6.3

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

33cl bottle from Dolma Magasin natural goods store in Brussels.
F: medium, white, not long lasting.
C: gold, hazy.
A: mellow fruity, rice, some dried ginger, bit candy, honey touch.
T: medium to full malty base, vaguely fruity, some rice, traces of ginger, decent bitterness, medium carbonation, ok drinkable yet nothing memorable.

6

Wish it was a little yeastier but very drinkable. Thanks Bruno V.

6.5

Thanks Bruno V.! Another Ghana!

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Bottle shared at Brewver Belgian Winter Gathering. Opaque black color, small off-white head. Smell and taste malts, soft roast, cocoa, decently bitter. Quite alright actually. 8-6,5-6,5-7-7

5.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5

330ml bottle @ Belgian Beer Geeks Winter Gathering. Pours dark brown, loose off-white head. Initial sniff brings hints towards an odd adjunct sweetness, continuing to taste.. a little grainy and dusty. Strange stout really.

6.3

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

Bottle at Belgian Beer Geeks Gathering. Very dark brown. Roasted malts, licorice, earthy, soft cocoa, dead leaves. Over light sweet and bitter. Medium bodied. Meh.

5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

1/III/25 - 33cl bottle from Dranken Marlou (Zonhoven), shared @ Belgian Beer Geek Gathering (2025 Winter/Spring edition), BB: 9/IV/26, bottled: 9/IV/24, lot 030.N (2025-189)

Little cloudy brown beer, practically no head, a few unstable bubbles, non adhesive. Aroma: malty, caramel, good roast, not too bad! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very malty start, soft acidity, wet grains, hay, pretty bitter, and this weird sourness lingering in the back. Aftertaste: bitter, dry, acidic, meh. Not very good, albeit drinkable.

6.8

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

Bouteille 33cl @ Belgian Winter gathering 01 March 2025 – Tim’s place, thanks Tim.
Une nouvelle brasserie au Ghana fondée par deux belges installés là-bas – avec des bouteilles consignées en Belgique, pq pas ! Après avoir pris connaissance de l’histoire tout cela prend plus de sens – surtout le line avec leur propre importation et une connexion avec InBev.
Brune foncée, col léger pale/blanc-cassé.
Arôme est malté, petite touche grillée/toastée, chocolaté, note belge avec une pointe de léger de chocolat noir.
Palais garde une approche classique de grosse brune plus que de stout, malt pâle, cara, chocolat – ici un ajout intéressant de cacao avec une fine amertume. Amertume finement noble avec un caractère plus sur le terreux.

6.3

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

Another one of these Ghanaian craft beers created by two Belgians, for sale at the Delhaize supermarket in Lokeren (much to my surprise as I did not see this coming). The two others I had so far were bland, industrial products so I may have been a bit too enthusiastic in buying this third one as well, but here we are. Thick and foamy, snow white, plastery lacing, pillowy, stable and even-bubbled head over a crystal clear, deeply 'old golden' robe with visible sparkling and 'metallic' ochre tinge. Uninviting aroma of cooked rice that has been in the fridge for four days, synthetic fiber (polyester), industrial crackers, swarf, dried bitter weeds, ginger only very far away and in old and faded powder form (but even then hard to pinpoint - for such a strong flavouring, I expected it to be a lot more obvious), wet polystyrene, pear peel, green banana, frozen cream, a whiff of grass and badly hidden wodka-like alcohol trailing behind. Sweetish but 'dead' onset, very clean with some vague notes of halfripe banana and green pear, some residual sugars in an industrial way, minerally carbonated with smooth, slick body; simplistic cereally pale maltiness ensues with that cooked rice effect at its sides (rice actually having been used here), carrying that sweetishness onwards without developing much otherwise, into a bitterish finish of grassy and somewhat floral hops - but also this badly hidden cheap wodka-like alcohol again, something that should not at all be so apparent at only 7% ABV (which is, by all standards, at the lower limit of a 'tripel'). Ginger, again, remains limited to a background echo of dull spiciness, but hard to distinguish from either the sweet onset or the bitter ending of this beer - frankly, I am not even convinced I had been able to identify it had I not known it was in here. Indeed, for a 'tropical' beer flavoured with ginger, this feels very bland and industrial (again), and even if I am only a cool lover of ginger, I expected this ingredient to be far more outgoing. Heck, a serious dosage of the stuff could have even helped to make this thing interesting - but apparently they again chose the path of boring macro style beers, made cheaply and pasteurized to death. This could have been an AB InBev concoction for all I know... Only interesting in Ghana itself I fear, given the choice of even worse macro pale lagers people have there. In any case this nor any other of these Tale beers belong on a supermarket shelf in Belgium, I regret to say. This will be the last time these guys disappoint me, that is for sure.