7.5

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Draft in Brussels, 23rd October 2025. Pours golden. Aroma is citrus and taste is bitter, citrus and pine, tropical

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle at home. Slightly unclear golden color, small white head. Aroma and flavor are lightly malts, sweetish notes with soft tart, grape peel. Quite balanced, not bad.

5.1

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

330ml bottle, surprise final (not final) beer @ Tim's place in Gent. Unclear golden appearance with a mousy white triple head. Not convinced this is a combination that goes well together unfortunately (athough I sense Topa's version was more successful with their bittersharp basque cider). Creamy triple yeast seems jarring alongside the sweet Ruwet cider which isn't welcome one bit. Nope.

5.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5

Sehr starke Karbonisierung. Trocken herber Beginn, apfelig, wenig kräutrig, bitter zum Ende. Komisch. 9/7/8/7/8/7

7.6

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

9

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

Flaska från Hops’N More. Mahognyfärgad vätska med högt stabilt skum. Doft av belgojäst, torkad frukt, mörkt socker, kryddor, kladdiga bakverk och jul. Rejäl kropp, harmonisk och både rustik och elegant, tydlig beska. Fantastiskt gott. Så här ska julen dofta och smaka

7.4

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pours darker blonde. Big white head. Scent is mild, magma typical notes, but more toned down. Taste is full, very creamy, intense malt profile, rarher sweet. Bit less bitter than i repember magma to be, but more creamy. Quite nice !

6.5

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Canned 330ml. -Courtesy of and shared with Hrabren. Hazy golden coloured, medium sized off-white head, citrusy and weak yoghurty nose. Fruity, yoghurty, acidic, bit citrusy and tartish notes in the finish. BBE date is 10.09. 2027...Wtf and why...

6.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

0.33 l beer from Zbir Checkpoint, Novi Sad. Shared with Ogi. Unclear orange, small diminishing off-white head. Aroma is slightly harsh earthy at first, ripe fruit, peach, some citrus, some yoghurt. Medium body, soft carbonation, smooth texture. Flavour is ripe fruit, overripe peach and watermelon, citrus, spice, toast and caramel. Hints of ripe strawberry yoghurt in the back. A refreshing character, moderately tart, slightly astringent. Finishes sweet and soft.

7.4

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Another one in this ongoing series of "bucketlist beers" by Musketeers, now operating from their own production site in 'my' Waasland region; this time they opted for a Berliner Weisse, launched in early June as a summer beer - so I will try to ignore the fact that we are already in mid-November meanwhile, and expect yet another, perhaps more wintery bucketlist beer to leave the brewery soon... Thick and frothy, delicately 'Brugse kant'-like lacing, snow white, uneven but stable head, slowly showing gaps over an initially crystal clear, pale platinum blonde robe with metallic, somewhat 'olive-greenish' tinge and strings of visible sparkling, turning misty and more yellow-golden with sediment. Aroma of sourdough, ripe Granny Smith apple, pickled pearl onions (but the big artisanal ones rather than the small industrial ones), wakame, the water from a jar of pickled gherkins, kimchi, grass, used gym shoes, minerals and sweet ripe peach piercing through every now and then. Crisp, spritzy onset, fruity with a restrained sweet side (peach, pear) and a somewhat more outspoken, yet altogether soft tart side (green apple, gooseberry); something faintly 'salty' lingers on the sides of the tongue, almost like in a Gose but far less outspoken, akin to salted cucumber or fresh green seaweed. Smooth body, light and supple, with dominant wheat slickness (and sourishness) complemented with thinnish pale malt breadiness. Meanwhile the lactic sour aspect has grown a bit, becoming somewhat lemony in the end, but lacking a bit in that typical 'chalky' Sauerkraut-like flavour I tend to expect from this genre. Grassy hops show up in a glimpse and provide a very brief moment of noticeable bitterness but leave almost none behind; lactic sourness, as in unsugared white yoghurt of kefir, trails behind, with accents of green apple and lime adding some colour. A bit 'sweaty', like kimchi, with a short finish as announced by the brewery; at the same time crisp and lemony, but not in a sharp way; light-bodied but clearly 'wheaty'... This is indeed a Berliner Weisse in the most classical guise possible: it even reminds me of the Berliner Kindl Weisse I had twenty years ago, one of the very few originals remaining at that time and my first encounter with the style. In tasting this one, I cannot say I feel an urge to skinny dip (fortunately), but I am taken back to that very first Berliner Weisse experience, so I guess this is a compliment for this beer. Never mind the fact that the genre has since spread throughout the Western World and now comes in all kinds of 'adorned', often fruited forms (also inspired by the way it was traditionally served in Berlin): this one turns to the very roots of the genre, as if the craft beer movement never happened, and does so in a subtle and unassuming manner. I am almost inclined to grant an extra point for that.