La Montagnarde with curry spice added - it's been a long time since I heard anything from Rocs, the great pioneer in the modern Belgian craft beer movement (along with Dolle Brouwers, of course) so this drew my attention. Very fierce gusher - sigh… After that: a thick, egg-white, creamy, lacing, all-in-all remarkably stable head on a cloudy, deep amberish orange beer with small chunks of dead yeast throughout, which very likely relates to the gushing. Aroma of fresh orange zest, fried apples, honey 'wafels', ginger, cloves, brandy, sweet red curry indeed, minerals, peanuts, banana mush, peach jam, old dry lemon peel, cooked carrots, caramel candy. Sweet and notably estery, bit 'messy' in that respect, impressions of peach, banana and pineapple, light sourishness, fizzy but not overly sharp carbonation, slick and residually sugar-sweet, caramelly malty main body with soft peanutty accents and lots of lingering esters and spicy phenols, the latter underscored by the added curry spice, which adds an indefinite but outspoken, softly spicy, almost sweetish, unmistakable colour to the whole, actually fitting in quite well. Floral and rooty hoppiness provides end bitterness, some brandy-like alcohol avails and a bready-yeasty character remains, drenched in the added curry spice. A bit weird perhaps, too bad for the enthusiastic gushing, but very 'Walloon' in its general profile, very estery and phenolic with the phenolic character blending intimately with the added curry, reinforcing each other into an expressive, yet soft-sweetish spice character. Residual sweetness, however, remains dominant, a bit much so for me. You'll have to like this kind of beers, but within its own intentions, this is far from bad, though equally far from Rocs' legendary highlights in the 20th-century Belgian ale world.

Bottle sample@Ølfestival København 2018, Copenhagen - yellow pour with a white head. Aroma and taste is light citrus fruits, wheat and yeast, light floral and herbal, medium to light body, nuances of spices (coriander) throughout, hoppy fruity hop finish.

Flaska från saveur bier. Just passerat BBD. Kastanjefärgad, högt smutsvit skum, en hel del fint sediment. Söt doft, tecken på madeiraisering, russin, torkad frukt och marsipan. Fortfarande rejält söt men potent och ganska balanserad. Liknar de potentare trappisterna. Smarrigt.

Bottle 33 cl. Slightly hazy, golden color, lush white foam. Aroma: fruity, wheat, coriander, light spice, sweetness, a little citrus. Taste: sweetish, wheat, fruity, a little orange peel, coriander, good.

Sampled at Zythos Beer Festival 2018. Clear yellow color white head. Aroma of lightly fruity caramel. Taste has subtle fruit, raw bread dough. OK

Bottle with expiry 18/10/2019. Gushing! Dark amber colour. Aroma is figs, cellar, alcohol, red fruit, honey. Light sweetness. Lively carbonation. Interesting, but a bit messy.

(Bottle, 0.33 l - BB 05/01/2020, at One Pint Pub, 20180604) The beer poured mahogany coloured and clear. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had malts, caramel, toffee and Belgian style yeast. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were sweetness, caramel, Belgian style yeast, malts and bitterness. Aftertaste was sweet, malty, yeasty and bitter. A well done brew with a good balance between malts, hops and yeast.

Bottle 0.33l at One Pint Pub, Helsinki. BBE 13/01/2018. Color is brown with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Mint, fenkol, spruce, ripe fruits, bread and malts. Pretty good.

Sampled at zbf 2018. Thnx for sharing, everyone! Pours rather clear blonde. Small white head. Smell is rather weak, mild esters. Taste is bit bitter, intense carbonation. Bit malty back. Not very intense, taste gets lost due to overcarbonation