Bottle at home. Crystal clear golden with white head. Peach, soft bitter unripe fruits, lemon zest, popcorn, bread crust, gin, grapefruit, grassy, orange. Almost medium sour, a bit less sweet and bitter. Medium bodied. Not bad.

330ml bottle from Bieres et Chopes, near Nantes. Pours black with a off white head. Aromas & tastes of milk chocolate, rye, nuts, hints of spice & roasted malt. Medium body. Dry light bitter finish. Very enjoyable

Sampled from the tap at Brewberry. Pours a clear copper with a white head that dissipates to the edges and laces. Aroma has a decent amount of grass with some light pine, bread and a hint of resin. Flavor has earthy grass and a bit of leaves with bread and some pine backing.

330 ml bottle. Pours a muddy brown with light head. Aromas of fruity caramel, a little vinous oak, and bready malts. Flavors of slightly tart fermented fruit, wood, caramel and bready malts. Alcohol on the finish.

20 May 2023. At Leuven Innovation Beer Festival. Shared with the lovely Anke!

A: hazy yellow, thin, white head.
A: mandarin, unripe peach, grape, sour cream.
T: sour peach & grape, lactic acid.
F: tart grape, bit tannic, herbal.
P: medium body, slick texture, average carbonation.
Enjoyable fruitiness, but almost a regular Sour.

20 May 2023. At Leuven Innovation Beer Festival. Shared with the lovely Anke!

A: clear red, thinning, white head.
A: blackberry, redcurrant, vague sulphur, matches, lemon peel.
T: sour blackcurrant, lemon acid, herbs.
F: tart berries, berry skin, vague herbal hops.
P: medium body, slick texture, average carbonation.
Atypical BW.

Hoppy ‘India’ porter by this French craft brewery near Paris, carrying the old familiar pike in its logo. At LIBF. Thick and frothy, foamy, pale yellow-beige, lacing, stable, firm head on a jet black beer with very thin mahogany edges. Aroma of fried black olives, burnt currants, blackened toast, dry leather, black peppercorns, toasted onion, tea, rainwater, rye bread crust, porcini. Dryish onset, some dried fig and burnt blackcurrant, hints of porcini- and olive-tinged umami, mildly carbonated with oily mouthfeel; toasty to slightly ‘burnt’ black maltiness in the middle, rye bread spiciness vaguely noticeable but quickly turning a bit more charcoal-like and, more than anything, hop bitter in a rooty, leafy, peppery manner, even a tad piney. Both elements make for a long, bitter, spicy, roasty, ashy, very dry finish – as has been demonstrated before, an ‘India porter’ is physically nothing else than a Cascadian dark ale (black IPA), though the hop character is clearly more Old World than New World in this one. Regardless, I enjoyed this one, being into black IPA…

Not the mouthfeel I was expecting

Very good, slowly receding just off-white head over crystal clear golden beer, leaving lacerings. Oxydation, cardboard, sweetish citrus, rosewater. Sweet-perfumey, again very much rosewater and light oxydation, almonds. Finish is empty. Light body if quite slick, again signs of oxydation. Light - in all aspects. Txs to Stef!