some spices; fruity tones of orange & jam too. Dryish, herbal hoppy finish, quite bitter, nutty, faint dash of amaretto alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Certainly a decent try, could have been more pronounced, with a bit more depth.