Belgian spiced ale from a 75 cl bottle with red hangtag, shared with Goedele. Extremely strong gusher: it was impossible to remove the crown cap without considerable loss, and foam kept creeping out of the bottle in large quantities for minutes on end. What ended up in the glass, showed a typical ‘gusher look’: initially very thick and coarse, eggshell white, large-bubbled, irregular head collapsing into some loose patches quickly and eventually disappearing completely, over an immediately cloudy and murky, ‘dirty’ orange peach blonde beer with a brownish tinge that grows darker and more pronounced as more of the bottle goes into the glass. Aroma of oven-baked apricots, marmalade, apple sauce, melting powder sugar, strong spicy and even somewhat medicinal phenols (cloves, liquorice, allspice, even cough syrup), soggy bread crust, coriander, rhubarb pie, pear juice, honey, moist white pepper. Overly estery onset, lots and lots of peach, stewed apples and overripe pear and nectarine, some banana mush, with a load of residual white candi syrup sweetness on top but also a gooseberry-ish sourishness underneath with a ‘dirty’ flavour to it – probably the result of an infection, but not too overpowering, luckily. Carbonation is sharp and numbing initially, mouthfeel is fluffy and a tad powdery. Wet bread- and slightly peanut-like malt core with a thick honeyish residual sugar sweetness weighing quite heavily on it, leading to a ‘dirty’, very earthy finish with lots and lots of spicy and mildly medicinal phenols retronasally as well as coriander- and allspice-like ‘real’ spiciness and an orange flesh-like effect lifting the beer out of its own murkiness. Earthy, powdery yeast effects and residual honeyish sweetness linger, with a fair amount of peppery hop bitterishness for balance, but the ‘dirty sourishness’ of the infection continues along with it. Clearly – and like the previous En Stoemelings beer I had – something went technically wrong here, infection has struck with devastating effects on the appearance of this beer, but I must admit that I can still appreciate an earthy, ‘dirty’, phenolic Belgian every now and then and this one clearly falls under that category, yet better than average in pure terms of flavour, with an ‘orangey’ brightness and late but effective hop bitterness to it which I can certainly appreciate. Too bad for the heavy gushing and infected aspects, but the basic flavour as such was pleasant enough so I will not be too severe in rating this.

Draft at Moder Lambic. Hazy golden color dense white head with good retention. Aroma of pepper and dust. Taste is lightly peppery hay, straw fruit. Tasty.

Draft glass @ Barboteur. Orange, creamy white head. Nose is dirty grain, almost sweetish low yoghurt. Milky grainy, yeasty but largely clean even with the milky yeast, grainy, decent & one of their best beers for me.

Pours unclear amberblonde. Medium small white head. Smell is full on malty, phenolic, sharp peppery notes. Taste is full on malty, fruity (some orange, some citruss ) medium bitterness. Some banana esthers , especially in the aftertaste. Very full flavored' medium body and rather high carbo.

23/02/2018 @home - 33cl bottle from the brewery. Hazy golden with nice white head. Nose is orange, floral touch, bit yeast. Taste is malts, bit peppery, bit bread, some fruits, orange, some caramel. Could use some more carbonation but all in all I enjoyed this very much. Nothing spectacular, but I longed for another one after having it, so that's a good sign too.

Draft @ ML Fontainas. Dorée sur un col blanc épais. Arôme offre de suite un bouquet belge au niveau de la levure et des qcq esters fruités qui se dégagent. Impression de feuilles bouillies pour un rétro-nasal assez noble au niveau des houblons. Palais reste sur une marque belge, noble entre fleuri et léger fruité avec une petite douceur de fin de bouche qui peut rappeler un effet mielleux. Retrouve un côté un peu fleur de montagne - par après je lis la description indiquant l'usage de verveine. Correcte et classique. Het is ça va.

On tap at Moeder Lambic, pours a clear gold with some sticky, white head. Sugary nose, sweet with honey, yeast, chrysanthemum, floral tea. Flavor is like one of those Vietnamese chrysanthemum tea drinks, floral and sweet, tannic too, honey, grist. Finishes sweet. Dry this out and its better than average.

33cl bottle (BBF: 11/20) from Proxy Delhaize Grande Haie in Brussels. F: huge, snow-white, very long lasting. C: yellow blonde, milky hazy. A: malty, bit mellow fruity, spicy, banana, orange peels, floral, yeasty. T: medium malty base, spicy, fruity, yeasty, banana, dry on the palate, very nice balanced, soft carbonation, good one, enjoyed more than last time. Previous rate 6/3/6/3/12 = 3 from 18/02/2018. F: small, white, not long lasting. C: gold, light hazy. A: malty, orange peels, bit funky, caramel, bit mellow fruity. T: malty, grainy, bit peppery, bit bready, bit fruity, simple bitterness, bit peppery, lack some more carbonation, medium body, for me quite average if saison at all, BB: 30/09/2019, 33cl bottle from the brewery.