Bottle 330ml. @ home. [ As Crystalstick Blond ].Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate yeasty, fruity yeast, belgium yeast, floral, light phenol. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average to long duration, sweet malt, pale malt, fruity yeast, belgium yeast, floral. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180330] 6-3-7-3-13

Kruidige dorstlesser (koriander) met ietsje te veel koolzuur (voor mijn smaak). Droog en licht bitter.

Pours very dark caramelly brown. Big white head that seems very stable. Smell is mild, some burned malts. Taste is remotely bitter, high in creamyness. Simple, roasted maltyness ( giving the bitterness to the beer ) bit ashy. Don’t really get the lactose taste though. The carbo is high, and the body - appart from it’s well appreciated creamyness, a bit to the thin side. Ok in general. Can enjoy the glass I served myself without a problem, but i’m not overly convinced by it’s specific greatness.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Crystalstick Olympic Stout (by Crystalstick):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5

26/V/17 - 33cl bottle bought at ZBF (Leuven, 2017) @ pre-BBQ tasting, home - BB: n/a (2017-642)

Cloudy dark brown beer, big creamy beige head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet in the notes, caramel, soft roast, dried fruits, chocolate, bit spicy, cinnamon. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet touch, mainly sourish, weird enough, roast, bitter touch, dried fruits, bit sweet. Aftertaste: some coffee, roasted, malty, grains, fruity impression, like some kind of jam.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Crystalstick Wild Blond (by Crystalstick):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

26/V/17 - 33cl bottle bought at ZBF (Leuven, 2017) @ pre-BBQ tasting, home - BB: n/a (2017-640)

Clear pale blond beer, small creamy white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: little dirty, cheesy, bit malty, fruity touch, almonds. MF: very lively carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish start, lemony, bit dirty, bitter hops, fruity, yeast. Aftertaste: citrus, bitter, some grapefruit, little fruity.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Crystalstick Blond (by Crystalstick):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5

26/V/17 - 33cl bottle bought at ZBF (Leuven, 2017) @ pre-BBQ tasting, home - BB: VII/2018 (2017-639)

Little cloudy blond beer, creamy small off-white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very pleasant smell, fruity, bit floral, malty, grains, some almonds. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very bitter start, bit grassy, some almonds, citrus touch. Aftertaste: hint of tropical fruits, almonds and marzipan in the finish.

Bezetting door de @Lambikstoemper

Milk stout, the third one from this new brewing project, tasted at ZBF 2017. Regularly shaped, dense, creamy, pale greyish beige head, hazy and even ’muddy’, very dark chocolate brown colour, not entirely black as one would expect from a modern 7% stout. Aroma of cocoa diluted in tap water instead of milk, caramel, old raisins, coffee cream, lots of clove-like phenols, damp earth, mud, wet tree leaves, pear. Sweet, fruity onset, candied fig, raisin, blue plum and banana with a sourish brambleberry-like undercurrent, medium carbo establishing a soft, fluffy mouthfeel, on the creamy side but not as creamy as most other typical milk stouts, yet with unmistakable lactose sweetness throughout resting on top of a caramelly, vaguely cocoa-like malt sweetness with a very soft bitterish edge and a slight metallic effect somewhere; yeasty, ’dirty’, earthy finish with toffeeish sweetness continuing and lots of phenols retronasally. Drinkable but not nearly ’clean’ enough for the style, suffering from too much ’dirty earthiness’ and ill-placed Belgian phenols. Reminds me a bit of Brabant’s Aristophanes: lactose imposed on a ’dirty’ Belgian dubbel rather than a true stout, with unbalanced and somewhat weird end effect.