Sampled @ Zythos Bier Festival 2018. A murky golden beer. Aroma of dry soft grassy hops, yellow fruits. Taste of mild fruity hops, citrus, dry grassy hops.

Imported from my RateBeer account as CyDraLe Blote Nek (by CyDraLe):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5

28/IV/18 - shared @ Zythos Bierfestival 2018 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2018-556) Thanks to the ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!

Cloudy dark beige beer, creamy solid off-white head, very stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: fruity, yeasty, some banana, grains. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity start, very unpleasant bitterness, fruity. Aftertaste: bit metallic, not so great...

Another one of those ’lost and found’ rates. Served at beerlovers bar, a few months ago. Pours hazy yellowblonde, medium sized and rather stable white head. Smell is mostly the grains ( malty, as eell as a deeper complexity ) light undertone of hops. Taste has a reasonable amount of hoppy touches, but is rather weak overall. The grains complexity build up a nice character , but the intensity ship has sailed of already. Reasonable refreshing. Not bad, but I prefer more intense tastes.

330 ml. bottle sampled. BBF 09/09/2017 according to label & BBF 05/08/2018 according to the cap. That is new. Hazy golden, big soapy white bubbles, collapsing. Nose is BE green, white pepper, grass, faint sulfur-like note plus some fluffy bread. Touch high carbonation, plastic, soap. Taste is sweet plastic with some bitterness in the finish, hay, bit mineral, quite BE, soap, quite mineral, green apple, lingering soap & plastic finish, bitter banana peal, approaching band-aid. This is your standard, uninspiring middling BE blond, no flaw or excessive yeast, it seem to lack something necessary in order to make it work. It is a bit too basic plastic, green apple, near band-aid,... I enjoyed the other CyDraLe beers more, maybe if a more exciting brewery than Fort Lapin produced this one?

New session blonde from a beer company in the Antwerp region, steini bottle from Wijnegemse Drankenhal, with very simple label depicting a cartoonish ostrich - with ’bare neck’, the literal translation of the name. Very thick and very frothy, snow white, irregular head, very foamy and closed for a long time, leaving behind a thick wall of ’papery’ lacing on the edge of the glass, over a straw blonde beer with vague khaki tinge, hazy but in an attractive way at least initially, perturbed by strings of fizz rising up from the bottom of the glass, becoming more ochre-hued blonde and completely misty with deposit. Aroma of banana peel, melting powder sugar, raw rhubarb, sorrel leaves, soap, coriander, camomile flowers, minerals, Granny Smith apples, raw fennel, rainwater, something chalky, old bread crust, young cheese, paper, moist white pepper, potato peel. Crisp, fruity onset, hints of green apple, unripe peach, very light (’unripe’) banana and Conférence pear, only remotely sweet with a ’basic’ sourishness to it, but the flavours are a bit numbed by fizzy, very minerally carbonation, though this aspect does calm down after a while. Light but still sufficiently ’filling’ body, retaining its minerally character all the way through over a light ’bread crust’-like maltiness with sharper grainy edges, towards a dryish finish which adds a dash of floral, mildly spicy and somewhat earthy hops, providing some lingering, quenching bitterness, blending in with the soapy effect of the coriander. The umpteenth ordinary Belgian blonde but at a lower level of alcohol than usual for this (sub)style, making it highly sessionable; feels light, crisp, minerally and - in all - relatively neutral, so clearly intended as an alternative to bland pale lager, but given the choice between this and, say, Stella or Maes, I’d opt for this one without any doubt. Technically correct, light-bodied but still feeling quite ’full’, a bit overcarbonated perhaps but I guess this fits the concept, ’honest’, clean and not overly estery: this may be a beer of low profile, but I can sincerely recommend it as an easy yet completely correct quencher for the summery days that are upon us. Expected worse, to be honest.

[330 ml. bottle @ Beerlovers Bar] [BBF 09-09-2017] This is a rare beer that I actually started to appreciate more as I drank more. At first it seemed a bit overly soapy & bland but it actually has some pretty good yeast character which I learned to appreciate, nothing bad or off. Nose is mellow, lightly soapy, low sugar, nice yeast, white bread. Taste is bit soapy, sugar, low candy, nice hop expression, low mainland hop, nice Belgian yeast, very low mainland hop, easy drinking. Pretty decent, could have used more expressive hops. Pleasant, easy but could have used more hop for me.

Pours unclear yellow, small white head. Smell is weak, bit citrussy. Taste is Sharp, citrussy. Bit sugar. Mild bitterness. Rather yeasty. unfortunately, i liked about all other beers by Carl more than this one...

15 cl. sample from bomber @ Antwerp Craft Beer Fest. Dark red brown amber, small tanned head. Nose is sweet doughy, raw sweet dough, brown sugar, chestnut & honey. Taste is sweet honey, sweet raw dough, brown sugar, low nuts, big sweet raw dought,… carbonation is a bit too fizzy, there is a low plastic note which takes it a bit down together with the fizzy character. Bit rough around the edges but overall quite an interesting interpretation of a Pale Ale, not bad for sure.