33cl bottle from Carrefour Market Cours St. Michel. F: medium, egg-white, average retention. C: deep gold, light hazy. A: malty, caramel, fruity, bit herbal yet not directly like cannabis, bready. T: medium to full malty base, herbal and yes bit like cannabis, bready, caramel, mellow fruity, pear, apricot, medium carbonation, not bad, enjoyed.

Pours clear golden with a thin, foamy, off-white head. Aroma of honey, flower blossom, grass, unripe pear, wet herbs, weed. Taste has sweetish apple & pear, flowers, bready malt, strong herbal & grassy aspect as well, perfumey almost, with a weirdly lactic & citric sour touch in the back. Dry, grassy hoppy finish, impression of weed but more herbal than anything, a bit sour with hints of old fruit. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Drinkable at least, but I don't like cannabis (nor the plain smell of it) and I'm not a fan of 'grassy' beers, so this one doesn't really float my boat.

5/V/20 - 33cl bottle from the brewery, shared @ home, BB: VI/2021 (2020-395)

Clear gold orange beer, big solid creamy off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: sweet malts, caramel, grains, cow fodder, some banana. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very malty start, grains, caramel, ripe banana, bit oxidized, sweet, marzipan. Aftertaste: lots of sweet malts, bit sugary, cow fodder, grains, some banana, rather oxidized, marzipan, cookies, meh. Not a big fan.

Hazy blond colour, white foam. Grassy, some herbal notes, a bit citrussy, rather weak. Lively carbonation.

orange body, white creamy head. Aroma of oranges, ... white flat body. Ok, not superb.

Another beer with weed (or rather hemp, as it doesn't contain any THC, the substance in this plant responsible for its intoxicating effect) - not the first one in Belgium nor abroad, but in any case one that has been pushed forward with some local publicity by the couple behind it. Executed by Andy Dewilde of Vliegende Paard, who has proved that even vegetables can be applied to beer in a tasteful way, this should not go wrong... Quite thick and frothy, snow white, mousy, membrane-lacing, even-bubbled head slowly dissipating over a lightly but consistently hazy, apricot blonde beer with near-rosy tinge, shifting to a less attractive, ochre-hued 'mud' look when the sediment is added. Aroma of very clear half-dried flowers reminiscent of the hemp blossoms I used to dry myself (out of botanical interest, for all clarity) years ago, a bit 'bready', very grassy and very flowery-powdery, even carrying some of that unmistakable cannabis aroma you get when lighting a joint, but luckily this effect remains very subtle here and subordinate to the dry-flowery aspect, weighing quite heavily over more subtle impressions of green banana peel, dried out white bread, dried apricot, straw, rainwater, soap, vague hints of dried leek, cotton cloth, green vegetable soup, sesame seed. Cleanish onset, moderately fruity with unripe hard melon, apricot and green pear aspects, sweetish but restrainedly so yet still with a thin honeyish aspect, medium carbonation with light minerally effects here and there; slick, smooth body, bready malt sweetish middle with cereally edges flavoured by this flowery-grassy 'weed' aspect, again only very distantly recognizable as cannabis but much more profiled as a thick dried 'wild' flower aspect; appropriately grassy hops provide a light end bitterness but their floral side just as well accentuates the hemp blossom thing, while traces of sweetish malt linger in the end. Something resinous, powdery (yeast) and 'weedy' (sic) lingers as well, but it is that sweetish and 'plant-like' floweriness that gets all the attention here - not quite cannabis-like enough to please true cannabis afficionados I suspect, but whoever is familiar with this plant in a more general sense (as it is also cultivated for its seeds and fibres), should be able to link this beer's nose and general flavour with dried hemp. No THC indeed - that would be illegal in Belgium I reckon - but just a very grassy, flowery 'herb beer' in a more generic way, something which will never entirely be my cup of tea, I'm afraid. Not Vliegende Paard's finest brew so far, and something of a gimmick intended to attract attention with its seemingly daring premise, which, considering the absence of intoxicating cannabis substance, is not at all daring when you come to think of it. Drinkable but a bit, well, boring, to be frank.

Hazy dark blond with soapy head. Aroma and flavour are quite weak. Old hops.