Sampled at Zythos Beer Festival 2018. Clear bright golden color white head. Dusty peppery aroma with subtle smoke. Taste is light black pepper. OK

28/04/2018 – 10cl glass shared with an international ratebeer crew @ZBF2018 Clear golden, no head. Didn't expect very much, golden beer, another blonde in a row, no head... The aroma already give me a hint smoke (which I thought to be wrong) and some malts. Taste was malts, bit fruits and smoke. It's not spectacular no but I was realy surprised to have smoke in the first beer of a new firm.

Sampled @ Zythos Bier Festival 2018. A clear golden beer. Aroma of mild smoked malt, red malt, some fruits. Taste of smoked malt, bacon, red malt.

Bottle. Clear golden color with no head. Aroma is lapsang smoke, tea oils. Taste is smoke, dough, apricots. Silky mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Ok!

Stark karbonisierter Beginn. Süß-säuerlich mit deutlich rauchiger Note, etwas bitter, süffig. Trocken würzig, kurzer Nachhall. 10/8/8/8//8

F: no real. C: deep, gold. A: apricot, phenolic aspect, bit toast, caramel, bit floral. T: malty, basement, phenolic like peat, bit funky, leather, bit smoked, medium body and carbonation, not bad, enjoyed, sample from bottle shared with Germany and BE RB crew @ ZBF 2018.

Bottle thnx to Henk ( beautifull Planet ) Pours very near clear amber. Medium, yet very unstable, white head. Smell is sharp malty. minor toasty features. bit bready as well. Somewhat phenolic ( cloves ) Taste is sharp, ambermalty ( toasty ) very minor sweet side, bit bitter ( more than it is sweet ) mild caramel flavor ( very mild ) . Esthers and phenols are present, but at low intensity. Carbonation has a bite, and is rather high. medium low body, which is OK for the style I guess. Nothing wrong with this one, just not overly exciting.

The first - and so far only - beer from a new nano brewery in Aarschot, commercialized through Anders. Medium thick, egg-white, sparsely lacing, coarse, moussy head, quickly dissolving in the middle and eventually disappearing, over an initially almost cristal clear, orangey to even slightly amberish tinged peach blonde beer. Rather restrained and superficial, but not unpleasant aroma of dried apricots, old ginger powder, red apple peel, cloves (phenols!), old butterscotch candy, cold camomile tea, lots of clove-like phenols, powder sugar, chewing gum, baker's yeast, lightly toasted white bread, white pepper, hints of peanuts, lightly roasted pumpkin seeds, old 'jenever', soapy coriander seed, dried grapefruit peel, dandelions, radish, cheese crust, dry earth. Fruity, crisp, fairly clean onset, hinting at dried apricot, red apple peel and some banana, eventually making a turn for the worse and turning chewing gum-like, restrained in sweetness with a soft sourishness around it; sharply carbonated, with a lot of minerals and additional sourness as a result. Mouthfeel is initially coarsened by this stinging carbonation, yet remains relatively supple; cereally, straightforward maltiness with a very lightly caramelly and eventually bitterish toasty edge, supporting a floral, leafy hop bitterness which, to traditional Belgian standards, lingers for quite a while, laying a long-stretching layer of wormwood-like bitterness over the root of the tongue - accentuated by the beer's toasted bitterness, as said. Ends rooty and spicy, with again some of that soapy coriander lingering yet not so much so that it becomes obnoxious, yet the hop bitterness gets more credit here; strong phenolic aspect linger as well, on the brink of becoming unpleasantly medicinal, but somehow managing to barely avoid this. Lacks in head retention which I can more or less forgive (doubtlessly most of their intended audience will not be as forgiving as I am here) - but also lacks in inspiration and audacity, which I personally find a lot harder to ignore. Belgian near-amber blonde like there are too many around already, but it must be said that there are no obvious flaws to be found here (other than head stability) and I do not detect any off-flavours worth mentioning. This, in combination with the - within traditional Belgian context - quite confident hop bitterness, makes me inclined to carefully state that the two guys who came up with this, master the art of brewing better than many other beginning Belgian breweries I've encountered throughout the many years that I've been treating beer seriously. In short: bit boring, coriandered but not overly so, simple and rather redundant, but at the same time firmly bitter within Belgian traditions and free of off-flavours so not at all bad for a first attempt. If only they refrain from adding a dubbel or tripel to this one...