Kerstbier Festival. Hazy dark golden beer with a white head. Aroma of mild vegetables, caramel, pale malt. Taste of herbs and vegetables, pale malt, caramelized malt, mild spicy bitterness.

Organic IPA by a microbrewery incorporated in, quote, a 'zytho-bistro-naturo-touristic complex' in Trooz, a village southeast of Liège. Brewed with not just barley, but wheat and oats as well as Cascade, Hallertau Tradition and Mosaic hops, the second of which is perhaps less known and was derived from the famed Hallertau Mittelfrüh in Germany. Thick and frothy, off-white, lightly cobweb-lacing, large-bubbled and rather irregular but generally stable head; hazy apricot blonde robe with beige-ish tinge and lots of fine-bubbled, visible sparkling rushing through the haze. Aroma of pink grapefruit zest, green pear, spice bread, young pine needles, sesame seeds, moss, cold French fries, raw turnip, hot margarine, vague passionfruit, chalk, chamomile, meadowsweet, minerals and wet limestone. Spritzy onset, quite sharply carbonated with strong minerally effects, 'crystalline' as it were, piercing through estery and lightly hoppy fruitiness reminiscent of green kiwi, hard pear, light pineapple and unripe peach; slender cereally body, pale malt sweetishness with slight doughy edge sharpened by that overcarbonation, leading towards a bittering finish in which that sharp carbonation still interferes with the flavours; retronasal effects of lemon zest, grapefruit flesh, starfruit and young mugwort leaf are however clearly noticeable. Ends with that minerally carbonation giving a somewhat 'bloating' effect - which is a shame, because it 'cracks' the play of hops and malts too much, even though a long floral hop bitterishness eventually gets the last word. New World hops in a Belgian blonde - and as usual in this concept, not enough hops and too much Belgian blonde, additionally plagued by overcarbonation in this case. Enjoyable enough as such, but needs more hop bitterness, less yeasty fruitiness, perhaps a tad more maltiness and, again, less carbonation.