Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Hazy blond colour, white foam. Light sweet, a bit herbal, notes of coriander, a bit citrussy.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Thx to Jef V. for this bottle. Almost clear, dark amber to brownish color and a white head. Sour nose, acidic, wooden. Taste is sour balsamico, drying wood.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
22/XI/22 - 75cl bottle @ HoReCa expo (Gent), BB: n/a, 2022 vintage (2022-1661) Thanks to Erwin, Peter and others for sharing today’s beers.
Clear orange beer, small creamy white head, a little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: earthy, citrus, fruity, peaches, funky, more peaches. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very sourish start, lemony, a bit fruity, earthy touch, hint of vinegar, peaches and apricots, very acidic. Aftertaste: dry finish, very sour, lemon juice, dry, decent beer!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
22/XI/22 - 75cl bottle @ HoReCa expo (Gent), BB: n/a, 2022 vintage (2022-1660) Thanks to Erwin, Peter and others for sharing today’s beers.
Clear red brown beer, creamy dense beige head, stable, non adhesive. Aroma: funky, lots of ripe to overripe banana, red wine, fruity, cherries, sourish impression, nice! MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: nice acidity, fruity, lots of red berries, red cherries, pretty dry. Aftertaste: earthy, sourish, fruity, berries, clean acidity, hint of vinegar, nice.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
NEDIPA of sorts by Petre Devos in Oudenaarde, now known as Rolling Hills, referring to the landscape of the 'Vlaamse Ardennen' region where the brewery is located. I have been missing this one for months - it is sold in an organic shop not too far away from where I live but supplies are always short there - and finally got a bottle from Geers, best before November next year. Thick and frothy, egg-white, cobweb-lacing, dense and closed, firm head on an initially crystal clear (and therefore definitely not NEIPA-looking), deep and warm 'old golden' robe with pale 'metallic' orange tinge and visible sparkling, turning misty and deeper orangey with sediment. Aroma of dried old orange peel, apricot, mango chutney, soggy rusk, dried rosemary, southernwood, bread crust, vague raspberry note, fried sweet potato, lemon thyme, hints of pineapple, pond water, diesel and parsnip. Crisp, fruity, fizzy onset, stingy carbonation swirling around sweetish and sourish aspects of unripe pear, apple peel, apricot and vague ripe gooseberry, continuing over a slick, smooth-edged, bit oily body with bread-crusty, cereally and rusk-like core, highly flavoured by aromatic hoppiness adding retronasal effects of dried lemon peel, orange zest, faint marijuana and toasted onion, adding a gentle but nonetheless long-lasting, peppery, somewhat leafy bitterness, allowing only the scrawny 'juiciness' of green pear to pass through. This may be intended as a NEIPA, it very obviously misses the point completely and ends up another hopped-up Belgian - so 'Belgian IPA' would be the most accurate characterization I could give here. This has nothing, and nothing at all, to do with real NEIPA and even if NEIPA is not my personal 'préféré' in terms of beer styles, I will never accept something like this be called that way (and I will not mention the fact that, apart from, perhaps, one of the brewers' personal fascinations, I personally fail to see any link with South Africa, let alone its wildlife). That aside, I have to admit that this is ultimately a well-brewed, fault-free, tasty and 'full' beer, so I will be lenient in rating. Not bad, in all, but see this as another highly profiled Belgian IPA (if you are familiar with this dubious concept) and let go completely of the NEIPA association falsely made by the brewery...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Head reduced to rim in seconds over clear copperish beer. Woody nose, dry, old barrels, split wood, dried apples. Sweet - dry - spicy. Hints in the background first of Oud Bruin, without the caramel. Oud Bruin characteristics increase exponentially during sampling. Mild lactic acid, again something of dried apples. Tart, light body, but slight slickness. Low carbonation. Excellent in the line of other aged pale... vintage... you know. Thanks to Stef!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Zythos 2022. Clear light brown colour. Aroma and flavour have obvious but not extreme sourness. Vanilla elements from the old barrel come through adding a light sweetness.
