15cl sample @ BBP Bailli.
Dorée présentant un léger voile et trouble, col blanc épais et crémeux.
Excellente NEIPA avec un bouquet généreux surfant sur un effet très tropical avec un effet de noix de coco qui ressort dès le début tant au nez que en bouche (je pense de suite à du Sabro/Talus), léger sur la résine avec une petite note d'épice du caractère neipa. Douceur fruitée avec un retour plus sur les agrumes.

15cl sample @ BBP Bailli.
Brune foncée, col rosâtre crémeux tenace.
Arôme est plaisant avec une belle dose de fruits noirs/rouges, légèrement 'sour' en rétro-nasal avec une pointe maltée jouant sur le grillé et chocolat/cacao.
Palais est finement sour, baies noires rappelant les mûres et le cassis voire la cerise noire. Petite touche d'acidité plus sur la framboise avec un agréable retrait grillé de malts rappelant presque un effet vieille brune sans l'oxydation.

33cl can from the brewery shop. F: medium, white, good retention. C: deep gold, light hazy. A: nice citrus, floral, caramel, light citrus. T: medium malt base, orange, grapes, some tropical fruits, decent bitterness, soft carbonation, ok for apero, refreshing.

33cl can from the brewery. F: big, egg-white, good retention. C: amber, hazy. A: grapefruits, pineapples, pine, lemongrass. T: medium malty base, orange, grapefruits, lemongrass, toast touch, decent bitterness, bit grassy, medium carbonation, ok yet not great.

33cl can from the brewery. F: medium, white, quick gone. C: blonde, hazy, opaque. A: orange, tangerine, pineapples, mango, coconut, melon. T: medium malty base, mandarin, coconut, pineapples, melon, dry on the palate, medium carbonation, nice balanced bitterness, very good, enjoyed for sure.

Strong winter ale by BBP, apparently containing apples - so I guess it could technically be called a fruit beer as well. Came from a gift box bought at a Delhaize supermarket. Egg-white, moussey and frothy, dense, membrane-lacing, stable, quite thick head on a hazy apricot blonde robe with pale orangey tinge. Aroma of apple peel and indeed a whiff of apple but nowhere dominant (though a sweet ripe apple effect does become more pronounced warming up), unripe pear, young mugwort, green banana, orange zest, gravel, petrichor, ferrous spring water, peach, biscuit dough, grass, dry earth, white pepper, sweat, old Camembert cheese, hint of pineapple, spring blossoms. Sweetish onset, fruity notes of cooked apple, pear and light banana but the apple dominating far less than expected based on the recipe (luckily, perhaps), with more a wry-ish apple skin feel to it than actual apple 'flesh'; lively carb with pronounced minerally effects, smoothish and quite full body. Brioche- and soggy cereal-like malts, under ongoing sweetish fruitiness - but nowhere do residual sugars become too sweet or cloying; floral hops in the finish bring mild bitterness and soft flowery and grassy retronasal aromas, while this yellow-green fruitiness persists. The hops do become a bit white-peppery when extending into the tail, warmed gently by wodka-ish alcohol which also lifts up the fruity elements, which in the end remain on the sweet side. This winter beer does not feel very 'wintery' at all and in any case it deviates quite strongly from that typical Belgian Christmas beer standard set by Gordon X-Mas, celebrating its 100th birthday this season; if anything, it reminds me a bit of Verhaeghe's Noël-Christmas-Weihnacht, which, many a moon ago, was among the very rare Belgian winter beers with a blonde hue and tripel-like profile (albeit sweeter and spicier, much more so than this Yeti Bang). A bit odd, but not unpleasant.

Pale yellow pour with a decent white head. Aromas of malt, grain, citrus. Taste is malt, bread, grain, some citrus and a hint of salt indeed. Not bad.

33cl can from the brewery. F: big, white, almost good retention. C: pale gold, hazy. A: malty, mango, citrus, pineapples, coconuts, mellow orange. T: full malty base, taste is better than aroma, pineapples, passion fruits, mango, oats, orange, peach, bit bready, nice balanced bitterness, soft carbonation, good for the style yet I expected a bit more perhaps.

33cl can from the brewery. F: medium, off-white, average retention. C: gold, hazy. A: grapefruits, mandarin, pineapple, mango, nice floral hoppy. T: medium malty base, the same in taste as in aroma, lemon grass, nice balanced bitterness, good balanced for the style, enjoyable beer.

33cl can from the brewery. F: medium, tanned, average retention. C: dark, opaque. A: dark malts, raspberries, cherries, dark dried candy fruits. T: light sour fruity, raspberries, cherries, dark fruits, cocoa, dry on the palate, nice balanced bitterness, easy drinkable, good one, enjoyed.